The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

IN African, who had visited England de-
scribed snow rain gone TO Sleep
An estimate Of the rice acreage in eastern
Texas this year places It At 5000 tons
Stockholm Sweden, has 1000 telephone sta
lions, averaging ere for each household
The latest triumph IN the industrial world :
the stone lathe 1t Is SC feet long and weighs
many Ions-
The steepie Of the cathedral Of Antwerp is &c
ieet IN height which makes it the higilesI church
steeple IN the world.
Belfast has in recent years become one Of ths
strongest eentFes Of Christian Endeavor work In
the United Kingdom
The Salvation Army in this country Is incrsas-
ing its ranks rapidly. There are row 765 corps.
including ever z,5OO officers
Russian railways are the most dangerous in
the world. Thirty persons IN every million pas
seagers are either killed or hurt
The beds of the inn,eB=e coal fields lately as
covered in Zuiulsnd extend downward for forty
FIVE feet in places, and The coal l. Of good qual-
Cuba viii be well represented at the Pan
American exhibition al Buffalo GeaeFal Wood
has asked for plans Of building to be erected
The intempeGate use of tea and coffee produces
results a. real those Of drunkenness Total
blindness IS often the result of excessive coffee
drinking
There is only one train in the country that ex-
ceeds 30 miles hour N speed for 100 miles run
and that is the Empire State Express. Great
Britain has %.
Nr. Wigham. Of Dublin the lighting expert,
has inverted parafHB lamp FOR the purpose OF
lighting buoys- Il Is designed to burn three
months without attention
The area in Ireland under fax this year is A.
81 acres increase Of L, 22s acres on Is99-
Under favorable conditions fax Yields IN Ireland
about SO OF 60 per statute acre
Il l. fEa
bears must be paid when the animals nose .
shown, and IN New Hampshire the money Il
payable on exhibition Of the ears.
The Government at St. Petersburg has appoint
ed an agent TO visit the United States for the
purpose of studying our homestead legislation.
with view 10 the partial application Of tse sys-
TEN to- the peasant communities Of Russia.
Political buttons cannot be worn in Canada dur
ing the hest of a campaign This is due to
clause in the Dominion franchise act which SAYS
thar person shall exhibit any sign Of bis poll.
teal faith after the Official nominations are made
The Use of Niagara Falls as generator OF
electrical power on a large scale, f5liOWsd By
successful experiments all over the United States
as well as IN Europe, has led to the investment Of
large sums Of money elsewhere fOg water power
schemes
President George Harris, Of Amherst University,
enjoys the distinction Of having been the first
college president to attempt to solve the servant
girl problem He read paper on the subject
AZ recent meeting OF Womea's clubs ii An
herst, bass.
Il las been ascertained b. experiments that
perso.-s who use the telephone habit7zaIIy hear
better with the left ear than with the right
The common practice Of the telephone companies
Is 10 place the teiephsRe that Il win be applied
to the. left ear
The choir Of St Georges, New York, Dr.
Raiasford. rector, Is to have negro baritone.
lie IS H. T Bmleigh, Of Erie. Pa. He vcat to
New York three years ago to study and train bis
voice and has been assisted BY fTieEGz- lie viii
receive salary Of $50 IT St Georges
Until few days ago Brown county, I'D, had
neither railway. telegraph, nor telephone 6acTli-
ties anywhere within its borders It IS stIu
minus the railway and telegraph bit a teIe-
phone line has lust been extended from Column
bus in an adjoining county, 10 Nashville.
The highly prized Victoria cross has been co.,
ferred on Midsliipraan Basil J. D. Guy, Of the
battleship Barfieur. tie flagship CT the second
command Of the British China station. for rs
heroisIn IN attempting 10 save Seaman Mccarthy
during the fighting at Tientsin july -.
In the Northern Presbyterian church out Of III
PTesbyteries H have voted against am change
in the present creed, give a plurality ssainst
change, and . have voted specifically against
question No J. making u. which Is a majority
against revision Of the Presbyteries reported
4 bill Just introduced IN the Georgia Legfsla-
tgre -rohibits the employment OF children under
twelve years OF age IN mills, mechanical estab-
hsbmeTts. and Tessriets the employment OF
those between twelve and fourteen years Ct age to
those VITO can read simple sentences IL English.
The human stomach IS said to have more vigor
in the morning than II any other part OF the
day. and consequently the longest lived people
those who have generally made breakfast the
principal meal Of the DAY The idea Is net ap-
picabie 70 those Of Us WHO stay cut late o nights
The large steel works OF Krupp, in Essen. COZ
suHled in 1899 no less than 100000 cubic
metres OF water. which equals about the con-
sumption OK the city Of Frankfert- with 90 coo
Inhabitants The Essen works consumed further,
iGS2,5o0 tons Of coal and ls,sg0,O0o cubic metres
OF gas
The ''towers Of silence" are two tan towers IN
Persia. so called by the Parsees. They never bury
the dad but leave the body exposed on the top
OF one OF these towers until The suG and the
rain and the fowls Of the air have cleaned the
bones Il all flesh Then the bones are collected
and placed II the other towers.
\ penny postage stamp for New Zealand IS
being designed by Sir Edward PoyuteT, president
Of the Royal Academy. The stamp viii De e-I-
b,enaticaI OF New Zealand's adoption Of q Uni
YeTssi system Of penny postage, and VIII 'le on
sale before the beginning OF next year. when the
penny postage vii be iBausurzted-
Tie bornbook was 4 device in vogue for teach
irE boys their letters when books were toe costly
20 be handed about It consisted Of 4 single
sheet Of print or manuscript containing the al
phabet and tie Lords Frazer mounted wood,
slipped like 4 hand mirror and covered with
sheet Of transparent horn to preserve the paper
There IS in tle-Ittle town Of Fort Lee. just
over the Hudson, N English walnut tree forty
years, old which once every eight or ten years
protl1ees fruit quite fne any imported from
southern Europe There IS no other tree within
radius OF one hundred miles that bears This IS
its fruitful year, and the nuts exceptionally
fine
Twenty five Victoria croszes have thus fsr been
awarded TO participants in the South African
war Eight have been given TO captains. three
TO heuteaaRts tincluding the one given to Lady
Roberts by proxy fer her dead SOM, four to ser
geants, four to coTporalS, two to TajCTs ard
vate infaBt-yman-
Jon CasIett, OF Ed=ardsvilIe. Pa, recently held
six offices in the town he was burgess janitor
OF the town hall. keeper OF the lookup, town
clerk driver Of the borough team. and street
for his health, and believing him to be entirely
too busy. removed him as burgess, but the other
Eve positions he still fills
The practice of Cling roads to keep the dust
down was begun in California a few years ago
and is extending TO several parts of that State
The dry season Is so long that the idea OF oh
tanning dustless roads IS naturally attractive 10
CziifoTni7nS and the success that has attended
the use of oil for this purpose promises to eau1s
its even more general adoption
It is part of the Mohamm2dan creed to smash
the noses OF all idols they may come across
When they invaded India they datscsd in tins