The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-18
NOTES OF The DAY.

| food in a month
Over 2,o2o.ooo miners are required to produce
| the world supply Of coal
u Is estimated that enc crow viii destroy
10000 insects every year
Only one among the seven Presidents of the
| French Republic has served out fun term
Baekwoodsmsn Of China saIH use the bow and
| arrow as weapon and do very effective Work
with it.
Bats. measuring nearly i've feet from tip to tip
Of their wings have been found IN a cave near
| TaRga. in East Africa
The American sailor on Government ship gets
- cents per diem, but ne i better fed than any
ether sailor man on the universal seas
Hereafter visitors at the Kansas State peniten-
taFy xii be charged 10 cents each. The sum goes
toward paving the extra guard made necessary BY
the visitors
An advertisement in Hamburg paper dated
1901 shows that cigars were in use Though very
little as compared with pipes in Germany
century ago
An automobile line Is to be operated between
/ Icwes and Reh"both, Del, for passengers to and
/ from Cape Nay. It viii be the first automobile
line in that State.
The last pine grove IN Auegany county y
Y. consisting OF 800 trees has just been sold to
& lUmberman for $500. Some Of the trees are
five foot in diameter and 300 years old.
In all big cities there are nultitudes Of folk
who work IN the night time. In London fully
10000 inhabitants earn their bread By the sweat
OF their brows between sunset and sunrise
Pssteboard armor Is likely to come into military
fashion. 1t is. If thick enough. almost impene-
trable 10 carbine bullets. which can pierce I've
inch wooden planks- Recent experiments prove
this.
The general impression Is that gold IS the great
est Of all precious metals. but scientists assert
that there are at least seventeen metals on the
roll o. metallurgy that are greater in value than
the yellow metal.
According to Sir Harry Johnston, cause of
the incidence OF the natives Of Uganda IS the
banana, which grows in such abundance that the
natives can get all the food they need without
any effort.
Djscardi9g the traditional means Of reaching
the Ne-.maTket races-a special train-King Ed
ward vi this year drove" from sandringham
10 Newmarket and return in his I2-horse power
gasoline vehicle
woman in Adrian, Mich, who protested with
out avail against a gambling den which got all
Of her husbands weekly earnings set out the
other night with a can Of kerosene and burned the
place to the ground She was acquitted II court
IN South Natick Mass, the people are prcpar-
ing for the celebration on July { next OF the
founding Of their town by John Elliot and his
Indian followers About 3l) Of EIliot's descend
ants are expected to participate II the celebra-
ton
The new & bill issued BY the Dominion of
Canada promises to become popular. for arts
ticay 1t IS masterpiece Of the engraver's skill.
On its face it bears fattering picture Of the
Jock the canal at SauIt ste Marie an engineer
ing work purely American
The palmetto trees OF jacksonville, It is said,
stood the recent confagration better shan any
other kind While nearly all other trees in the
wide sweep Of the fire persisted from the heat.
4frr-Dr T-r .-rr She
ing that they have lie and vigor left.
Lewis wilkins. who is said to be the biggest
living man IN the world, Is product OF st. Paul.
Mimi where he was born in 1871 When but
ten years old he measured feet IN height. and
now has grown TO l174 inches-jUst three
quarters OF On inch less than feCt-and weighs
364 pounds
woman IN an Indiana county has been driven
away from her home by her ne5ghborE who accuse
her Of being witch and OF being IL league with
the devil One OF the charges against her Is
that she has worked her evil charms her neigh
bors injury BIZ causing the death Of their horses,
cattle, aud chickens.
The animal world has today a surgical science
quite its own, savz q London newspaper There
are dogs with artificial teeth, pigeons and COWS
with wooden legs dogs with glass eyes and other
animals with false hair, false tails, and false
limbs Of al kinds There IS indeed hardly
limit to the possibilities Of animal surgery.
The ex-Empress Eugene, OF France Is probably
-odnother TO more children than any other
women II the unT-erse- She Is not only god
mother TO the children Of IN immense number Of
personal friends, but also TO 1881 Of her husband
subjects who were born on March Il, 1856 the
day thai her son. the II-iated prince imperial,
first saw the HglB
IN town in Kansas there Is a Sunday school
superintendent whose temporal vocation Is run
ming dry goods store. On a recent Sunday he
carefully explained the lesson and then said:
Does any one wish to ask question: I DO
Mr. Barnes. said a little girl IN great excite
mcRt- How much Is those little red paTasOi5
IN your show window
They have curious combination tree IN West
Stockbri,lze Conn 1t Is primarily maple which
measures. foot from the ground, L feet inches
IN circumference Fifteen feet from the ground
there are one OF two birch limbs growing and
higher up are cgIrrant and raspberry bushes which
bear fruit each year II IS very old and bids lair
10 stand for many years longer
\ writer says that when painter wishes to give
IN a picture perfect happiness he goes to the
child Just awakening from undlsturbed sleep
L Is delineared As the JOY Of living. the JOY Of
looking out upon a fresh new world. the glad
ness that IS reflected III the pure soul Of the
child. which makes the pictures the favoriteS 1t
every eyhibition and IN evry glileryz
The ronoIirh at Stouebenze which was the
largest stone qu3TTIeu IN EDGtauu, has been
ecIfpsed by block OF granite measuring So
feet IN length - feet in width. ard Il feet IN
depth. This enormous block was qu8rTied at a
recent blast at the De Lank QUarries, near Bod
min The estimated weight u l,43) tons 1t viii
be used in the construction Of Be3ehy Head
Lighthouse
The exhibition Of 1900 showed that German
u1etaIIurgy was ahead OF that OF France and even
Of other countries. TIE Germans can make aud
deliver in France boilers % or p per cent cheaper
than French manufacturers: the Paris. Lyons and
Mediterranean Railway Company orders It's loco
motives IN Vienna the Eastern Railway Company
in AISatfa. and the Orleans Company IN the
United States
Some curious botanical experiments made at
a geological laboratory at Naples are reported by
Hans WinkIer- \ fowerless aquatic plant, that
grows normally with its roots in the sand and
leaves IN water. was inverted specimens being
placed with the leaves buried in the sand ami
the roots floating in the water IN strong light.
The roots change! 20 stems and leaves. the
buried parts becoming roots.
Truth OF London remarks when recently
looking with interested but ignorant curiosity 1t
the various motor cars that were on show II the
Agricultural Hail. it struck me-jUdginS by the
rricas-Jlat all motor car makers are making the
mistake of doing business on the small sales and
large profit system 30 long prices are not
brought down TO lower level the motor cST Viii
remain the luxury Of the few
In the July Cosmopolitan J. Holt Schooling.
statistici5n. asserts that when 35) years shall
have passed the density Of the ear1h-s ropuIa-
ton viii he so great that each person will have
only tvo-thiTds OF aH acre, which space viii have
20 suffice for all Turposes-agriculJuTe- roads.
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