The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The City Council % Hamilton. Ontario. Canada
has refused 70 allow the streets % be sprinkl@d
on sunday. on The ground that % would be
proianstion Of the sabbath
Ho0peston. IL. demands respectful attention.
Its mayor serves foE 50 cents a year and its
councilmen fo- half a. much. There Was never
saloon in the place though % has now a pop
uiation Of 4.0o0. and It's pavements Ere depart
raent. water supply, and public works are gen
orally ali right.
Ontario. Efth an area o. 10000 square miles.
Is larger than all the following States Of the
Union; New York. 1910 square miles; Mssssehu-
sctts. s.sI5: Connecticut, 1890. New jersey,
ISIS; Maine. g. 90. Pennsylvania g, 2Is. Nary-
Land, l2,2I0; Indiana. $50 Vermont. g So5
square miles. making a total q 2O1,5S9 square
mics.
Hamilton King, Consul General Of the United
tates in SIAM, ssys the people Of that country
do not want the Christian religion They are
believers In the Buddhigtic faith the faith %
their fathers. o. their king and % theiE country
But the King is willing that they should learn
q Christianity, and missionary WorE goes on IN
hiEGered
A military parade in the samoan ISLANDS must
be worth climbing a fence 90 see The Samoan
troops wear red turbsns. white navy undershirt.
blue dunagree lava lavas'- or breeoh cloths.
Nth two red stripes around the hen The legs
ard feet bare In this country the soldiers
arms are always object o. interest. but m
Samoa his legs must be quite a feature o. the
show.
A new island has recently been discovered IN
the Japan Sea. Il is difacult % imagine that
anything remained % be discovered IN that high
way q nations; but the Island is described as
entirely neU land Il is said 10 be two miles
long. and q the same width. wooded. and pos
sessed o. several Inlets. aOrding good anchorage
i has been named Esnko. and forms another
naval base Tor Japan on = skirts o. Korea
A man appeared in the bankruptcy court in
London the other day who described himself az
a descendant Of the Pharaohs and hereditary
hierophsnt Of the sacred mysteries-" His two
claims % fame are that he has discovered that
''hurrah' l. Of Egyptian origin. being really
"hOo "a" and dating from Rameses and that he
has written poem called The doom Of Caaos-
One thousand Lines OF Original Melodious Verse"
Artificial wool made from turf a5res Is now en-
ployed at Dusseldorf Germany, for manufacturing
cloth. bandzges hats, rugs, and 81 forth. Ten
years have elapsed since the first sttempts 10
make turf wool, and it is aVeTed that recent
improvements IN the processes have resulted IN
production q q eft hhrous material, which can
be spun as readily sleeps wool and which.
besides possessing excellent absorbent properties
Is capable Of being bleached and c0i0red for use
in various textile industries
The petrihed fsrests a Arizona were recently
examined anew under the direction Of the Gen
eraI Land OfHce. The silicifed logs lie IN the
greatest abundance with an area q eight square
lie more thickIy than they could have stood
while living trees and Il Is thought they
must have been carried there by a sxift current
Of water in the EeSozoic age some 81 the agat-
lied wood was found % res-mhle the araucarian
pines Of the Southern Hemisphere
binder in the kansas wheat fields Win cut
fifteen acres a day, and the cost Of running tt
is 40 cents an acre. Therefore. a nan who Is
running fifteen binders is al a considerable eI-
pense-about 800 every day The eost u har-
YrSting a crop u wheat. from Inc sowing 20
thrsShing Is hgured Is follows: Flowing and
ting Sis. thrashinz- sI-75; hauling $50 to-
tai g.. The farm help rs paid q dsy. and =
expected 20 work from sluup % dusk, with
double pay for nights o. Sundays
The London News gives this contribution to
the annals Of labor controversies An eItra0r-
binary agricultural crisis prevails II Nenash.
County Tipperary. The women who hsbtually
assist in the harvest held a public netting. and
yesterday paraded the town With the be.lman.
announcing their refusal 20 work at less than
certain daily wage. which the farmers decline 70
pay Great excitement prevails. the women aEi-
tators expressing very hostile and determined
feeling against the use o. harvesting nachinery-
Extra cOnstabulaTy forces are being asked sor-
Roughly speaking, corps requires 20 be re-
mounted every four months, but one cavalry
regiment records the staggering hgUre Of 5000
animals IN a little over wear SAYS a London
newspaper. Il was the general opinion Of ex-
perts that the members Of the Household Cav
airy proved themselves the best ''caretakers.
and. despite their heavy weights, got a. mu-h
work out Of their mounts as any cavalry IN the
6eld- There vas even one instance OF troop
horse vezthcrinE the whole campaign and re-
turning NJ and wei 20 ceremonial duties IN
London
Good specimens Of Old japanese work form
an investment which Is more secure and more
certain % De profitable than that in any other
kind o. art production according % authorities
on art valuation Fashions IN pictures, In old
books. in prints, in European ceramics change
Moreover. all these things can De perfectly mil
tlted continually But u is absolutely certain
that the fine specimens q japanese Work VIII
increase enormously IN value aItAln a few years
Fewer and fever Of them vii appear in the mar
sct. and. as has been said, they cannot be re-
produced
Just how long pensions may continue Is
Illustrated by the fact that there are still four
widows Of Revolutionary soldiers on the rolls
According 20 the sane continuation and coa-
sldrr.ua the average Of life is increasing this Cow
eminent may be paving pensions on account OF
the Spanish var as late O. q .,- X VII uot te
for any lack Of applications, which already mum
Der 44.po, Of which nearly 4.Vo have been
granted And the Revolutionary wards ire not
the only ones with long lives. flr within The
past wear two widows Of the OF ISl2 and So
widows OF the Mexican war were added 20 the
list.
Motorruen on the Leouinster and Clinton di-
vision q the ConsoIi lated Strest--Ra5IVay Com
pany Of Worcester now do their Joos---, with
their feet as the new big douhle-t-lck open
cars with which the road has been equipped are
supplied With air brakes and air whistles the
latter beng operated by their feet The ar
Whistles are placed one under each end Of the
car the u-0tOruan puts his foot on bolt n
fha-a -atoru under his feet. he formerly did
tho Fal.-xduy and releases some % the Gagged air,
which sounds the whistle Air whistles top
ot cars have been in use in some p-aces. the
usotorman pulling a cord 10 release the ar and
~rUud the whistle.
FThroleym a new artificial leather, has .ust
..eeu invented by a Frenchman- Il consists Of
pieces % refuse skins and hides cut exceedingly
mall. which are put into a vat hlled with an
intensely alkaline solution After the mas has
become pulpy. II is taken out 81 the vat. placed
n a specially constructed machine and after un-
tergoiur treatment therein l. again taken out
and put through paPer-maklng machine The
raSu!ting paper-like substance Is cut INTO large
sheets which are laid one upon another in lots
II from Too 20 1000. and put IN a hydraulic
press % remove all moisture The article Is
-trouG and pilabIe and can be pressed OF mole,
INTO an kinds q shapes and patterns
P T. Barnum was not the father Of the Amer
lean circus. but merely It's leading exponent The
real father Seth B. Howes. IS reported 70 have
| died NJ Brewster. y. Y. lately, AZ the age q
[ eighry-siN In 1881. when but a mere lad. with
Z his older brother. the late Nathan A. Howez
he crossed the Allegheny Mountains with = me
uagerie- They went south. and arriving az
Mobile they were fortunate enought O. get =
iaueSS and two cubs which. beng the H-~t
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