The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-04-06
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other purposes than the total amount used in
the United States
4 comprehensive map Of the Chinese Empire
made in f7Is by Jesuits by special order Of
the Emperor. Hang HI
The United Kingdom has colonies and posses
| s'oss whose area Is equal to mere than twenty
seven times her own size.
By applying prolonged pressure of 1900
pounds TO the square inch 4 Montreal professor
makes marble aow like nol&sses.
1t was on the day OF Queen vietoria's birth.
May a, 1879. shat the first transatlantic steam
sr started from Savannah for Liverpool
Roman Journal estimates the value a The
Libraries in Italy at 100000. and that Of the
paintings. statues. and vases ar so, go, coo.
The vieksburg National Park viii soon be com
plete as far as She acquisition Of land Is con-
! cerned. 1t viii comprise in all l,2Sl acres.
The organ now being put into the Mormon
Tabernacle in salt Lake City viii be, 1t Is said
the finest instrument Of he kind in this country
In Reading. Pa, a pr aeher is to be tried on
the shocking charge OF beng financially interest
| cd IN 4 match company and dealing IN real
/ tate
4 regular semi-TnonthIy steamer service between
san Francisco and Manila Is 70 be established at
once. two hrst-ciass steamers to be placed upon
the route
The new century was celebrated by mariners
all over the world By the adoption Of a revised
I
Of signals.
When crew sets out from the North Pole the
cost IS small matter. The item Of food supply
for the Baldwin e.. 'dition VIII amount 10 So.
600 or $4,000
The tonnage Of the mercantile navy of Great
Britain Is almost equal TO the Tonnage Of the
combined mercantile naTies Of all the six othef
largest Powers
Americans are entitled to take pride in the
resources OF the harbor at Pensacola. It Is gen
orally admitted that its asylum for ships equals
that OF Naples
It IS representa- that game in Maine is dying
OUT by reason Of the long, cold winter. There
have been heavier SHOWS IN the State this wear
than Tor long time
There viii be 9nly one building at the Pan
american Exposition in Buffalo designed in its
| ettirety by ves,an architect, whose ZANE IS
josephine Wright Chapman.
1t IS the opinion Of experts that the opening
OF China and Siberll VIII disclose large deposits
OF gold and that ASH after 4 while will furnish
large part Of the worlds supply.
Cardinal Gibbons Is to preach the sermon at
Cathedral. which English Catholics have been
building for several years IN London.
Five carloads of reapers. move s, and other
harvesting machinery were shipped TO Bordeaux.
France. from New York Saturday South Of En-
rope farmers are beginning 10 appreciate good
thing.
/ a heavy blow on the head has caused many
! people to go insane. but an insane man IN a New
/ York asylum was struck a violent blow on the
head with eIspidor the other day and his senses
( came back 70 him
Transatlantic steamship companies say that
indications point TO very heavy travel the coming
season. In many cases bookings are ALREADY bling
made for July, and Mediterranean lines are al
/ well filed up 10 June L
A strong effort Is being made by postal officials
IN New York city TO do ava. with rented boxes
It first the rental was q Per year; now it Is
20, and as Consequence the number Of slch
boxes has decreas-d from eco 10 Zoo
The owners Of automobiles in Ohio constitute
a new force in the good roads movement. There
Is a plan under way for the building of a bouie-
ward from one end Of the State to the other,
touching the cities and largest towns.
The United States Nary Department viii ex-
hibit at Buffalo an eight BY twenty foot map .;
the world. on which VIII be placed s07 miniature
( lead models representing the war fleets OF all
nations and their location from day to day
About 100000 people arc supported IN this
country by its railroads As matter of course
the employees are a OF much value 10 the rail-
| roads as the corporations are to them. Thus
comes N the hnH-4n ieiea q proper Compensation
Although cooking b. electricity Is generally
/ conceded TO be the ideal method It has not been
adopted TO any great extent chiefly because the
appliances haze been expensive and not because
the current costs too much 10 compete with coal
oil or gas
Chief L P. Weber. Of the Boston Fire Depart
ment who has just been retired or account OF H.
health occupied the position for nearly seven
teen years longer thar It vas ever held by
any other man. II the same time New York has
had three chiefs.
Germany has now expert commercial attaches
at New York. Buenos Ayres. Constantinople and
st. Petersburg. The services of these gentlemen.
who are attached To the COnsulares General and
not to the Embassies. have proved very YaIuabI.
10 the German trade interests.
Germany VIII endeaYor to be its own mold
OF form and glass Of fashion, Berlin viii soon
see a fashion exhibit By which It is hoped that
special fashions for German women will he es-
members Of the highest society.
A wealthy native gentleman OF Calcutta, Gursl
Prasad Chose, has Just left about three and a
| half lahks OF rupees szj.OO0) to the Calcutta
University to found 4 scholarship to enable IN
dian youths to go 70 Europe to learn the prac
| teal arts and sciences OF the West.
| Farmers who have been praying for rain for
1 long time. are hoping that the April downfalls
| viii not be followed by cold weather. NcrtherIy
blasts viii Offset the advantages alread- derived
and too much rain at the present time viii
/ greatly interfere with spring blowing.
/ Dr. ! B. Learned OF northampton. Hass-. has
offered a prize of SEQ for the best essay setting
| forth some method OF inducing sleep without the
use Of drugs in cases Of Insomnia Representative
| men of scientific medicine 10 be judges Of
! the merit of the essays offered in competition
President Angell OF Ann Arbor University. has
determined 10 put an end to hair cutting as a
form of hazing at that institution. In spite Of
his repeated admonitions. however. a raid was
made upon the sophmoreS and freshmen the other
night. and seven students were shOrn of their
locks
One Of the women typewriters in 4 Broadway
hotel has copied 80 many successful plays that
she has come 10 be regarded as 4 mascot ard
superstitious dramatists have been known 10 wait
until she was at liberty rather than trust 70
operators who have not been 50 much favored
by chance
Russia IS now No 5 in the naval list of tie
world Japan comes IN as No 6, three grades
below When the war that 50 many expect COM
menCes the problem 7gilI exhibit itself as TO hox
one nation only hall strong on the ocean AZ
another nation can whip the antagonist It re-
mains TO be solved
Bulldogs and terriers have doubled in price
since the Madison Square show ended Like any
other society fad the fashion in dogs raries, and
society has decreed this year that bull pups
are the only ones To be considered by any mem
Der of the 40 OF those who would like 10 be.
It is said that grain of musk Will difTuse
perceptibIe odor through q room Tor twenty years
It this BY filing The air with PARTICLES of its
substance. that being the in whjct ali per
fumes act, and Yer enthusiastically small are