The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.


Sir Edwin Arnold IS said TO be totally blind
/ now. though he keeps up his literary work.
Benedictine to the amount Of !. 65I. 900 bottles.
/ was manufactured at the Fecamp monastery ias&s
| year
Pomadez are made OF the best and purest tat %
| the OK. inpregnated with any perfume which nag
De desirable
henJuc&y, are reported to be among the finest
| IN the world
All the thirty-sve Turkish Consrlls m Italy have
| been abolished They have not been paid for
/ very long time past
The trolley cars now being rapidly added to the
| surface lineS n Buffalo are manned largely by
| young Canadian farmers
The suns surface is known to be subject to
greatly increased disturbances every eleven years.
| known as the sunspot period
| William Barrow, the tiuekesper at Gillov's
I cabinet works, lancaster. England. has been n
the employ Of the firm '0r sizty-six years.
It IS a peculiar fact that the Emperor OF China
/ and the ViceT0y Of India. taken Together govern
more than half the population Of the world.
/ Pension lawyers have been working to Sue.
good effect among the soldiers Of the recent vars
that more than $500 pension claims have been
/ fled.
! The most expensive chair IN existence belongs
TO the Pope. It IS made OF solid silver and cost
! s90.o9o An American banker presented 1t 20 tha
/ Pontif.
! 4 C5sciHnati minister recently surprised his
hearers By zudibIy praying for those Of his con
gTegaHoH Who were too proud to kneel and too
lazy 70 stand
Norway IS the only country in the World whose
banks hold more specie in their safes than they
issue British banks have only so in hand fer
every eco Of issue.
A piouS and bTbti:0us business nan Of New York
city, who recently announced his bankruptcy,
declared. among other debts that he owed s2s
for beer and $50 ior pew rent
According TO Australian papers the experiment.
OF turning domestic cats loose IN the grazing
districts has proved eminentIy successful as "a
check upon the rabbit plague.
British naturllists having discovered Shingles
bees that make honey the Island OF Montserrat
are TRYING 10 improve che breed with the object
Of suppIanting the kinds that have stings.
shortsfghtedness among the japanese students
Is alarainGIv on the increase. The latest Inves-
legations show that ost Of 7s6 university stGd-
eHts IN Tokyo more than half are myopic-
In Europe 10 out Of every 1000 people are Nv
ing out Of their own country, in America l37 out
Of every 1860, while $50 out Of every I.0e0 Aus.
world.
The Philadelphfz City Han was designed TO
cost 100000 and was to be completed within
ten years. extraordinary allowance Of time. It
has cost s25Oe0o5o. and after nearly thirty years
IS yet incomplete.
Prussia has Issued edict against schoolgirls
wearing corsets- to which the Alliance Of German
Corsetnakers retorts that corsets worn br girls
under fourteen years harmless, as they are
/ never tightly laced
It costs ss27 to fire single shot from IS
inch rife, or thar enough to pay the wages
Of private soldier II the regular army for five
( long years Even an s-.>ch rife costs sI25 each
tire it is discharged
prize OF $50 for the best essay on brian Boru
written in irish is offered By the Irish Literary
Society. The writer must be under forty years OF
age and IS limited 70 1900 words. Sir Thomas
Upton provides the money
In Sweden they have 4 land arrangement Of this
kind: The farmer VIII give tenant 80 In=ny
acres Of ground provided the tenant viii give
him 50 many days labor for 50 many years
the labor to be paid wanted
tank holding 5000 gallons Of water became
too weighty for the beams which supported II on
the roof Of the GaIbTsith Building IN Chicago
II crashed 20 the cellar making a hole abo1t
forty feet square through SIX stories Of the build
ing
TsIrty-eight inventors have taken out hundred
OF more each Of patents since the beginning Of
the year ls12 Mr. Edison leads al. with ~ pat
euts- Prot ElIhu Thompson Is credited with a.
and Mr. Westinghouse and sir Hiram : Maxim
both occupy high places on this roll Of honor
Tobacco raising N Northeast Wisconsin has
been demonstrated 70 be a simple matter. ex-
peEiments II La Crosse county have met with
complete success Ten acres planted last year
yielded 800 pounds Of fine leaf and numerous
farmers contemplate going into the business
Mrs Elizabeth Crawford. of FrfzeiIs;,urg. Pa.
who has just died at the age Of ninetv. had the
unique record Of having seen less Of the world
than probably any American woman She never
saw a railroad track nor a train Of cars. never
entered church ever heard the music Of a
band
Some tine ago George Febry. College Of Sc
James, Washington county, Nd, bored a hole
through elm tree and Inserted growing Con-
cord grapevine. which when It had grown 50
that II filed the hole vas cut off at one end
The vine continued TO grow. being fed with sap
from the elm tree. and bore luscious grapes.
Kansas lawyers are grie7ed and indignant be-
cause some OF the catt-eusu are inclined TO set
tie their disputes without resorting 10 the courts
The dISputanrS choose three men arbitra-
ton committee and the committee decides each
case Not long ago case involving $4,000 vas
thus settled IN Eureka, and not a dollar went
+ to the lawyers
4 young woman residing at HarBor Road.
! Queenstown, Ireland, who had been dumb since
! her birth. eighteen years ago. has acquired the
power OF speech quite Unexpectedly and srIctsizuIy
She had been an innate OF the deaf and GHb IN
/ stitutioH in Dublin Strange TO say, she ac-
/ CURED the sense Of hearing also quite Suddenly
about a month ago.
I An Illinois couple wishing 10 give their friends
/ a surprise we're married en- the train while It vas
/ passing from one station to another, wish the
7 conductor and brakeman for witnesses They
I were met at the station BY party OF friends,
| who understood that the wedding woulG take
place last evening and TO whom It vas announced
! tEat The ceremony was already over
! The advantages Of education are illustrated by
/ the independence Of a rural postmaster II Okla
/ bona Wishing to go hunting he sent this letter
: to the POstotfice Department: Sur I wish TO
notify YOU that next Wednesday this Cffc VIII
! be shet As am gone dear hunt You kin FIRE
/ If yet fit. but I'll give you apsnter that IN
/ the only in the uayborhood that bTu rede
/ and rite
/ An inexperienced Young man was given posi-
! ton IN an Albany drug store and was instructed
! how to effect sales For instance. he was told
that If 4 patron asked for something not n stock
he was TO say, I've are just out. but have some
thing quite As good 4 few days later er1sco-
TTer asked for postage stamp. o. said the
clerk. Eve Just out Of them. but have soma
thing fully as good
Judge Danfozth. Of the Supreme Court of Maine,
IN sentencing detauItiHE cashier the other day
had this to say Of the convicted mans former
employers: 81 wish that the law permitted me
To send with the accused every onz Of the bank
/ directors who through long term OF years.
! expected you 10 Go your work live respectfully.
! bring up large family, and be houest-aU on =
/ salary Of $500 year.
! Miss Pauline Vincent Nosby daughter o. Col
! John 5 Nosby. OF the Confederate Army recently
/ received her diploma from the Maryland Univer-
sity Hospital IN Baltimore where she graduated