The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

goat gives quart Of miik daily and liTes ten
.,l Tie earth. and stzss ars al Eaade Ct he
The spoetroseope. By the aissof phieh we are
sse &c 70 tell What the sun IS made Of Ras iHvea5ed
July is month Of tllunderstoras IN Hpazary-
| lightning.
The solar orb would appear blue to anybody.
vac Should YieS It outside Of this planets at
Nearly 75.eoo tons Of eorks are needed for the
bottled beer and aeEated waters consumed an
Thirty thousand women spend their lives in
and midland England
The young zomen of vassar College have dress
ed 203 dolls this year to be distributed among
the children Of the poor.
seveHty-one degrees below zero was the record
low temperature registered By SehEatka on the
Great Fish River in Canada
In the Boston high schools the boys cutnuuabe-
the boys b. 600 So but in the primary grades
the boys outnGnsbcr the girls By $3.50.
s.sxe ssFeetIarad. of Providence. r. l.. says the
mai Is not the most important si1IHg IN the
World and he fined the driver Of a mail team fo-
fast driving
It is planned to establish in Boston day n1r-
other nurseries because they reqa:re H-9re care
than the HatroRs caa give.
letter from Theodore Parker. the fsraors
fiitarIan preacher and refSrner, to James Free
Iiiar Clarke. with marginal comments By the
latter, vas recently seld IN Boston.
Mexico buys more American books than does
france and nearly as many as Germany Much
OF the trade IS due to the large resident AHeri-
can population TO De found in Mexican cities-
TIE French forest inspector at Lamur has found
q way o. making wood by means Of dry distilla-
aeaas and perfect electrical nen-coRdac;oF-
The 'sSew York Verdi says: Father Tfber."
as Naeauisy calls him. IS still as turbulent at
times ''in the brave days Of old The over
1o-ying Of his banks has Just cost modern Rome
Cincinnati is figuring piaa for permanent
exposition. The building is to be hreproof and
ten stories high It Is for an attraction for out
SieleTs and benefit for home merchants and man
ufseturers-
The Fayai mine. located at ETeleth. Nirn. has
cleared shipments of trife over 10000 gross
tons Of iron Tor the season This Is the largest
shipment in point OF tonnage ever made BY any
niine IN the world.
It IS a mistake to suppose that Alaska Is
frozen zone and that the soil Is barren and worth
less, The IS hot. the snow holsters and
eilEles the earth. and the sol N the valleys Is
Iertiie and productive
\ STOCKTON. Kan man purchased vacant
building that had been used for storage Of corn
When ne came 70 repair It he fond uinety-six
bushels of good corn Ender the f0or which had
been carried there Is rats Tor rainy day.
4 carrier p;geon Of disputed ozgzlersAip was tax
into court at Orange, y J. and the 1ise
judge ordered 4 window opened that the bird
might ay to It's owners loft Il made a straight
line for b6saes and tbs other claimant vas held
for larceny.
The Council CT St Joseph. No. Is considering
tie edTiSability OF increasing the cost OF bill
posters licenses IRON so TO 500 It Is thought
and fences 81 The city are covered By uasightIy
posters nay be discouraged
Tie Columbus Ohio, lodge Of Els ass all
Hlembecs o. the order to discontinue the use Of
eIks' teeth as embleTns OF the order The price
OF tusks has risen 20 such figure that buntsTs
killing the animals for the teeth alone Gld cx-
termination Of the creature L threatened
People marvel at the mechanism Of tie human
body. with sq2 bcnes and CO arteries But man Is
simple in this respect compared with the carp
han remarkable fish moves no fever THAI IS
bones and muscles every time It breathes Il has
1870 veins TO say nothing OF its 90 muscles
Justice Potter, Of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court. tsls The Presyfe Of his county that
they ought 70 consolidate. as the Free Brethren
Moderator Diesey says there Is nothing TO hinder
aside frosa a few Pec0Iiariiies and pzejua1ces-
The growth o. the aluminium industry Is sne Of
the most remarkable feature OF the Industrial
history q tie United states Its production for
cen-rersal uses began in 1850 with total output
of A. s6S pounds. In 1885 it had reached so.00s
pounds. sgd At pEesefS rate Of RzOdEetloRais over
,eeQe o9 pounds year
Even the birds are not forgotten at CfriSt-Eaz-
tide b. the Swedish peaSantEy. AZ tsiesieor ii
every farmers house Is erected pole t1<he ton
OF SsEleh Is bound q large, faH sheai OF gram
There Is not peasant IN all Sweden Who VIII
sit down with his children TO Christmas dinner
until he has first raised aloft Christmas dinner
Tor the birds.
travelling nan says Chicago is the greatest
gum chewing eeatre IN the country The people
in the Windy City =elsez more gIm than the New
Workers do Lots OF gum iSEsoId throughout Kan
sas. Nebraska the Dskolss. and Minnesota Kan
sas City Is q great town for II Boston a
pretty good guEa town at time. bat never 50
good as Western cities
As Morieka. RikuehEl, is the centre Of the horse
breeding country the people there are going to
erect = monument called the ''horsescul EnoRu-
Beat'7-Sf course the promoters are convinced.
like the pieuS Bri6hists they are. thai the soul
of this animal + imHlortaf-in memory OF the
horses which were ki.led in the ls4i95 war- Mr.
o.iwara expert Of the Var 0fhce, is making
design for the monument.
n the canary breeding ESTABLISHMENTS OF
many, only the male birds are valued for the fe-
males never sing The method Of training the
birds to sing is 20 put them in rooTH where
there Is an automatic whistle. which they al
strive to ssaltate Inc breeder listens 70 the e.
forts Of the birds and picks out the most apt Pa-
pills. which are then placed IN another room Tor
further Instruction
TIE body of every spider contains four Gttle
masses. nieFeed with a multitude OF holes (ins-
pe-eestible 20 the naked eye). each hole permit
ting the passage Of 4 single thread All the
threads 10 the amount OF LOCO TO each HlaSs, Join
together when they core out and make the single
thread with which the spider spins his web. 50
that what we csu spiders thread consists Of
more than 1900 threads united
Prof. George Adam Smith, Of Glasgow, denies
the report that the churches Of that city are
losing their grip On the workingnen- He Sags
that an eight years study OF social conditions n
Glasgow has revealed 10 him much activity among
the wage-earners in the East End churches nor
their fellows and that vreTe II not for the wcr<-
ing classes of Glasgow the evangelical torie %
religious life in the city eotld not be kept W
week
The annual day of humiliation and prayer has
Just been observed according to long established
custom, ia Prrssis., and good many Of the Ber-
lin newspapers take occasion 70 print articles
,IFon the recent deterioration in pubic FgeEa!ItT
They assert that the rapid industrial Development
of the country and the corresponding improve
ment in the financial condition Of the country
have resulted in IN alarming growth, Of social
evils and abuses
PROT Hersnaa 7. Hilprecht Of the University OF
PENNSYLVANIA. has Just added another 10 his many
discoverseS in tie archaeology Ct BahyieR. lie
hiss uncovered library Of Loco taii'ss which