The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

shillings each
Hot water drawn from an artesian vel Is
/ used to sprinkle the streets Of Boise. Idaho
! Cunulus OF thunder clouds rarely rise ove- two
| miles Seven miles "a Ike outside height tx any
| cloud.
The expense to the French Government Of
maintaining It's Parliament amount 70 about
SI5,o00.GC0 per year
Gold coin loses per cent q its weight IN
fifty years use. but silver loses the sarls per-
centage IN ten years.
The quartz extracted from the Australian and
| California gold mines would be enough 70 bGiid
10 pyramids Of Checps.
There are FIVE rivers n the world WHICH drzfn
over 10000 square miles They are the Ana
zon. Ia Plata. Obi, Congo, and Mississippi.
Hoke Smith. Secretary Of the Interior Under
President Cleveland, IS now serving his second
term as member Of ths Atlanta School Boazd
The use Of the arE Piuri5us Uuum'' on coin
Vas never authorized BY law It's first kBozn use
vas on New Jersey cent struck Of IN I776.
Henrik scnkfeuicz. the famous author. Il nov
fifty-three years old. BE IS an inveter1te znozr
and takes little interest IN anything but liter
Azure.
One OF the cgriosities OF Cu5a IS Quaker meet
ing-house which has been erected at Gi5sTa near
Santiago It Is said TO have congregation OF
about 200
The Sultan OF Morocco has sent King Edward
'wo Atlas mountain sheep twenty Arab horses.
and twenty mules as gifts congratglatory uPoa
Edwards accession 70 the throne
Important amber finds have been made at
NgTdergTunde. near AItenbruch. n Germany Ths
amber was discovered n the cra5catCHers' nets,
and Is sad TO be Of very good quality
Very soon. probably N less than a year the
greatest naval magazine station n this country.
which IS II course OF construction OF Iona Isl
and, near Peekskiu, VIII have been completed
Rev. Dr. J. Logan Sample IS known as eths
Wild rider Of the rockies having ridden behind
his ponies I3,oo0 miles through the traHs-His-
s-ss1ppl region he has been al over the world
Public opinion II Russia Is strongly n favor
Of the ministerial project 10 regulate the en-
Ployment OF children Oh farms and n factories
In some If the agricultural districts children
work seventeen. hours 3 day
Central Kansas Is complaining OF horse fam
me The farmers have been too ready 70 sell
their horses 10 English army purchasing agents.
and now the farmers are compelled TO pay from
1928 to $40 for animals that yesT snC half
ago found 10 purchasers a. s75
Members Of the Danish Parliament have among
other PrerogatfYes, the right TO enter any Tur-
kisa bath establishment n the country and en-
JOY the luxury Of 4 hrst-class wash, w;th ac-
csEHplnying massage treatment They are not
even required 70 tip the attendants
The brilliant e5met now visible in South Az
diers- A. private N the BufTs writing from Bal
moral. says when I first saw Il 7 thought It
was veidt fire with a rocket ascending rom
It 4 star Of exceptional briIlia1cy was close to
IN ordinary apple years the waste % skin and
cores amounted to 80 to 600 car loads, and dur
ing years OF abundant yield II ran As sigh a.
100 and 100 carloads al this waste nov goes
70 the factories IN this country, and they have
an annual capacity OF some two hundred thousand
pounds
One day the gardener at the North Creaks
rectory, Norfolk, England. hung up his jacket IN
the rectory greenhouse On taking Il down he
found that 4 wren had built her nest IN one Of
the sleeves The intruder seemed quite at horne
IN her odd nesting place, and mas been lett IN
uIsdisturbet possession
The latest fad among wealthy women Of Erg-
land IS to have a silver model OF their pet dogs
and cats The model IS made small for an orna-
uent, while the pet Is alive. OF after its death
a Ife-size and exact model Is made OF silver,
and this takes the place OF the stuffed and mount
ed pet formerly popular
The Norwegian state railways issue tickets for
workingmen IN books Of twelve tickets For 4 week
or fifty for a month. They are sold only for
journeys between two stations and TO boHa-iie
workIngmen. Employers, however, may buy the
necessary number OF books for their lsb0rers- The
reduction Is quite enormous. and over 900 per cent
below the ordinary fares
The poor people in this country consume more
meat than do the people OF any other part Of the
world. They are, in fact, the best fed people in
esl respects OF any other peoples But # the
lazy and INDECENT classes u Europe. Asia. and
heaven only knows from where else continue to
land on these shores the time may come when
there VIII not be enough provisions to 90 round
One OF the ssranest botanical c11rfosities IN the
world IS the .'zonder-vonder'' flower found II
the Malay peninsula It IS simply blossom.
parasite on decayed wood TINS extraordinary
flower IS something Ike yard N diameter and
has gIObular cup in the middle with q capacity
OF I've OF SIX quarts
Count E de Keratry informs the paris Natin''
that Is grandfather was born IN 1898, and his
father IN 1893, he himself being born in 1872.
that three generations have lived II the
seventeenth, eighteenth. nineteenth. and twen-
tieth centuries The keratry family numbers
only twelve generations rom 1927 10 the present.
time, an average OF two generations to cen
trTy-
Chinese soldiers are content with very little
pay. twenty-five cents per month IS about what
they receive for their services They i've on
whatever the commisSary department produces
aad make srowl about the character Of it,
II would do them no good II they did and they
are wise enough not to object TO II BayOnets
do not think ii China as they do IN other cum
tries
Chefs IN charge Of banquets Of foreign auto
mobile clubs serve CONNECTIONS IN appropriate
shapes TIE piece de resistance at Z recent
symposium OF this character was a patty IN the
shap OF up-tG-date vOitUre tte-tOneau body,
motor under the hood, bevPl gear transmission,
including steering wheel. handles and levers.
lamps and q headlight, all IN sugar, crust aud
merIngue-
Ant-eaters are ii the curious position of being
practically unable to open their mouths There
IS Just a small round oTiice at the end OF the
Snout. through which about two feet OF woFm-
ike tongue come wrIGElTnE out And this
tongue Is bathed with liquid glue instead OF
saliva. every ant which II touches adhCres e It,
and the animal Ecks the insects up by hundreds
at a time
A COW PIacidIy walked into 4 Maiden. Mass.
drug store the other day She was one Of herd
which was being driven down TIE street by =
cowboy. and the animal seeing the open door,
and .-erhaps the green stuff within. Immediately
entered The presence OF mind OF the clerk, N
stepping quietly to the animal and leading It
out probably saved the glass Showcases and Other
fixtures and stock from destruction.
On sand island in Dublin Bay new kind OF
mouse has been found It resembles the ordinary
mouse in all except its color which Is that Of
the sand and the nlturaIiStS attribute that to
intsrposition Of nature for its protection from
the owls and hawks the island Il Is supposed
that they the descendants Of casJaway mice
and that the protective Col0ration Is a gradually
acquired result Of thsiT surroundings
At the recent comners at Bonn in honor Of
the German Crown Prince At which the Kaiser
was present an unpleasant incident arose Tie
guests thought that the beer mugs we're keep
Sakes and carried OF go of them The BoruSsia