The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.


The original capital OF The Congo Free state
Railway Is 100000 francs tS5.O10O00J. and
the receipts ~ 5000 rau,> Isl adJ Fer klometre
mean dividend ai about I'D francs Der 90
franc share
The book Abdul Hsmid iut.mc.'- which has
just been published IN Swedish translation. was
prohibited Bog the Sved.,h Government al the
request 81 the Turkish Minister. A JURY q well
kuowu swedish authors and journalists has de-
ciced that Ihe book j. not criminal
Hawaii when annexed 90 the United states uas
in debt nearly s5.oaoGs5. not including about
s750cJO due on account OF the postal saving,
systeU % the islands Under The terms Of the
resolution OF auCeNaIioT 80 90 oo0 Of the d-lr
and The postal system accounts are 90 D. IaId
10y The United states and the Treasury Depart
ment has already set about the tssk-
TyEa H-lnsn. os Boston. a bright Jewish girl
Of fifteen. has done six years school work m
enc Aster her graduation rom the Girls Iafin
school sne intends 90 teach IN night schools
until she has money enough % 20 20 college
lyus was born IN a village near Odessa. cane
90 this country with her parents last year. ard
ten months ago Couldn't speak English
b. law passed recently the most inoorri-
gible % che ratiros. or pickpockets. Of Mexico
City are o. DO put % work on TIE tobacco SEEDS
in the interior Of Tehuantepec- This plan was
tried once before. but The tiGeues Were sent %
"a station near the coast and from 10 easily e.
olped- Under the new law they are % be sent
81 Ear into the interior that escape VIII be psac-
tically impossible
Bozeulan. and IN fact the whole Of Gallatin
county Montana, is afflicted with 4 srowRs Of
dandeliCns They are % b. seen IN every garden
and in nearly every field In the county. IN the
summer tie little globes o. aufy. cotton-iike
substance. containing the seeds ~ the dandelion.
float through the air and alight IN every nook
and CORNER NJ matter bow poor the soil the
d4Hdslion aourishes-
National drama began its career in Enzl-ud
and Japan at about the same tine. In 1878
OEuui- a priestess who ran SWAY from the
temple C5ut made her pesee with the god
repairing his shr.n-) gave her first theatrical
Performance az kv0t1- IN 1876 '-1he Earl q
LeiCestsr's servants'' erected the FIRST public
theatee sH Blackfriars-
IN a comparatively obscure and minDr county IN
q ve'l-known southern state IL is proposed % ex-
act a license Zee % $1,000 FOR each saloon As
the number Of inhabitants Is small and most Of
them are people 0i -canty means. the EFFORT % So
cure SD large amount for the szle % hquors
Viii practically result IN complete prohibition
Thirsty persons IN that county viii probably
drIuh --spelklasy' whisky or none al all
4 deposit % Hthoeraphic stone has been found
Rear Mount Sterling ny. which Eugene Leary,
q the United States Geological survey. believes
90 De more valuable tn4u any gold mine There
Is ~ reaSoH.' slys M-- LeaIy. Uhy the quarry
There Is no ithographic stone anywhere else so
far as D. known and there viii be no dificulTy
in competing with the German product
The Weztohester. \. :, kissing bug or the
syiaz "boring bug" Is classed BY Prof Bueten-
muller. head entornologist Of the Museum q
Natural History IN New York as the AllOrhina
nitida- i IS called the South Carolina beetle,
because II Is found principally in thIs State bur
Is frequently sen IN al the states Il - harm
less and much resembles the 'hg-eater, with
The houseboat viii become gradually the
greatest factor in solving the problem Of what
O. do with ones sumner Il does away With
the rent Of a building site Change Of saene
can b. had without the discomfort o. travel
ard packing. Wind and tide or cheaply hired
mule VIII bring your modern palace where you
Vill Health and c0mfort-the maximum lux
ury az the minimum c0st-theSe tie housebO4t
places within ne reach u everyone
The quality which ulakes gold the most val
liable Of the meals r It's d0cility- The Gun
ming hammer o. the smith can teach" IL al
most anything The more stubborn metals
crlf.uble after thev have been reduced TO a
certain point o. fneuess. but gold can be ham,
mered into sheet infinitely fne thst 5000
q them piled one upon the other would nos be
an inch thickl AID . A=ke Of sold tiny
plnhead can be drawn out n a hnsr thread
than ever man spun IN a spider thread-to a
length Of 50 feet
The S. Petersburg Academy Of Sciences has
received telegram frors the leader q the ex-
petition which IS shortly 20 bring the mammoth
found IN Siberia % s. Petersburg. The telegram
which Is despatched frora kakutSS. reports that
the expedition arrived II that place June -
II Is proceeding b. steamer up the river and viil
then Journey overland 60 koiymSk. which is 5000
yersts Of and where IL expects 90 arrive In Two
and half months. Tie mammoth found Is
entirely preserved. and there are remains ~ IN
digested food IN It's stomach.
