The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| Timber experts say that California alone has
capacity OF lumber IN her standing forests Of over
| lo5oo9,H90,oo0 cubic feet.
| The human vindpipe Is composed Of sixteen
/ OF eighteen carilaginoUs rings, united 10y ex-
eeeGlugiy flexible IgameutS.
n. The Kansas City Southern Railway viii maze.
ina as fuel in its locomotives OF oil from tia
| Held recently discovered near Beaumont, Tex
a memorial brass has been placed in St.
| PatrIck's Cathedral, Dublin. IN memory Of d..
Charles Inglis- Bishop OF Nova Scotia in I5s7-
Kangaroo skins to the value of ss57 $3.50 we're
imported from Australia into the United States
during the quarter ended September 30. 1900
The horses ridden BIZ Lord KItahener's flying
cavalry TO chase the elusive General DeWet across
the South African veldt are stod with shoes made
IN Pennsylvania.
Denver has an ordinance which prohibits operat-
ing an automobile at a speed greater than SIX
miles hour, and employs a mounted police
man to enforce it.
Among the marine articulates life IS often pro-
longed for years Some OF the larger crabs and
few species may live on 70 nearly two decades
before attaining their fullest growth.
The wedding cake made for the marriage OF the
Duke Of Westminster 70 Miss Shelagh Corvallis
West, which occurred IN London recently vas
seven feet in height and weighed z0o pounds
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. New York city.
reports that the number Of visitors who passed
through the tgrnstie IN that treasure house OF
beauty in 1900 was 57IpO1- This indicates 4
daily average Of over 500
The death of william T Case. one Of the old
est bank presidents in the State Of New Hamp-
shire occurred day OF two ago. He ysas seven
ty-five years old, and had been connected with
local banks foTty-hve years
Teisserenc de Bort the French aeronaut. has
secured the lowest temperature mark on record
2 degrees cent:gTade OF 97.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
The reading vas registered a therrnomeser in
trial balloon sent up recently, which rose to
height Of $4,000 feet.
To illustrate the absolute and delicate control
Of electric cranes the manager Of 4 large iron
works at Ipswich. England. during recent en-
gineeFing meeting stated that his cranes Of
twenty-fve-t0n capacity could be started and
stopped many times N az inch
4 movement has been started in Georgia to
Perpetlate the memory Of Iii Whitney by con
verting into an elegant country club the scenes
Of his labors near Augusta where he perfected
his cotton gin. An organization has been perfect
ed. and a charter for the club secured.
Early IN April there were lying at the stations
Of three Russian railroads, waiting to be for
varjed. 2 900 carloads Of grain, equal 70 about
l2.0C0 900 bushels, much Of which had been wait
ing Tor months. Complaints that railroads are
not able to handle their traffic are common in
Russia
The Catholic clergy has probably greater eK-
panse Of influence n Spain than in any other
country In that country there are more con-
vents, mere nouasteTiss and more Jesuit col
legs seEninaries and establishments OF all kinds
than at any other time under the houses OF Bour-
bon and Austria.
Three hundred stable bows recently went on
strike at Newmarket. England They demanded
an increase Of pay from the trainers They have
been getting from % to > shillinEs 4 week They
say that an honest living was impossible on such
pIttance paid for the care OF animals valued at
thousands OF pounds
4 remarkable instance Of length OF service Is
reported from lancaster England. William Bar
row. the timekeeper At fii1l0ws cabinet works
has been in the employ Of the firm for siXtv-six
years Although over eighty years OF age he Is
still active being invariably the first on the
premises every morning and the last to leave al
night
1 darby died and 4 great crowd collected at
the Atchison African Methodist Episcopal Church
to hear 4 funeral sermon There vas great curl
osiry to know what the parson would say. as
the dead man had frequently been invited 20 join
the church and refused The parson said IS
this man Iost2 I don't know but DO know that
If he Is lost I didn't lose him
The smelling OF iron in Sheffield, England. IS
supposed to date from Roman times, AID there
IS distinct proof carrying It back as far as the
Norman conquest. n I055 The town had become
famed for its cutlery by the fourteenth century.
The town was the capital OF H5liaIlslire rom the
Norman conquest. Owing to the antiquity Of the
town It IS not known exactly when It vas FouBd-
ed
Dr. Jane Kendrick Culver. ere OF the moss
successful medical practitioners in Boston died
day or two ago from complication CT heart
troubles with which she had been afflicted only
FIR a favx weeks She was ? descendant OF Aiexan-
der Hamilton on her mothers side and 50 we'll
was she liked that during the first eight weeks
Of her illness nearly LOO persons called at her
home to express their sympathy HeT bod! vas
cremated last Sunday.
h7s ever
taken place was perhaps that Of Alexander the
Great. ! round million wss spent in laying Alex
ander to his rest Tie body was placed IN 4
coffin OF gold filed with costly aromatics- and
a diaden was placed or the head Inc funeral
car was embcllIsted with ornaments O pure
gold and its weight was 50 great that It took
eisht~-four mules more than year 70 convey Is
from Babylon to Syria.
The most conspicuous instance Of an export
duty, the London Chronicle sa-s, Is at the
Cape Of Good Hope, where there Is 600 to be
Maid before an ostrich * allowed TO leave the
colony. Even the export Of ostrich eggs Is taxed
But he would be q brave shipper who would pay
duty on ostrich eggs There Is pcetical phrase
IN our language "to sell a man pup PUP.
pies NAV be all right but they develop slsnS OF
Ia breeding later IN life OF ostrich eggs very
snail proportion develop ostriches-
As means of reducing, the taxes for the nlain-
tenance Of the police department OF Glasgow It
has been proposed that - Per cent Of the extra
rent charged bv landlords OF public houses above
the SIMS which such houses minus the licenses,
would let Tor shall be paid into the MUNICIPAL
treasury There are many public houses n Jas
COW the rents OF which are enormously our o.
Trono-tfnn 10 the accommodation Afforded and
Il Is argued that the landlords ought 70 oe ii1AS
to share their excessive profits with the CITY
The electric car which leaves Williamstown fer
North Adams. both places IN Massachusetts, ran
into 4 deer on the back road to WiIliamsto7Fn
few nights ago The car was going at a slew
rate OF speed Up the hjH when It came upon
the deer grazing beside the car track The ami
nal did not move until the was nearly q It,
when it Ieapeci directly N front Of It The
struck 1t and hurled II from the track, but evil
IDENTIFY did not inIure It badly the deer jumped
up. leaped 4 wire fence and disappeared IN the
darkness.
The shrevdCst monarch IN Europe, from busi-
aess point Of view, IS said TO be the sultan Of
Turkey. He does not believe IN Turkish banks,
but deposits ali his suPerauous cash abroad.
special messengers being sent at intervals TO pay
the money in. He also has habit Of secreting
money IT. strange places IN the palace He does
not depend on his regal position solely for his
income He owns one OF the main streets n
C0rStaut5uOple a sugar plantation IN tle West
Indies. and draws handsome Dividend from 4
line OF steamships plying on the BosphorGS-
The correspondent Of a London paper relates
that he was travelling up from Windsor n couple
OF years ago and met in the train Sir Alma
Tadema. the renowned painter, who had been TO
Windsor TO receive the dignity Of knishthood
from the Queen. The distinguished artist said