The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-25
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Whales cannot swim faster than ten or twelVs
miles hour.
Coal brings the highest price in South Africa
and the lowest IN china
There are sixty-two miles OF tunnels in the
fortified rock OF Gibraltar
Mount Faunce Labrador. is /, 100 feet high and
Mount Eliot. Labrador. is more than mile high.
An observer of fashionable styles remarks that
the dignifed canes some men cary makes them
look silly IN comparison.
No military parade or drill. except in case of
war. riot, invasion. instruction is lawful on
election day in New York
In $780, gs, $40 COZ duty was paid on unHlanu-
featured tobacco in the United Kingdom Last
year It had risen TO SO, 1927
During the present century 400 human lives,
s25 coo, and 300 ships have been lost in frul.
less efforts TO find the North Pole.
Parisians are happy IN the thought that the sIb-
marine boats On patrol duty in the Seine VII
protect their city from the invasion Of
foreign enemy.
The new big six-masted schooner. George ".
Wells is 354 feet long. and her lower masts,
which are splendid sticks OF Oregon pine, are
each 10 feet long
Sir Edward watkin, the great English rail-
way magBate. has since 1894 lived IL absolute
tiren1ent and rarely leaves his house. His heath
Is said TO be failing rapidly
One of the greatest difficulties encountered by
medical missionaries in China is that patients,
to sell 1t 10 some one else for trife-
4 plan is on foot to show in various German
cities, beginning with Berlin, the German exhibit
at the Paris Exposition. This viii give those
chance to a section OF the Exposition who
could not go 20 Paris
The street railway companies of Allegheny, Pa,
required by ordnance to equip their cars
with jacks for IN lifting the vehicles from the
bodies of persons who may have been run down
and pinned under the wheels
Every French reservist, whether Partisan born
or provincial immigrant. has book containing
MS number. particulars of his service, and 4
memorandum OF the barrack to which he must
repair upon the calling of the reserves.
The wife OF General Bota2. the Boer general,
Is descendant OF Robert Ernmet's eldest brother
Thomas Adds Emmett. who was one of the United
Irish Directory in 1895. and was punished BY the
Cove nHent by confinement il Fort George for
three years.
Ii Hung Char4g met with hard blow when his
American private secretary, J. W Pettick who
had been in the service of the Celestial states
man for about fifteen years. recently became dis
gusted with the situation and departed for 'fresh
fields and pastures new
Ire Czar;na likes to set her own table az.
tend her own house flowers, Victoria Of Waes
does at Sandringham. Nicholas has done 2 days
work IN the harvest field IN his time, and hzs
also shown the rural mouiiks that the Little
4 SNhSi td4 turn 500 Win the Ds-St oil mem
Atlanta city officials proposing the construc,
/ ton OF an aqueduct to the mountains 0. Ncrth
Georgia 10 supply the city with pure sprins
water. The plan CnHtenplates system with a
capacity OF IG3,050.0 go gallons daily The city
draws its present supply from the ChSttahoochea
River
The No. shaft OF the TamaIack mine at Hoagh-
ton, Mich, VIII be botfomed about the end Of
the present year, perhaps il January 1891
D T4rT= sIta-r hon
1888, and will be d full mile IN depth when con-
pleted. becoming The deepest mining shaft II tha
world
Cinnamon have no regard for grammar In that
particular they have whole hosts Of folks who are
similarly Indifferent. This. however must be re-
garded as grammar il the English seEse IL tie
Celestial schools word according to its position
IL sentence Is either noun. adjective. verb. or
adVeFb-the word Itself remains the
Keunekuk. postoffce II Jackson county. Kan,
which has Just been discontinued by the Govern
TEeHt. prominent as Z stage station On tia
old overland route in the later '40's L was
named after chief ct the Kieaapoo indians and
has been listed among the postoffiees CT The
United States Tor more than fifty years
One Of the most valuable specimens OF DWELLINGS
Of ancient Hawaii still in existence was received
by the Bizhop Museum II Honolulu last week. It
is Of the old grass hu;s which exist only IN
the an5aSt Inaccessible Businesses OF the island
mountains. 1t CAM from Nihau. The framework
IS OF koa and Is quite substantial and heavy
/ During the recent convention CT the American
Bankers Association in Richmond Va. the Rev
john D. Jasper delivered in the presence Of that
body his famous sermon on The Sun Do Movs-''
The venerable eUlored preacher, who Is nearly
ninety years old. had before addressed suca
large eongrega tion- He was listened TO wilh
close attention
/ 4 storm which passed over New Haven recently
broke down some OF the finest Of the great elms
which have given TIE city its sobriquet and
veaed TIE fact that many OF the old trees are
/ probably unsound and unsafe. Consequently the
city authorities Viii make tests OF ali tee ensin-
/ ing trees with the expectation OF cutting down
many Of them.
| The New Zealand Government has succeeded in
/ putting a CHECK the influx Of AustE;aIs. a
( large number were landed in Sydney, but the
/ New Zealand Government refused 10 allow than
: TO land unless the shipping companies carrying
/ theT guaranteed their maintenance Tor tree
months Naturally the shipping companies Te-
fused to book Austrian paszengeEz-
Tie pine Industry of Cadillac, N;eh-. once 81
vastly important in that vicinity, has Gisz2po--
! entirely. the last pine tree in Wexford county
having just been cut down at camp nor,hwe
] % the city named. This tree was LETT stand
! ing fer several days IN order that photoz sphs
| OF it might be taken. There Was a large crowd
in attendance upon the ceremonies incident to
its destruction
1t Is no trouble Tor reno hunters N tGlS CO1R-
try-or any other country, for that matter-;o Sc
cure ali the goods of that description Their fancy
calls for Yi-itCrs 10 the western part Ct Am II
ca who want Indian relics TO take home with them
| can fnd them ready made and much Prcttleg thaa
If they had been made hundred years ago Relic
makers have secret process by which al ancient
appearance is impaired TO bones, pots, arrow
heads, etc.
Miss NJ E B-addon has written over sixty
| novels since 1852. Previous TO entering upon
! her literary career she appeared On the stage,
| having made her debut at the BFigtou Theatre
! Royal in 1851 During the five months following
| her initial performance she inpeTsoHated nifty
! eight different characters Her stage name was
Mary Leytc7. Though she is now known . the
! well and a widow
A woman Of Danbury. Conn, died recently.
leaving quite little property to various persons
To him who was supposed to be the fa.o-ite
| nephew she bequeathed My set Of false teeth.
which VIII be found in the upper right Ia ID
| drawer OF nv bureau The young man AZ Cnca
concluded that his aunt must have concea-c 81
some diamonds or other precious stones in tE.
set OF teeth. Accordingly he smashed up his
bequest, but found no jeWe-s- He viii ROW CON
| test the Will
J. " Barrie the novelist did not shine con-
spieuously in many of his classes when he was a
student at Edinburgh University, but in regard TO
| metaphysics he had notable triumph He con-
| WINGED q medical student-Jhe most unImpTg on
able Of all human beings-that he (the embryo
sawbones) had actual existence. He got quite
| frightened" said Mr. Barrie in relating the in
| cident land | can still his white face rs he
sat staring at ne in the cleaning. Tbs SHOWS