The evening times., 1901-05-17
NOTES OF THE DAY.

nan. ACCORDING TO recent Investigations CI a
French scientist. IS ss,0oe years
SIR Thomas Lipton savs he has not been to the
theatre twelve times in his life Gardening and
yacht racing are his favorite diversions
A FFenchnan has invented tobacco pipe
"HieE has whistle IN the stem IN order to
e2snie the smoker 10 Summon cab without
taxing the pipe from his mouth
T. " Chamberlain. who lives three miles north
ot FhoeIi%-A ArIz-. has rose bush SIX years old
twenty-five feet from tip 70 tip and sixteen ieet
nigh The flower Is a delicate pink.
There IS in the Mediterranean countries wide
spread prejudice against all artificial heat. and
consequently not more than one house IN six IS
ever heated during the winter time
Boston Is about TO revive the cgstom Of the
Fourth Of July FaneIil Hall dinner Il is
begins at o'clock IN the afternoon
over 100000 miners are required TO produce
the worlds supply Of coal 0f this nunnFer
500. $50 are employed in Great Britain and 4eI,-
30 are employed IN the United States
Booker T, Washington says that during the
earlier days OF freedom almost every negro who
learned TO read would receive "a call to preach
within few DAYS after he began reading
old-time Nissouriaas we're much gratiaed 10
hear that President Mckinley visited Mrs Jessie
Benton Fremont. daughter Of Thomas H. Benton.
the great AlssouTian, while the party was IA
Los Angeles
North New Salem Mass boasts Of two mem-
bers of lis school board who entitled to entry
among lifelong oficebolders- Berish FAY has
served on the board for tIirty-Hine and Willard
Putnam for Jhirty-seven years
Half century ago but one woman worked
to every ten men At present the ratio Is one
to four Thirty years ago tvo-thirds OF all the
self-supPorting women we're domestic servants
To-day only one-thiTd are so employed.
Prof. Henry Van Dyke. Of Princeton considers
Goi {5prFf8u sfrg-gFa oF Richmond ono og tho
best takers living. 4 once crossed the ocean
with him. the professor says, ''on a stream Of
stories thar reached from Liverpool 70 New York
The Nethodiztz now have public hospitals in
Brooklyn. Philadelphia, and Cincinnati They are
building very fne one in Chicago The fifth
Methodist hospital VIII be a Minneapolis one
twork on It's has been begun, and Indianapolis
VIII probably have 12e sixth
In sunday evening sermon TO New York
churchmen interested in social industrial pFobIsms
Rev J. P Peters rosndiy denounced the STANDARD
OH Company as burtfui to the general interests
OF mankind. Perhaps Mr. Rockefeller may ie
moved to reply to the reverend rector
Rev. Dr. R. \ Holland of St Louis, has NJ
use for mediums but he believes that the dis
embodied sometimes communicate with .s5ose
who are stiH in the flesh He belicves ne was
once present al deathbed where that occurred
He told his congregation so IN recent Sunday
sermon.
this term and SO pupils 1t viii graduate eIass
Of G0-I4 boys 46 girls Eiehty-fve per cent OF
the teachers in the Richmond public schools went
through the high school Tie Richmond folk
think It the finest Institution Of its class N
the South.
An ex-sailor named John Cumming IS making
his home in cellar near Oreland. Pa II onee
belonged TO an eighteenth century house Of which
onlc few bits Of wall are left I'm pretty well
fixed here now that dry weather IS coming -
says John. and with nc one 10 keep but myself
don't need much
Perhaps the most singular delrsion ever pos
sessed by insane person IS that held ~ AFrs. s
Mary Mcnamara OF AxteIl Kan She imaeines
that mems oYeralls are made out Of gold and
that therefore they the most precious things
imaginable. She says there are Brysn overaIls :
and Mckinley OveTalls-
Henry Long has been choirmsster OF St Nat
ther's Lutheran Church Hanover. Pa. for fifty
las voice Is stiIl strong and he sings WITH an -
earnestHeSs that IS remarkable. Ills choir ron 2
sists of dozen members who sing IN the Ger
man language exclusively
At OIL City, Pa, while a circus 1nanaGersasss
explaining why his seats fell down the previous
evening the seats fell again The only excns6
Tor that manager now, the PIttsbuTg DiSpaTeh
says. VIII be new seats or better arrangements TO
prevent recurrence OF the accident PeCliee3Ee
not amused by being injured
Grand Duke Adolf Of Luxemburg. the oldest lay
sovereign Of Europe has Just celebrated as t56TS
den wedding with his second wife He became .
Duke OF Nassau sixty-tyyo years ago turned
ont BY Prussia II 1896 and became Grand Duke 3
Iuxerlurs IN lsgo on It's separation from Holland
1t the death Of king William H.
Mayffower descendants have organized q branch
society in Wisconsin To join the order enc must
be lIueaI descendant Of . passenger who came .
over 10 this country in 1870 and landed on Ine
SrlF Nryv t-rgr and IN lf
1920 OF the nov society which has LWenty-eigft
members, al but four are women
Rabbi Ludvfg Lewysohn- who died recently in
Stockholm. sweden, was horn IN Germany IN
1913. He occupied the post Of preacher n
Frankfort-on-the-0der and Worms, and IN $50
settled as rabbi in Stockholm lie lived d-in-re-
tIrement after 1883 He became well known as
The author OF Zoology of>Ihe Taimud-
In St Patrick Church, Boston. sunday roEn-
ing Rev. Charles T. Donahce preached against
Christian Science He denounced 1t a. a mess
of nonsense. peruiciouS TO the mind- destructive
of true Christian fsith ard 4 denial of God 1t
Is sad 10 say. he continued, that We have Cath
olics who not only listen TO but accept the fads'
The restorations which are now being carried
out IN the Castle of St Angelo Rome, have
resulted in the discovery Of some curious fres-
Goes OF the fifteenth century. II IS even hoI'cd
that possibly thick e0atlngs OF vhiteVash stlH
cover the fTescoeS BY PinrUTTichio. representing
the whole Of the Borgia family That such fres-
Goes existed in the time Of Julius II. Is proved
Mrs Frank f. Briggs, Of Auburn Ne. daughter
Of Senator Frye Is the owner OF box she IS very
proud Of It Is = mahogany caSket two feet long,
eighteen inches deep, hound with brass and t
made TO carry the electoral votes Tor President
Mckinley from the Senate 10 the House. senator
Frye was acting Vice President at the time, and,
according to usage. received the box, which ne
presented 70 his daughter
The town of Fenton about fifteen miles from st
Louis. enioys the distinction OF being the only
Incorporated town in the Unite,. States that Is
not governed by some kind Of town officers Il
was incorporated hsIf a century ago It was then
supposed that Fenton would be one Of the large
towns surrounding st Louis, but II failed 70
grow; the people became disappointed and did not
think it worth the trouble TO elect officers
The city of Zurich in proportion to the nun-
Der OF Its inhabitants, possesses more clubs than
any other city IN the world At the end Of 1893
II already had 534 clubs, but IN 1901 they have
its yearly quarterly, monthly weekly we're
insfest.'' 50 that II = citizen could only get
himself elected a member Of each OF them he
might keep two festivals every day Of the year.
German trade continues TO develop in Central
America Fully s60,00O, co Of German capital
Is invested in Central American enterprises. and
German plantations occupy an area of 10000
acres. Large German business houses in NICaTa-
qua. Guatema. a. and Costa Rica control, IN ld-
ditIOn the entire traffic between Germany and
Central America. almost the entire foreign trade
of the FIVE republics with England and Cali
fornia.
The identity of Mrs. Frederick Hartmann, wio