The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

I Inc HE OF q steel rali uh0eI regular AIAIhc ls
| not more than twelve years. On a siding or
/ spur 1t viii serve for long period
Of three wires OF the same thickness, one made
| Of gold viii sustain $50 pounds one Of copper
So2 pounds. one OF iron 54s pounds
One Of the most destructive earthquake IN
| the worlds history was that which occurred IN
! feddo IN the year I70S when 10000 people
! We're killed
German papers assert that most Of the purple
/ dTaPeTy used in london at Queen Fictoria's
funeral came from Germany, where large orders
( were executed at the shortest netice-
Alfred the Great founded the University o. OK
ford IN $50 A. D.. while an academic institution
/ was founded at Cambridge by sigebert. King q
East Anglia. as isi back IS 81 a. D.
Taking into consideration the number of ships
that the seas and navigable waters 81 The
world il is estimated that about 10000 OF the
| worlds population are constantly shoat.
The sovereign has never been popular coin IN
| India. Among the Weather natives who have
not yet learned 20 trust the yellow metal as
currency the idea of turning a sovereign into
ornaments, such % earrings and brooches has
recently become fad
While there is si-shg movement in Ireland
for the revival Of the ancient language, it IS
/ different in Wales. 4 poll taken at Cardiff on
the question whether children in the board schools
I should be taught the Welsh language has resulted
/ IN majority Of go votes against it.
II has been generally supposed that much meat
Of the abIest army surgeons now declares thai
under the hot suns the carbon IN a white mans
bioot Is speedily Oxidized and burned up by the
I sun, AID a great deal Of meat must he eaten 10
/ supply the waste.
| A citizen OF London. Ohio died recently at the
advanced age of lightweight years who had keps
an uninterrupted daily record Of the weather for
/ the past seventy years. de was the Old Pre-
/ liabilities" OF his village and his forecasts Of
storms and atmospheric conditions generally
rarely went wrong.
The chafng dish is among the most ancient
| adjuncts to the culinary department OF all M
| tons It was in graz demand at the grand
| teasts given by the healthy citizens n ancient
| Rome Some Of these dish8 have recently been
found among the ruins Of PomPeii They are u
exquisite workmanship
Tom L. Johnson's Arst name. the Baltimore
News notes. is not contraction Of Thomas.
/ but family widely known in the South
/ especially IN Kentucky, his native State. Mr..
Johnson always feels agsrieved when he sees him
self referred to IN print as Thomas johnson Or
! Tom Johnson with the quotation nnarks-)
The cost Of the police force Of Paris grows
steadily year by year. In 1872 It was q G3I 725,
Of which 8, 237 500 paid BY the city and the
rest by the Government; in 1855, ,961, so; IN
1899, s644s, 80 In 1872 the total strength of the
police force was Il56 for population Of 81, 9s2-
In 1873 Il was $500 fcr population Of Zoo, CSC.
The doctors who attend upon the health OF the
Gar Of Russia nuneer twenty-seven, and they
are selected from the best among the medical
celebrities OF the Empire The encourage includes
! physcisn-iI-chef; ten honorary surgeons, two
I ocuIist, a chiropodist and honorary chiropodist-
I two court physicians, and three specialists for
/ the Czarina-
An honest man appeared in Scranton, Pa, the
other day He paid a bill for groceries that vas
! forty-four years without settlement. His hon
esty IS probably tempered by the fact that he re
Gently came into possession Of a small amount
Of money that was unexpected. but the fact thar
he remembered the old debt stands TO the credi-
/ tors advantage.
There are four Bothas among tie leaders q
7 the Beers, and they are brothers The eldest IS
/ Gen Phillip Botha- Conmandant Gen Louis
Botha is the Botha. CoiHmandant ,1oB act
[ ing generaI) Christian Botha IS the Botha with
( whom General Butler had the Interview last
June The fourth brother IS 4 Bothz who mas not
/ come before the public.
/ The ancestors OF the civilized natives OF For
mosa are immigrants from China, who brought
with them the custom Ct paving religious respect
/ and reverence to ideographs These ForTGosaas
/ call any piece Of paper containing writing the
/ dignihed name Of sacred remains and veneTate
it as some slperstitious japanese people Tenerafe
/ the cards synbolizing deitles which are called
| '-ofuda.''
| IN preparation for the bicentennial Of Yale 70
! De held in October next committee has been
appointed 20 organize the great body OF Yale
graduates who VIII attend the celebration This
committee viii have its headquarters the Yale
! Club, in New York, and the function in which
It VIII take part IS q monster tcrehllsnt pro-
ceSsion with costumes, allegoricsl and historical
floats. Examinations, etc
Judge Carroll Cook Of san Francisco makes
the unique complaint that ne has not enough
work 10 do. His honor declares that there has
c5t been a criminal case IN his department for a
month, and that as a consequence he is suffering
from ennGI. Under Its charter san Frazl-
| cisco pays no fees 70 public officials and II IS
I said that large falling on IN Jhe number Of
/ criminal prosecutions has resulted.
y derrick Harrison the English writer, declares
that he vas much in rrssed BY the observance
Of Washington's Birthday IN this country, and
said that Washington was the only patriot VINO
perfectly reached his ideal He Is also impressed
yish the hberality OF American rich men, and
says that such unprecedented philanthropy as had
: been witnessed here impossible IN England.
( where every rich man Is made peer and then
/ Is compelled 10 buy up county and establish =
family.
Two extraordinary hands OF whist were played
I On board South African steamer the other even
ing In the first, after the cards had been duly
/ shufaed and cut each player received a full
I suit. held all the hearts, B the diamonds,
the clubs. and D the spades On PLAYING The
! next hand with another pack { and d Won al
thirteen tricks II was ordinary game Play ed
for ordinary stakes and vas, IN fact bona tide
/ whist phenomenon Tae odds against player
holding the thirteen uuulPs are 1888, 5o3. $50
TO L
Tie VIII OF the late John n. Williams, o.
/ Evanston. IL, leaves a number OF legacies 10
/ missionary societies. The following clause
Iates 10 the trustees Of the estate: In either
of the trustees hereby appointed shall become
! addicted the of intoxicating liquors. OF
shall ever become intoxicated Use or take
/ opiates whether morphine or choral any other
drug OF ike or similar effect, OF shall gamble n
stocks grains or ether commodities margins.
sucE: conduct OF acts herein5efore enumerated
shall be sufficient cause for his removal trus-
tee under this Will
The fact that trade In human beings IS stilI
| carried on in remote parts OF Russia IS reported
by the ..Russkiya Yiedomosti,'' which states that
| ct EoiyTnsz, in Siberia, Russian merchants and
/ offi ials buy the children OF the edes and thus
/ obi ain servants. which difficult 10 obtain
there As they work at all they
! forced 10 perform al the hOusewOTk, and II IS
! only when they rea h twenty-one that they be
come free. In one Z IS paid for a female
/ child A similar state Of affairs prevails in the
central parts OF Siberia, where 4 young whom
his owner wished to get rid OF sold by pub
lie auction
Indiana boasts of one ~ the few goldfish farms
/ in the United States It Is located IN Shelby
county and the proprietors the original prgFa-
gators Of goldfish in the United States There
are two tracts Of land. widely separated One
contains ten and the other sixteen acres There
are 10000 goldfish the two tracts The breed
ing ponds protected from the cold winds by
high e1nbankmcnts. this being the only shelter
I required rs the fish are hardy, except when
! handled The fish Matched on tract ;.ad