The evening times., 1901-08-22
NOTES OF THE DAY

Germans have faIly s50.Oo0oo0 invested in Cen
tral American enterprises and German plantations
occupy 100000 acres
England spends &. 10000 year on her pau
neTs, scotland s99oo1o. Ireland a. 400 90;
France spends lesS than EI5O1.OJ0
In the arst halt Of 1900 England imported sII.-
+lb,pJo gold from Germany In the SIX months
just ended it received only Si. $500.
The Austrian Council Of Agriculture has unani-
mousiy declared itself in favor q prohibiting
transactions in grain Tor t1ture delivery.
Pupils in the schools OF ssvony are required
90 commit % memory 2gl Biblical verses and Iss
verses Of HYMNS in addition % the catcChiSm-
Coins at the mint are strack-aot nodded
Mold coins shrink IN cooling, and the varia-
1 tons IN size help to the Identification % bass
! coinage
Some % the more expert railroad men in the
country believe that the limit q sustained speed
with the existing style Of locomotive has been
reached
The Spanish vine trade. which has long beer
a feeder Of the French, has suffered considerably
from the very prolinc yield Of the last French
vintage.
Kansas has 100000 aee.s Of land without
mountains and without Su4mps, also s. rivers,
lis.ooo acres Of artificial forests. and 100000
. ult-hearIng trees
He.:ozabalus was the first Roman Emperor to
wear siIsen garment. In the year 4 T. 20 he
IN public. and which caused grave scandal among
stald elderly Roman citizens.
Last year the markets % New York paid a.
revenue into the city Treasury S15s.0go from
rents. exclusive Of Sss 0O0 collected from stall
and privileges in WallabouJ Market Bf0okIyR,
more than $4,000
An English paper says that the English Church
contributes a little over 100000 a year TO mis-
sions and that the collection Of this c,,n costs
$4,000. administration of Il costs $50 and
sa.aries % nineteen cergymen as assistant secre-
tarles amount 20 81 leo
A statute making il unlau-ful % add water or
any other substance 70 milk that IS intended Tor
sale is held by an Iowa court 20 Be a constitu-
tlonal exercise 0f the police power, even II the
substances added are not injurious used with
intent 90 defraud. but are merely for the purpose
Of preserving the milk
The Incas Of Peru built very fine roads, one
system Of which traversed the plateau, the other
followed the sea coast north and south The ses
coast road is said 20 have been nearly 100 70
-" miles IN length and - ieet ID breadth
Many portions % this magnificent system of
roads stiu ft 70 use
The wearing Of sun-bonncts By horses m hot
weather IS by no means a modern iuvestion. In
old Italian print dated I5+2 . gentleman is
shown hiding On h0rsehack vith A umbrella fxed
over his head and another over that % MS horse
u Mexico horses are often protected by a small
par1sol rising over the bead
The bubonic plague Is said % be the most
stubborn Of epidemics. not wedding % the mast
energetic treatment While the dread o. small
p0x. cholera and yellow fever has beer much
lcsened q late years because of the progress q
medical science. no great hold has yet been ob-
tanned on the black death
The japanese Emperor has an allowance Of 81
00J0O0 a yezr. 10 maintain tAe dignity Of his
office and have a good time This Is equal 10
$40 a dav. At the cioSe of the ChIne-e-Japan-
ese var Parliament awarded hiu 100000 in
gratitude for the able manner IN which he direct
"a military and naval operations
Prot. StandfuSs. Of Zurich. has discovered that
changes Of temperature produce marked elects
% transformation Of butterflies In his expert
nents he examined over 1000 Of the little crea-
tures- Specimens from the tropics were turned
10 the Eke Of those from the arctics By cold.
and vice versa Some new varieties were formed
1t costs something to call nan rooster in
Abingdon, III. John J. Rogers. Of that town.
painted a picture Of a rooster wearing a stove
pipe hat, and labeled with the initials Of An ac-
quaintance- The sSgrieved person sued tor $1,000
In defence. Rogers SEOre that the plaIntlu lad
no means Of support, and roasted 81 the home OF
his parents The jury awarded cent 20 the
plaintiff
An odd derivation has been furnished for
stream in Colorado, which used % be locally
spoken Of as the Pieketwire River. Its earliest
name IN spanish meant the River Of the Lost
Souls which il took frora q number Of early
explorers having lost their lives there The French
pioneers keeping IN mind the lost souls. more
merCItully changed II 70 Purgatoire. or Purga-
tory, River PUgatOire in the mouths % the
later Eug-isL-spe4slug settlers became Picket
wire. and By sucn title 1t Is said to have been
long known
John l. Hubben Of Ansonia. Conn. who IS
engaged in raising chickens. has two freaks One
Is chicken that has two bills and but one eve,
never having had the second one, and the other
one is chicken. EOw two months old that ls
minus all feathers never having had syn Of
one on T. Il does not care 70 nix with the
other chickens 10 q great extent for there are
no feathers 90 protect him from their peczug-
This they delight in doing but he toes not en-
joy it "a the least There are no indications that
be VIII ever be clothed
A correspondent. writing from shanghai, says
that a young Chinese lady there has recently
been married % = red flower vase. the vass being
a substitute for the son o. a wealthy mandarin.
90 whom she had been engaged Her nance died
just before the contemplated marriage. and A.
she vowed she would never wed another the
flower vase was substituted for the Bridegroom.
and the marriage celebrated with due polup-
TheSc impers0nal marriages are not uncommon
II China and II Is easy % believe that a happy
pair 30 united would easily dispense with other
family Jars
Lieut.. James Weir Graydon. formerly Of the
American Navy. has placed on view IN London
an invention which promises 20 rsyo.utionize tie
worlds transportation problem The model ex-
hihited generates 25-hursepOwer and nakes 5000
revolutions minute almost without vibration,
the power is applied directly 20 the shaft The
turbine uses but One-third of The amount Of
steam required 90 run an ordinary engine and
about Cnc-haf the amount required by Parsons
turbine Grdydgu intends % apply the invention
g. automobiles in connection with either steam
OF explosive engines
The basic industry Of this country Is aeyricul-
ture- In 1850 there were 4,564.64I farms IN the
country There are today $4,000 and over,
showing an increase IN ten years q nearly I.I40
Co farms This increase has arisen from twO
cause.-The settlement Of Government lands and
the division Of great farms We used 20 Be told
ten or fifteen wears ago that the iaITS were being
consolidated and that the BONANZA tari2 would
hs that Of the future On the CONTRARY since
1850 there has been a constant decrease In the
average SIZE Of farms, IN thar year II was 2J5
acres; IN 1880 IL vas lS7 acres
The hobby Of the German Empress is the bui,d-
in gof churches, and II apparently does not meet
the approval Of many q her subjects This was
shown AZ the recent uuyeiling of one Of the
groups af the statues with which the Emperor
has decorated the alley IN the ThieTgarten, IN
Berlin. known as the --SieEcszlCe-' Al the
close oi the ceremony came the national HYMN,
.'Heu Dir I'm SlegeSEranz,' whereat everyone. OF
C0ur~F- uncovered Among TIE number was
totally bald man, seeing whom ono os the street
urshIns present called OUT "Hey. there's
other vacant spot ioF the kaiserin 10 build
church on
In a resent larceny case IN Maine II vas agreed
% 20 on with only eleven uen on the Jury. The
trial lasted several hours. and then the jury re-
tired 90 dcliherltc upon the evidence ana ind
r.rTr.- Afra- h.l-- rrr f1rrr hours the fr~v ~a-