Notes Of The Day

The Sun is the only New York paper that does not use typesetting machines. Nearly 10,000 tons of tea were landed in Tacoraa from China in one day not long ago. The Berlin Academy of Sciences is preparing to issue a complete edition of the works of Kant. The negro race has increased its property in the state of Georgia 150 per cent in the past ten years. There is in Michigan one application for divorce to every ten marriages and one divorce to every twelve. It is a curious fact that the number of women physicians has fallen off tremendously within a year or two. A fisherman near Seattle says that he hauled in 1,900 salmón with one cast of his seine the other day. It is estimated that some 4,000 dozen eggs were smashed in a railroad wreek that occurred at Canterbury, N. H., last week. Keports from Germany indícate that olectric plows, hoes and potato diggers will soon be successfully at work in that country. The demand for coon cats in Belfast. Me., has become so brisk that cat stealing has become decidedly aunoying to the rosidents thcre. The British census report says that if all the houses in England were placed de by side they would cover a space of 450 square miles. The season's apple erop is set at 66,256,000 barrels, which is pretty close to a barrel for every man, woman and child in the country. "Oíd Dan," a famous army mule that has worked for Uncle Sam upwards of thirty years, was shot and cremated at Willet's Point last week. London has imported foiin America during the last fortnight 40,000 tubs of butter. It fetched from 24 to 28 cents a pound over thcre. A Malay opera troupe is on its way from Po'.ynesia to London, where it will porform "Rishi Sha Ilirzan," described as a national opera. On account of local opposition the monument to John Brown, which it was proposed to erect at Harper's Ferry, will not be built at present. The custom-house offleers in New York were in a good deal of trouble last week appraising a monkey. Duty was finally flxed on a valuation of $7.67. The headlights from the locomotives on the Maine railroads attract.the deer from the forests, and numbers of the animáis are being killed by the engines.