The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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the saring the work Of excavation viii be under
| taken
The Sioux Indians have twenty-three churches.
constituting the Dakota Indian PreSbytery. These
! are in North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and
| Montana
The experiment of substituting Italian for negro
| labor in Louisiana is meeting with success Part
I Of the crew Of nearly every steamboat rlyiug at
/ New Orleans are Italians.
! In Sardinia there are tombs which prove that
PROFESSIONALLY it inhabited by great giants
! Recently teur toubs have been found which
] contain skeletons over nine feet long
| The Government has created some large forest
| reserves in northern Arizona and promulgated
rules for their Tegu alton, with sevs to prevent
| their spoiiation and 70 preserve them from FIRE
| In the years 1888 snd 1899 Germany held sec
ond place in sidpbuflding but for various Tra-
sons the shfpbuiIding in 1900 has received such
| an impetus in the United States that it has
| placed Germany third.
| Florida IS thronged with visitors from the
| Northern and Western States. The leading M
tets g the principal cities and towns report full
| n s-ses. and the clearinghouse people are sisO
/ reaP5Gg a rich harvest
| Saturday is considered an uniuclzy day For tho
British royal family. William III. Queen Anne.
| George 7. George II. George III. George ". the
| Duchess Of Kent the Prince Consort and Princess
Alice died on Saturdays.
4 bird never before seen at the London Zoo IS
tie open-bill. and It owes its name 10 the fact
that the two halves Of its beak do not meet for
some distance from their bases The Opeu-biH
Is tall. with long legs presumably for wadihg, and
| halls from Africa
a book has Just been completed at Los Angeles,
in which California visitors to the Buffalo exhi-
bition nexs summer viii register II IS the largest
book ever bound being % inches long, IS inches
wide. and Is inches thick, IS OF 1900 pages and
weighs 100 pounds
The site Of the odd fort where the first
settlers of Springfield Mass took refuge from the
Indians. has been marked with a bronze tablet
The plate is two feet vide and three feet high
bearing either side the Pynehon arms in re-
lief Of the original fort.
". J. White inspector Of Canadian immigrant
agencies. states that the American settlers who
went into the Canadian Northwest last yearbook
with them cash and effects valued at So O00Oa0.
Between a. 600 and 1900 settlers from the Unit
ed States crossed the border.
The German naval programme. which accord
ing 10 the original announcement was not to be
completed until 1916. is now. it seems to be
finished b. 1906 In that year Germany wiz have
at least forty ships, twenty large cruisers, aai
! twenty-eight small cruisers.
The sum OF 81. 800 ESQ is to be expended BY the
County Council Of london in improving the dwell
in@s Of the poorer classes There VIII be re-
! building Of homes on I vast scale with an i'm
p7pTement Of sanitary conditions. The King Is
It Is estimated that Munich restaurants cheat
the public annually out Of $4,000 b. selling foam
IN place OF beer. The offence Il would apDezr Il
not alone confined to Munich There are similar
crimes. a beer drinkers might be disposed to
consider them, IN other big cities.
There ara wise cats as well as wise people in
Vermont man living at Pornsret. in that state,
possessed one Of them. who called him out Of bed
the ether evening by its Uiteous val iHgs and led
z O. lg+ viTa q
companion had been caught in i trap set for 4
skunk
4 curious condition Of affairs is said 10 hzve
come to light at Belleville, v. Va. where the
postmaster IS not citizen Of the county Fer
ten years also he has been acting as notary pub
lie. and the combined facts put IN ieoU3rIv the
validity Of title deeds 10 large amount Of real
estate.
shopIifting Is said to be Increasing in New
ToEk- The owners Of department stores assert
that they are losing more money than usual by
this sort Of thfeyTng The manager 81 one estsh-
Ii7hneut says that last year his firm made
ctargc OF $4,000 on their books 10 less By
shopliftin&."
Fhaddeus Stevens died in 1853 and his will
ProTided that If his estate should amount 70
$4,000 under certain conditions $4,000 should 90
Tor orphans home at Lancaster Pa The heir,
resisted and the bcquest has been held up ever
since, but order has now been made bv the
court 70 pay the money.
A man giving the name Of Ed Edgar recently
visited a saloon in Terre Haute, and while the
bartender's back was turned stole box Of cigars
After finishing his glass Of beer he sold the
cigars 10 the bartender and left Half an hour
later ne returned and attempted to play the same
trick. bat vas arrested.
In Japan professional story-tellers roam from,
house TO house to spin their yarns In the city
Of Tokyo there are about GO of these PROBES
siOhal romaneers. Their pay averages - cents an
hour When the story-teIler discovers that his 70
names are becoming duh from frequent repeti-
ton be moves iaJ2 new district
7; South London school the other day the
teacher asked the cas-: ''What is the CHIEF food
OF tn people Of India?' A long silence followed.
and N, Il stimulated. no doubt, bv what she had
seen n The newspapers q little girl held I'D her
hand eagerly as q sign that She knew Invited
TO speak she piped cut the one word Pam
ine.''
It l. officially stated in India that during the
year 1889 the number OF deaths among human
beings attributed TO Wild animals was 1856
Tige.r caused the death Of $50. wolves of 33S and
leorslrGs hyenas- jackals and crocodi Is we're ac-
courtabIe for large proportion OF the remainder
The loss OF human life Jrom snakes reached the
high total Of 24.G2L
\ sister Of the German Empress Princess Fred
erick Leopold. Is a woman OF an athletic turn
She makes nothing OF skating twenty miles or 50
on a stretch While on one such trip iast winter
she broke through the ice and nearly lost her
accident that he forbade her leaving the palace
until The skating season was over
OF Sabine Pass in the Gulf Of Mexico there Is
oil pooI of considerable extent which
has in times past been q sought-for refuge n
teuDestuous N-her- The explanation Of It's
presence Is that Jhe oil. coming perhaps from the
same level that which suouts from the great
well AT Beaumont Tex. works its Wav through
cae sands AZ the bottom OF the gulf and 50 rises to
the surface OF the water.
Deep sea sponge fishing Is likely to produce 4
finer quality Of sponEeS than have heretofore been
obtained in regions where this industry exists
It VIII be carried on by the introduction Of sub
-7arlne electric are lamps At present the fishing
apparatus Is hu.ited 20 a long pole for spoaring
and water glass If the lamps prove success
full greater depths may be reached and larger
and inner SpougeS secured
Two railroad men on section Of a western
.oad are in a state Of aggravated perplexity. They
comprise the entire force employed on that sec
ton A printed rule requires that when
broken rail Is discovered, one section hand must
direction To intercept approaching trains. NOW
they wonder how the broken rail be mended
while the entire force Is scootng OF 10 flag trains
A fire alarm sounded IN the house Of hook and
ladder truck. No T. IN Newark, \. J.. Just as
the driver Herman Han5e was taking bath. He
bounded out Of the bathtub. threw On 4 single
.aTR.cnt-a long India rubber co2t-slid down the
BRASS pole leading 10 the truck room mounted
the truck and drove TO the fire The moisture on
his limbs froze IN the chilly air, but Herman