The evening times., 1901-05-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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cubic yard Of oak weighs 100 pounds
The most expensive bsrbor in the world IS that
OF CEer7ourg, finished by Napoleon az a cost Of
sl5050. 90.
A pine tree bouzh swept before the face Of
Spanish baby Is considered an e1u5iem OF good
luck IT that country.
India has the record Of containing population
o. 53.c9 IN eight cities. which is Ia advance Of
any other country Of the same area.
The cost Of a telescope Of the largest size IS
aDoUt Sio3Iyj. and equal sum j. required ior
/ building and the incidental expenses.
G!azZoVs penny electric tram cars. owned By
tne corporation nave begun to rUH. They are
Overhead trolley cars and double decksrs.
The twelfth annual convention Of the younr
Peoples Christian Union Of the Unfvsrsllisl
Church viii be held in Rochester July I0-I7
Atheism has fast held in Japan. OF over so
university students Who were recently questioned
as to their religious faiths az denied the existence
Of God.
4 Biddeford, Ne. calf recently performed the
distinguished feat OF swimming across the S2co
River at a section where the width Is more than
half mile
This year there have been planted 200 acres
OF eantaloupes IN Pec0s Valley y N with an
estimated yield Of something less than enc car
load to the acre
The average age Of nan has been increased
u years in the last century, and at that rate
the average length Of human lie VIII be about
10 years in 10 centuries
Dr. Ludwig Mond. who has discovered cheap
illuminating gas. Il a native OF Cassel but has
lived IN England for the last forty years He has
greatly distinguished himself as q chemist.
America is far ahead IN the number of social
settlements OF all =he rest Of the universe g-iis
country possesses l87 OF these communities. The
rest Of tie world aggregate less than sixty
The old Edinburgh College in Grundy county,
No, has been abandoned as has also the Niece
College at College Mound At one tine both IN
st1tutions we're important factors IN Missouri edu-
cafional circles
The Mormon leader George O. Cannon left his
children only s200o apiece As there we're at the
latest family census only orty-three Of them the
amount. Of course took Ss50Go out Of the deceased
prophets Golfers.
&r. ard Mrs. Matthew Low of Springfield town
ship, Fayette county. Pennsylvania, who vgere
born on the - fi1g ffty-seveH years ago. were
never separated GSy .~g their thirty years
Of married Efe and died on the saEse day last
week
\ fast train was DELAYED for one hour between
Harvey and Lemert. \. D.. while coming east re-
Gently The loss between these two stations
which only thirty-one miles apart was caused
by Russian thistles which were piled along the
tracks
One Of the unusual scenes witnessed n Bradley.
Ne, during a recent food was woman padding
about her dJoryard in 4 battesu taking IN her
weeks Washing rom the clothesIine- There was
about four feet Of water where the line was
stretched.
People in Chicago take no more pains to have
their dogs licensed than folks IN other parts Of
the world do and there are many worthless ours
IN that great CITY L Is estimated that there
ten unlicensed pups to one that pays the tax IN
that city.
London newspapers unite in giving full credit
sanitary conditions which have made london the
heaIthiest OF the worlds great capitals Dr. Col
Iiuridge IS now chief medical officer Of the English
metropolis
Boston has a great many Canadians among It's
residents Men. women, and children IN great
number. when they cross the border land Of New
England. fock II herds 10 the Hub. and It must
BE- said form important contingent IN the CitJ's
population
An ATBino robin that Is nesting in the vicinity
Of Court Square at Rutland. Vt. has attracted
considerable attention among the residents m
that part OF the town The bird Is not all white,
but Is very light eoiored and has a number Of
white feathers
Manchester y H. Is to have what It Is claim
ed viii be the largest single mill building ever
erected Il IS nearly completed and IS 30 feet
long with tvo wings Of $50 feet all Of
age width Of 100 feet, and Eve stories N height,
including basement
In 4 little handful Of earth IN the crotch OF the
branches Of the big elm IN front OF a store at
Norway. Vt. IS curraHt bush The shrub has
been growing there for two OF three years. and
has attained a vigorous size Last year II bore
fruit for the first tine.
The library OF Heidelberg University has just
acquired twenty-seven sheets Of 4 Septuagint
code, written II UEciaIs Of the sixth or seventh
century on PaPyrus. containing the Alez4nS.rInian
translation Of Chapters " 10 Nv OF ZacH2rlan.
and Chapters I to " OF Malachi
It IS said that President Mckinley first met
Attorney General Knox. when IN 1889. he visited
Mount Union College. Ohio, where Nr. Knox was
then a student shortly afterward Mr. Mckinley
ran for prosecuting attorney OF stark county,
and M Knox helped to elect him by bringing out
the student vote
It i peculiar fact that the longest words IN
the English language have an ecclesiastical mean
ing. IN the recent biography OF Dr. Benson.
Archbishop OF Canterbury. Is entry from the
archbishOp's diary TO the effect that ''the free
kIrk people OF the North OF Scotland are strong
aTEti-disests bllshuentzrians
There IS a policeman in New Orleans who has
100 acres OF land Z the Texas oil region he has
recently been offered. and has refused 81 G0,O00
for his possessions believing that L Is worth
t=sice that amount He still continues patrol
duty and swings his club Just Ike any ordinary
cop waiting for some one TO make him an orer
that he VIII accept
In the picturesque village Of AIlesley. Warwick
shire. England, an ancient custom which is found
10 Iinger here and there Is stIu observed The
church bell Is TJ-Gg at O'clock every morning IN
the sumner and at O'Clock II the winter, n or
DER TO arouse sleeping -iIiagers and enable them
10 start work in good tine The curfew Dell Is
also tclled AT s O'Clock each evening
John and Mary Burkett. Of kokou0. Ind. be-
gan marrying each other about forty years ago.
and have kept II up at intervals ever since. They
have had three divorces and four weddings ueith-
or having welded another IN the meantime ko
k07uo also reports another couple. Henry and
Myrtle MOhn. who have been married to each
other three times, and are now living happily
The revolt against ragtime music IS portentous
IN q way. but Is not likely to be successful at
present. The sU-caIIed coon songs have come TO
STAY until the BOYS and girls both OF mature
and tender years become tired Of them, and they
viii not be driven out OF existence BY dIgEIfed
professionals They may be interfering with
classical music, but they are here to their
time out
Haii a century ago Wales had I,0G0.G 600 Of peo-
pie who could not speak English, and there are
today quite half that member who only speak
Welsh, In the middle Of last century. too, Erse.
the native language OF Ireland was the common
number Of Irish who speak Irish Is estimated at
5. .Ig5 Forty thousand people in the highlands
speak Gaelic and nothing else
1t IS said that the human body is shorter at
night than in the morning owing to the weight
of the body COMPRISING the interverbTaI ear
tizges- During sleep, or while IN recumbeat
uraI elasticity enables them 20 resume their nor
nal size consequently she height OF Inr1l-