The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The golden sasle has great strength. u lifts
/ pounds.
Potztoe~ were FIRST cultivated on what is nov
/ ,He oorde- oi Peru and chile In tine Andes Mora-
Norway. >ervia. Greece, and Bulgaria are ,re
4 only EHope4tn nations which have but one
I house ci Parliament.
London publisher has started enc art
/ quarterly, whose subscription price is 80
{ number. OF $50 a year
/ An ounce of gold was worth afteru ounces o.
silver iu the year l-s9- 10 would bag tselts-an-
/ ounces iu 1879
In a hurricane blowing at eighty mile IN
haur, thc pressure on each square fuot o. SUR
face ls three and uue-haf pounds
I Tie l1ilLiug With ths largest stones in the
/ world Is not in EGYPT but AZ Baa,bec. IN
syria The stones are sizrE icet lous and twenty
I feet square
The largest Ekhtuing conductor in the E0-I
I 3 on the LuCspIte weather station, iu Bavaria
i runs down the mountlin side Cor three and a
half miles o. lake
ON account Of a scarcity Of bricks in a Teas
town the congregation Of the local cHuscE a.
lowed their new edidce Co remain unfinished
While saloon was being erected
The longest horse-drswn railway ia the world
ruE from Bueu0S Ayres % the t0Vn % San
Martin, distance Of dfty miles. Tl.rteen hours
a-'N'- sNlt aa~Iala'f al4'4 Aaaaa=- Jun efN.-
hour.
The marigoId is little weather prophet. Il
the DAY 3, going 90 be fue the flower opens
about or O'Clock IN the morning Iur II
Wet weather ls in store tae msrigold does not
open 40 sl.
Japan has 40 music. and the first melodies
many o. the race every heard, aside from that
Of the birds. were hymns sung By Christian mis-
Siuuaries- NorwirhstandIng this many japanese
have az i4r Ha..rrs
charming vocalsts-
An odd test Of the power o. equilibrium was
made in the back room Of saloon in Pittsburg.
pa Eleven men tried 90 excel one another by
each standing on one leg At the end of nine
minutes only one man resting on one foot
alone All the others had slccuu5ed 90 the
unusual strain
some metals have very much more pronounced
smell than others The smell q tin especisIiy
when newly cut. is unmistaksbIe but Il Is
moot point whether gold or platinum has any
smell that could be- recognized bv human olfac-
tory organs OF the rareT metals uranium and an
is compounds give the strongest smell and this
gives us the reason why metals should have an
odor- Uranium is always giving OF what are
known As the BeCquerel rays. consisting u
streams Of excessively minute -'c0rpGscles-''
What is claimed 10 be the largest book in the
world has now been constructed BY Nessrs.
Brown g. Saenger, Of sioux Falls. ; D. This
------eAN -."'- HrA-la- III Nf'Ail40- 1T u laD
volumes. When the book was completed A
copy Of WetSrer's Dictionary was placed beside
one Of rhe volumes. and a ssveu-yelr-0ls chd
crswled under the other. Tie dictionary VAS
over one foot IN height and nearly FIVE in-+les
wide. bur u looked like a small volume beside
this south Dakota production The huge book
is intended more curiosity than for library
purposes t. Is described IN South Dakota a. a
visitors register and II contains the Of
people who have visited South Dakota en-. Hg
recent years
French chauffeur was arra,gned in a New
York court for alleged injuries 70 a peie>-
TRAN The latter was unable % show any
marks Of violent impact and the chauffeur main
tanned that he had collapsed from fright while
the automobile was successfully stonBed before
reaching his PROSTATE form In discussing the
matter from the standpoint a tie city's right
% regulate the speed % vehicles and public con-
yeyanccs Magistrate oiUsted ssii- The cable
car runs on a straight track and cannot dOdZc
the pedestrian who seems in danger Of being
knocked down on the other hand. the autOuo-
bile can sWerye and avoid the MN on foot
t. seems 20 me that there Is more necessity -
controlling the rate % speed OF che car by a
city ordinance than there is yf l5okiuz -
strictly after the motor vehicle
An extract from the London Tines o. 1901
gives an interesting sideiight on the tsds q
our gre4t-sraHdfathers. 1T IS nov the high fash
ioR % run. or az least % trot. through z
streets AZ the rate Of six miles an hour. rs-
man vino has the least conception Co ton Yu
must lounge IN hurry and sIUaJer with expe-
cltioE- II IS an old prov=r1- The more ha~se
the worse speed bat Bond Street daily shows
us the more hurry the Jess o. do When Ne
see our Idle YOUTHS riding race h.r~-~. Walking
for wages or boxing iCr fame must agree
with Ho-aee thar -streuua nos eNerrer inertia -
ans must nave been the most passing % f1aSf
and the reason D. easy 20 ind FOR lI only
q few wears later tLsr the larcuJTDus dandy q
The Brlmmd type was the only l--eptable one
in no Institution in the world are tire re-
quiremeuys greater and the discipline more ex-
acting than az the United State Military Acad-
envy 10 West Point though the enforcement o.
