The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

A remarkable woman dWeIis IN Gibraltar. Pa
Recently during the Illness o. her husband. Mrs
John Bucher directed all the work N a black
smith shop sswmiH, and the management q
a farm, besides taking care OF her ave children
and nursing her husband during a ProtFacted
period II sickness
Daring a recent raid on 2 sgindler's den at
Brunswick, England, the police found an album
which contained not oEly the portrait Of every
member Of the force but accurate anthropometrc
descriptions and records Of physical peeuiari-
ties for his Identification This Is the first re-
corded instance Of the Bertillon system being
turned against the police
When the twentieth century davyned on the
world the number Of minutes which had elapsed
since the beginning Of the year I. A D. vas 9gs-
$4,000 and We shall celebrate the 100000 900
minute at the end OK April. 1902 Or II you
prefer 70 have it so, the ammo doTni cleck viii
tick for the sixty thousand TIIlionth time aJ
1910 the morning Of April 20, 1902
Germany proposes to forbid the employment Of
/ saecIarine and other sveetening matter except
vhen it is recommended for therapeutic purposes
The sale Of the substance wiIl be permitted only
by chemists and other specially authorized per-
sons Even in these instances il viii he sub
! jected 10 4 consumption tax Of so per klogram-
This new Law viii so into effect IN April, 1902.
There IS a probability that a large paper
mill viii be established in Columbus during
the next few months Nothing definite has
been announced as yet 10y the rumored pro-
( derStood that the establishment OF such an
industry Is under serious Amusement and that
/ 1t can be regarded a strong probability. Il
| established the mill viii manufacture paper
! from Cottonseed hulls-
/ During the ninsteenth century 2s5 new comets
we're discovered, against 50 IN the eighteenth
/ eeatuFy, The nineteenth century also beheld
greater number of large and brilliant comets than
/ did its predecessor The finest Of these were
! The comets Of 1871, 1913 1855, 1881, and 1882
| In the year 1850 only one periodical comet was
/ E9o~n, Aaiieys nov many are known. Of
which at least seventeen have been seen at
more than one return 70 perihelion-
A man in North Carolina was selling standing
tinsber-waInut trees The man who vas buying
/ came to one very handsome tree He told tho
/ owner ne wOU:d pay much $50 for that
tree The owner did not sell but sent fo-
perts- He got 81 500 for the tree (cBrled val
nut IT stood The ~ho cut Il down
realized $4,000 for II on the csTs. It vas
shipped TO New York and veueered one-sixth 20
half inch. The sales were watched. The
tree brought $1,000
Five dentists in the eTupioy Of the United
States Government are performing duty II the
Philippines; ten moro are their way there,
one has been ordered tc Cuba. one 70 Porto
Rico. enc to West Point, one 70 Fort lleaFen-
worth. and Fort Monroe All have
been provided With a Kit Of operating machinery
This outfit IS identical with that contained IN
the best appointed Offices OF the highest class
/ Of dentists IN civil life, each costing II the
neighborhood Of $50.
