The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-28
NOTES OF THE DAY.

There not ten men in every thousand 50
built that they can go without suspenders, and
every man of them IS proud OF the fact that he 3
MOI quit like a woman.
The servant girls of Of the cities in
upper New York State have formed 4 union on
basis Of twelve hours per day worn, with
wages from SIC &c So per month
Letters dropped into box in Paris are delivered
IN Berlin within an hour and half and some
times within twenty-five minutes They are
whisked through tubes by pneumatic power
When is sentenced to death in Greece he
has ample time TO repent OF the crime that
brought him 20 his condition, as two years
elapse between the sentence and the execution
Sid Paher Abdul Krimm Taxi, the new Paclsa
of Tangier, is Notwithstanding his elongated
name finelooking man. ard has made a very
favorable impression on the Diplomatic Corps.
Out of one pound of phosphorus can be made
the heads of million matches. The splin;ed
wood costs very nttie- The deduction from this
fact is that there is much profit in the manu-
facture Of matches
The number of stars distinctly visible without
the aid of a glass is put by Gould at 1898. Prof.
Newcomb says their number is near 7.647. Thee
are up TO the sixth magnitude Prof. Aeweolnb
estimates the number up 70 the l4-5 magnitude
at 2G1, 000, 600.
Miss Louise Truax, seventeen-yeaT-old great
great grandnjece OF Ethan Allen. has captivatcd
New York society with her ability as a whistler
and imitator OF birds She has just received a
fatterinG offer to go to london and whistle for
fashionable Mayfair.
The principal cotton mills in China are those
at Shanghai They now number eight and have
1860 spindIes and $3.50 looms At Eingpo
there is mill work with II GEO spindies and
at Hdnkow there two with 5000 and 5D,031
spIndles. respectively.
II the average man were to attempt to read
everything the Government publishes in wear
In H. ,,1f
the task, taking eight hours day But no csc
has ever had tle courage, to say nothing OF the
inclination. 10 attempt such task
Oxford has among its undergraduates married
Lancashire mill hand. twenty-thTee years Of age,
who worked his way into the university by study
ing after factory hours. with the help OF ire
libraries and university extension lectures. lie
has won scholarship worth $50 year.
4 new industry, which has now assumed con-
siderable importance in Italy is the manufacture
Ct carbide OF calcium. which is used chiefly for
making acetyleue gas. The United States and
France occupy the first and second places as
producers Of carbide Italy coming next
NaturaIsts assert that the horse Is moro apt to
suceumb to the cold than any Other animal The
absence OF knowledge Of this fact the part IF
his owners causes the poor animal little
amount Of distress IN winter when the ther-
mometer Is many degrees below the freezing
point.
IgiousIy inclined man. His recent Labor Day
proclamation was supplemented with numerous
Biblical quotations On last Thanksgiving the
Governors proclamation contained host Of req
SOUS taken from the Scripture for the observance
Of the day.
About fifty years ago, in the town Of Danbury,
y. H. a willow cane was carelessly stuck in the
ground by Barnard Cusrier. Today it Is mag
nificant willow tree The wonderful thing about
II is that when planted The cane WAS entirely bare
Of foliage, and the queEy iss how did Il sProat,
being thus denuded
The manufacture OF cast steel in India can he
traced back for over 2,090 years, while there are
also examples Of wrought iron work nearly-as Old
Near Delhi. close TO the Kutub says the Chi
/ cago Journal there Is an enormous wrought
iron pillar which weighs tons. and Is thought
to be over SOC years old
About one OF the most boomerang boycott ar
! engagements that was ever devised was that OF
band Of boycotters in Kansas City. who disp,aycd
/ the name of tailor who under the Dan i'n
] such big posters that many men who saw The
name considered it an advertisement and bought
clothes from the establishment.
speedy marriage, following eourtship Of
forty-eight hours, recently announced IN
/ Stroud5burg Pa Jerry Shorer, of Naplewood-
] widower with six children. met Mrs Augustus
I Hoser Oi GreentQwn, widow with seven ciiI-
dren. Love at first sight resulted. the w0olDg
/ briskly doomed and IN two days they Were nat
! RED
II the village OF Dalton Ledale, near sunde.-
/ land England sec couples want to know whether
! they are married or not. For Year, they nave
thought they were. but the Bishop Of Durham
+ declares they are not They say The matrimonial
knot vas tied for Il Zee. and ii il were not regI-
+ larly done they assert that the bishop ought 10
have 1t repeated nee
In the British fisheries a great feature Las been
! The enormous increase IN tie number OF steam
tragvlers at the expense OF the sailing vessels
T The have increased IA the last len years nom
/ 20 10 I,OG1 and each steam vessel i twice the
actual tonnage CT the sailing taHteis- II tdH
also use the otter trawI. which ffightens the ish
! les than the beam frawl
L Is related Of the Juvenile King OF Spain that
a short tine ago MS mother, the Queen Regent,
telling him how poor the country was becoming
and It's need for reform and economy, met Ter
views with the declaration that every one should
dispense with some luxury for the sake Of The
! country Fer my part said the Young monarch
IN embryo, Il have determined 10 give up sHloE-
ing
Ii Is notable This year that the sea serpent has
| not made N appearance on the northern coast
! The old maine monster has had his day. He ;
in the zere and yellow of his existence tEea1
turtles with initials aud dates of disaster carved
on their Gros<-cove-ed backs are taking the place
of the giant reptile Ct the ocean. Neither OF them
has Vet been landed It any OF the watering place
| resorts.
Good chicken can be obtained in Manila at
the rate OF S1-25 per pound. The finest eut Of
beef II any cuI of beef i inc in that locality, IS
available for the small amount OF - per pound
! As a general rslle chicken ami beef among
the VInds dailT forth upon the dinner tables
in the Island Of LUzCn. Rice ami dried goldfish
| are more IL vogue banquet dish on = small
: scale than fowl and Veniscn-
The ostrich has often been looked upon as a silly
bird He gets this unpleasant notoriety mainly
from the fact that when on his native sol! the
hunter Is pursuing him he hides his head and
neck il the sand This i wisdom BOJ foolish
ness II IS really the wisest thing the bird could
do for It's long neck i by lar the most easily
seen part of II. lis body plumage haunonizes
perfectly with the sand Of the desert
Considerable alarm is expressed in England over
the discovery that the work Of Westminster
Abbey IS 50 badly rotted in some places that only
a touch OF The finger Is needed to make 1t cruni-
bic into dust This condition has been brought
about BY acid fumes from the famous Lambeth
potteries. These fumes are largely produced by
hydTochloriC acid and measures are being con-
sidced looking 10 4 remedy Tor the trouble.
Ar London and Bremen the longest day has six
teen hours; at Stockholm and Dartizig, the long
est day has seventeen hours and the shortest
seven hours; at Tobolsk and St Petersburg the
longest day has nineteen hours and the shortest
five hours; at Tornea (Finland) the Longest day
IS twenty-ene and i half hours and the shortest
two and half hours; at NardHuyS Norway
the day lasts from Nay u to July y without III
teIruption.
Numerous counterfeits OF old painting masters
are reported as in existence all over the world il
private galleries. 1t is a pity to expose theil