The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-12
NOTES OF THE DAY.

: cradle IN which qeeen Elizabeth was rocked
IN her infancy.
4 hmm book Of one OF craaie's drivers. with
bullet hole through It. fetched 81 IS at sais
| n London On the ID instant
A shipment Of 1oe,eoo young peach trees from
Georgia nurseries, bound for Cape Colony and
natal. South Africa, VII be made soon.
RosbiRg graves Is the oniy crime under CHI
nese law for which the thief may be Justly killed
on the spot BY any one finding him cut.
The area Of the United States IS s.5OI.ooo square
miles that OF China is 4.zIsSsI. Of which Cas
proper has an area OF 1854 square miles
Thirteen thousand seven hundred and FIVE tons
on the Toledo docks OF the Hooking Valley Rail
road
Nearly 100000 women in spain work in the
field day iaborers; $4,000 women registered
as day servants that is they work for their food
and lodging.
It is an interesting fact that nearly tsso--th;rds
of the letteTs carried by the worlds postal serv
ices are written, sent 70. and read BY English
speaking people
1t is said thst Ge7iiardt Hauptuaru. the Ger
man dra-ratsf, xhe ~ termed t'the Goethe
has the stature aud diahdenee Of a boy. VITA the
face Of a dreamer
The Benedictines have a new monastery IN
Rome One department contains room sor eighty
students. There Is also meteorological and as
tronornieaI observatory
A Scottish soldier says that on entering cap
! t1red Boer lager he saw girl about eigfteeB OF
nineteen years lying dead with riee IN her hand
and bullet through her head
Even the highest personages IN Turkey are not
exempt from suspicion Their movements are
watched and reported 70 She palace By an army
OF spies, who swarm IL every quarter
The actual increase Of population in this coun-
Try in the last ten yesrs IS about i, rs GO The
rate of increase in the period from 1850 70 1870
af.a ont =er
In Ohio during the last ten years the largest
| -ate OF increase IN population was in the lake
cities aad counties. The zane conditions true
| Of the states OF Michigan and Wisconsin
The national vice OF the ChinalDan Is gambling.
Beggars in rags bet their last scraps Of clothing.
Certain fanatics stake their wives and children,
and men have been known to wager aSsy tlfeiT
finger joints
Horses belonging TO the European foreign AZ
mics IN China dying of BY hundreds. but the
Missouri mule says the kansas City Times Is
reported to eat every time he gets 3 chance and
to show no signs OF knocking under
FiIial pisty IS the no5Iest Of Chinese virtues;
indeed. the fountain head of them all, and It IS
the one g9.ieh, begun long before ConiUeIuz. Chi
nameh gtiH practice most sssi5G0Esly. Whatever
else h may do, the ChinsuIsH invariably supports
his aged parent
The ex-Empresz Eugene is now almost too in
Er1n 70 go about al al. She has endowed and
entirely supports the Benedictine MONASTERY at
marlborough Surrey and there two monks are
always PRAYING for the souls OF the Emperor and
the Prince imperial
Salmon ska is about the bsst waterproof ma
terial that can lie WoTn- The Eskimos use it fsc
both boots and saiTts shouz it become the fash
ioa.c1tsi3e OF the Arctic regions however, the
chances are thgt tia expense would DC too great
for general utilization
JOSEPH. 80 II Is TO be called the Presidents
discuss the message BY sections at weekly meet
inzs There Is a EinteTs JOB before the club i L
has pluck enough TO organize
In COPY OF the Boston Gazette Of Desera-
Der. 1850 Is found this b5siness notice: 'S RozFs
informs those ladies who wished to be dressed b.
him. either on assembly or bah days. 70 give him
notice the previous day Ladies who engage 70,
and don't dress must pay him hall price"
The experiment of sending Bapland reindeer 70
Alaska IN the SaTe Of experienced Lapland herd
eTs seems to have been failure, and to have cost
the Federal Treasury considerable sun without
adequate return Both the 6eeF and the Laps
developed 4 dsploEable tendency 70 die OF pre-
HatureIy.
The cottage where Peter the Great dy=slt whea
he was learning the trade Of shipbuildine N
ZaarndaH. Holland. stiH exists. though semeShat
dilapidated L contains The rude furniture which
the great Peter Hsed-a bedstead, table and txo
ciairs It IS eneased in a building erected for the
purpose and over the sEtei Is tablet erected BY
Alsxaad4s Of Russia IN 1874
Benign paternaI government is to be the general
note of Sudan administration IN the earlier stages
Of its REORGANIZATION SAYS Cairo correspondent.
The importation manufacture, or sale - alcoholic
liquor Is prohibited under the new code No per
son viii be allowed 20 sell his land or to make
loans at usuFieus rates Even mortgages XIII &c
subject to formal authorization
Col. George P Gross, OF Kansas City, has 3
| spoon that cost him $1,000 Years ago he was
offered that sum for his share IN a Mexican nine.
He refused and day OF tsvo later the property
vas fso5ded by rains Then came cave-fn which
ruined the property. o1t OF the ere the bank
3Ir. O. oss had silver spoon made, and that i
all he has TO SLOW for his $4,000.
4 committee has been appointed TO revise the
French naval signal book. vel as the system
OF tactics for light sqHadrons 4 similar Tt
vision was made IN 1891 By committee under
the presidency Of Admiral Charles Duperre- The
present revision Is due to the TACT that Wnen the
/, sqsadrons net for TnaneuvreS IN the summer
soHle Discrepancies were fSi'1d IN their practice
The WInnebago, Wis, county board has adopt
ed memorial TO the Legislature asking that body
to prohibit the playing OF the game Of football
In the State OF Wisconsin on the ground that sit
Is dangerous 10 the health and to the hfe Of the
persons playing IT as II Is nov PLAYED. The
ssenasisa, whose leg was broken IN game Of foot
bail
The fastest time ever made On a Canadian rail
read was that Of Lord Strathccuas special train
on the Canaadisn Pacific from Montreal to Ottawa
on November 10. when the Distance of 10 miles
WIS covered IN 10 MINUTES or. deducting ten
minutes Ecr stoppagss and slov-doTns- N 100
minutes This was coed speed for SC long a TuR-
especially IN view Of the fact that the run TE1
made in heavy snoEstoTn-
Walter u CexeIl. Kenosha Wis, business
man. is haEilg papers prepared n number Of
novel suits which he intends to bring against
half dozen vell-to-de residents al the city He
fossFd that many OF the trees On OF his tracts
of land had been gnaved by horses to such an
extent that they are dying BE claims TO have
located the owners OF the horses. and II Is
against them that the suits VIII be brought
In a recent report of the Director Of the Ma
tionai Observatory at Athens. II is stated that,
taking area into account earthquakes are about
twice as frequent ia Greece as they are IN japan.
TIE latter country has usually been looked upon
as pSr excellence the land OF earthquakes i
would appear that its earthquakes are, upon the
whole more severe than those N Greece although
the great architectural monuments OF Greece have
suffered much from seismic disturbance
In the showcases devoted to exhibits Of early
printing rom Japan and China, the British Mu-
scum authorities have Just placed an interest
ing addition Chinese bank note issued during
the reign OF the Emperor Hsmg-vu, & D. 1883
1889 This is She earliest specimen Of bank
note known ID exist in any country, and IS SaS
years earlier than the establishment at Stock
holm OF she first European bank which issued
notes About eighteen inches IN length. and half
that in width it is curious looking document
An interesting rslie OF the lake dwellers Of Ira
F.e,, aHdad 70 he eriarsee nd ri