The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-31
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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1t was only 100 years ago that we began export
ing cotton in quantities adequate 70 the demands
OF England.
The largest hothouses in the country. devoted
exclusively 10 the cultivation of orchids IN
New Jersey.
An apple tree in orchard at Mount Haley.
Maitland county. Mich. has bloseomed three times
since last winter.
German brewer in Mexico obtained six gold
medals at the Paris Exposition foT six kinds OF
beer made by him
The symboIical statues which are to ornament
the new State capitol building at St Paul, Mimi.
are the work OF Daniel Chester French.
stevedores put 22.7sz bales of cotton on board
ship at New Orleans the other day, thereby sur
passing any single days record in the history OF
that port
BY the end of the year coal will not be used
on any of the locomotives in the State of Cali
fornia. All the engines being converted into
oil burners.
At the beginning of this century British ship
ping amounted to only 1900. 900 tons. \ maxi
mum of 100000 tons marks the commencement
OF its decline
Sir Charles Dixie. the famous radical and
publican, only gloomy outlook for English
liberalism and thinks the conservatives viii be in
power for a long time to come.
Dairymen in Iowa are turning more to cheese
and less to butter than in former years The
number Of COWS from which milk is furnished TO
creameries greatly increased last season.
After great labor time and expense. the newly
formed PaloutnotchHie Canal. situated at the
mouth Of the Danube and passing through Russian
territory, is officially declared OPEN
Horses have not yet been entirely banished from
street railway service. Of the 10000 miles OF
street railroads 500 miles still operated by the
noble equine member of the lower creation
+ The Russian Government has decided to adopt
the metric standard of weights and measures, and
the Ministry of Finance is now engaged in con-
sidering the time and manner Of introducing this
REFORM
thousand men are at work on a barren sand
beach New York, which is to be turned iEso
a summer :esoEt ", til a hug amusement palace
| and several hotels The h2rbor viii De created by
| dredging.
The Prince of Wales really served as a soldier
| in only one regiment That was the Grenadler
| Guards In its first battalion he served as a sub
! altern and stationed At Curragh Camp, Kill
| dare, in 1883.
The true valuation of all the tangible property
in the United States. as given by the Of
1890, in round numbers s65 OO0,0oH 600, against
S43 600 600 900 in 1850 increase Of so $50 &C.,,
| 600 IN the ten-yeaT period
| The religious denomination known as the Cove
nante1s viii not. it is said, vote at the coming
| election, giving their reason the fact that
the Constitution does not recognize God. There
are about 10,0o0 Of them in the country.
Mrs Emma Anderson. weII-educated and re-
fined woman, whose home is in Wisconsin. has
! gone TO Minneapolis 10 be treated for very
! usual and peculiar disease known as ichtbyosis.
in other words. fish scales are growing all over
| her body.
| President Patton. OF Princeton University Is not
a citizen OF the United States. He born in
/ Bermuda and has retained his citizenship there
| TO prevent FORGETTING large property which Was
bequeathed him on condition that he remain =
| British subject.
| Until the time Of Charles XII of Sweden the
tiIIeTy not considered part OF the army, the
men serving in it were not soldiers but regarded
| mechanics the officers had army rank.
| Charles Nj gave artillery officers rank and
regularly organized the artillery into companies.
The battle Of Pavia demonstrated the superiority
of the gun in the hands OF the Spanish infantry.
| The nrsket carried two-onnce ball and some
| times brought down at IRE two OF three
mailed knights. The French sent flag of truce
| to demonstrate against the OF such barbarous
| weapons
| Experiments have beer made for some time in
! England with sIsokeiess coal This peculiar fuel
! may be burned either in ordinary CRATE or In
4 basin in tie middle Of the room without de-
veloping any perc~,tible odor or smoke at any
time The FIRE looks like the finest coal f-e and
the fame Is white and blue
Mr. and Mrs John Dantorth full-blooded Oneida
Indians, living on the reservation near Appleton,
Wis. have made wills in which they bequeath
property worth about $4,000 The entire estate
il left 70 Rev. Hugh Latimer BuTleSon rector OF
ST. Luke's Episcopal Church at Rochester, y Y
Mr. Burleson was formerly in charge OF . church
At Waupaca.
The type of beauty in mast admired
by the Chinaman IS thus described IN the language
OF the FIowery Land: She has checks like the
almond flower, lips like peach's bloom waist as
| a willow leaf. eyes bright dancing riPples IN
! the sun, and footsteps Ike the lotus flower. y
In spite of his cruelty and ignorance, the Cblna-
/ man has many beautiful and poetic ideas.
| The salvation Army is prosecuted in s7itzer-
t land. Not long ago Salvation Army +'lasaie'
was imprisoned in the castle Of Chilon, made ia
nous by Byron In Neufehatei and Bsvaiz can
tons the SaIvationsts haze frequently been stoned
In Geneva respectable men and women belonging
10 this sect have been insulted and beaten before
the eyes of the police, who refused to protect
them.
Quito. while delightful capital, not be
approached by rail by wagon road In two
years 1t is expected that New York syndicate
will have completed 4 railroad TO that point.
Horses and mules and thousands Of men and wo-
men engaged in bearing burdens 20 QUITO and
other towns II takes sixteen Indians about thirty
days To convey 4 piano TO Eeuador's capital from
The nearest point.
At recent banquet in Sydney descendant oil
the Macdonalds mastered at Glencoe passed 4
knife, with the blade foremost TO member
al the famous old flmily bearing the historic
| name OF the Mac3onads' betraysrs Most OF those
who looked on stigmatized the action one OF
cont Iuptiblv bad breeding It or two under,
! stood the significance and knew that the betrayal
is still uafoTgiven-
Ships can now go TO sea with frozen amnsni'
ton method OF utilizing liquehed air o. var
| ships has been discovered which will render the
explosion OF a magazine even when the ship is in
| action almost impossible The method IS to 50
| place the Liquid air that it viii freeze the ammu
| milton 10 several hundred degrees below zero In
| that condition it could not explode, even II
| shell should hurst IN the magazine.
France transports offenders of her laws TO New
| Caledonia and French Guiana. both of which art
veritable Botany Bays and a disgrace to civiliza
ton New Caledonia is bad enough, but French
Guiana is Infinitely wofse. 1t is one Of the mos
p,stiferoiis spots the face OF the eaTth ans
The conyicts sent there Gle Of ike flies. At both
New Caledonia ard French Guiana acts of ho- Tibi'
brutality are perpetrated in the maintenance 0
| disclpnnc.
e Rev Dr. Frederick d. Gaulewell, who took par
n the designing and construction of the tiefence
; i. The seige Of Pekin, a postgraduate student
in pfvsics al Columbia University in 1896. HI
| returned after a ten years residence in China tc
his own country 20 fit himself TO be a professor o
phvsics in Pekin N the Methodist College located
! in that city. lie a student IN Columbia foF
| wear, and then went hack to Pekin and Was m2d'
| president OF his college.
Rather q saSsy-lookine stranger stopped an hou
OF SO at Waukohomis. okl.. The other day anC
the Herald Of that place thus refers him
J,.I, XUqS in fOyrr,