The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

. The sinpyard Of Great Britain. all working Tor
Ee'leF, could turn out big steamship every da5
IN the year
Lacerne paper says that Snowman at Asras
coiored rabbit
\ new Photographic machine takes FIVE differ
m views OF person al one sitting. il Is done
by means OF mirrors.
Go 10 widen business greet the round tower Of
1"Ienhaeen-l56 feet in heights 10 be bodily
moved distance ct fifty yards.
There are several British birds IN danger Of ex-
tneuon; The enough, golden ousel hoopue,
osprey Kite huzza1d. bitten. and ruff
t A. a lamp with an ineeniburiihle tio has been
! patented in England. the nlain portion Of the
WICK being similar - those in use
Such weil-knovn English garden plants az tie
pbioN and the yerbena have run wild over hun
| dTecs Of aeres Of sandy TeXau and Australian
| plains.
In the STATE Of Kentucky last wear The whisky
| production amounted % .5e5 gallons. an
increase Ct about 2,01J go gallons over the cut
| come or last year
In 1907 the expenses of the Federal Govern.
nlent t. Tor the Army and Navy and me interest
on the public debt the same IN amount
| S5G3o,0o0 for each, 100000 for all
Some people frequently drink tea as reru@d-
for headache The habit should be practiced wiia
canton az an eminent physician states that Tie
fannie acid IN the tea cause5 rheumatism.
! Lake Morat in Switzerland. has the curious
! property Of turning red every ten years. ovgirtz
/ to the presence OF certain aquatic plants which
| are not known in any other lake in the world
It i estimated that not less than s45,0J0.050
worth Of stock has been lost by droughts in Aus
tfaiia during the past seven years. On this &C
count many Australians are emigatiHg 10 South
Africa.
Bees at sunbury Centre. Mich, recently hiveG
IN The coffin boxes stored in undertaker's she'd
! When they driven away by fuHigation sixty
! boxes
| 1t Is estimated that the number Of Americans in
Paris is not less than 5000 OF which 81. 900 are
living in apartments and 10000 are transentS.
i They spend at least I. jO0gJ0 francs $500 GOO
+ Per day IN the French capital.
June 80. 1900. there were seyenty-txo warships
under construction in the United Kingdom. fifty
four being for the British Government. Sixteen
Of the vessels are being built In royal docIyards
ana the remaining ifty-six in private yards.
The city council OF Kokomo Ind. recently
passed resolution demanding that the police.
board relax its vigor in dealing with saloons and
gambling houses This has reused the law and
order clement and the result Is that the town IS
Aboh, - go sorth of American sewing ma
chimes are sold annually in Mexico. prominent
American company eontemplates erecting fac
tory at Durango to avail itseli OF the
Iniiiess supplies Of Iron Mountain. situated
"IthIH the corporate limits OF the city.
movement for removing extensively def6-1aed aud
crippled beeg2rs from The street The number
ias greatly increased in recent wears and The
doctors believe that the public display OF de-
iCflnltE Vas injurious 10 the community
The longest third-rail system in The country *
about 10 be put in operation between Hudson and
Albany, \. Y. 1t Is thirJy-eigbt miIes long and
power Is 10 he supplied from q single station Al
St':yyesaRt Falls The current viii be sent ~
2o'' volts and transformed in substatioE.
The journal '.L'Apic,rlteus'' records a curious
observation Ct a specialist, namely that night
ingales devour the drones Of hive and leave the
workers unn.olesfed As an experiment. twelve
Of the former and SIX OF the latter were killed
AID placed by the hive. The twelve were eaten
The SIX no1 touched
The six industry in Northern Italy Is making
steady and considerable progress. Lyons firms II
dyers are even opening branches in the neighbor-
hood OF Como. The exports OF silk goods from
italy rose from the amount OF 50 567 S95 in 1885 to
thai OF s., 1924 in 1899. New silk mills are
almost constantly being erected
A New Jersey woman has invented rapid
clothes sprinkler. consisting OF Two sections Of
tin, which TT tightly together and the surfaces
OF which perforated with small holes. This Is
left resting II d howl Of water while ironing IS
going on. When il Is desired 10 sprinkle tie
CLOTHES the sprinkler Is seized and shaken over
the linen.
The entire number of pupils in all schools.
public and private. last year in this country VS.
If. ,e4$. out Of an estimated population Of
., 80 JOG. There are I0I,0 5s young men and
women in the universities and colleges, 81 81 il
schools OF law. medicine, and theology, 67.5@s
23.5oI in reform schools, and 95,537 in kinder
sarteI.s.
Some $50 coIOrs are obtained from coal
tar, and these have almost entirely slpplanJed
vegetable and animal dyes In fact, only tzyo OF
the vegetable class, indigo and Ioerxood are still
D IFi Is a
II coiCTiHg matter. the magenta obtained from
ION being sufficient to dye 500 yards q flannel:
the aurine, 100 yards; the veImillion scarlet,
$50 yards, and the aligaIine, 255 yards.
An overseer in 4 stone quarry at Frankfort Ne.
says that stone there was 50 acted upon by the
Ieat and other clements that II Was lifted from
= place. torn from its Surroundings and set off
Is though i human hand had moved II The
tone was 100 feet long and % feet wide, From
she oveTSeer obtained 100 feet Of cut stone.
rhis took place IN the presence Of the men under
I'm during one 81 the hot days Of the early
summer.
\ two-year-old gin. living near Marion. Ken
ucky, i said 10 possess amazing vocal qualities.
She has been an invalid nom her bigrh and can
carceIy talk, but Is possessed OF Voice OF mar
-el9as sweetness in singing She knows most of
he old church songs and ca- carry the fumes.
epfatIns the words from the first 20 tHe last
cTse, and while one can scarcely understand her
when she tries TO talk she Is distinct and plain
Z enunciar!nS the words Of the song
Bray. the pretty riverside parish in Berkshire
lac charms Of which so fascinated the accom-
nodating vicar celebrated in song, has unear;hed
venerable relic. This. according 10 a writer
4 The London Daily Nail, Is 4 FIRE engine IU3
ears old which years ago, was supgranuuated.
he parish council. however has had II over
auled without depriving 1t of its primitive
2atuTes and has pronounced il thoroughly fit for
eryice by neighboring fire brigade.
By the general laws OF England oak, ash, ard
IN timber If not younger than twenty
ears or old that good post cannot be cut
rom them. What constitutes timber varies
lightly according TO locality. But when 4
rec Is proved 10 be timber person who has
My life interest in the land it grows upon
annot cut X down unless it be estate
cultivated solely for the production Of saiable
nlber OIL unless he has a special agreement Civ
ne him power TO do
The natives OF Gomera of the Canary Isles.
onverse with another by uhistling on their
myers. 1t is possible to understand a message a
Nile off Each syllable OF word has It's own
ocular sound. Gomera is cut up by a number
deep glens, which not br!dged over and az
would otherwise be impossible for the inhabi-
Tss separate sides OF a glen TO talk with
Re another without going long way round 20
Get they have hit upon the whistling device as
e best means OF communication
Parthenia Bragg. aolored. who claimed to be
o years old, died recently Fort Spring. six
lies east OF Versailles Ken. Aunt Perteena."
she was called, was born in Virginia and
otesses to have known General Washington ana
lniel Boone in her childhood aud 70 have played