The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-08
NOTES OF The DAY.

France.
photographic stones.
the Southern Pacific.
In Prussia an income tax Is levied on all whose
income exceeds S225 year.
Insurance companies viii now take risks for
limited amounts football players
Photosrsphing objects solely by the light from
the planet Venus has been successfully accom-
pifshed.
There we're 5I4 lady patentees ont Of 2a.oo0 ap-
piicans az the British patent ofsces during the
last year.
The Vermont Legislature has rejected the local
option bill which has been uR5ser consideration;
IN both houses
A conduit line to est $4,000 is protested in
Eoikestone- Kent England in downtown sec.
items. With an overhead trolley system in the
suburbs.
Melbourne, Australia. reports that system OF
districts.
BARRIERS for dogs are very raueh in demand IN
rams and those who are expert are sad 10 earn
comfortable incomes They solicit business On the
Pietermaritzturg South Africa. K to buiIa an
electric trsmwsy. TO be owned and operated By
the municipality. Eght-wheeled doubIe-decked
cars are to be tried
In Scotland twentieth Of the area IS forest
land- Inc greater portion Of the country is
mountain heath and lake The cultivated Land il
| comparatively very limited IN It's area
The largest painting In the world exclusive Of
p2noTaEazs and cyciorsHas Is in the grand salon Of
the Dogs palace at Venice the PsintiHg IS
eighty-fouT feet wide BY thirty-iour feet high
There are 2i4,s-27 achooIhouses. dornitories. and
o.her buildings the United States devoted to
-.
Ihere are 4l9,eoo tsachers-l3l,793 men and 49,
SCI women.
The town OF EatoHYilie Fla, has 1850 inisabi-
taHts, with not single white among them. It
has its fall quota Of public officials, hank, and
oiher business establishments requisite II town
OF its size.
Property owners of the Fox Lake region IN Wis
consin have banded together to rid the waters Of
Fox. Grass and ether lakes IN the vicinity Of the
German carp IN order TO keep the game fish
which make those Likes famous rom being driven
out.
balloon fitted up with automatic instruments
sent Up recently in Paris and came down
safeiy. The instrument showed thse 4 had rizea
TO 5000 feet. or over ten and half miles At
that height the temperature outside the balloon
was I02 degrees below zero
The View YORK Pres says the 'rRrskinites''
say they thriving in their Georgia colony on
- cents day NO healthy GTCed would
take pot-iuck with crowd o Socialists for SO
day and his keep There are people IN Georgia
who are happy on less than 10 cents day. They
live on clay roots.
Peach trees in the vicinity Of 81. Joseph, Mich,
are threatened by a more dangerous enemy than
the yeIlows. Local growers call It --shot-iloIe
bo-eh Little -rhite Insects gith rcd heads invade
the orchards and cover the trees with tiny hoies,
the sap leaks out from these lOlsS, and TIE trees
die for lack Of nouTishment.
The best collection Of Chinese coins 70 be found
outside Of China has been given to the Archaeo-
logical Museum Of the University Of Pennsylvania
by Rev E. Y. living, a Honolulu missionary
The collection goes back to 4 time over go
years ago, and includes those odd, early coins
which we're made in the form OF spades. Tszerss
keys, and tools
Western timber is composed almost entirely OF
conifers. Forests Of the Western coast probably
are the de-sest and heaviest on earth They nay
be compared with those of tropical regions such
as the forests OF the Amazon and Congo basins
While the Jungle q the tropics may be denSer-
the trees are oy no means as large nor DO they
contain as much lumber
The State Supreme Court OF Ohio has affirmed
the constitut0naIity of the st authorizing county
commissioners to regulate the Nidth Of wagon
tires according &c the loads carried. Acting IN
der It's provisions the Prosecuting Attorney OF
Wyzndotte cs-TutJ sued riolator. The Court Of
Common Pleas declared the act unconstitutional,
but this decision was overTaIed in the supreme
Court.
John Bunch, pioneer citizsa Of Macon county,
No.. is suing the town OF Ia Plata for injuries
alleged to have been received while II The Gala
ioose at that place last August he Eas arrested
for some trivial cause. and found on being locked
up that he had FOR ceIlHsates an active and ex-
ceediEgly indignant hive OF bees The insects IT,
gsrtied him intruder and stUng him severely
during his SIX hours Of confinement
Autorro6iiisn and the increasing necessity for
sone form Of traction for goods and passengers
better suited 10 cities than that furnished b. the
ho-se have given another impetus TO the search
for 4 storage battery that combines iigatness with
high output and enough mechanical and electrical
strength to insure long lie Nothing Is more VI
gently needed, and nothing seans further from At
taiEnenf-
The Gackwar CT Baroda, Indian prince, has
battery of artillery consisting OF gold and silver
guns There are four guns, two Of gold and two
OF silver The gold guns were made IN 1874 by
artisan of Lakla who worked on them for five
Tears They weigh 40 pounds each and except
Ter the steel lining. are Of solid gold They are
mounted on gun carriages OF carved wood oveTlald
with silver.
The brothers Andreas and Anton Lang. Who re-
Gently acted the parts of Christ and the High
Priest in the passion Play at 0Oer2mmergau,
were IN Rome not long ago They called At the
and the guards were stricken with terror On see
ing them some OF the soldiers actually believing
Andreas to be Christ IN person Tie Pope re-
ceved them cordially and gave each OF the broth
ers gold medal
The eoffee-grewing industry in tropical Africa
is Developing tremendously. The seed was intro
daeed into that country five years age BY some
English missionaries with the object OF ascertain
ing whether the resources of Africa were favorable
to the culture OF the berry The ground appears
TO be peculiarly adapted to the industry, 100
tons Of coffee were exported from Uganda alone
last year. The result OF this years production
viii be even greater
In london beautiful collection is being exhib-
ited made Of vacuum tubes charged respectively.
with samples OF the various gases which sci
entisss have succeeded in obtaining from our at
nosphere. When the electric spark is passed
through the tubes some very beautiful color ef-
fects remarkably rich and pure, obtained
Especially noticeable in effect IS that obtained IN
passing the spark through the gas neen, when
magnificent crimson glow Is yielded
An amusing story Is going the rounds that at
the siege OF the legations. when the japanese
Minister called Cor volunteers TO assist IN the de-
fence OF his legation, less than thirty-fre off
Gers OF the japanese Army, who had been scat
tered about Pekin IN various disguises, responded
to the call One had been the foreigners barber,
another had been the leading photographer. etc,
which nerflaps accounts for the excellent informz
ton about things in China that Japan possesses
The African native has no real sense of the
value of money. and if he is in the mood for
work viii toll as readily for 10 cents as So but
ii he has once been paid a certain sum for labor
he will never work for less but viii sooner starTe