The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-10-01
NOTES OF TIE DAY.


There IS snail E1<lish village Of lhc name
] 20 AAe-iey where the church bell is rr1u- az
/ a.e-oes every morning in sumner and zr
/ o. '-'lH in winter. Iu order Co arouse sleeping
/ He-s-9eas and enable them 90 start xar< IN
! good time The curiew ben Is aIs5 tai!si al
/ O'Clock each evening
| Today there are $4,000 miles Of main railroad
! track in the United States az compared with
/ z3looo miles I'm on the rest q the g.abq-Eu-
1 rope, ASA AFRICA, Australasia. Czuada AMI
/ central and south America Thc-c were only
/ sapp3 miles IN the United States I'm Is70 sRsjJ
/ m is0j. on The eve Of the civil war.
/ Franci=lue sa-eey was prevented by his sudden
/ death from making selection from the dramatir
I criticisms be had written during forty years for
pfe~eryation In book form. There was material
( enough for about eight ordinary volumes His
| a--cccasur. Larrouuat and his san-in-lax Bris-
( son. selected from this enough 20 al seven v,I-
umes-
A Paris sporting paper keeps up its statistics
/ designed % she's the rarity OF cat4str0phes re-
suitiug from zutc-lc5iIism- 70 states that during
I the month % June GO persons were KILLED and
90 injured by wagon accidents. j. killed and
-. injured hy railways. 3 killed and 12f injured
b. bicycles. and only killed and Cd INFUSED By
automobiles
New England s;iH holds the record Tor density
Of population in the United States. Rhode Isl
and has 407 inhabitants Co the square mile.
Massachusetts, $50 New Jersey comes third with
are only four other states-NeE YORK. Pennsyl-
vania. Maryland, and Ohi0-Uhich have more than
l"D inhabitants % the square mile
The late United States seHzt5r and Attorney
General Augustus r. Garland Cen Thomas C.
Hindman. Gen Patrick Clsbzurne. and Egbert r.
English. late Chiei Justice Of the Arkansas Su-
prenle Court, are named by prominent ArzlnsaHs
Z as NJ men from whom the state r1ay select It's
Two representatives, ln the proposed Hall 90
PANE az the Louisiana Purchase Exposition IN
- Louis
The Yale summer school Of Forestry. az Nil
ford. Pike county. Pennsylvania. Is having sur
cessful session. TUeutv-seven students are en-
rolled-tVenty men and seven women. OF these
students six from New YORK state six i-1ru
Massachusetts,, five from Connecticut. three from
the District 0f Columbia. Two from Peunsy lylufa.
two from Maryland, and one each from New
Hampshire, Dalo. and south CaroiIus-
At i've years Of age boys are mainly taller
than girls, but az seven the girls catch Up. anil
either ourstrip the boys Or hold their own until
nine, after which the boys take a fresh start AMI
maintain a good lead for Two years At about
twelve Eells the Cirls suddenly become taller
than the boys, Continuing until their fifteenth
ye-r. when the boys Gaaliy reszin their superior
ny IN stature and hold it permanently
some Of the Mlss3urians and many South
eruers urge that Missouri should no longer be
C-asssd a. a southern State A Tennessee news
paper saws that though since the var a consider
southern Missouri NissCuri's interests and zym-
p4-Ei-s are not southern, and St. Louis Is hardly
more southern that Chicago, though there are
many prominent Southerners there, as there are
in New York
Boz-on's public schools viii cost the city So
lc5.za8 the coming year The school 1cromm0ds-
tons By no means answer the requirements IN
any section OF the city. and there are demands
-er tHe1ty-~eyeu new school buildings ot va
riGus grades including normal school and girls
Latin school Portable
ply the needs and SlUI0pJ3 o. more. it l. eN-
pvetea- WI bee spent the coming year for per-
ua-cnt school buildings
NcE Yorker has founded an automobile
school for horses which has met with complete
success. as timid drivers have ayliIed themselves
freely of the advantages De offers Tie is the
owner 90 a -llll. machine with which De agrees
% fEi-Ltel horses at fixed by the Lolr-
ILrg are frightened ty degrees and with sUeA
celc1ey that NJ h4rIz comes 81 the experiment
and they are thus prepared Tor Tie sight u
machines operated with les regard for their
feelings
Nineteen years old and nineteen inches high.
such are the age and stature % Fatnz, the "a
mouse Fast Indian dwarf his weight Is Thirteen
pounds. Sm1un Is MS little sister she Is one
year younger and enc pound lighter These crea-
tIres are varlt4l-e plgmleS and quite different
from some 1Elrrs. iu riza1 their members are
the SIZE III an orange and his arms are the size
Ci brogul-tIcks- In lzct, he h. a IN miniature,
with none 0f the false proportions Of infants
By the dry dist zIl1tion Of saElust all the d.
tiIlation products Il wood are obtliped, and this
manufacture can be conducted ss "A adjunct 20
the WORKING, o. wood in a Ny insure profit
The products o5taired are rs. Wood alcohol.
aceuic acid L4r. and oils From the tar thcre
have been obtained beuz0le ruiu0,e. zgm5ie. CD
mole. VIrathu. Elphthalene, and hydrocarbons,
which used IN the manufacture Of Lllilnc
CUi0Us- Czrb0ic acid and CTe1s0te are a-S1 o.
rarUari- ~ last product charcoal L.-L
the retOrts-
Almost ala fruits and flowers have their legend
One about the peach comes from Japan and te-ls
how poor. pi0us old couple were searching fer
food by the roadside. The woman found peach,
which she would not eat Of though starving.
tiu she could share II with her husband he
cut Il exactly N hail. when an iufaut leaIsd
forth IL was one Of the gods who bad, D. SAID,
accidentally fallen out ri the peach orchard q
heaven while p-lyIug- lie told them 20 plant the
uesS. friends, and wealth
The old red hlII' in Lincolnshire. England,
where the ''suup0gder 8,0-'' US aaJlbeL, Is
threatened with destruction The hall is the
property Of a railway company. and is u5w
used as the railway sr1r5Onu4SreT's house. EIt
the company Is luteUdfng 90 pull % dozen ua-sss
some arrangement can De made 70 prevent lis
destruction The British Archaeological society
is interesting itself in the matter. bur yl-l8ur
result some time ago the company proposed
% dr1uu,i-h abe old hail but retained tl,In Do
ing oE petition nom the Inhabitants
several important scientific institutions in the
Fast are IN danger Of having valuable collections
couazeatci by the Government - inrzuat1s
5. j. Ha-singer, a Special Agent OF the Interior
Department Uh0 has technical possession et al
the Indian ruins In Arizona and New Mexico.
which. with their relies. he holds Tor the Gov
eruu.grr. Valuable collections af pottery and
other relies from these Reservations have been
secured 3. several museums SaHeiilii1S t-I'lI5