The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.


Tanner.
No British ship may carry decEi0ad Of timber
into a British port between the last day Of Oc
tobcr and april Is.
Col Henry ". Robert. Of the Engineer Corps.
Is 70 be retired this month. He Is West
Pointer Of the class Of 81.
Already hotel keepers IN New York are over
whetmed Sith applications from persons abroad
who are anxious to witness the yacht races
The Salvation Army has representatives. at work
in foTty-seTen different countries, and Issues
foTty-hTe periodicals printed IN tUenty-one Ian
gusges.
An ordinary lead for casting at sea weighs
seven to fourteen pounds, and has at the bottom
OF it hole filled with tallow to bring up samples
Of the sea-bottom-
Justice David !. Brewer, OF the United states
Supreme Court has accepted an invitation to
deliver next fall the commemorative grafton at
the Yale bi-ceHtennIaL
One ton Of steam shipping equals four OF sail
ing shippIng-that Is 10 say steamer can carry
four times as much cargo any given distance in a
year as sailing ship can.
Il still young man said Russell sage
the other day, for man i young Just long
as he takes active interest in his own life and
the life OF the world at large.
Six children. three boys and three girls were
presented to her husband. the Greek priest OF
Deligrad in Servia. by Nine. Arangyel. Eighteen
months ago she bore him tripIets
4 kangaroo ranch IS to be started IN Arkansas.
The hides are useful for shoes, and the tendons
make the best threads for sewing up wounds and
for holding broken bones together
Peter PosteIl who died recently at Hopkinsvi1ie.
Ky. said to be the richest negro in the
South. He was sixty years old and had been a
slave in his youth He left an estate valued at
s5so090.
The Mexican Consul at san Francisco. Cal.
announces that during the month Of March. 1901.
the total shipments Of merchandise from san
Francisco to Mexican ports were valued at
S135, fi9.
Glenn P Mckinley. the Speaker of TIE Idaho
House OF Representatives, IS the youngest mem
Der OF that body, being only twenty-five years
old, and Is student IN the law school OF Idaho
University.
France probably has the smallest con5crfpt on
record Emile Mayot OF Cunel. in the Canton OF
M0utfaucon measures three feet nine and
haIt inches in his stocking feet and weighs forty
two pounds He was accepted
The citizens Of Cambridge. Mass. are raising
a tund OF 100 to pay the expenses Of Euro
pean tour for John McDufie, the clerk of the
Cambridge City Council who has just completed
his twenty-fifth year Of service
A Berlin professor, who has been investigating
the subject Of green hair among coppersniths says
il Is BY no means so common as IS generally
supposed. It OccUrs only IN those who have
The wholesale mineral water manufacturers Of
Liverpool and district have increased the price
OF their beverage ID per dozen. owing to the
increased cost Of sugar and the retailers have put
on halfPenny per bottle 10 the consumer
Army surgeons declare that the expression on
the faces Of soldiers killed in battle reveals the
causes Of death Those who have persisted from
wounds have a look Of rePo5e. while there IS
expression Of pain on the faces Of those slain By
bullets.
The New York Central Railroad Company is
uaging an active warfare against trampe-~-Dur-
ing the past wear $500 men were arrested o. the
property OF the company % whom LEO we're
sent to prison for terms Of from one to SIX
months
Frau Cosima Wagner has protested against the
proposed Prussian copyright law limiting an
authors rights in musical compositions to thirty
years after his death She wants the copyright OF
her husbands compositions to be extended to
fifty years
john KirkuEu, half-witted boy OF CraviorCIs-
VILE Ind. walked eighteen miles on Memorial
Day 10 place flowers on the grave Of his benefac-
tor. old Union soldier who died three years
ago. The boz makes his pathetic pilgrimage every
year, rain or shine
Pope Leo XII has Just recognized his historic
bodygulrd- These gentleman always accompany
the Pope IN his walks and attend him at all
IsIbliC functions Leo XIII has increased the
corps from 50 to 80 IN number and has placed
them AT the head OF the Vatican troops
The United States IS the largest consumer Of
Brazilian coffee, taking 4593, 7s2 sacks IN 1909,
OF which 3.5-9-I- sacks were imported At New
York Germany holds the second position p
S16I36 sacks having been received at Hamburg
and 65.4S2 sacks at Bremen during the same year.
Many cd houses n Holland have special door
which Is never opened save on two occasions,
when there Is a marriage or a death in the faE1-
lily The bride and groom enter hy this door: It
Is then nailed OF barred UP until death occurs
when it Is opened and the body Is removed By
tbis exit
At William Woods College, in Missouri re-
Gently, young woman graduates name appeared
on the list as Eishty-one TusIey- When asked
where she got the name she said her father gave
II to her to remember the dry year IN which she
was born ISL vas one Of the dryest
IN Nissouri's history
n DeIeasse the French Foreign Minister, IS
physically a midget. but intellectually a giant
He Is a restless. indefarigablc man. works At top
pressure himself and sees TO It that those IN hIs
department do not lag What he does not know
OF the inWardneSs Of the Far Eastern question Ii
probably scarcely worth learning
According. TO 4 London newspaper sealed bag
IS preserved in the Rolls Office containing num-
Der Of letters and documents once belonging 10
Queen Elizabeth AID never opened since her
death It may only be examined with the joint
consent Of the reiguinE sovereign, the Archbishop
Of Canterbury, and the Lord Chancellor
Goust IS the smallest republic as to area but
TavoIara Is the smallest republic as TO popuia-
ton. Goust Is only one mile il area It IS
located on the fat top OF mountain in the
Pyrenees. between France and Spain, and Is rec
G2uizei by both Of these countries Il : gov
erned by a President and council Of twelve
Cardinal Gibbons has not been in the best Of
health since his arrival in Rome and has been
contemplating visit IN consequence to CARLSBAD
or Yichv but his physicians have told him that
this was not necessary and he purposes to
remain IN Italy until JEe middle Of June ana then
20 to the north Of France. Belgium, and then 10
London
The King of England has ten maces which are
kept in the tower Of London They are ali Of
different degree and all Viii be used at the coro-
nation The Lords have their own mace and
viii not allow the House % Commons mace TO
enter their house II accompanies the commons
TO the door OF their IorlShps' house. but Is al
WAYS left outside
Two small boys. chiIfrcn Of 4 BurIe72n, Of
Everton, Dade county No. the oldest, ten vars
OF age did not ike the music where they at
tended church They broke into the church one
nearby where the threw them Of the wagon
bridge into the water Then they tried 20 run
away. but a constable took them home.
In Sumatra the wind decides the length OF time
widow should remain single. just after her
husbands death she plants flagstaff at her
door. upon which q flag IS raised While the
flag remains uniform by the uind the etiquette Of
Sumatra forbids her to marry. but at the FIST
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