The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

In the United States there 49, cities which
have population exceeding 10000.
In sailors church in San Francisco the pulpit
Is a complete reproduction of the of noted
clipper ship
The highest inhabited hut in the Swiss Alps lies
at an attitude OF 1865 metres, on the Alpe de
Iona in Wallis.
As evidence of the Ieniency of iandladies in
ST. Louis, suit is pending in the court there
for board bill of $9,475
Arizona has than doubled its inhabitants
IN the last ten years. and still the Territory only
has population of 122, 2I2.
Common laborers in Spain get from 80 10 40
cents per day in the larger towns and from 20 -
30 cents in tire rural districts.
Fearing plague of rats, Antwerp has organized
an official rat hunt, penny being given by the
authorities for every animal killed.
Ebony is always soaked six to eighteen months
as soon cut. 1t comes chiefly from Mauritius
and from CeylOn and the East indies.
a Providence Or. - pot hunter has just paid
are now protected the year round by the Rhode
Island game lawns
Walter Rothschild, of London, has collection
Of eighty turtles from all parts of the world.
SOME, weighing over 400 pounds, are believed to
be about $50 years old
So poor is the spelling in some of the Chicago
schools that return to the spelling methods Of
the country schools OF Two decades $40 is ear
nestly advocated in that city
recent automobile race from Berlin to AK
la-Chapelle resulted in loss of life TO a COW, two
hogs. three sheep, sixteen dogs and twenty three
chickens. A stone wall and hay-cart ais1
damaged.
The Spanish chart of the Cuban coast has been
found 10 be utterly unreliable, and a complete
geodetieal survey of the waters surrounding the
island viii soon be undertaken by the United
States--Aavy Department -----
Hawick, Roxburgh county, Scotland, the
cipient Of Mr.. Andrew Canegie's latest gift of a
library, already has some literary eIniReuce, for
the vicinity includes most of the scenery de-
scrloed IL the Lay OF the Last Minstrel
kerschdorf, Heidelberg has lively ninety
one-year-old blacksmith and church warden, who
recently climbed to the top Of the church steepIe
and tied new rope 10 the bell after the younger
men in the village had refused TO risk thensely1s.
In China the silver taeI is the monetary unit
but its value varies in the different cities For in
stance, at Chefo0, July / 1900, 1t was worth
67.S cents. while at Haikwau it was worth 72I.
The Haikwan tael is that used in the official
statistics.
A woman is never sent to prison in Austria no
matter what her crime may be- Instead, she Is
sent TO one of the converts in that country de-
voted to the purpose OF receiving female via
lators OF the Law and there kept during the time
for which she Is sentenced
An English paper says that the only reason that
Queen Victoria does not appear personally st the
opening of Parliament Is that she Is physically I'm
able She would have to walk a long distance
ard climb a fight OF stairs, and has passed
the age when she can do that.
1t is the boast of Irkutsk that 1t has no rnr-
nieipal debt, and has a considerable fund
in hand 10 meet some of the necessary expenses.
As Offset, however ii l. To be noted that Il Las
no pavernents no water-works. no ADEQUATE sew
erS sA-a Il.
Frederick Layton. the Milwaukee millionaire
and pioneer who recently retired from active
business came from England to Wisconsin in
ls45 The Layton Art Gallery which he gave
Milwaukee, cost $4,000 and contains ore of the
best collections OF pictures in the Middle West.
South Carolina negroes have started new in
dustTy by the hand picking OF phosphate rock
During the summer they anchor boats Oh the
Coosaw River. which Is from seventeen 10 twenty
five feet dsep, and dive for The feTtilzing rock.
sometimes bringing up a fragment Weighing 100
pounds.
The Methodist college to be built in Rome
is to have its main building named Crandon Hall,
in honor of Mrs F. P Crandon, of Evanston, H..
who, as corresponding secretary OF the Northwe=t-
EN- Branch of the Methodist Women's Foreign
Missionary Society. did much toward raising tie
money for the college.
Train robberies have become so frequent in the
West that railroad. the Oregon Railroad and
Navigation Company, regards an investment IN
bicodhounds advisable A litter of puppies has
been distributed among the agents along the
line. with Instructions 10 rear them for the sole
purpose Of man-catchiBg.
Beonid Petroyich volkoff one of the most
prominent of the younger generation of Russian
writers is reported to have fallen at the storm
ing OF Aigun. in Manchuria. August 4. The
Young poet, who was in his S0fh year, was init
Inately acquainted with Siberia which forms the
subject OF many Of his poems.
Microbe light is the latest Paris invention. A
French chemist, Raphael Dubois, has found a
way of nourishing phosphorescent ariuaalcrIes IN
glass vessels which soon emit 4 light about
bright Is the moon He expects TO increase its
intensity and believes that its being entirely free
from heat VIII give 1t a scientific value
The cost Of making the Victoria Cross Is q few
shillings, The value OF the actual bronze Is vaTi-
ously stated at from I1sd. TO 41ad. Every recip-
lent has warrant duly presented with It. author
iziHg him to wear it, and on those rare occasions
when cross comes under the hammer. collect
ors grow rabid. aud have given rs much 100
fer single specimen
New Zealand seems to be prosperous The rev.
cnue fog the year shows record surplus eqUsl u
more than s. 009GGO over expenditure The publ.
debt Of the colony stands at sos rs, G01 and tn.
financial statement proposes that Parliament
should authorize another 81 S66.030 loan to he
pended chiefly in the extension of railways. The
loan viii doubt be authorized.
News comes from Danish West Indies that a
species OF gFasshopper, hitherto unknown III the
island has made It's appearance in St Croix, and
the planters complain OF the damage done To the
canes 1t is feared it is similar that which
made its appearance some time ago in Cuba. and
was supposed to have been brought in hay
imported from the United States.
In case OF war lines carefully maintained would
be switched into use, and the tranway system
would be in communication with the enormous
goods deuots of the Paris termini. Not rolling
stock only but horsefesh would be requisiiioned,
Every horse four years old. Is registered ;Os
gether with his type, owner and probable utility.
TIE general staff could choose from some I20,00l
horses.
wooden woman figured in the divorce case q
Mrs. Mary Hulec against August ITulec at Cleve-
land this week. Mrs Hulec testified that her bus
band carved a female figure. life size. OF wood
and dressed it in fancy clothes. Then he took it
70 the barn and would remain there for hours
she said she could not get in because he kept the
door locked She admitted her first pang OF jeai.
ousy caused by the wooden woman
Deyotees of golf are fond of referring to it as
.the ancient and royal game" It is probably
more royal and certainly far more ancient skan
most OF them have any idea Of At all events
pictured tablet recently Unearthed at Car
chemish, the old capital of the Hittites, whereoE
are depicted men and women engaged in pas
time which, II not exactly golf played at pres
ent. is something extraordinarily like it.
Ships can now go TO sea with frozen ann uni
ton 4 method OF utilizing Iique3ed air on
warships has been discovered which viii render
the explosion OF a magazine. when the snip
is III action, almost impossible. The method IS
to so place the liquid air that it viii freeze the
ammunition to several hundred degrees below
zero. in that condition it could not explode,
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