The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-07-19
NOTES OF The DAY.

London has g. 564 policemen. or nineteen to tie
square mile. sixty per cent Of them are on night
duty
The Chicago directory contains $50 Johnzens.
1 which Is clean majority over the smiths II
[ I.S50.
! In New York city there IS a MAXIMUM density
! Of 1000 residents 10 the acre. and tins IS more
than double that Of the most congrsted cities q
Europe
Tie United Sta 5 Is net as many people be-
heve, the greatest producer o. petroleum Rus
I sra last year produced 9.1oQ.OJ) tons or sjoCJO
tons more than tie United STATES
An Italian electrician has invented an electric
| cartridge, which he Offers IS substitute f,r
/ dynamite and smokeleSs powder in mines, rock
! blasting, and for heavy ordnance
By the new sch-duIe the drivers and conductors
/ Of the Berlin street railways viii receive 81
Z month at first After two years they Viii get
! so. after fifteen years 80 after twenty years
( $50.
| The surplus products Of Missouri marketed in
1893, as compared with the previous year. show
an increase Of over s5.oso.O0O. the Aggregate
value Of last years productions being SlS5.Oao,-
80
The town Of SonervilIe. Ne. IS for sale to the
/ highest bidder. No taxes have been paid for
years. and the property vaIuzti0a Of the place
mas dviEsiled from $4,000 IN lSso TO $4,000 m
Saddles, in some form. are Of the greatest an
tiquIty Under TigIsth-Psleser III the Assyrian
cavalry were provided with them. and the early
RomaUs had covering Of cloth. hide, OF sSin.
which W2s. no doubt. very similar
Germany has given up the Reaumur Their
monster, and after January I, 1901, viii use Only
. the Centigrade- In the RezUmur the division be-
tween the freezing and the boiling point Is inta
20 degrees IN the Censgrade 1t l. into 100 deg es
1t cost. beyond the ordinary expenses s5.0Oo
for the Bzrnum-Bailey circus to parade the streets
D -
( railroad company 70 stop their cars during he
grand procession Of horses, acrobats. elephants.
Z lions. ugers. etc
The average Chinaman POSSESSES q remarkable
memory. He viii make himself understood IN
almost any foreign language in less than half the
. American 70 make himself understood In any one
Of the many Chinese dialects
The health authorities Of Owen county, In
. diana are having dihiculty in controlling
epidemic Of measles, because many parents pur-
p0sely carry their children % infected HOUSES
. believing that IL is advisable for them u have
I the disease in infancy
corpse vas recently dug up in peat bog IT
Damenforth in schIesaig- Experts Of the Riri
Museum where she body was placed. think II
buried so years ago. and that Il Is the remains
I Of Viking 1Re corpse was IN good state u
3 preservation, had red hair and was clothed II
coarse WOoien clothing with sandals on the feet
According to wc-k on the subject just pub
lished in Germany, the supply Of gutta percha Is
almost exhausted owing 70 the reckless and
primitive way IN which the trees were rres ted IN
Sumatra and Borneo. whence the principal ont
put has cone A. these trees VIII flourish only
n very few places, the question has become s=lI-
oas-
In Chinese lingo Ting means east; S. west; nsa
south; pei north while ten. kan. or king sta=ts
for capital OF metropolis. a. in Pe-kin tnorth,rn
. cspitaD and Nan-kiu (>oCthern capiJlD. Ten
Tra4r nHHr- nj
Z metropolis II evidently has not recently given
! any evidence u being entitled 10 TINS tlsriuc-
/ tI0a.
