The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

<3i apple orchard IN GISH4O3U- iowa, occupies
go acres and contains $4,000 bearing trees
New York city consumes 100000 tons OF ice
year. of which 100000 IONS Is natural ice.
Russian law allows man to marry only four
times, and he must marry before SO or not at ALL
The edible dog OF China is a small one of grey
houDdlike form. The skin is almost destitute Of
hair.
For the last ten years there has been an increase
insane.
In some parts OF New York and New Jersey
the people are said TO be suffering from pIague
OF toads
The mines Of the Yukon district Alaska. eul-
ploy $3.50 men. who receive an average wage of
81 an hour
Avalon College, Missouri, has farm of Loco
acres, on which students work 20 pay their way
through school,
The first trolley car making regular run il
Philadelphia Catherine and BaiI-
bridge streets in December, 1892.
a Cherokee Indian. after having been in the
penteniiary FIVE years returned TO his tribe, but
ne mad forgotten their language.
IL In 1897 the people OF Nebraska paid of sla,-
600 900 of mortgages; IN 1893 SO eco 600: in 1893
f'o,oOg,OoG-Sl46, 100000 in three years.
The National Government has instructed the
Forest Supervisor in New Mexico to protect the
cliff jewellers in that Territory from vandalism.
The Dublin Queens bench has decided that.
under the employers and workmen's act barber
Is not workman. because he must use his brains.
Physicians in Vera Cruz, Mexico, were success
full in their practice with the yellow fever serum
discovered by Brazilian experimental DR.. Beilin-
zaghi.
The prune crop of California viii not be nearly
as large at first reported, because of the al
most unprecedented dropping of the half-ripe
PrInes-
The largest stock FARM in Iowa is in Ida county.
1t consists of / 300 nd has I hCad of
cattle, and 500 hogs it nearly ready for
market
Klickitat, Kittitas. snohonnisf, snogualmic.
Puyailup, Toppenish, and Skookum are some Of
the Indian names of towns III Washington and
Oregon.
Prices for the large-sized banners, which po-
itical clubs hang across the streets range from
$50 for the Is or 20foot size to S2G5 for those so
feet by 40.
Many Chinese temples have windows made from
the white motIer-O' pearl found in oyster shells
The material Is perfectly transparent and looks
like opal glass
Denver reports the heaviest tourist travel IN
years Special trains are bringing thousands OF
travellers and tie Union depot Is crowded from
morning till night
tains, IN County Down, Ireland, have been sched-
uied as an area for military maneuyres for troops
IN the Belfast district.
The youngest flag exEant is that Of Brazil, which
was aG1tt'teu IN 1883. after me overthrow OF the
Empire The flag OF the Congo Free State comes
next in point of juveniiity.
4 publisher OF books in New York saws that
many Of his special editions bound BY young
women who are permitted 10 develop their own
ideas The results particularly novel.
Myriads of small yellow moths swooped down
Aliddietown, y. Y. the other evening, getting
into the ears, mouths and eyes OF pedestrians
They, disappeared about as suddenly as they
rived.
The fruit crop in Delaware Is expected to be
very abundant during the present season. Bas-
ket factories in some parts Of the State are run-
ming night and day 10 meet the demands Of
the fruit growers.
The Monthly Weather Review denies the su-
thenticity OF q paragraph. which is going tae
rounds. that the Weather Bureau Is utilizing
piano wire kite strings in developing meth
cd OF wireless telegTaphy-
The dome Of the court house in Chippewa Falls,
Wis, has been struck three times by lightning,
and the people of the town are discouraged in
their belief IN the old assertion that lightning
never strikes even twice in the same place
a Maine statute prohibits -jhe placing Of
inscriptions upon the Stars and Stripes, and sew
eral political flags bearing the names OF candi-
dates for President Vice President and Governor
have had to be taken down in consequence
American built for both surface and under
home-buit rapid transit vehicles in Europe. The
new underground electric road In London To the
western outskirts is equipped with American
cars.
Miss Dorothea Klumpke, the young American
astronomer. employed regularly by the French
Government at the Paris Observatory has been
given charge OF the balloon work. One OF her
duties is TO ascend IN balloon daily TO direct
the observations
While house was burning at Hawk Point, No,
a woman stood on a barrel 10 throw some water
The head of the barrel caved in and the h5Ssand
OF the woman had TO roll the barrel TO Black
smith shop and have the hoops cut before he
could release his wife.
Physicians in the State prison at Columbus,
Ohio, have just taken fifth finger from the hand
of VIII Byers 4 convict. Byers IS serving a
term for robbing the mails and found that his
extra finger interTsrcd with his work ID the
glove SHOP Of the prison.
Conrad Uricb, o. MseS,oEn, Pa, thirteen
year-old boy, though little more than four
feet tall, already weighs I7o pounds and 10 daily
adding to his avoirdupois in spite Of all efforts
10 restrain mis- growth. Ten pounds month is
about his average increase
An American woman, Miss Harriet c. Fay, is
chaperoning party of eight young Mexican
women. lately graduated, who are making tour
of the United States for the purpose OF examiH-
ing the schools. The state OF Vera Cruz pays all
the expenses They have visited st. Louis, Chi
eago. Buffalo, New York, and Boston
Eight different nationalities were represented in
the graduating class of the American College
for Girls in ConstantiDgple this They
were Greek, American Hungarian German, Aus
Jriar Armenian, Hungarian Bulgarian. and Itdl-
ian French play given by the graduating
class was one OF the features OF Class day.
The sting of a bee on the parts affected are
said to be a cure for rheumatism At least such
is the opinion of man who while asleep in his
hammock somewhere in the West vas without
his knowledge. subjected to this insect surgical
to the bees for their heroic treatment Of his
case
If, as it is rumored the Kaiserin goes 10 Eng
land next month on a visit she viii probably take
up her residence at a welI-known coast resort
with her three youngest children, but she will
pay the Queen short visit In order that the
little Princess Victoria may make her great-gTand-
mothers acquaintance, a her majesty has never
seen the only daughter OF her eldest grandson.
From the Army recruiting stations in Chicago
there has been gathered formidable addition to
the slang of the day. Strictly speaking, shave
tail'' is a griffin or '.covsfe'T or s.raasreT
but frequently is called -piebiter,' and perhaps
is known even more widely as 2 ''riugtdiled
shorter" All these terms OF repfoach ad-
dressed to the rookie military recruit in
the United States.
They have bright policemen in Kansas At
Seneca Robert Bell went to the town marshal and
told him that Steve Riesterer was hunting for
him (BelD with the view of giving him a lick
ing While the men still talking Riestercr
came up and knocked Bell down and admins
tered the licking before the officer could inter-
fere. Which shows that often we Yot without
knowing of what we are voting.