i Iron ore in the Gulf Of Finland near the Island
I Of Jussaro, is to be mined by syndicate headed
+ BY Baron NordensEiold Many shipwrecks have
/ teen place at this point owing 20 the untrust-
I worJhinesS Of the COMPASS and the presence OF
: iron under the water was known as early as
I 1870 Bo-1Fsgs made shcvS that the root rock
I Is compact and yateTJIght and that the de-
posts represent at least 100000 tons q ore
( The average Weld OF iron Is 80 per cent from
! about 1860 tons Of ore alTeaTy raised
I A plan which il receiving Government sane
I ton in Mexico is for the establishment at
NazatIan Of a large packely and cannery for the
! preservation Of shrErnps and fish Fish OF fne
grade abound IN the waters Of SiHaIoa and
Topic but there IS no way Of preserving them,
and consequently there Is only local demand for
them 1t is thought that the establishment OF d
thoroughly equipped modern packfng-h0use VII
] enable this country 70 compete with the United
| States IN the foreign sale Of many KINGS OF FISH
The Buddhist outpost recently established IN
san Francisco Is rot all of the invasion Al
ready the founder Of the mission IN this country,
Sonoda Is in Berlin, where April Japan-
csc officers legation attaches. and travellers
( joined IN the celebration 81 Bgddna's birthday
( Nishijirna- who came S0Hoda's assistant, IS
in the interior Of California, paving the way
! 10 the establishment Of missions at Sacramento
/ and Fresno. At Sacramento a temple Is about
/ 10 he erected, 5000 having been raised already
/ for buying the ground
There IS a little alligator trust on the west
/ srn edge of the United States William ArTn-
/ strong has just received the renewal Of . con
/ cession which he obtained a year ago as an ex-
pertinent for the capture of aIiigatoIs along the
/ Pacific Coast The new concession runs foT five
{ years During his year Of experiment AT Arm
| strong secured more than 5000 skins, most OF
which we're exported to France and Germany The
lakes and swampy iniets along the Pacific abound
ii aIligators. and Mr. Armstrong secures theiE
hides from native hunters stationed Al different
points.
It IS rot generally known that within eighty
miles OF Victoria, and forty-sir miles inside
Puget Sound there Is a nucleus Of navy yard
which IS destined TO be one Of the most ini-
pcrtaut-ff not the most impoFtant-in the Uni
ted States Ten years ago wilderness, It now
teens with life It's situation Is ideal II Is
absolutely andiOCked, its shortest approach be
inc 2 narrow winding channel SIX niles long,
heavily fortified and mined It's longest ap-
preach Is fourteen miles, with an entrance so
narrow an enemyS ship would stand No chance
OF getting slough
While Louisiana occupied a more less
| prominent position in nearly al the branches
of agriculture common to the S-5uth. she stands
alone as the home Of the cultivation and manu-
facture OF sugar IN twenty-three Of the parishes
OF the State sugar Is grown almost exclusively,
the other crops being side lS>,e About the
only other crop grown IN what l. known the
sugar parishes Is rice In good crop years these
PARISHES have produced as high as $1,000 long
OF sugar. ana every i7sfsd OF TIM Nr-@ '-S
/ been manufactured the plantation on which II
grew or the central sugar-houSe OF the section
4 newspaper published in Nice France, says Of
/ the automobile These vehicles are bringing
/ about the complete ruin OF the coast, As well
as Of all the watering places by taking pos
/ session Of the principal roads and driye~ays
! and speeding over them Persons who walk on
/ the roads or who ride IN other carriages are
virtually taking their lives IN their hands The
so-calIcd automobile week which have I'TSt
/ had at Nice has been veritable scandal Dur
ing whole days the public was debaTred from
the Promenade des Anglais- More than le1-e9
! persons were affronted il order that few nil
liouaires might be satisfied
According TO a Cairo correspondent the d.
rectors OF the great French company enjoying the
/ practical monopoly OF the Egyptian sugar and
/ u1olasses industry have Just completed arrange
I ments bv which they become cOncesSionaIreS for
/ 4 number of wears Of some f000o acres Of land
! in the vicinity Of their great works at Nag
/ Hanadi III upper Egypt These lands Will he
! devoted rriucIpalIr to the culture OF beeI-Fuot
/ The company already possesses extensive fields
! Of canes Egypt Is now not only able 10 cater
| for herself A. faz a. sugar Is concerned, but
/ las begun TO successfully compete with French
and Austrian sugar IN the Levant
/ Rorings for petroleum and its commercial in
| no-5anec may be said 70 date from 1880 Some
| oil sfrou the springs near TItUsvilIe Pa,
/ sent to Prof Benjamin SilIiman. of Yale Col
| lere. and after chemical analysis of the Saiae
/ he issued report in which he not only pointed
! tics as an article Of trade He predicted some
/ - tho many rySas 10 which retrtIesIu has since