The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-15
NOTES OF THE DAT.

Five and one-haif pounds IS The average y'eight
oi the Eeoi from sleeps fleece
One Of The peculiarites o. the Beers s that no
body his ever been able to count them.
Six thousand one hundred stars are visible 5es
the southern
There Is 10 accounting for the tastes a. sems
people 4 B5sssio man. who b-d So EFith him
recently went to prison rather than pay :iRe Of
PieternaFitzburg. South Africa. is to H,ild an
electric fraEnNag. 70 be owned AID operated BY
ears are te be tried.
ST. Inuis las good statues Of Heine. seiflIer.
and Goethe The larre German po3u alton there
takes rare that tie great men os TIE Fztheriand
sTe properly heuored-
DE-. NoTi,rrpe Jensins zrifes tn tfs r-osrs to
say that 200 children wearing glasses.
His yieE Is thai tine wond Correct majority %
the defects i given CHARGE
Narceni. the inventor OF wireless teIe-rapliy.
beean kls experiments Of traavHitiing Inassagez
ithout wires wi5sn only uinsteen years o. sge-
He IS sti1 Jar on the sunny side q thirty.
The chief saaitary ineDeetor Of chTcaeo has
discovered that all the oe''reles Of that city
fuii Of Rad air. and Savs the more ron steam aud
heat nos e. the more EDwholesone It becomes.
The art Of manicure Is nany centuries old. haY-
ing had It's birth in the dim old ecnTcnts Of
France zhere the patient nuns practice5 il on
the bands Of the noble ladies brought up withia
fhezr walls
coveFnor-eiect Hum. Of Delaware IS IneHa-
Der 0; the Society Of FTieris aud VIII not take
the oath af Office On an old Latin Bible. a. pre-
vto'ls Governors have done De sin make afiTnaa-
ton instead.
An elk preserve has been established st Jack
sons Hole gyo-. ~ 4 V fsiEtner who fears thzt
elk vii share the fsse OF the tszls He now mas
herd OF nineteen having started four years ags
With half SozeH.
Union carpenters in San Francisco have fully
demonstrated what car be doBe ~ orgauized Ia
Dor when acting as a unit They have ! rnioa
planning mil II fan operation. giving employment
TO 200 Union
From clerk To rniIlioaair4--frou, the drudzery OF
dried apples and sugar to The IuxurT OF a palace
car-from $40 week 10 81 .0oa a mcnth: that's
3 leap made by KEEsss isny-Joe ChansioT-ia
hal dozen years or less
The United States Weather Bureau station -
Eagle. Alaska, has nov been IA operation for
somewhat over year The lowest temperature
observed during that period WAS e degrees below
zero N January Of the present YER
at 3 O'clock Monday night three strokes Of els
Ere alarm bell gave Che fist curfe9 signal sound
ed n Serse.>iI-e Mass i vas teo Geld Gar inan<
children 10 be the street but the police f5gHG
group OF boys huddled about FIRE n Geld.
They we're sent hoIHs
The nan who gets the Government spPoin5rHent
to forecast she Nee- England weather, ssiI, ae-
cording TO the Boston Transcript have no
sinecure- The New Englapd climate IS ''every-
thing by starts and nothing long but lis
Fiety makes It Interesting
Efforts are n he made i,v Pi,iIs,sciuiia p=o5le
to preserve the old monastery near Eissaideken-
The monastery was constructed hv the SEVENTH
Day BaptiSts when they were an o-sler and dates
back century azd a half It : n great historic
interest. but has fallen into ds"sF ~inr- the de-
cline OF the order by which Il was inhabited
Queen WiIheuinz Of Holland and Duke Henry,
her hgs,aad-elect, have many points in coslsuoz-
Neither IS the issue Of first marriage Eiihei-
r,Ina being the dss-hter % William HIS seeonA
wife and the Duke tho Youngest child Of third
wife. Both lost their faiileTs az an eTsiy age:
both have been reared under the loving care %
widowed mother
There Is an increasing aood Of cope. TeaH:ss
which has already oyenEn the Offices Of the scisoo.