penalties is iuheXidIe rather than severe Prom
Tire establishment of The Academy. in 1>lZ %
ISL. the percentage ot cadets admitted who
graduated was 600 per cent. During the next
Ten wears Tie percentage fell o. ---+- lu che
following decade II ru~e 90 So Prom l-a1 r1
ISL. 80 our Of every hundred ErlIUres vino
entered secured commissions iu the army During
the subsequent ten years up 60 ISL y per cent
graduated During the decade just before The
Fou9.ous DAYS of 1901 the percentage increased
Co s2A Ia these latter DAYS, IN period IF
rHIr,g-tve years tle average percentage 0t ca
det~ entered 40 tire Academy wH0 graduated Uas
5aA
Based upon the wireless principle In teIczraphy
and Telephony. an Italian inventor. Russo d'A-4r,
BIAS perfected an Instrument Uhi-h promises 10
make collisions at SEA an impos-iblirv. either
Il
principle thar the water in which a vessel moves
Is iu vlbrar1ry condition Two ~1Uud-colIect-
ing boxes are dropped into the sea on each side
Of vessel. connected by special mechanism 20 a
uicrorHoue. having a vibrating membrane These
collectors operate 20 move a clock hand that
turns on dial. indicating the point Uf the COM
pass from which the greatest volume % sound
comes By means 10 the telephone receiver o.
be held Al the ear the distance 90 the noise NAV
be guessed accurately BY means oi the ma
chimes a vessel may BE- discovered iu thick f1g
ten miles away. should vessel, desire Co commu-
l-,alt, a SPECIAL copper apparatus NAV le used
90 strike the Morse alphabet the side OF one
vessel and De- registered Morse machine on
the other Europe Is especially Interested in
Jhc invention and letters patent have been Is
sued In The United states
The Muns0n hospital tent recently adopted by
the Medical Department. 90 the exclusion u the
former style hospital tent. aS a result OF ex-
hauStive trials in this country and ia the tropics
has just been adopted by the N.lilaI Depart
meut of Jhe Canadian militia. The tent has
been thoroughly tested In Canada during the past
two wears for bo;h winter and -rr-rsa-r use. SI,s
the Army and Nlyy Journal 90 & fHE minor
changes ro better meet the needs af the J1uadian
service have been suggested. but finally adopt
"a the tent IN our own army tor
hospital Use. The Nuu~1u tent. which was de-
vi~ed by Capt r. L. Muu>ou. Assistant urEc1u.
L. =. A.. d, now being tested hy rE- French Gov
eminent Il has been under trl4. I'm ti- British
Army for tle past wear and has Just been re-
ierrvi 90 q board Of officers created % consider
the question 81 teUtaEe for the British ARMY.
pressed with its superior cC1lr-sS iu warm
weather. perfect ventilation and u.srt practical
advantages for hospital service T.e fact that
IL has been adopted iu rhr juitri states Army