The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

IHefe are ABOUT pcOpit I'D WIZ
are so unfortunate as to be obliged to use arti-
fetal limbs.
The Greek iepton which is worth about one
tenth Of penny is the smallest coin now cur
rent in Europe
Schools on the line of the elevated railroads in
Chicago are seriously inteTfeTed with by the noise
OF the trains and damage suits are threatened
out annually in this country. The potatoes used
for starch the small and injured ones of the
crop.
The public library of Chicago has 10000 vol
uraes The number OF books circulateG duFI9s
the year ended May 81. 1900. WAS I,749,I 75. The
library has sixty branch stations
The oldest public building in New York is St
Pau.s chapel at the corner OF Broadway and
Fulton Street. It was built in I166. ten years
before the Declaration Of independence
Nearly 500 emigrants a day being shipped
/ by agents of the Government of Queensland from
| England to Australia. For every adult shipped
| an agent gets $3.50 and for every child he Is
| paid =. 25.
| Bishop Potter, OF New York, is not college
graduate, and though a learned man. never at
| tended any college Yet his grandfather was Il
| president and his father and brother vice
| presidents OF Union College
! The wearing of hats in Parliament by the mem
| bers may be traced back to the time when those
! who summoned TO legslate, or, rather, to
authorize the King to make levies, in wear
! ing helmets, which were not easily removed
The Bolivian Government has appropriated
about $4,000 for the preliminary study Of three
railway lines from Oruro TO La Paz and Lake
! Titieaca, and from Callapata to Colqueschaea-
Another road Is to from POteSi TO the Argcn-
tine boundary.
| Rubber stamps were used by the Noors thou
sand years before Christ; and about the time
| Rome founded the same ingenious race in
vented the administering turnstile, such IS
used today to check the admission TO places of
| public entertainment
In Jamaica there Is a mountain between Kings
| toa and St Thomas in the east. on the south
! side OF the island, which bears the of
! Judgment Mountain, Mount Sinai, because OF
] the awful catastrophe which occurred there in
1852 By earthquake
Frank Smith, who reduced himself from $50
to $50 pounds by using a remedy for obesity,
died the other day from the effects of the drug
at his home. Wabash, Ind. The deceased,
who a prominent mill and land owner, had
| the physique OF a giant.
| In many of the census returns from the South
| ern States men of means and leisure are entered
I in the occupation columns as gentlemen and
in one instance as rich An Invalid in Illinois
is given occupation ''laid up and paE4lytie
! figures in the column as has Ats
Michael Anagnos, the head of the Perkins In
| stitution for the Bind in Boston, has given to
| his native town in Turkey near the borders Of
| Greece. $50. 050 TO be invested in such
| rs TO give certain number Of worthy students
the benefit of a higher education each year
| Last year two Italian railway lines passing,
through swanpy regions supplied all their
! ton houses with mosquito nets. In consequence
there has been such dinlinutiOn in the DuIu5es
OF cases Of malaria that other lines in Italy and
/ in Sicily about to adopt the same measures
TIE naval board appointed to examine the old
fFigate Constitution has reported to the Navy De
partment that il viii about Si90 go 20 place
her in The condition contemplated by the Boston
Patriotic Society. II l. estimated that S3j1,GJ9
viii be necessary in the construction department
! A sculptor 5and carpenter Of Berlin recently
/ oiuuieefed zfor the German force recruited for
{ service in China. and. upon being refused be-
cause physically deficient, started to ride across
Europe and Asia TO China bicycles TO prove
/ their powers OF endurance When they arrive
/ they hope 10 enlist
An aaliable mule named Jim has for years hecu
/ employed in coal mine at Dalton, Ohio The
! mine boss lately decided TO transfer Jim to
! other mine. Four hundred miners objected. and
/ struck work Until the mule IS returned TO the
scel.s-o1 his former iabors, the miners refuse 10
! handle pick shovel.
At the birth of a japanese baby 4 tree Is
! planted. which must remain untouched until the
| marriage day of the child When the nuPtial hour
| arrives the tree Is cut down. and the wood IS
/ transformed into furniture, which Is considered
| the ernaments-ef the house
\ peculiar incident was witnessed in the Beth
| any Presbyterian Church Of Trenton. n 7 The
sermon had a soporifc effect upon member OF
the congregation ard ne fell asleep While stIi.
! IL slurnber he arose removed his coat. vest, AMI
| collar and about 10 further disTobe, when
/ the women in his vicinity screamed An usher
! aroused him and led him out OF church
, new federation is in prospect 1t is ramoEed
that following upon the formation of the Austria
/ Ian Commonwealth the long talked-of federation
I of tie British West Indies Is TO become an ae-
! credited with the intention OF welding the whole
OF the Leeward and WiEdward IsianGs int one
. confederation, with Barbados as the seat Of gov
eminent.
Twentv-one CaIifornians- the advance guard Ct
SEQ have sailed from New York for the Argentine
Ee,pbIe intending to settle there. The de'cza-
ticn already on voyage i headed by four brothers
named BaIlett. from Los Angeles, each SIX les
tall and each having wife and four daii@ls =
The colony, which has considerable c@tsn capita,
viii 20 into cattle raising in the valley OF me
Platte River.
/ The cutters of the great glove houses at Brus-
sells and in France earn even higher wages than
the cutters of the most fashionable tailo7s in
London and New York. So difficult Is this art
OF cutting gloves that moss OF the p.lhSlP4l
cutters are known 10 the trade by name and by
| fame and the peculiar knives which they use N
| the business are highly priced that they arc
handed down from generation 20 generation d
heirlooms-
A wealthy brewer has bought 400 acres and
leased lG099 acres OF land near ParlIu Pond. in
Somerset county in northern Maine, for 1 game
preserve lie intends 10 lease another 10000 acres
soon. so as to keep the hunters at a distance
In the centre of the tract is lake three miles
| long and and one-half miles wide, stocked
| with land locked salmon The preserve Is forty
miles from Heosehead Lake. and abounds with
big game.
| Now, at last at rest in kittery Navy Yard.
where she will remain for countless generations
as visible evidence OF American naval prove. S,
saws the Lewiston Journal is the big steel
cruiser Reina Mercedes captured from Spain
at Santiago Equipped with submarine IAN.
hreech- loading rifles, this splendid modern E-ht-
ing ship is the finest trophy IN possession
of our Government.
A weather prognoSticator who resides in Maine
predicts early falls OF snow and an abundance Of
it during the coming Writer. lie is old enough
to remember that about fifty years ago there was
at his home fall OF six inches OF snow before
| his time OF the year There are people in some
parts of the world who have seen six inches OF
| snow on the 4th OF July, but It was not in this
section of the universe. Snow has frequently fall
| len in August early September, on me heights
| OF Mount Washington.
A sanitary Testament fer the use of court rooms
has been put or the market. 1t is bound with
white ceIluloid instead Of leather. and It eau,
| therefore be washed and disinfeeted from time to
| time There is particular reason for kisslT;
| this hook however il a witness Is averse to IL,
| covered Bible lid 4 can affirm that hE
will tell the TRUTH the whole TRUTH and ali that