The evening times., 1901-05-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

! There is a project in Vancouver 3 c. to build
grand hotel the cost Of which via be 8. .5ooe0o-
In recent forest FIRE in the mountains near
| Wayuesboro, Pa, hundreds OF birds perished IN
! the flames
| Spain has more sunshine shan any country in
| Europe. The yearly 0yersge IS 5000 hours; in
| England IL IS (, 900.
The King Of Italy has bought most OF the best
! dogs shown al the Milan dog show. They are to
| be presented to King Aeneiik.
Boston owes s4o5.72 per inhabitant; Montreal
| owes so; Cincinnati owes SsS. 50. Other amer3-
| can and Canadian cities owe less
/ The forests IN France are in a fair way Of be-
| coming extin-t- In The city Of Paris alone the
| wood Of 1000 acres Of forest land Is consumed.
| At Trendbielm. the Kaiser visited J. R. Drexeps
steam yacht Sutana inspected her engine-roon
/ rnInutely, and swapped bottles OF port vine with
| her owner
| Two Chinese converts we're immersed IN
| Trenton Baptist Church sunday evening. a great
crowd attended In front pexs sat thiTtt- uncon-
| verted Cinnamon.
Glasgow, Nc. authorities are preparing % press
| the claims Of that city against the Government
for city property destroyed by Union troops dur
! ing the civil var
words a minute, which means that in an hours
steady writing be has drawn his pen along
space OF 300 yards.
King Albert Of Saxony, who IS now in his
seventy-fourth year, IS the sole survivor Of the
group OF royal generals who took par IN the
Frsnco-Prussisa
North Dakota farmer. who is said to have
advertised for a new wife three days after the
burial Of his frst, gave as excuse that he had
three children under fourteen months old
Experiments are being tried near some of the
coast towns IN Morocco for the destruction OF
Iocusts by means OF fungus imported from South
africa which IS said to have proved eficIeious in
that country.
The proposed Italian Gorgonzola cheese trust
has fallen through. in consequence OF want of
uRaniuity among the exporting houses. As
result the price Of GoTgonzola IS less IN England
than in Italy
miterate w:,ite inhabitants in Southern and
border States are most numerous among the
mountains Kentucky has Is per cent. Tennessee
Is. South Carolina 19, and Alabama iS per cent
Of llliterate whites
The entire population of the village Of soIogna,
Italy, Is about 30 ernigrate to the Argentine Re-
public and TO continue the community in ex-
actiy the same manner in .hat country under the
name OF New S0IegEa-
The japanese University in Tokyo. exclusively
for women, IS approaching completion anil viii
be opened some time this year. The Institution
is the outgroyvth Of advanced ideas held By ia
panese families OF education
On day recently a SeF jersey farmer bought
ii heavy rain. and when he got back home his
new bay horse was a brown horse with white
spots The ram had washed the dyestufE of
Experiment made at Kasan, in Russia. .; the
petroleum found in Siberia prove that 1t Is al
most identical with Pennsylvania napAtla- The
wells 5n the lake OF Baikal are said to be Tica
and reliable, 50 far as the bozings go down.
The lobster fishery along the Atlantic coast. it
IS feared, IS a failure this year. Stormy weather
ping but the authorities believe that nothing bat
severe measures VIII save the industry from
ruin
Some Of The wooden churches Of Norway are
fully 700 years old and are still in an excellent
state OF preservation Their timbers have success
fully resisted the frosty and almost Arctic win
ters because they have been repeatedly coated
with tar.
James Russell. fcIl-bIooded Winnebago In
dian has enlisted IN the navy. For two years
he was a pupil at Carlisle School lie IS the
fourth Indian to enter the navy. T,Fo OF his
predecessors deserted and the third, Joseph
LafroTnboir, IS now ships yeOman-
highly important discovery Of petroleum.
fountains and wells has been made ne5r the
Petchaza- River IN tEe-Province Of -ArehanseI,
Russia The supply is rich and apparently in
exhaustible and the value Of the fields Is as
sessed at many millions OF T0IbleS-
4 little church IN Reading. Pa. vas entirely
built BY the pastor, who Is sixty years Old. He
made the excavations, put n the foundations,
erected the walls. did the pIzsterTns. painting,
tinwork. etc, and paid out Of his own pocket
aIl the money for materials-ab0ut S1-oo2-
The historian Nom1nen was very absent-uIind-
ed man 1t IS related Of him that in Berlin re-
Gently he saw . Iady IN the street smiling at
him. and after < pause. Excuse me. madam"
he said surely l know your face ..FeTy
likely" the response, I am your daughter =
In order to ob7iate the frequent disputes ID
the ages OF children the steamboat authorities
in Switzerland have decided that in every case
where doubt arises the child must be measured
All children under two feet to have free
passage. those between two feet and four feet are
to pay hall fares.
Owing to the ravssez Of the peronosPora, the
larva OF small moth, in the wIne-gTowIng
provinces Of Greece. great distress exists, in
some districts the people being absolutely Stsrv-
ing Whole families are leaving their homes,
most OF them migrating 10 America, 200 people
having left lately
A lady residing in Madison Ne. has bottle Of
preserved strawberries which she put up about
TWENTY-FIVE years ago The berries look to be IN
as good condition as when put up They were
picked IN the fall the Sd day Of October. It was
a very warm fall and the strawberry plant pro-
duced second crop
All his life s-steepIe Jack John Williams
laughed IN the face OF death high in the air a5
he followed his business OF painting and repair
ing church steepIes and gliding the crosses that
s1Irmount their tops, only to be killed the other
day in Cleveland by 4 street car IN a most COM
mGnpIace way. The simple act OF trying to dash
IN front OF 4 trolley brought him to ms
death
Numbers OF experiments have been made 10
test the speed and destination Of corket bottles
thrown-iuto the sea IN various parts OF the world
A remarkable example was that in which bot
IL, .Ta4r 3 afe1r1f Two
a haIf-Toughly ct the rate of SIX ana one-h2lt
miles a DAY It Travelled from latitude . de-
grecs south and longitude 90 degrees west 10
Western AustTalis.
In the famous cellars OF hotel at Bremen
there are dozen cases OF holy vine which have
been preserved for go years II the cost Of
maintaining the cellar. payment OF rent, interest
r1pon the original value Of the wine and other
Incidental charges are considered. a bottle OF
this choice wine has cost ., 600. each glass
ful $4,000 and single drop could not be sold
without loss under 800
The tailor birds of India are curious little
creatures To escape falling prey to snakes and
monkeys the tailor bird picks up a dead leaf
and flies UP into high tree, and with fibre for
a thread and its bill for 4 needle sews the leaf
onto a green one hanging from the tree; the
sides are sewed up, opening being lett at the
top That I nest IS swinging in the tree no
snake or monkey would ever discover
The Oldest living frst-cIass cricketer IN Great
Britain IS Air. Herbert JeHner-Fust. IL D.. OF
Hill Court. FaIheld. Gloucestershire, known to
the oricketing world as Herbert JeHneT- He Is
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