The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

vision can see a ship at a If stance o. FORTY
miles
The Chiucha Islands on which not a plant
! grows, have yielded to the Peruvian Government
susno worth SGO0000.0oO
Nottineham Is the richest town in England. It
has established the only university college MAIN
tanned by the municipality.
The Great Salt LAKE is sad TO be in imminent
danger Of driving up the drain upon 1t being
due to irrigation requirements
Of the worlds rubber supply Of 800 tens.
p 90 come from the Amazon basin $500 tons
nom other parts of South America and 2l.00o
| from tropical africa
The Pacific Ocean has greater volume Of water
than its stormy sister sea There are = =
tFoef0 cuhIc miles OF water ia the Atlantic and
i41"S0.oeo in the Pacific
The California orange crop this season seems
HID 70 he the greatest on record There IS
| trouble TO get sufficient number Of cars 70
transport the lucious fruit
The number Of suicides in Paris Is very 'arge at
present and the chief cause Is thought to be the
general retrenehment following the exposition.
which has thrown many people out Of work
tunnel TWENTY-FIVE miles long. reaching
depth % 1900 feet below sea level is Planned
between Yadueros Bav, SnaTn and Tangier in
Africa It would be the deepest in the world.
Now that the Queen is dead Francis Joserh Of
Austria holds the record for the longest reign
IN Europe Z, has been on the throne more than
ffty-tWO years, ard IS IN the seventy rst year o.
his life.
The only one Of the American bishops Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church who bad the privi-
Iege Of private interview with Queen Victoria
was the Right Rev. Henry B. WhippIe Bishop Of
Minnesota
hin before the legislature Of Nebraska de-
clares sunfouers and ccekIeburrs a pubic menace
ard makes If the duty o. every owner Of land to
DESTROY them between August Is and September
OF each wear.
tree-planting association in New Jersey. after
an experience Of several years. reports that "the
results in improved appearance general attrac-
tiveness. and comfort during the summer season
are most favorable.
believer in the faith cure residing in Column
bus Ohio. put himself under the care Of doc
tor in order to get sick benefits from his lodge
and then threw away the medicines which the
physician bed
The Rev. A J Haughey Of Mason City. H.,
has during lis clerical career married 1857 coup
les and con Iucted over / 800 funerals So far as
Is tnowu this record has not been exceeded by any
minister in the country.
Tie General Assemblies of at least thirteen
States are considering anticfgarette legislation.
while the Wornan's Christian Temperance Union
and other organizations are urging stringent legs-
lation IN six other States
fSlOLE tltG lH4LA % queen lCIGsla me present
King had made plans TO visit Ireland in April
Dublin some tir7a dEring the latter part Of May
nr the early portion OF June
As a memorial Of their recent Jubilee the ladies
of the Congregation Emanuel OF san Francisco
have presented the University Of California with
an en5ounerit % sI54 90 70 establish a fellow
ship to the Semitic department.
Fx-Secretary Whitney win take thorough resi-
from business when he visits Aiken. s C. A
number Of his best saddle horses viii follow him
there aad for FIVE weeks two months he VIII
devote his tire to riding and uniting
There is in COURSE Of erection I5 Bedford. y Y.
one Of the largest reformatorfes for women ever
butt IN This country. Il VIII cost when COM
pleted $3.50 600. ari * intended for females be-
tween the ages of sixteen and twenty-five years
The CITY Of Birrn tneham- a.a has already NJ
gun 10 make preparations for an exposition TO be
held there from November 1j- 1a9i- to Nav IS,
100 The charszr name Of the enterprise IS 10 be
the International Metallic and Industrial ExDosi-
ton
Sarah Grand. the novelist, says she was fourteen
wears old before she ever vent 70 school She
then made uB for lost time IN most OF her studies
hut never learned to write clear hand. Readers
NJ her manuscript wiz verify her statement IN this
particular
Statistics go to prove that musical composers
silt4EAiLF are 4i}IZ -AlNEtE tEtI 1uDtIs t1aFfus
PoS~iui Counod Meverfeer and WAGNER died be-
tween the ages CO 20 and 81. The COMPOSER who
lied at earlier ages Halvey. ar % years; Beet
hoyen. at 81; NendeIS=ohn At So; Donizetti at 81:
Mozart at % and Weber al 10.
4 watch believed to have been lost some time
abcIt 1921. which has been found on Poverty Isl
and at the mouth OF the Connecticut River Is
attracting great attention from aRtiquarians The
watch IS a large silver one and on the inside OF
Of the outer case Is engraved a name which can
not be made out and the date 1927
Prof J. PIayiair McSfurrich Of the medical de-
1arJment of the University of Michigan. has been
ssket bv the Government of the Netherlands TO
take charge Of and uZSke 4 report co lection
If acrinians secured from the neighborhood OF
the MALAY archipelago The collection includes
from along the shore and from the deep
'ea
The people Of South Dakota. through their rep
-csentatives IN the Legislature have formally de-
,titution providing for the election Of United
States Senator's BY direct vote Of the electors.
The joint resolution to the effect has passed both
houses and viii be transmitted TO Congress within
few days by the Secretary Of State
German plantation experts clam that the Sa-
moan Islands have great .utIue IN coffee. TEA
tobacco. cotton etc Upoli l. and It seems. Is
espes tally suitable for tire culture OF all these
products possessing. ! does favorable po-
sitior. q fruitful soil. azd 4 good climate
for the purpose Of exploiting this island
vice Presitiert-elect and Mrs Roosevelt with
-hezr children VIII be the guests OF Commander
md Mrs Cov.leS IN Washington from March
70 } arch ). They VIII then 30 10 their OYSTER
3ay home and return about October to Washing
on where they xiii OCCUPY the house of BeIlamy
Storer. at Rhode Island Avenue and Seventeenth
Street, which Mr. Roosevelt has leased
There are few people who have not been occa-
=ioaaIIy puzzled to write EEL or ''ie'' IN the
words that 80 represent the sound Of che long e
A very si-aule Uilr- however removes all diff
,ulty- L the tiiphthonz Immediately 70 lows the
e--ar c IL i always ri. IS as IN ceiling con
er 1t Is always -iie," As in grief, niece friend
Mrs John King Van Rensselaer, has given TO the
Sex YORK Historical Society the marble slab that
ar-,erIv rl-arred the SPOT At Weehaysgen whore
Alexander Hamilton fell in his duel with Aar-n
Burr Il was removed about 1915 because It was
( WAS lost sight OF. TO he discovered in 1888 n
Iew York saloon. The West Shore Railway passes
over The spot where Hamilton fell
The selling Of abandoned farms in New Hamp-
hire has prospered As IN Massachusetts,, and 4
arze number has been taken up by former resi-
tents and natives OF the State for summer homes
II 10 retire upon for rest and comfort IN later
ife. Enquiries made N 1876 towns IN the State
how that SO farms or parts OF farms have been
AIKEN up IN this way. and they bring into the
state. when occupied, about 3 eco people
novel enterprise Is carried on by Tie Ade-
aide municipality In lhe pualie plantation 'scrc
re number OF olive trees, md j portion Of the
3rN1Ua1 i sold nv ppntin l-lfIar Tna r-rf -5rSa-