The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-27
NOTES OF TIE DAY

produced 50 per cent Of our cotton crop
New South walcs has l5.oa miles Of wire net
I ting as u fence protection against raE;4its
1t IS reported that only forty British move. ISIS
are able 20 I've the profits u tiseir books
81 the l6.o9e islands betueen Madagascar and
indla IN the Indian Ocean, only co are inhabiteI
The income OF POOR farmer or regular Ia
| year
France consumes more wine tIian Germany. the
tnited States and the United Kingdom put TO-
| gether-
At low estimate the manufacture and saIs
o. dolls IN Europe of all sizes exceeds 100000
! per annuic-
View YORK has now 5000 telephone stations.
! telephone systems
The amount Of gold coin in circulation IN f;-oat
Britain Is SIS tons. IN Germany the sane. but in
/ Austria only Cd tons.
santa Barbara tcal.) nan mas over LOO
turtles Nith which be expects 70 stock turtle
| ranch in that county.
&c, Germany NAM HoE has I9oooo0o more inhabitants
| gary, 22'oo3 coo more than Italy
The Malay Iangsage. spoken in the south seas
Il softer than the Italian and Is saIc TO be totally
unlike any other known language
vas on the day Of Queen Victories birth,
May q 1919. that the first transatlantic steamer
,. The Aztec language, in use in Mexico 1T the
discovery Of America. lacked the sounds indicated
b. our letters b, d, {, Z, T T. j. and '
Every year relatives Of Robert Louis Stevenson.
n Scotland send crown and cross OF heather
from that country, which are placed his grave
IN Samoa
The largest pawnshop IN the world Is probably
that on the boulevard Montnsrtre, Paris which.
It IS said, receives IN pledge over 1000 watches
every day.
The lowest tide IL any large sea IS in the
Mediterranean At Toulon there Is about four
inches, which is the average for the whole
Mediterranean
With a population Of $4,000. the arzentins
Republic possesses 505i,Gs0 horses II Is tire
only country in the world that has a horse for
every inhatitant
One Of the curiosities Of Cuba IS Quaker
FaeetiTlZ-houSe which has been erected at Gibsra,
rear Santiago. The congregation OF Friends Is
said 10 number over 200.
Inc actual number Of immigrants arriving in
Canada last year vas about 5000 IS per ccnt
Of these people being OF the farTEiag class and
moving directly TO the Dominion lanes
The appeal for funds to rehabiIitate the public
schools OF Galveston. after the storm brought in
the SUN OF S54.z7O-5s the bulk of il contributed
BY school children throughout the country
Last year the total value of the coffee imported
into the United States was about s68OoeGeO,
and that less than Tor several years. because
the import price OF coffee has fallen about one
balf.
IN Kansas milftarizrn bows to agriculture The
annual target practice Of one Of the state regi-
ments was Indefinitely postponed last week be-
cause the members we're too busy the sugar
beet feIds.
Canadian agents are now found in nearly every
large american city They are advertising IN all
the leading American newspapers and twenty
nine States have contributed 10 shis movement
TO the northWard
In recent talk at St Charles Seminary IN
Philadelphia, Cardinal MartiRelH explained Why.
although Italian, he speaks English with an
Irish accent The language had been taught
him, he said, By county Galway monk. n Rome
Fiennese hair dressers have held a mass meeting
10 protest against the prevailing masculine fash
ion OF wearing the hair cut short, as being H.
artistic and unnatural certain length say Of
thirty miIliueteTs, they aver. should be main
tanned
Unable to find the proper tools with which to
bore holes through an iron bar, an operation
made necessary BY z breakdown at SEA marine
engineer marked the spots TO be bored with
chalk and then fred So-caliber bullet through
each with rife
The Dowager Empress Of Russia Is the pessessos
Of the finest collection of Russian sables IN the
world One Of her NANTES which she wears IN
winter Sledge drives and IN travelling, has
cred for her BY the Governor Of polar provinces,
where taxes are paid kind with hIrs.
a system OF insurance against strikes prevails
in Austria Holders OF the policies are iader-
nifed If strikes occur IN the = establishments,
whether voluntary, fnrced. Sympathetic The
cost OF policy Is OF 1 per cent OF the annual
payroll The indemnity Is 30 per cent OF TIE
wages paid FOR the week preceding the suspeR-
son OF work
One OF the l1ngest and direst sentences ever
pronounced upon criminal IS probably contain
cd IN a decision of Judge ia Naples, who in
ficted recently upon an Italian adventure who
pleaded guilty 10 and was convicted @: slztF-fouT
separate forgerleS The Judge figured W the
penalties and officially sentenced the prisoner 20
Loss years OF solitary confinement
Ei,hty-nine years ago the first Rothschild vas
ennobIed At Frankfort by an ecclesiastical PrIncs
BaIberg- Archbfslo75-Eleetor of Aayesce. His de-
soendant, a great-great-nephew, Is Lord Acton.
Ihrcescore and thFJean years after the promotion
Of his ancestor to the Germany bar0Hy. tie head
Of the new court dynasty resolved an English
geerage from Premier. y. E. Gladstone
From statistics Just given to the press 1t ap-
pears that dnrng the year 1000 there were 1,ef0
foreigners naJuraIized IN France, being 49, less
than the preceding year The Italians we're the
most numerous, being as The EngIish-born
subjects thus nz1uTaiized numbered sixteen in
Fniteiy less than those Of any great European
power No Americans became FTenehnen last
rear.
An American company Is constructing taSo eIe-
.ators ordered fer King Edward to be placed IN
Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle TIE
elevator cars viii be the most costly ever made.
L Is said Another eievstor has Just been e.
lered for Clarence House, 81. james street.
London, which Is to be the home Of the Duke OF
J Ork. when he returns fToEz his trip around the
world
In Abilene, Ran. there IS woman who has
not been dow=i into the business part OF town
or more than twenty years She has never seen
either of the railroad depots or q train come IN.
The Presbyterian Church Of the town Is more than
sixteen years old, but she has never seen It She
S not an invalid or blind. but only home body,
who makes the limits Of her yard the limits Of
Ter world
The cultivation OF cotton II the Caucasus has
,eea attended with such success that tie Russian
government has decided to introduce tEe culture
i tea into that province. IN t9g trial plsn-
ati.yns were laid out IN the districts Of Osurgei
nd Kutzis. The results have been such that new
plantations viii Be laid out IN the districts of
IiRgTeileR and SeutUm- Plants and SEEDS have
'een collected for this purpose from the best tea
provinces OF China
4 singular FIRE occurred at a dwelling house in
ieisOn. England Underneath the ParIor window
ras a dresser upon which was glass globe
-hIeh, x Il supposed. became so heated bv the
unS rays that It isnited the window curtains
he flames extending 10 the dresser which wish
Is contents and the curtains werx destroyed
efurc the FIRE eKtInEuishei- There no
re IN the P&rlor crate, was any person IN
he room where the hre originated