Superstition Is strong controlling motive r1r
Chuamzu's actions. One does not realize tbs
until one has lived in Ms Dan country and be-
/ come acquainted with his PET ylSaries- When
he emIErates he becomes in way WtaEed from
these. Il Is only in his native soil thar Jhry
grow and flourish. and lay hold upon his ye-y
heart
When bread Is made on extensive scale mU.l
. less TIM Is required than for making a small
. batch One thousands pounds Of dough Tlr
biscuits Is Rolled and prepared Tor baking n les
than four hours The work Is ot course Done hE
machincry- Il it were by hand the tame reqair.d
20 put this amount q dough into bread Would
. require ffty-f0ur hours
sand soi human being has been recommended
P hy doctor What We al need, according 20
his Theory. Is grit-real srit that Is furnished
by the silica IN ire sand To get Ih-t We must
Swallow niue clean e4L4 EhE-N WIZ ..--
meals The presence Of the sri1 al ASS n
. the grinding process. and our fe1d, instead y
distressing Us, WI nolrl~l Us
Am1n- many rare antiquities that have beea co.
ea-rhed AZ the old Roman fort at B-eieiresd- Ger
many. SAYS the "C5iCaro Record" Is bru-zs
bucket with handle IN good pre-ervatioa, sur
EICaI instruments. a horses head ~ lron- TIE
- practical use 81 which l. not known. many Cl-Es
IN bronze and silver and a stone statue The
articles were all found ID a walled inclusure-
Slccharine obtained from tar Is 80 tins
syyes5cr than cane sugar and Is used in sweet O.
ing and preserving JAMS fruit preserves and
. jeiIes- ulI6e ordinary cane sugar when -
F u-cd. IL Is not liable 10 mold or ferme1t- On
the other hand. It does not iatteu or uourIsh the
body and IN certain ailments Is therefore recon-
. rended ty doctors for sweeJsulrg coffee. Iea and
/ other Beverage
There Is spider in the London Too. obtained
from somewhsre in the Soud1u that is the f-rcgst
beast Of his Kind that ever spread out bis c-s IN
. a ueuastrie. The ordinary spider has Only Tour
leg. This creature has eve. and those who have
seen him ind his counterpart IN the terrible
; devil Ash described by Victor Hugo IN rs
l 'sToilers Of the Sea- The scientific name Of ia
! terror Is Galeodcs-
Nations are not much concerned about torpedo
boats. At this particular juncture q events They
ar. good a. naval scouters and skirmishgrs but
the general impression among officers Il that they
would be Of LITTLE practical use IN a bag naval
| engagement. and As Tor attacking fortincatlo7ls,
] COr-eTSuS OF oil1lou 4fErlls 70 Ae li-aA t-s
would soon b. discovered and put out OF the
fight in short order
I R-idles were in Use in very distant ages an
/ cient Thezsalian coins often represent horse
with long rein touching the ground The
Young Romans trained 20 ride and mount
ur.assi-;ed bit the use Of the birdie was known
from the first According 20 Ivy. Auius Or
nelius. IN a battle with the Fidcuae. ordered the
Roman cavalry 20 unbridle before charging, prob
ably 10 give them more weight
In little graveyard IN Philadelphia. which 5
about giving way % the march Of improvement.
the bodies are being disEtcrred for reburial else
where The cemetery. which the buryinS
Z ground q the Third Baptis- Church. does rot
measure more than - by - feet. but fully $50
bodies have been inferred there " hole families
were buried IN tiers. and the IN charge 4
the work have encountered from i've 20 seven
skeletons IN these tier boxes
Peter NjsSan the man who recently successfully
nayiglted the rapids Of Niagara, denies thaJ he
attempted that feat for notoriety OF with the in
. teution o. afterwards exhibiting himself in
7 dime museum. Tie made the attempt he saws. 2
fun and adventure. and for the purpose Of PROV
ing or diSprOving certain theories he entertained.
. One thing his experience taught him Is that
. a boat lsne through the rapids would net be
practicable for several re1Sons, the principal
being the uncertainty Of the current Just below
the Whirlpool
Few people who see the Italian pcddiers plotting
their push carts through the streets can properly
estimate the skill and toll 1t takes TO navigate
these tSo-Sheeled wagons loaded with bananas.
/ peaches peanuts. popcorn. and the muitirudes Of
I other edible wares they throughout the