Il IS rot generally aaovu thar since its dis
Cov,rv III 1892 81 HeIeus has been destined to
be state prison In 1911 the Portuguese ban
ished uobIeruan, named Fernando LOPEZ 70
tins island Later on the East India Company
sent raiah % be iurerued there hut De died
cI the voyage then came the memorable exile
0f Napoleon which brought -. Helena into
prominent notice and recently, when the ques-
tiOu arose what should be done With the BOer
prisoners Of var 81 Helena naturally suggested
itself AS the safes; and most suitable place
The I'VE American locomotives now in use
on the Bengal Central Railway. writes a Cal
Curta correspondent, are giving very fair sat
IsfaCtion They sere az FIRST found to consume
q great deal more coal thlu British engines,
but after certain alterations lad been made
the fuel consumption was reduced % the Eng
lish rate These engines have been running
since the summer Of l-a8- and last year SINH
lar locomotives we're supplied % the Assam
Bengal Railway. and also for the buch and
RohilkhuuJ line, weil a. for the Burma Rail-
NJ
No one knows exactly how much the Earl
Of Ashburnhaul spent on his magnificent col
lection Of manuscripts. but II may yrUthfully
be said that the value has been quiuJupIed In
about three-quarters Of century. saws Lon
don correspondent The Stowe manuscripts
alone cost Es.000 and were sold % the British
Museum in 1888 for E45JGJ and one nav
reckon the same ratio in connection vi-h the
other manuscripts and the printed books
Twenty wears ago the entire collection could
have been purchased for El6JOCO. but that was
NOT in the days Of PIcrpOut MCTElns and Robert
Hoes. and the library was dispersed, IN con-
sequence, in insrIumenIS. with the result that
over EIS0.Uln0 has been received by the lucky
inhcritor-
Anyone who has ever watched a surgical oper-
srian know, that a very considerable portion %
the operators time Is spent N sewing up the
wound A surgery has advanced operations have
increased. noc only IN frequency, but IN size.
and an iucisi5n Of twelve inches is not uucoTn-
mon. In order 10 shorten the very considerable
time necessary for closing these large wounds
by hand sewing Dr. Paul Michel, a French ply
stefan. mas invented q machine which he calls
u pince revolver a agTafes. and which j. really
q hand riveJer- OF sewing machine for the human
skin The little nickel rlvets tle bands are
placed n the machine. forty or nfty 40 a tune
The edges Oi the wound are drawn together. the
Jaws Of thr machine placed ever The cut snd
pressed together. and each pressure places rIver
hy put IN "a minute and the riVeting Is ~-td
Co cause little pam The rivets are SD m-lc
that they can Le removed from the wound with
no disturbance Of the healing process
The iriuoraut barber OF today who corresponds
90 the early idea OF tins Parsonage Pos going