The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-11
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The greatest depth Of the ocean, as lar as sound
ed, Is 2S. 20 feet
Oxford is the greatest university in the world
Il has tFenty-eae colleges znd fxe halls
/ The most splendid Of the modem built churches
IN the world are tilose Of ST. Petersburg
Tssenty-cisht different varieties OF food are
needed &c feed the animals N the Berlin Zoo.
In hurricane blo=inz AZ eighty miles an hosr
the pressure each square foot OF surface i
tfatrty-one and a half posrls.
A t.seneiest of soeeiaaa'5 ARA Is so.est land;
sesen-tenths Is mountain. heath ard lake and
/ only on.s-gusrser cultivated land
The Sydney lighthouse has the most powerful
light of any L Is electric. and Of $4,000 candle
power IL can be seen for fifty miles
oniy citizens Of Canada viii in iuts=e be
ploEed GA Government work or on Government
works by contractors in that country.
HOuses which are damp because Of pr0ziusitv 70
underlined land Ray be rendered inore h2bitabIe
| by planting the Laurel AID the sanHosg near
them
Berlin is to have an Itaiisn exposition n tae
zologieai Gardens There Bii be imitation streets
OF Naples. RoEae. Florence Rompeii. Venice (Witia
| esnals1, etc
The highest SPOT inhabited sy human rings
On tbs globe IS the Buddhist cloiSteT Of HaBie,
| Tibet, Hhere tzeEty-one monks live At al
titude 81 1900 fret
OF the s75S Films who came to this country
last year only II were sent back: only 50 were
unable 70 read sad write and only IL yer. said
| to be likely TO become public charges.
Chickens in their prime after cold weather
/ sets IN for they about too much IN the
dayz TO get fat wbea the fIris-er autumn
| weather comes they sit more and gain =ssight.
When potatoes xern hrst brought into Russia
the people rejected them. They were called
| asFiFs apples. and their Introduction caused
| riots Ia several parts Of The empire This Ezs n
17eo.
Five thousand honey baes. as they leave the
| hive. weigh about one pound but zhen the in
| scots return from their visits to the flowers.
fFeigfsted vita honey, tAey weigh nearly t@iee
Ingch-
/ Thirteen ooio-ed women. whose ages range frca
/ tirrtt5-sze TO seventy-iive ere attending night
| sohocl Ia Jersey City and taking their first les
sons in reading Several q the older W0rzn were
| born lis slavery
In a recent lecture Dr. Hofthauer claimed that
the age Of fishes be told by tgr scales. These
| show under the microscope stripes similar to the
bands Il the erosscat Of tree which indicate
| the age 81 the fish,
It Is said that owing to the mysterious diszp-
pearance Of relics 1t the laval Museum. Boston,
Mass. Rear Admiral Sampson has ordered the
| place closed Until suitable arrangements BE
made TO protect TIT property On exhibition.
Il is said that piece Of ned painted beard left
out On 4 deVy night wiIl be dry IN the morning.
| while board painted yellow and laid beside It.
win be soakiag set Al the same tiHe. however.
| it is not EIze 10 make practical test CT this
circumstance
Within a fer weeks the tunnel under fhe royal
| palace of tie oarinal at Rome viii be con-
| pietea It viii PLACE the older psrt 81 The
! Eternal City in direct and level communication
| with the new quarter Of Rome erected siEee $50
| beyond the QuiriiAl.
| balloon fitted with automatic instruments
| was sent up recently in Paris and came dozn
a -sz
! to 5000 feet. ten and half miles At
that height TIE temperature outside the balloon
was Io2 degrees below zero.
In the course Of the demolition Of the gaso-
| meter IN the old toRn gas works st Mzycnce 4
large hale of cloth wei preserved. and Z great
| were found between tise inner and esteE con
| t2ineFs OF the gasCmete-- They NEST have been
there for at least thirty gears
French engineer named yerlie- proposes to
! bore a tunnel under tire aediterrzReen- Accord
ing to his surveys the length OF the tunnel from
would be only twenty-five miles as the depth al
the sea in ei12t vicinity Is only l,5G9 feet His
/ estimate of its cost is s2S-72so 600.
As tie Natte-aorn Is the grsniezt object TO be
seen m Switzerland 50 also She glaciers above
Zszuatf the most magnificent In the Overland
and at ChamoniK the glaciers ara frozen rivers
and catzractz- From the GsFaHE Graf the glaciers
| are rast Of ice aith Iedges Ct rocky beach
over which the frozen breakers are beating
China Is peculiar rs being the habitat CT the
most northern species Of monkey found. These
| iniabt the mountains north OF PekiH sid
| entirely free from the diseases which carry OF
| trepicai monkeys Ehen the latter are introduced
into cold climates. They enjoy playing n tee
| snow and do not seem to suffer from the cold
| The rig tunnel On the Great northern Railroad
! IN the STATE OF Washington IS ready for use
| Essorsth earlier than had been anticipated The
[ length o. the long
/ est ever made, and Il has taken three years to
| complete = II hzs made two towns Cascade
and arlington. on opposite sides OF the noun
! tain
The winter schedule OF the Siberian Railway has
last been published The fTzt 500 veEsts east Of
Irkutsk viii be trzrersed by express trains at
the rate Of 2 reTsts hezIr. not counting stop
4 pages and VIII require fire and half DAYS FOR
the journey OF about 1000 miles Ordinary trains
are scheduled te MIKE the trip IN SIX and half
days
AraonS eceo50o0e passengers carried only go
persons yoet fheir lives steamboat vessels with
| in the j1risdictiou OF the United States during
the last fiscal year, OF which forty-our were paS-
! sengers and I52 members OF the crew. During
the sane year there we're SSS boiler explosions on
/ land, which killed IS persons and wounded $50
others
In some respects New Zealand is the most ad-
runced Of any British colony. Its climate Is alb
soluteIv perfect It's population hardy ard derot-
l ed 70 tire land OF LHelf Atltfillua- sifl ~ e
sources are most fruitful and already highly devel-
eped The zzortingEnan Is supreme there, and It
Is the boast OF the islands they do not contain
/ u1iilionzirei
.eWfan al other methods q controlling wild
beasts taH the keeper has only to employ an iron
| rod which has been made red hot at end"
ssvs IN old circus nan Lions and tigers VIII
/ c-inge before the heated POKER and 10 matter
how restless and fretful they may hsFe been, the
sight Of the glowing Immediately brings them
| TO their best Of animal senses
A graveyard IN De KaFb county. No. mas 4
heaGstone with the following inscription. dictated
by 2 sorrewiTg widogse=: s'with grief see my
loving mate Is took from ne though TOOK by one
who has right to call for me when he secs it -
| On a tombstone at Wsyland Mass, may be seen
this doubtful statement: Here lies the BODY OF
| DR. HAYWARD who never voted OF such
/, | Is the kingdom of heaven "
The body Of every spider contains fo1r little
masses. pierced with rnaltitade of holes TIM
pereeptibfe to the asked cye), each hole poT-
| hitting she passage of q single thread. al tie
| threads. TO the amount Of I,es9 to each mass.
! iein together when they cone out and make tRe
I single thread with which the spider spins rs
Web 50 thst what rze call Z spiders thread con
| sists OF more than 4.f0e threads anited-
what Is the use, people are beginning TO say.
Of forming at great expense, expeditions TO tie
North and South poles {st least IN this country.
: | when we have IN America two great States the
areas Of which have probably never been fully
5 . traversed These are Maine IN the North and
| Texas in the South where immense treasures IN
soods. minerals game, and other articles Of sub