The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

moments to writing out all the DOCKS OF the
Bible.
In the Lake Erie fisheries 3.72e men are en-
Pfoyed and Sa,719,654 capital. Last years catch
walked at 81 $50, 500
Israel Zangwill the Jewish novelist, wrote his
first book when he a student at London [ NJ
Versity. The effort occupied four evenings.
A syndicate has been formed in Paris to
plot the pearl beds in New Caledonia. which
promises to become the centre of the industry
In spite Of their unsanitary habits, the Chinese
often escape disease because their houses are well
ventilated and the children receive daily
bath.
The Chicago Historical Society has fine new
building that cost slso.0ee, and library OF over
5000 bound volumes, besides many busts, paint
ings etc.
Cannon known TO have been used thous-
and years before Crecy. a fve-hundred year-old
magazine rife has recently been unearthed at
Nuremberg
Dresden and leipzig established, no was
permitted 10 buy ticket before he had shown
his passport.
Dennison whecloek, fulI-bIooded Oneida In
dian, has Joined the staff OF Green Bay, Wis,
paper reporter. he IS graduate of Carlisle
Indian school.
The HackdTivers' Union in Detroit pos-s bills
IN neighborhoeds where deaths occur, warning
the people against patTonizing undertakers who
hire Hen-union carriages.
u 81. Peters Church, Rome, there is room tor
400 people. the Cathedral at Milan viii accom-
modate 1000 and $500 find space IN st.
Paui's Cathedral in London.
Ages ago the Hindoo medicine man. knew all
about disease germs and microbes, although lac
jeered at by Western scientists because he
called them little worms."
A japanese Christian minister says that in
Japan druing a recent year there 1853. 389
marriages and lIe775 divorces This is, roughly,
divorce TO every three marriages
Prof Lloyd Morgan. m a recent address, stated
he had found that young chickens, taken straight
from the incubator, could swim very well, the
faower OF swimming being perfectly instructive
The population OF the Berlin suburb Charlotten-
burg IS in a curiousy unstable condition. Last
year 44,11s Of the population Of 1850 lett the
An Australian volunteer is carrying bullet
in his brain, embedded too deeply to allow OF
extraction. and he declares that but for the
knowledge of the fact he never felt better in his
| life
The newly restored Metropolitan Tabernacle at
Newington-butts. in South London (Spurgeon's)
has been opened free Of debt The old Tabernacle
cost 81 ,352 A. I5d; the one, with its
ner hall, sz4,556
When is condeu nei to death in China
ard immediate execution is part Of the sentence it
takes the Celestial hesSsman just about eighteen
seconds to bind The cuIpCt. get him in
/ Portable posIt.'n, ard Cat on his head
Sir Chchen Lofeuginh, the Chinese minister in
London, Is distinguished scholar, notwithstand-
ing his criticism Of the Bible IS literature.
/ He regards Longfellow as the greatest American
poet and ranks Herbert Spencer next TO Cone
/ fucius-
| Canon Christopher. the veteran English Evan
geiicai leader, has recently completed his eight
ieth birthday, and It is proposed to coumerno-
rate the event by the establishment OF scholar
ships at Wyclife Hall, Oxford, ard Ridley Hall,
; Cambridge.
1t is NOT generally known that the roots OF trees
are about equal in their spread 10 the top. The
eucalyptus trees in Australia penetrate from
] $50 10 go feet into the soil with their roots.
/ which absoTbes all moisture within radius of
thirty TO sixty feet
! Upwards OF 800 persons paid to visit the
/ Paris Exposition Sunday, September go and
up to that day 90 so4 600 tickets had been sold.
The number Of tickets issued tive years ago
! 65.900,690, that q large residue Is certain
/ The tickets are now selling at 20 cents each.
Children playing with matches caused ninety
/ fires last year. Cigars and cigarettes caused
+ 912; electric wires and lights, 80; boilers and
engines, 3s7; ineeHdiaTisn. 8 IA: lightning 2.760:
/ spontaneous combustion, 1,2357 due to the
suns rays. The causes OF Is, III not Cis-
| covered.
| The Han.biedon cricket legend which males
| Englands national game take It's rise in the
/ little Surrey village scarcely more than hum
{ dTed years ago. has long since been exploded.
+ The game played by the Vikings, ard is eer-
tajnly identical with the club ball of the four
/ teenth century
! George Francis Train lives in . very small room
| at one of the Mills hotels in New York and has
! not left the building for months He gets out
! OF bed every morning between and ) ara spends
nearly all his waking hours in reading
papers. About 6 III the evening he l. reaGy 10
retire for the night,
! L
helnnina OF Holland, and one who was considered
two years ago to have very good chance Of
success, has Just died He Prince Bernard
/ Heinrich OF Saxe-W einar. He was only twenty
! two years old His death the result Of =
! cold caught while hunting.
| During the year 1899 there were I.297 strikes
am ng yporkmen, against SIS during 1898. in the
strikes OF 1895 the number OF worslmen partiei-
patiRg Io0,I79 and 1.1l3 establishments were
involved Nineteen hundred and twenty eight
were obliged 10 shut down completely, While the
rest able, at least partly, to continue oper-
ations
London has lost another famous landmark. The
shop at the western end of Cheapside, where Mr..
John Boyer formerly carried On business has sue
cvIslled to the Irresistible march Of the house
! breaker. According to old ehronicler, Mr..
John Beyer was an eminent hnenGrapsr super.
latively polite and no less distinguished a per
sonsge than the celebrated John Gilpin
The preliminary catalogue of Yale shows
total ef :, 474 students in all departments CT the
university These figures will be somewhat in
! creased by the time the catalogue Is issued in
December but viii hardly reach the number il
last years catalogue, which 2,5lT- TIE onls
gain this year is in the Scientific Schooi. Wire /
has n0w Coz names against 51l III last year!
catalogue.
The social habits of birds have often been OBJ
served. They seldom travel alone One evening
recently vast flock of chicken hawks, forming
line 100 yards wide and over a nile long> passed
| over the village OF Galloway, Neh. They settled
in a nearly grove night. and g-eat many
were killed before the flock made its escape
I Not over half dozen of such birds had ever been
seen in that neighborhood before at time
The street cars ard omnibuses of Pa IS chargs
6 cents for inside and cents for outside seats
A seat is essential. but a long wait even o
hours may be required to get It. One transfer
IS allowed on a 8-eent fare, but 4 Scent
fare. London has re transfer system, and tnt
! charge is proportional Il distance, with Tno-i
| or less TIPPING. Berlin street railways have JUS
adopted uniform fare OF 2i2 cents. without
transfers
Ex-King Prempeh, OF Ashsatce, who is CT
his way to the Seychelles Islands is to be fnall,
| LEGGED in Mahe one Of this interesting group {,
islets IN the Indian Ocean, where the chi ~ from
the Malay Peninsula were exled in the ca-iy 20
Maize which is seventeen miles II length InC
from foHT to across. enjoys the ;lS5l'tC+ on
only in q lesser degree than the AldahrI Island
the vicinity, of being he home OF the elg1Eti
land tortoise
To be nattIraized in Great Britain aer
must have lived there for at least five years, o.
have served The Crown faithfully for lie sami