The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-28
NOTES OF The DAY.

length, and drains 60o.03G miles Of teIritery.
There are present about loo miles Of sea dikes
N the Netherlards-
The Rhine IS euly go miles long. but drains
territory nearly ,subIe the area OF Texas
Western a.stFalia $ fresh water rivers are. in
many parts beng stocked With English trout
Nearly 10 per cent Of the recipients OF the VIC
toris Cross are military doctors.
There are ass British patents for the manu-
facture Of furniture other than chairs
View Zealand M, n its eidefwefss q plant ,1;f
iering but slightly rom the famous Swiss variety
Quee,sland's principal paper currency Treasury
notes. now al let supersede the ordinary bank
notes
In walking mile nan uses ~ foot-tons Of
energy Al ordinary days work consumes so
tons
The average depth Of coal mines in England IS
so feet 1t rarely pays 70 work coal below
200 feet
CumuIus or thunder clouds rarely rise over
two miles Seven miles IS the outside height for
any cloud.
The ships OF the world. excluding navfes. are
worth So. $1,000. of which EuroPe-s share IS
The annual expenditure of the Mexican Federal
Government today IS three times shat it
thirty years ago
Three thousand women spend their lives in driv-
Midland England
i society IS being formed IN London which
has for its object the protection Of husbands
against drunken wives
There are very feu American commercial agen-
eies IN Italy The italian trade Is mainly hand
led BY the Paris agents Of the American firms
Only about IL per cent Of the total area Of
Ireland Is under wood, while there IS over . per
cent OF uncultivated land IN the country
People in the West End OF London are spending
iHlich money this year IN external floral deeora-
tons for their houses
There are forty counties in Texas which have
70 seek legal advice outside their limits as they
have not single attorney Of their own.
To brew a barrel of lager beer. one and one
half bushels Of matt used; to brew barrel OF
ale four and One-half bushels Of malt Te-
CURED
Hereafter visitors at the Kansas state peniten-
tiary viii be charged 10 cents each. The sum
goes toward paving the extra guard made neces-
sary By the visitors
An ordinary lead Ger casting at sea weighs
seven 70 fourteen pounds, and has as the bottom
Of It hole filed with tailow to bring up samples
Of the sea bottom.
The Manchester England school board has
1900 scholars on the books and 81 teachers
There are 1899 pupils and 956 teachers at the
evening schools.
Inc OF .E1~l ffDoiEs WHICH ifsCtt4tLc
returns of religious professions show that nearly
all Of the principal religious bodies have lost
ground during the past ten years The Roman
Catholic loss IS over 81 per cent.
The St. Petersburg correspondent Of the "Lon-
don Daily Nail" says that renewed labor riots
IL the iron works and cloth factories OF = Peters
burg have been suppressed by the military au-
thorities-
Much of the handsome china used nowadays IS
marked with the monogram OF crest Of the owner
It IS a distinctive mark that differeutiates the
china rom all other ware, and the lettering Is
an ornament IN itself
Jewell B. knight Of BaIehertovn, Mass 4
graduate Of the Massachusetts, Agricultural Col
Iege. has been appointed By the British Govern
ment 10 20 20 India and establish agricultural
college
4 young Italian woman, Dr. Rina Nonti, who
has published several scientific papers and who
gained q university gid medal, has been ac-
cepted by tie UnsveFsi-y Of Pavia as a lecturer
N anatomy.
4 correspondent has discovered number Of
persons 10 Georgia COUNTS Among
these names We have SoTTowful Williams. Increase
Thomas. NereifuI jenkins, Angel JoEes, Saliva
ton White. Happiness johnson, Purity Scott, and
Paradise Lee.
4 peculiar ss-.n seen on many farms in Ale
ghany county, y y This year IS that Of large
apple trees wing fat on the ground. yet loaded
down with blossoms These trees and there aTe
hur f-eds Of them. were Uprooted by the severe
ice storm Of last winter
Teisserene de Bort, the French aeronsut mas
secured the lowest temperature marx on record
2 degrees eentigrade. OF 97.s degrees Fahrenheit
The reading was registered on a thermometer in
q trial balloon sent up recently, which rose to
4 height Of 5000 feet
4 Philadelphia firm Of suctioneers recently Of
Tered at one OF their sales Robinson CT1Is0e's
ul1lsket II was fine old hintIoCk- It was II
the possession OF gTandHigce OF Alexander Sci
XIX, and It's pedigree Is mach more uneioneed
than IS usually the with objeses OF this Kind
A new giant geyser Of Rotomahana, New zea-
land. is attracting attention. mass Of boiling
water half IN acre in extent rises in great DOME
from which q column Of water and stones rises 10
300 feet while immense columns OF steam ascend
as far can be seen
some scientists believe that IN the Chellaa
epoch. which ended 10000 years ago, Europe and
America were connected b. way OF the British
Isles, The FarOes. Iceland. and Greenland since
then the great waters have washed away OF Sud
merged this stupendous bridge
According to 4 London newspaper, bag IS
preserved IN the Rolls Office containing number
Of letters and documents once belonging 10 Queen
Elizabeth. and never opened since her death II
NAY only be examined with the joint consent
OF the reigninE sovereign. the Archbishop OF
Canterbury. and the Lord Chancellor
Two housebreakers broke into Mr. Kings house
at Hutchinson, Kan. the other day Mr.. King was
upstairs and managed 10 get TO a telephone With
ont alarming the burglars and called the police.
who came in Jew minutes The burglars "eFs
about 20 leave nut saw cherry PIE on table
and Ioitered to eat, and the police caught theih-
So strictly enforced are the ordinances govern
ing the treatment of labor in England that regular
inspectors are employed tc see that employee
are given exactI5 their due time FOR meals \
firfn IN Leeds which WAS discovered cutting the
hour short by half minute each day, was hnei
So recently.
New York now leads all the other States in ths
uredou.nance of its eity-over its country popula-
ton. OF every 100 inhabitants Of the Empire
state = i've IN cities and towns. The percent
age OF the population living IN cities and towns
for the whole country Is only a.
4 record catch Of sturgeon on the yolsa has
Just been made by an Astrakhan fishing frm one
fish weighing more than forty-six pood. OF about
7. 100 mounds. The head weighed about $50 pounds,
and the roe. from which the famous cayiare IS
prepared came to about 800 pounds The stUT-
geon was valued at 500 rouhles (eSa)
Probably the most valuable street crossing in
the country is one at Manhattan, Kan, which
consists OF fat stone slabs. Bearing petrifea
footprints OF prehistoric birds They were coli
lected by geological student attlched for freight
duties and finally taken by the town marshal
10 repair the crossing The valuable side. how
ever IS kept underneath.
Milwaukee IS going to have the opportunity Ct
introducing the custom Of hired paiIbeaTers
There are many residents of the city who have
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