The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-14
NOTES OF The DAY.

| The only sword factory in the United States
Is located n Massachusetts,.
About one-six5eeuth Of the paper output Of the
world IS converted into books.
Moro than a million people are treated in the
/ hospitals OF London each year.
The average depth of the ocean is = little les
than three miles. OF 1909 feet
The. Tree public schools in Cuba are well at
tended The pupil roll nov numbers leo O00-
The Lutheran general synod OF Minnesota his
barred all members OF secret societies from
bershlp n the organization.
Match making. once the most periIoJs of handi-
Crafts, has become perfectly safe through the dis
coveTy Of anonymous phosphorus
Long rivers drain a large territory Of country
The Ganges Is nearly 1890 miles IN length and
drains an area OF 10000 square miles.
A recent Law passed By the Missouri Legislature
makes Kidnapping 4 capital offence. A measure
IS also on foot to make chicken stealing felony
Chicago has a mounted policeman--Arthur J.
StlleS-whO claims TO have stopped 100 runaway
horses and II this respect he holds the national
record
st SIuleie and Santa Rasalie in Lower CaIifor-
fruit from which is exported in rawliie packages
containing about fifty pounds each
The greater part of the wheat grown in China
Is winter wheat. planted in the fall It Is not
sown II large tracts As II the United States but
planted in small lots Of q fraction OF acre.
The Bank OF Venice, the first establishment Of
the kind in Europe. was founded in M 1t
continued IN existence without interruption until
the overthrow Of the republic in 1877 bv the
revolutionary army Of France
Snow IN the Maine lumber camps north Of
Bangor Is 6ce feet deep and the fodder for the
horses has been exhausted As a consequence the
animals are slowly starving TO death, and it l.
feared large numbers VIII die
An effort is being made TO establish in one Of
the Scotch universities chair for the study Of the
Scots language and literature. The old Scottish
tongue written BY James 7 IS almost unIn-
telllsible 70 the modern Seotchnan-
The Royal William. built in Canada. was the
first ship TO cross the ocean propelled all the way
by steam The first iron transatlantic steamship
the Great Britain which discarded the u7ddle
wheel and adoIted the screW propeller
The London Lancet expresses the opinion
that further Investigation IS needed in order to
decide that increased legislative measures are re-
uuired TO provide absolutely against the posi-
bility OF beer contaminated 1zith arsenic
A lake of pitch has been discovered on the
British Crown lands in Trinidad The pitch IS
OF excellent quality and the md IS regarded as
Of great value Its location which Is about two
miles inland IS between Erin and Siparia.
Little interest IS shown in Connecticut in an
important Indeterminate Sentence bin. only about
4 dozen persons having attended 4 recent COM
mittee hearing on the measure Among these were
cleTgymen and CriminOlOgists, who appeared in
favor Of the proposed law.
At Albany, \ Y, articles Of Incorporation of
the Shakespeare birthday Club of New York city
have been filed with the Secretary Of State The
club Is a social organization, and II proposes 70
promote the celebration OF the birthday anuiyer-
saries Of William Shakespeare
Every conductor on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
-ailroads must now give a bond Each man il
backed for 500 By a surety company to guarantee
his honesty Il costs the 81 4 year Gha
railroad company has been forced to such action
BY wholesale knocking down Of fares
young man IN Emporia. No, recently received
4 letter from his sweetheart in another town and
in it he was told to Took under the stamp on
the envelope The Young spent an hour
Steaming that letter and WREN he finally got the
stamp of he read: WAS it hard 10 get or
There viii shortly be issued to the public new
Swiss stamps ranging in value from fifteen 20
two confines. No fewer than 500 designs have
been submitted 20 the Federal Council. who have
appointed committee to choose suitable and
the same time artistic design for the new issue
At a rummage sale held in 4 St. Paul (Alinn.1
church the other day marble bust OF a former
pastor OF the flock WAS sold for Is cents The
bust had been sent to the sale inadvertently, and
when the mistake discovered the ladies OF the
church persuaded the purchaser TO rclinquish has
bargaip