The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-31
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| OF the 800 convicts in Tennessee, twenty-five
| claim to be college graduates
| Liverpool has gasoreter which is the largess
| in England. II has 100000 cubic feet
| There are in California nearly $500 Italians.
| Their property is estimated At 100000
| The minimum pay Of PUZZLE school teacher
| IN Chicago is $500 year, and in St Louis 500
Clarence Rauth. Nee Orleans policeman,
fused sI,5oeooo fer his land in the Beaumont ell
| district
Sowing corn by hand in Scotland IS still largely
| PTsctieed although broadcast machines are very
common
R, EatsFs fsvsE IS calculated to have killed ten
| fallen victim to BoeT bullets
IT was a quarter Of a century before the signing
Of 1he American Declaration Of Independence that
| the FIRST theatre was opened in New York
| The ancient house in LitchfeId, in which DR..
| Samuel johnson was born Is to be converted into
| a museum which viii hGve nothing in IL half 50
| curious or interesting as the old doctor himself
Those West Point cadets shouldn't feel 50 bad
about it. If it's army life they want the country
Is full of recruiting stations 50 says the kansas
! City star and there are few If any dissenJers
| from this idea.
\ Safeguarding electric light buoy Of Bun
| usm, the North Sea. Is 50 sensitive and 50
! efficient that the slightest motion Of the waves
/ operates It This automatic light has been s5t-
| hcientiy tested to predict It's general use
| The greatest tobacco-growing county in the
United States is said to be in Wisconsin THIS
view of the matter IS. however, disputed aot
] only IN Connecticut which has a reputation 5or
tobacco growing, but in every State Of the South
Charles Tiff, of North Barre. Vt, has fish
| pond in his own house. he has about two feet
/ Of water in his cellar. it IS reported and has
1 placed some FISH IN II that he caught IN the
river. 50 that he does not have to 90 out Of his
| house for fishing
| An interesting feature of the expense bin
| incurred by New Yorks Committee OF Fifteen
| Is that devoted to losses IN gambling houses
/ Detectives who go after evidence travel IN pairs
and play the pllngeFs' game Very seldom do
i the detectives win
AT the Buffalo Exposition Is exhibited the
| smallest steam railroad in the world The rails
are a foot apart each Of the ten cars holds
| two passengers. the line is a mile lcng. the
engineer sits on the tender, for there IS IIst
room ngh in the cab for his feet
! remarkable revolver, resembling in shape a
( small carbine, has been invented by Major Kuck-
lin, of the Swiss army. It win shortly be sued
! TO all the meInted troops Of the Confederation.
The revolver which has bore ef : % MIN, fires
| 4s shots in 3 seconds, which axe guaranteed 70
/ XIII at 2oo0 yards
During his speech in introducing the British
! army proposals to the Government Nr. BrotiFicz
| gave some curious facts about fighting families.
| He stated that the families with three seFv-
! ing in the army number no fewer than $50; four
sons, I76; FIVE sons 40; six soRs, 2; sons,
[ 20; eight soGS. 2 nine sons, J. ten sons, /
| In a public address the other day the Arch
bishop OF Canterbury remarked thzt only three
/ years ago he was an odd man who did not
/ indulge in intoxicating liquors, but that Pi'blic
/ opinion in England was 50 rapidly changing
/ that it seemed likely that before long ne
odd" would be he who did thus indulge
/ The trucking industry IN North Carolina is as
show that last year e. 4e5 packages OF vegetables,
81 ESQ pounds IS cars. u 5O4 crates Of czate-
! IOupcS; . cars Abs crates Of dcwberTieS; -
cars $50 crates Of beans, and 35s,9s9 crates.
/ Il 49o 45G pounds or Strawberries we're shipped
/ from Wilmington section alone
The Paris Exposition officials recently sold
I " Moreau ysnthier's colossal plaster figure la
/ Parisienne," which surnouR.sd the principal en-
| trance, to a rich Hungarian. but found them
| selves unable to deliver the goods" While the
statue was being packed for its destination
(Budapest) it suddenly cracked and fell to pieces,
! the head alone remaining intact
William Allen, workman in patent fuei
| factory in Sunderland, has been given a gold
medal as the bravest man In England during
the year 1900. On March 10 Of that year
feIIow-workman was oveTpowered by fumes in
an empty still Two rescuers also succUneed-
Nevertheless. Allen insisted on being lowered
into the still and eventually saved all three
Gently in the possession Of Edgar White. court
steaographer at Macon. No. 1t IS entitled "Buoe-
phaIus Tall and IS believed to have been
written by the author II 1871, when he vas q
student IN the State university H " Burke 4
St Joseph Justice Of the peace who worked with
Field CT the old st Joseph Gazette = has Pc
nounced the poem genuine
at stag dinner IN this city the ether day
says the kansas City Journal q pretty custom
vas introduced. There were Just forty guests and
every one had wife at home. Each on Ms de-
parture about > o'clock in the morning. received
handsome caszet OF sweets to take TO his wait
Jag partner and family The outside box vas OF
satinwood costing S., and made pleasant ne
rnento OF the occasion Il IS safe 20 say there
we're no curtain lectures IN forty homes that
night
The English Linnaen Society has awarded its
gold medal to Sir George King, who has done
a vast amount Of work for the promotion Of
botanical science. SIR George is an A5erdonian,
and after passing through the local grammar
school and university. he Joined the Indian
medical service Thirty years ago he became
director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Cal
eutts, ard while IN that position he wrote Va
TioIs important works on the subjects coming
within his particular scope
The arrangements made for outdoor sports az
the Glasgow Exhibition are excellent, and the
authorities have arranged for continuous sue
cCssion Of hIgh-ClaSS fixtures on the speclaiy
constructed sports ground which comprises i
foyIr-lap cement track for cycles. a cinder track
70 pedestrians, a capital football pitch, with
ample dressing rooms and stand accommodation
for o, eco spectators. Yacht races on the CIyue,
IN which Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IL VII
figure have also been arranged unyier exhibition
auspices
The United States Is steadily acquiring land
IRON. European powers-not in the ordinary sense
of the phrase but in the form Of soil brought n
the holds Of transatlantic steamers as ballast.
Recently the Allan Line steamer LaurC-Ttian
brought thousand tons OF Scotch soil to New
York and hardly week passes without similar
importation BY the vessels OF this or some other
line 1t Is estimated that millions OF tons OF
European soil has been brought over and dumped
about New York Much Of it IS used for making
land about the hsrboT-
The white pine IS distinctively northern tree
The native distribution of the tree was from
Newfoundland on the east to Lake WiEnepsg on
the west and thence to the southern boundaries OF
Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New jersey,
and Connecticut The white pine belt also fol-
lowed the Appalachian range far TO the south
as Georgia The best growth OF the tree vas IN
Maine and the British territory east OF the state,
along the St Lawrence River In New Hampshire,
Vermont Northern New York, Michigan. Wis
consin Minnesota and Central Pennsy lvanIa
traveller who was II Pekin last winter states
that nobody made any suggestion TO General
Chadee about picking up rare bits OF plumber
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