The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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4 woman in Kansas rubbed salve on her dough
tes's vaccination marx and then apphcd some 70
. spot GA hcr own check IL took
There are signs that immigration from the
North 10 the South which has been notably large
during JEe past FIVE or six years, "iii De- larger
this year
Jean D. Reszkc. the opc.atic tsHor. made his
VIII in View York city tire other 'las'- and directs
the Use - patent device 10 prevent his being
buried alive
Bengal Is suffering nom the cocaiue habit and
efforts being made 80 restrict the sale Of the
dr7-s, which the Eindoos are using IS satstl-
tute for opium
What is declared to be the finest logging sea
son in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan Is near
ing q close Unusually prosperous times are look
cd for tins spring.
Tho naval authorities at Brest have just dis
posed bs auction Of thc old cruiser Arethuse
Gently struck of the list Of the French navy
( She sold for about 500 GO
The poll taken at Cardiff. Wales. on the ques-
ton whether children in tine board schools should
be taught the Welsh LnguaEe has resulted IN a
majority OF $40 votes agsinsJ It.
among the acting assistant surgeons in The vol
unteer army service Is one named Nsji5 TaSyud-
Deem, who has Just been ordered from Washington
to the barracks at Columbus, ohio.
The Arizona Assembly has dismissed It's negro
janitor because in letter 10 an Arzoaa paper he
rebuked one OF The Representative fer having
used the word Niger IN 8 speech.
Turkey has made arrangements for more German
officers 70 serve with her army IN order TO effect
certain denominations Their previous success at
Damascus aad TripoH were conspicuous
Cincinnati has an organization Of capitalists
called The Tropical Company It has large
land holdings in Honduras, which the cuitiya-
ton OF bananas Is conducted on An extensive
+ scale
The Oldest sailor n the world is probably Vice
Admiral Logiuavitch, OF Russia who has served
that great empire for nearly eighty years He vas
a lieutenant az the battle Of Nayarino seventy
years ago
The Leicester England Town Council has de-
cided 70 make grant TO the Municipal Forward
Movement 10 enable that body 70 provide boxes
OF plants for the window sills OF the poorer cot
tsges OF the borough
Over % per cent Of the worEmcn- employed IN
the breaers' department OF tine chemical factories
in East London are thrown out II work by the re
daction Ia the number Of orders from the Aorth
owing 10 the arsenic scare.
/ The lot OF the project Of police in St Peters
burg can hardly be happy. According to the
tragic record OF the last forty years, dssaSsna-
T tiJn has LEFT the position open for project
{ upon TIE average once n about sIN years
IN the village OF CoIodaevkl in the district OF
/ TehembaE Russia *, interesting treasure has
been found consisting OF 2I7 ancient silver CONS
/ among which there are about % Spanish coins Of
( The arst quarter OF the nineteenth century
/ During the past rear several remarkable reefs
OF fossil coral have been explored near Banbrjdsc
Oh t!.e Flint River II Georgia In one case very
large portion Of the reef explored consists ri coral
heads. some OF which are more than loot N
I diameter
There Is a new counterfeit BIZ IN existence.
( which the Treasury officials say IS Of danger
Gus character It Is 5 certificate, a reProdue-
tiou 5f the IS5e series. EilIeh bears the p7r-
traII If she indian Zach Of the CounteEelts bears
the cheek letter B.
4 Tu6aee0 raising IN northwestern Wisconsin has
been demonstrated 70 be simple matter, expert
1neuts N Ia Crosse county having met With COM
piere success Ten acres planted last year yielded
$3.50 pounds Of fine leaf and numerous farmers
contemplate gong into the business
The Danish Parliament has passed and the King
sanctioned law establishing the secret ballot
system IN parliamentary elections The Radical
party proposes 10 agitate fer an extension OF the
law. Whereby this sysfez may b. used at al
elections. whether political or municipal
Prof. Penny. OF the Music School OF the Uni-
yersity OF kansas. Is absent-Eninded man 1t
Is told that when he started for Europe. he drove
20 tie station, pitched ms horse and boarded the
train Several hundred miles from home be r.
He'd the horse and Igired back ana had II cared
Tor
In 1850 one packet sloop carried from Philadei-
phia TO Washington al the furn tre Of the United
( States Government. together with al the Fed
eral archives which hIIed seven large boxes ana
/ fonr or five smaller ones As contrast see the
thousands OF buildings the Government owns to-
! day
DR. Dudgeou who died recently in Pekin, vas
| perhaps. the best known OF all the Europeans IN
! China. with the exception OF Sir Robert Hart
/ de went out early II the COS 70 take charge OF
! the British Legation Hospital. and the walls 81
the hospital were adorned With tablets test lIy M
10 MS surgical skill.
statistics are at hand showing that IN the frst
month OF the last quarter in France horses caused
:s- accident with S fatalities The railways IN
the same length OF time caused H. OF wt1leE
! were fatal The automobile was she cause OF
I , with fatalities. and the bicycle vas respon-
/ SibIe for rs, with deaths
The value of snow both as a fertiiizing agent
and purifier Of the air has been shown by recent
/ experiments conducted in London Snow VAS
{ collected from the city and rom the Sl.tr-,s-
After It was melted the water was aT2lyzed- ne
snow from the suburbs gave 1875 grains Of S.,lId
matter 10 the gallon, and the city snow gave it-5-
! grains
The LAYING Of the hrsr telegraph cable between
/ Iceland ana Europe seems TO hang fire. writes
! Copenhagen correspondent The foreign Cox
/ ernlaeals which are interested IN getting some
quicker form o. communication with Icei32d than
tie mail Tor the good OF the fishing and com
Irerc5a interests OF The respective countries have
not been forthcoming with the necessary Hrlncill
aid
Submarine boats may be adopted in the ia
| -llre bv all Governments having fighting prCign-
sites. but they VIII N ali probability. not ven
/ ture far Their real province VIII bc ID
act IS defence for bJrhor5 To 20 out under the
( cover u night and secure fCJm S52r-HiIgdt> aS
! they VIII be blow up iatst-sL-r Tint. a. least
! Is the opinion OK not a teyv naval officers, tlsc
| world over
seven years ago the cutlery, boet and shoe
trades of Switzerland vege entirely in the hands
/ of English firms At present tzo-thirds Of the
| cutlery and leather goods imported into SwiJzeT-
/ land come from America Whites Geneva CORE
| Spondent II VAS American capital which enabled
| the Swiss Government 70 buy out one OF the
w5althiest railway companies N the country Five
o. the largest towns IN Switzerland haze American
| tramWags-
In order TO be able TO feed the soldiers in the
Philippines as they are led it Is Necessary 10
keep q kind af procession Of supply ship- on the
Waterways from New York 10 Manila 10y way ~
Francisco. il viii rot do 10 store immense vol
! UneS Of supplies I'm t&n'la. for that Is tropical
/ climate ana all TODD l. more CT less pgrIstable
| in 50 hot a temperature Therefore ships axe 60
Ing al the time
Tie first ironclad, according 10 records recently
discovered was not The Nerimac. but a snip
| built early IN the sixteenth century when the
Dutch were fighting ior their independence With
/ spain The Eurshers IF Antwerp buiiI This first
| ironclad which was protected by heavy iroa
/ pates nailed 10 its sides On the ma~ts were
| roomv platforms FOX sharpSho0tcrs II proved Un-
! manageable however, and WAS never of use as a
| fighting machine
/ ,e-=lrs nj the PLAYERS Club OF New York have