The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.

AIulIsatawney is from an East India word
meaning pepper water
Waffle is from wafeI. 4 word Of Teutonic orr
gin, meaning honeycomb-
\ century ago the potato was a nea and IN
popular article of food in France.
There are nearly 2)o bishops Of the Catholic
Churcis within the British Empire
The art of manicure had It's origin in the con-
vents 81 France many centuries ago
SuecotaSl is "a di-l, borrowed from the Nara
gansett Indians and called by them III sickJata-E-
Tho City Of Grand Rapids Mich. expended
nearly $4,000 FOR improvements during tie past
year
In :he schools of London b 0oo girls we're in
structei in cooking during the school year 1913
1872
Sicily Is said TO be making steady progress in
asphalt mining. In Iss9 about coon tors were
exported, OF which New York received 500
The religious census Of Buffalo shows that there
are 1856 Protestants and JOS Ss2 Roman Cath
olics This i On basis of four to the family.
Col c. Naturalization. c. B. who died sud
denly at the Carlton CLUB. IN London the other
evening. acted As best man at the wedding *
Lord Roberts in 1850
The meaning of the word topaz Is to guess.
It was first brought from the East to Greece
and guessed At the location which produced
such beautiful gems That fact gave the iewe
It's name
French which used 10 be the world Language.
now ranks fifth. being spoken by only 45o0.009
while English is spoken by II5.9O0OO0. Russia by
100000 German by 19G00.000, and spanish b5
100000
So difficult has it become TO get domestic serv-
ants in Nevg Zealand. or woman help Of any kind
that in many places the only way TO secure thu
services Of the washerWOnan Is by sending
carriage for her
recent law In France prohibits hunters IN tina
French Soudan from killing in one year more thaI
two elephants two rhinoceri- six hippopotami
four buFaloes. and one giraffe under penaltie
ranging from &c 10 IS.
piano manufacturing company in Toronto
Ont. claims to have in its shop a piano made b,
the coHlpany's founder sixty years ago. while HI
was IN the business IN Buffalo, and sold BY him
to General Grants mother
Snow has visited unusual places this season.
has fallen in Mexico City the first time 70
fifty years and in Madrid. where it had not beer
seen for eight years IN jerusalem snow fell Il
the depth Of twelve inches.
The German army has 4 swimming school 70.
troops, where everyone must learn to swim. Tn,
best swimmers are able 70 cross stream OF sev-
eral hundred yards width even when carrying
their clothing. rife, and ammunition
Jules Verne who Is se7enty-tl1ree years Old
has written novel for every year he has lived
although his first book did not appear until les
than forty years ago. Il was Five Weeks in
Balloon, and scored an instant success
The Army bill just passed BY Congress provide
FOR thirty chapiains- As an evidence thai
there are no few preachers who are afraid to &c
20 war II may be said that FOR these thirty place
there are not FAR from thousand applications.
DR.. Michael L. Robinson the eminent Eastern
scholar, Who Is al work on a complete trausla-
ton OF the BabyIonIan Talrnud Is greatly assisted
by his daughter, Miss Rosamond ROckinSon who
Is almost as much OF OrientaIist As her father
About much spool wood Is sent to Europe
every year is manufactured into spools in
Maine Last year Name exported about I5.003.01d
feet OF spool bars. chiefly 10 Scotland and of
TINS quantity about one-haH was shipped from
Bangor
The capitalization of the railways OF the United
States Is S11O09,O090JO Those railways employ
more than $4,000 men and io- the fiscal year
ended June 90 isSs. they paid 70 their EN-
pioyeS a compensation Tor serving more than
S4g5, 00o-OO9
The Toledo Beard Of Trade, taking advantage Of
the occasion Of the recent marriage OF its secre-
tary Edgar \. Wills presented him with purse
containing over 500 IN gold. AT the same time
commencing him IN 4 set OF resolutions for his
general efficiency an official Of the board
4 citizen OF South Hope Ne, has a Pile OF old
documents IN MS possession. consisting OF deeds.
notes. bills. etc and some Of them are very old
One - dated IN 1873. They are all in an excellent
state OF preservation. The documents were found
IN 4 cabinet that Is more than 90 years old
When 4 gambling house Is raided IN Kansas the
furniture seized must. under the law be red IN
court and convicted before being eiestra7ea iyist
aS though II were human being. 4 case Of that
sort WIS tried ar Fort Scott few days ago when
crap and poker tables. fne carpets, chairs, etc.
were taken 10 the market place and burned.
RI
by two officers. after rising to a height Of 4oea
meters and passing through q temperature OF
p degrees below zero landed az LUbliu in Russia.
The descent assisted by some Moscow stud
ents. bur the officers taken to the chief of
police. in whose custody they remained until
their identity was established
Prof. See has lately measured The diameter of
the planet Venus and finds The value I6-S0 sec
onds- This Is in agreement with the value I6.S7
seconds by Prot Auwers from heliometer meas
ures taken al the tranSits OF 1874 and 1852. If
these are reduced 70 miles taking the solar
paral-aN Is $50 SeeonCs 1.-THE resulting diameter
Of Venus Is l2,Is1 kilolneters or 1854 miles
There are ten Congregational churches in Mas
saciusetts that give more money for missionary
and benevolent uses than they spend in main
tanning their cLarches. English Congraga-
tionalists have subscribed $4,000 FOR their
twentieth century funG being only $4,000 less
than the total they set out 10 raise The Bap-
lists have $4,000 out Of proposed $l.250.0o0
Just now, when all the world Is looking to-
ward China Tibet cones into prominence by
reason Of the announcement that the Grand Lama.
chief ruler Of the country has issued an edict
proCl2iInin religious liberty from this time forth
in the Forbidden Land " hat gives additional
interest TO this announcement Is the fact that
Tibet Is the last nation in the world from which
the foreigner has been debarred
The Archbishop Of Canterbury recently declared
that the English liturgy needs revision He be
HeyeS that the service As found IN the Prayer
Book and rendered IN English churches Is toe
lucrative. toe long, too mechanical and too for
NAL" II seems that. although the COnvocatien
needed. Yet nothing has been done since then
10 revise or modify the ritual service
Private efforts in New Hampshire toy the
protection of the States forests from the lumber
men viii receive no aid from the Legislature.
says the New York Evening Post That bod-
has Just rejected two measures On the subject
One would restrict lunb,r cutting to trees Of
prescribed size The other looked 10 the eStaF-
liShmsnt OF forest preserve in The State and
authorized loan OF SI.o00.000 Tor the purchase
OF forest lands.
In GreenburE Ind. the other day 4 seyen-year-
old boy who had mysteriollsly disappeared from
home was after an all-night search found sleeping
in snow drift under 4 clump Of bushes He had
lost his vay IN the darkness coming home and
had taken refuge under = cluup OF bushes He
heard ms searchers calling for him. but was
afraid they were lyncherS. Beyond his fright he
suffered nothing from the experience. not even
contracting cold by sleeping in the snow.
An American living at Dawson Citv writes