board in the fsorozyh 0. Queens New York. Tie
money Is part of the eoutrSstie. - tb4 eIil.lr=a
to the fund 70 aid the school children Of Calves
ton There are 1850 far and they are stiH
pouring in The entire Office force has been count
ing pennies for week
Partisan has conceived the idea OF publishing
a Journal for the seasick, which is % have for
its main purpose the discovery OF specific f0r
seasfeEress Al the travellers Of the universe are
TO be invited 10 write al they know about every
symptom. remedy. alienation OF aggTayatioR Of
seasiekneSs prize OF so 60 Is 70 be CHeEed
for the discovery Of an infsllibie specific
Winston Churchill the English var correspond
ent who has come to this country 70 lecture. saya
tia the has concluded that the distinguishing
Characteristic Of Englis-speaSins people Is ceEr-
pared with other white races, Is THAT they wash.
and vasl 1t regular intervals England ana
America he Sdys are divided By an ocean %
salt water. but they are united By bath tub OF
soap and fresh water.
Columbia No. claims the largest Bible class foc
Adults taught n that State. It has an enrichment
of over SO With IN aveEzE@ Attendance Of 2e5,
and Is Taught By Walter Williams, editor Of the
Herald az the First Presbyterian Church the
rnemhe-sfl==. includes both sexes and al ages
large timber being students and teachers Of the
State university. There were only SIX members N
the class VIXEN NT- Williams TOOK charge
IN southern ftaiv orr OF the peculiar customs 81
the peasants Is the wearing OF prize marks On new
suits Of clothes Whereas IN other countries ths
dealers ticket and "a. are removed the uaoHent
s,,jt Is boa-ht. IN the sunny rsa and heel Of the
European boot they arc fastened or the ughtes
and worn until they fall Of The object q th-s-
rraszsTraIi!g Is to silaw negiIboTs that you have
new clothes bought On such dap snd costing -
much
At the coming session OF the South Dakota
legislature bin will be introduced to set asids
a sum for the collection Of documents. relics
etc bearing on the early history OF the territory
now embraced BY tEat State. and 70 furnish sLa-
be quarters for the Preservation OF she sane ms
frsi Legislature OF Dakota Territory. which met
in 1852 Incorporated 4 historical s0ciety. which
included among its members many premlneas
pioneers
Whenever nan ssith money dies re'ations IRON
brothers and sisters down to third generations Of
cousins crop up thicker than leaves in : forest
Nov the Rev. P DAILY. an inmate Of me soldiers
Home at Hot Springs, s. D., IS eenTineed that he
and the late Montana millionaire are brothers.
They were separated when very young and neFer
again found another Rev Mr. G3iy often
read Of the Western CroeS1s- but never imagined
that was his little brother who left home Pennl-
| less
| A Los Angeles despatch to the Chicago Tri-
bune'' says: Ezra 81 Hamilton. veteran OF tie
civil war. aiII receive 100000 for his Ida god
mine. which he discovered in the antelope Yai-
! lev last March FOR half century Hamilton has
been of and en- 4 miner hunting Tor fortune, an
he saws: Three days more Of unsuccessful sesress
would have finished me was worn out lhyst-
| ealIy. financially and mentally" lie viii be
sixty-eight years Old in February, and Is native
Of Minnesota
The hran.t. tablet which The State Of New
Hampshire presented to the batteship Alabama 4
giving the officers Of that vessel considerable
| trouble The tablet, which measures twelve feet
by Eve. was intended 20 occupy position on the
the exterior OF the forward turret, directly under
and between the two 12-inch guns The N0TS-
men have found it impossible. however TO bore
| h lies in the Harveyized steel IN order to FIsee
thu tablet in E,l>ce, and Is nay have 70 occupy
| a less conspicuous position
| sa,,ad of students belonging to the Boston
| Institute Of Technology were last week provided
4 IN aTn - tho Rrysf1r and