Notes Of The Day

Tahita, in the South seas, Í3 now lighted with electfic lamps. An Alabama falÉr has taught all his children to read wítheir books upside down. The earllest militad fcead coveriug Is belleved to have besÉ ft rawhide cap, next a cap ot Iron. There are at present seven hundred golf clubs In Great Britain, with about 35,000 members. Boots and shoes were heavlly taxed in Holland years ago, the tax varying according to size. England has developed a taste for bananas, drawing its supply from the Canaries and from Maderia. About 10,000 Americans are now n Europe clamoring for accommodations, who cannot get passage before October 1, if then. The income of the industrial population of Great Britain has grown in fifty years three times faster than the population itself. A footman In a nobleman's house in England has testified in court that while his pay was $250 he received $3,000 a year in tips from guests of the family. Last year the deposits in the savings banks of Massachusetts increased by learly $17,000,000 over the prevlous year. This was in a time of depression.