The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-11-07
NOTES OF The DAY.


Dis raee.y.ug lbs thiri coat ai sLin,Ias
Tie plan OF Destroying bail clouds by exploding
bombs among them aas -uSzest~i nearly JOB years
ss" hg PROF Parrot, of Riga
A Munich publisher has issued "a work fa Two
parts on tla oldest biggest and otherwise most
remarkable tees lu Bavaria
A married couple ln Reno county. Kansaz. were
i9 court about e. divorce @sir recently. So being
tle anniversary ot the golden wedding
Tie worlds national indebtedness &, cstfmltrd
% >"l al. .'+-i ten times as great as the worlds
national debts amounted t1 during tde Napo-
le1uie vlrs.
The Alaska Indians have a violin closely rs-
scUhllHg boz form the primitive instrument of the
Z same kind used among che Ptrsi8us and Turks
bow.
Aluminium has just been employed far The con-
structi0n % a new hssproof theatre curtain. The
curtain is sixty feet wide By fstg-f1ar feet high
and u composed Of sheets oue-tWclilb OF au inch
Z thick
/ Friboleum. a new artificial leather. has ju-t
/ been invented by Frenchman. 10 consists o.
pieces Of refuse skins and hides. cur exceedingly
I small which are put into vat fIIeI with lr
I intensely alkaline solution
/ The Burmese sounz IS a harp. the body being
| modelled like boat. with long. high PROV
/ The instrument has a scale from low in the bass
/ o.ei Co iE the g. cl=f 10 Is used Co accompany
/ vocal mJsIe.
/ Dar-es Salaam. the capital Of German East A.
| rica. which, seven years ago. was a village ir-
! hshited by a hundred natives. IS now town
With 900 European and d 90 native iuhahtaut--
I u has three hotels several hundred stores ard D
| newspaper
/ Birmingham msdIIist- are Just now evtrelarIv
busy upon the production Of medals for the coro-
nation. Do IS probable that upward 81 1000 O8l
medals vii De- turned out Of Birmingham work
I shops during the next six months % cope With
/ the demands already pouring in from all parts
/ Of the empire
1 The two new steamships that are being built
for Che passenger service between san Francisco
/ and Oriental ports VIII marx the beginning Of a
new era lu trafls-la-ifc arlgatiuu. They are
double the size Of the largest that now cross the
Pacific, and inferior size 90 only a fea q the
| latest Atlantic liners
I The ''Fruit Grower states that s1r several
years it has placed baldwin apples in cold stor-
/ age when the price was $40 a barrel and sold
I them after March Is at 81 per barrel 70 recon-
rnendS that apples be stored a. soon - picked
I for even "a weeks DELAY iu the barn Ess been
/ found Do impair the keeping Of the fruit
The cStimated total production OF Lous in En-
gland for this year is 643.5s7 eut-. as compared
l with 347,s94 cvt. iH 1900 The acres under cuI-
uvatiou were 4Vz3, against 1884 last wear
and the average yield per acre I2-5I ext. com
pared with go cvt- i'm 100 b. FAY the greatest
D
/ for more than half Of the total pr0ductiou-
/ Cotton grove spIeadidiy in many parts Of The
Turkish Empire, and SO does tobacco. Olives
aTples. pears. all sorts OF pluus. peaches. ap-l-
cots. p"rnesrauates. tomatoes melons. -lusshes.
ounces. oranges and lemons abound in the poor
Z ESQ gardens The provinces which owe allegiaDc-
[ 'o the sultan would feed ten times the p0pul4-
! ton nCw InnahIting them
The deepest b5rehole known. made BE- the P-us-
sian Government Is at Paruschowitz near Rzri-
/ I0r- In upper >iiesil- Though finished in ISsE
| particular 81 valuable observations made have
never been published until noW supplied by the
Frl-san Government o. British association con-
mlttee- Tie total depth is about g. SD feet the
diameter decreases from SO inches down Co -
inches The upper half of the hole is tsbed-
Buried forests found in Alaska IN localities
where DO trees exist now have revived a Discus
sion q the theory that the A-etic region once
possessed tropical or -emi-tropiCal climate 4
[ few wears ago a New England professor wrote a
book based OH the idea that a-he earth first cool
ed az che poles they were the oriz inaI scene %
RECITATION and human life. and that mankind
gradually moved s0uthUard during fhz FTehs-
r0ric period.
Delaware has been called tine Diamond STATE
for though small IN size. it formerly was 81
great political importance. Il also enjoys the
nickname Of the blue Hen state tins having
been bestowed account Of a gentleman uaraI
Caldwell. who made the State famous ia sport
iag annals D. the quality ~ MS game cocks.
which he always bred from the egEs Of b.u-
/ hen, believing ths, this va- the best color far
the mother of game cock
Tie Greek poet andreas Iaskarsros. Whose
death was announced a few weeks ago. VAS forty
years ago placed. by the Archbishop Of Ksphzlo-
ma under a ban. ,.i1ryH was not removed until
I last year. gheu the poet rv-1hed ms Hiaetieth
hirthtaF- The ban was on account 90 oooA en-
titled The Secrets Of EepI4- ouia- or thoughts
on the Family Religion and Politics ia which
Be wrote satlrrs on popular superstitlous ard
against the priesthood
Two Saeo. Ne-. Sports-uen v,bo were in tbs
woods saturday had separated and were search
ing tuEs game when ea,h saw the came rabbit.
ZACH man hidden from the other by under
brush Each fired AZ the same time. and the r.
ports came So close together that neither knew
that the other had shot The Iren Weut for their
same. and % was not until each the head
~ the 0thc- that T. was realized that they h1s
hred az the same object Even E0E neither knows
who AilLed tlc game
\ shryssntheInum show 90 BE- held ia Couvsn-
ton Han. Kansas City. this month VIII take the
fa-m OF a japanese garden occupying the great
oval arena Do Viii include tower 100 feet high.
decorated with flowers and Coloret electric lights
80 each end viii De f0we~ plEoda- Two tea
houses ZiI offer light refreshments with atJeu-
Lauts Iu japanese costumes A hedge four feet
high VIII run around the entire garden. society
people viii occupy the boxes and keep open
house Iu serving Tea o. guests
% WAS probably known 90 uegrIv every RC-1u
citizen how lle mortar which cenlauted the staue5
1f their buildings was made-Ju~t as iu IS nov
known to tie majority 90 people -Elilr rrs priu-
epll ingredient ot English mo-ar Is street scrap-
iI-S- But the knowledge being general. nobody
wrote 30 dugu- and IN time tie Romans shift
ul rlei- building upon slaves and Foreigners the
Recipe ut their mortar vas lost - Ear DO hl,
TOT been discovered though tLe secret Of Do would
He Immensely valuable for tine cement out.l-Is
.ae very stones which 10 joins
Not long ago a ship from one Of THE tropical