The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
NOTES OF THE DAY.

ice TGeltS at p degrees, water bOiIs at ~ lead
+ mejts at 59i. and the heat OF q common coal fire
/ Is I.Ife-
/ On level pavement pull Of 90 pounds VIII
: draw ton. on maCadam it takes 10 pounds and
on rough gravel ~ pounds.
Church services in Budapest are conducted IN
twelve languages There are just fifty churches
Of which twenty-seven are Catholic
France holds the record as a user Of gold She
has coined 300 tons in the last fortv wears
against l go used by the English mint
II 4 lead wire viii sustain a weight OF .
pounds, copper wire Of the same thickness vii
uphold S02 pounds and one Of iron SO pounds
GIow-w0rmS. or az they are called in many To-
caIjties lightning bugs are much more bril-
liant when storm IS coming than at other seas
ous.
Auto cars are TO be usd by the police in Paris
to over take cars driven at excessive speed.
Policemen are being trained to drive the motor
The sovereign families Of Europe. despite all
political differences, form one vast far1iIy. close
y bound by ties Of blood and innumeTabIe inter
marriages.
Once every year the British ship Wye makes
trip TO the Island Of Ascension and returns with
cargo Of turtles. from which royalty Is supplied
with soup
n DeIcasse, the French Foreign Minister, Is
physically dwarf, but intellectually giant. and
IN the French Government
A case of cutting of the nose to spite the face
Is evident in the case Of a Wisconsin man who.
because his pension not larger has refused to
vote for twenty-seven years
The slowcst sailing vessel on the seas Is said
to be the Italian brig anita 5. which recently
arrived at Nantes France from Martinique after
long voyage OF ten months
The King Of Portugal Is an artist q no little
ability His FFe Fs5-
dominion prove him to possess 4 good standing
IN the line OF amateur painters
Astronomers say there are only eighteen stars
Of the first magnitude The light from these
takes about-three years 70 reach the earth There
are htty-fve Of second magnitude.
boy and girl who offered to carry heavy
package for old woman in the streets OF
Vienna have got into trouble with the police for
CARY ing parcels without a license.
A writer in ''Le Movement Geographfque'' de-
seribes q cave in East Africa. near Tanga, in
which one chamber rises to a height Of 80 feet,
while another covers an area Of 5000 square
yards
TIE most curious cemetery IS situated at Luxor,
on the Nile Here repose the Tnunmifed bodies
Of millions Of sacred cats Their remains are side
by side witi the bodies Of kings and empeFors
N mausoIeuns
The Mexican Government is preparing to take
decided steps to improve the breed Of horses IN
that country By a Law which has Just passed
President DIaz IS empowered to enter into con
tracts who VIII establish horse-breesIins farms
The city Of Berlin Is blessed or cursed with dogs
as the case may be- There are abort 20, 600 OF
them in TIE great city, many Of which indemnify
their owners for their support IN enaCtiug the role
Of draught animals upon which there IS tax to
pay
John CANON. an octogenarian resident Of st
Bernard, Ohio, became 50 enraged at an aching
corn the other DAY that he took hammer and
chiseI and chopped on the offending toe He
declares that the relief IS worth the temporary
pain
Coal tonnage from West Virginia mines over
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Is reported
for March as 1876, 90 short tons. an increase Of
SHIP tons over last year In the first quarter
II 1901 coal tonnage was 1,Is9,50 an increase Of
~ per cent
4 statistician has discovered that the average
business walk IN New York IS mile IN twenty
minutes. and the cIiJrclI-eoiuc walk mile n
the hOmeward bound BT0OkIyniteS, = nile IN
eighteen minutes
a peculiar sight seen on many farms in Ale
ghsHy county, New York, this year Is that Of
large apple trees lying fat on the ground yet
loaded dewn with blossoms These trees. and
there are hundreds OF them we're uprooted by the
severe ice storm last winter
Five brothers named Backes live IN Trenton.
y J All are lawyers eljoying lucrative prac-
tice, and not one OF them had more than gram
mar school education- Their father died IN 1874.
leaving a widow and six boys. the eldest Of whom
VAS but fourteen years old.
Early in April there were lying az the stations
Of three Russian railroads. waiting TO be for
waTded, .. 600 carloads OF gain. equal 70 about
= 38.GoJ bushels. much OF which had been wait
ing for months Complaints that railroads are not
able TO handle their traffic are common in Russia
In scrap heap back of stable in Butte,
Mont. IS the carriage formerly used to carry
Brigham Young and limited number Of his
wives TO CHURCH The vehicle originally cost
$3.50, and has passed through many vicissitu6es.
in late years having been used 10 transport pic
mic parties.
One of the longest and direst sentences ever pro
lounced upon a criminal Is probably contained in
the decision of 4 Judge IN Naples, who inflicted
recently upon an Italian adventurer. who plead
ed guilty to and was convicted OF sIxty-four
separate forEerIeS- The Judge figured up the
penalties and officially sentenced the prisoner 10
Loss years of solitary confinement
SIX former Governors Of Tennessee are living.
They are James D. Porter who was first elected
in 1874 and served two terms: Alvin C. Hawkins
the solitary Republican incumbent in recent
years; William B. Bate who Is now ore Of the
United States Senators from Tennessee Robert
/. Taylor. who served three terms. though not
1ey-
Edward KimbalI, who died in Chicago recently,
became we'll known years ago through his success
in raising church debts When he lived in Boston
more than fifty years ago, he Taught class IN
the Mount Vernon Church sunday school and had
D. / Moody Is one OF his pupils The amount
IF church debts raised by him. says the Chi
-ago Tribune has been estimated at more
han 100000.
As an indication that cH0UiSters are always IN
row i can be mentioned that the congregation
q an English church Is at war over the degree
Of vigor with which a member may sing. One
nan with strong lungs refused TO accept s5lg-
.eStIau % sing lower and declared that he would
continue 70 make harmony ct the top Of his voice.
Half the congregation sided with him. while the
,ther half have taken the matter into court.
The Board of Health Of tile city OF Galveston Is
rrauging Tor a large supply Of oil from The Beau
mont wells to be used ia fighting mosquitoes.
The oil viii be distributed Ia all the srsgnaBt
FOOLS in the city. sprinkIel on the surface Of
water IN the cutters and distributed free to own
II OF open ci7ter1s for III destroying mos
IutCes ard the feveT-bTeediug germs which
ollect IN the ponds
When Russian mobiles are about to go out TO
;sht duel they generally take breakfast to-
-ether- This Is probably the reason why SO few
f them bite the dust before dinner bell rings
When Americans fight duels the survivor, If there
; survivor. generally takes breakfast. dinner,
IT supper, as the case may be without the pres
nee of his opponent. But lfucling IN Europe and
ueIing III America are TWO separate things
GuiIIermo Geswein. yselI-bnown business MAJ
T CooraTsr5nu Chile has been commissioned f,v