The evening times., 1901-05-06
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| Thare VIII be state elections this wear in
| Nsyisnd, Massachusetts New Jersey Ohio. Penn
/ sylTa:i7- ard Virginia ! Governor VIII be
| chosen in all Of thsse states except Maryland.
| Buffalo, village until 1882, and az the date
| q its Incorporation a city having popuis
| ton Of only 5000, Is now the second city e
New York Its pora1at=e.- $50, 90, was only
/ 1900 in 1850
| The japanese University. IN Tokyo. exclusively
/ ior women, IS approaching completion and VII
be opened some time this year Three ri-h JaPa-
hese men have given enough 20 insure the compile
t'on % BE buildings.
| On the battIeship Maine. sunk in Havana Var
| b.. ere I62 complete engines, and the con
| EEactoE who is raising the wreck Is confident
that es sii are uninjgred The ship is worth 81
| 10000 II she can be patched up
| Two letters and tive books written ty Edgar
4 Poe have Just been sold at a7.stioH IL Boston
| for 5000. this amount being about sss 597 80
| TDOFC thsE Poe ever had n hrs life at Sgle time
| or than few other poets ever had
Unknown practical iokers created sensation IN
Redwood, y J. one evening last s-eek BY
| bringing 10 town and turning loose swarm
/ OF strsnGs cats, which have been making life
miserable for the residents ever since
In Wichita county. Kansas. recently young
woman died leaving lover and brother. who
are rot good friends The sweetheart ordered
T
now the brother has gone into couTt 70. an IN
junction 70 prevent the erection Of the pa 'posed
memorial.
The adviSabfIity Ct uzi-lg vine as a portion Of
the regular rations OF farm horses IS being seri-
oIsly discussed in France Tie experiment OF
feeding the animals mixture Of bran and
vine has been made on farm. and the matter
has been brought TO the attention Of the HeTault
agricultural Society.
Owners Of Atlantic liners trading TO New York
are moving for repeal Of the Compulsory Pilotsge
bill. They claim that with the East River
chan q go feet wide and 90 feet deep they
should not be compelled 10 engage pilots It costs
$50 10 bring the giant Oceanic in and take
her out TO again
In Suuatra If woman Is left a widow. irnme-
diateiy after her husbands death she plants
flagstaff at her door, upon which a flag Is raised
50 long as the flag remains Untorn By the wind
the etiquette OF SuI1atra forbids her to marry,
but at the first rent. however tiny. she can laT
aside her weeds and accept the first offer she
has
The national indebtedness Of the world at the
present date Is estimated at sSI 49s 749 0O About
a century ago the universal indebtedness figured
uT, Somewhere IN the naighborhood Of - 49,
5000 Wars have been the principal cause Of
the great increase. What VII be the aggregate
debts Of nations, II any are left century hence
HEAVIER only knows
i monster lathe has just been made in Phila-
delpbia- It IS eighty-six feet long and its total
weight Is IS5 tons Il has been constructed for
preparing the tbirty-two huge granite pillars to
be used N building nesE cathedral. each pillar
weighing leo tons II has eight cutters and the
granite block is reduced twenty-four inches IN
diameter at one pass over It's length.
The slot machine has been adapted in England
70 the directory This useful volume IS held fast
IN closed position by tie AIMS Of the machine
until You drop penny into the slot- then the
arms relax and you consult the directory
The book Is kept open as long as required BY
holding one cover. but as soon as the resistance
is Withdrawn the directory closes automatically
China IS a great Empire and how many soldiers
VII be required to coerce IT into obedience to the
worlds viii IS a problem not n0w easy Of solu-
ton The opium war required only 1000 Euro
Peans, the Anglo-French g7ar against the Chinese
5000 and $500 Indians The japanese needed
e5.c1o men and T5,090 coolies, ard today We
ffrsd ninety Taen-of-7ysr and almost $4,000 men
engaged in the task
Now Is the time to take baths IN the sun One
good morning breathing the fragrant air and get
ting toned Up by the warm rays Of Old Sol Is
worth ali the tonic medicines in apothecarv
shop Young women and Old women too for that
matter should take bath every day. ft may
have the effect Of putting freckies their noses
and tanning their alabsster skins. but It gives
health. and health IS preferable 10 beauty every
day IN the year
While wozF7z in shamokin. Pa, was feeding
cG3cEenS the oLneT cay a ndNS measuring IOUr
feet from wing to wing. s8ooped down on her
and tried to sink It's talons into her eyes. The
hawk flew at her repeatedly and when the
mans strength about exhausted and her eyes
were in danger Of being picked out her husband
came 20 her rescue armed with club he fought
the fierce bird for several 1nzautes before ne
ceedcd IN killing it.
farmer in Dickinson county Kan, recently
found some queer Ioo,-inE worms in his wheat
field. ard put them II glass jar to see e they
would t5Irn into some destroying insect One day
while the farmer was away from home. Joking
neiZibor removed the WORMS and replsEsd them
with some Young frogs. For two weeks thereafter
the farmer neglected his work while carrying the
jar around TO show his friends the wonder that
had been wrought
II it were not for the foreign supr1t.S< Eng
land receives timber famine would have cver-
taken the country long aro- because the home
grown supply has not been able to meet a
1.-THE OF the demands FOR long enough and that
euly Of inferior kinds Of timber II the for
eizn supply Of FIR alone vas to fa0 OF Sensi-
bIy row the whole building trade Of the c0un-
trT would come to partial standstIl and the
wagon companies would he next TO idle
@8Gr Joseph Chaulberlajn'a memory for faces
IS frequens, a subject Of comment IN the House
OF Commons saws the New York Evening
Post Recently he was passing the lobby and
heartily greeted new member whom Re had met
on5v once before some years ago, At 4 political
meeting. The legislator highly fatEered. bOaSted
Of this distinction to friend IN the smoking
room Wonderful memory Chamberlain has got!
he u3urnured. Yes remarked his friend dryly>
he asked me who you were yesterday -
IN letter to = relative Eric Boyd. Kansas
soldier vha IS serving N the Philippines has this
to say OF the canteen: Prom practical expert
erce Cf5r have been where there are no can
teens and also where there Is one) think II il
good thing. 4 canreen sells only beer and lunch,
and s,lch articles aS cannot be purchased IN the
ConGmiSsary- 7 have noticed that N places where
there Is no caDTeen great many or the soldiers
Hr=uL the native drinks which about aS p9S-
oHouS As wood alcohol and , man Just about as
much good.
During the past twenty years while the man
zfactUrfnz interests have been growing 50 stead
ilv su,i in such gratifying manner the increase
N -a;lraad usiIcasc IN the South has been keep
ing pace IN 1850 there were 1910 miles Of
miles o5 track In the former year the South
produced about $4,000 tins Of pig iron; IN the
latter year the pro4ucti'f Of pig iron more
than 5000 600 tons Twenty wears ago Bir-
n5ngi:am was unknown; today It IS Il great iron
and steel centre.
The preparation Of simple and cheap artif-
ciaI stone IS becoming an important German
industry and likely eventually 80 supplant brick
making The ingredients are only lime and sand
in the proportion Of from four 20 six parts of the
former to between uinety-six and ninetE-four
PARTS OF the latter The materials are thor
CdghIy mixed and shaped into blocks Of the
desired size The latter are then put IN a
boiler which l. sealed and Submitted to a steam
pressure OF from 10 80 pp unfis TO the square
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