Notes Of The Day

Matchee have not yét displaced the I tinder box in ceníain rural districts of i Spain and Italy. David Coulter, a Kansas prisoner j charged with mürder, 'has invented a corn-husking machine. William B. Phelps, of New Madrid, ! Mo., is crediited with a total of 1,350 i squirrels in three days' huntíng on Little river. AU itho doors in John Kipp'a house I at Cedar Bayou, Harris county, Texas, were opened and a lid of the kitchen range was blown off by a bolt of í ning. There are now 140 oooklng rooms connected with. the London schools, for instructing pupila, and 30,000 girls are ( reeeiving instruction in culinary and ' other domestic affairs. There is no printing press larg? ! enough to print the official ballot. Thl leaves the ne-mspapers out of the jofj, since the law declares ithat two in ( county shall print the 'ballot "life size." The longest commercial distance at which the long-distance is now operated is from Boston to St. Louis, a distance of 1,400 miles. This Hne is more than itwice as long as any European. telephone line. TJie net earnings of 133 rallroads up to Sept. 1 show a gain of 2,500,000 over ■the net Oarnings for the flrst eight ! months of 1895. These figures do not Í include th-e heavy cotton movement i whioh. has ta.ken place siace September. ]