The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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The first straw paper made in this country vas
manufactured n 1873
Every public school house IN Cincinnati is 70
be supplied with telephone.
II Spain al the sheep are white excepting those
| OF la Nancha, which are black.
4 lady in sIeIburnc Falls. Mas claims to be
IN possession Of lock Of Queen yigtorias hair
No person win he permitted to make pilgrim
age to Mecca this season from any OF the injected
portions OF India
Florida has been a health resort as far back
As the days Of Ponce de Leon. who pronounced it
the Land OF Flowers
The percentage of illiterscy in Kansas is less
than II IS in any State in this union in any
country on the globe save Belgium.
The Liberty statue in New York IS I5l feet high
the PEDESTAL Is I55. and the total height above
low water mark Is sos feet Il inches
A citizen OF Western Kansas has Developed
lucrative business in digging snake root and rosR
weed from the prsries for the drug trade
B7oadzater. near worthing. England. has had
but tvo rectors IN the nineteenth century Tie
late incumbent appointed in 1877. and the
present one il 1855.
Cast iron plows we've first made in this country
| N lI97, and were greatly objected to from the
belief that the cast iron poisoned the ground
and prevented plants from growing
4 movement has been under consideration for
?
shall embrace 1900 square miles Of lind at the
headquarters OF She Mississippi River.
The town OF EatonYiIle, Fla has 1 800 inhabi-
tants, with not single white among them. II
has 4 full quota OF officials a bark and other
business establishments requisite in town Of its
size
The pain produced by hornets sting is caused
by po.son injected into the wound, and 50 in
staulaneous Is its effect As to cause the attack
OF this insect to resemble violent blow IN the
face.
The great linguists have never been great. save
in their socially No great Inguist vas also great
as an author The ability to learn languages
does not seem to co-exisU with talent IL other
lines.
On one of the Indian reservations in New York
State Is 4 toy factory which employs several hun
dred Indians all the year around The toys being
manufactured here are being shipped all over the
At the clas deal Court Theatre in Welmar 10
actor is now permitted 70 answer a curtain call.
The manager announces to the public that such
appearances before the fOotlights ''In8rtJstic
and obsolete, foolish and IN bad taste"
Official encouragement Of scientists and in
ventoFs Is European custom which this country
might wen initiate. For tie month OF January
alone the British ROYAL Society has been granted
$4,000 20 expend IN prizes Tor discoveries and in
venJiCus-
All trsmps arrested in certain part OF Ms
souri, are sentenced to DO thirty days work oa
the streets The ~hoboes are allowed a half hour
TO get their tools IN thst brief period OF time
their noses are always pointed toward another
section OF the StGte-
One of the measures before the Legislature Of
North Carolina provides that all criminals con-
denned to capital Punishment shall be removed
from tie county Iaiis- Immediately upon coHvic-
ti0n. to the state peaiteHtiary 70 await the exc
cJtlo1 OF their sentence
The '-yev York sun rules that we may con-
tiuue TO call the frock coat a Prince Albert Il
sc choose to do so, for the good and sufficient
reason that this garment was not named after
Albert Edward but after his father Prince Albert,
who Gied fJr5y years ago
Prof. Robert Ccrsung an eminent surgeon OF
Austria. IS credited with an important discovery
in the scientific world It consists Of the use OF
mixture Of parafine and vaseIine IN curing physi-
cal detormities. and filling in cavities caused by
the removal Of portions OF bones.
The St. Etienne CFrancej municipality. has
voted sum Of money TO buy new Tors for the
children OF the local creche. bat on the distinct
instruction tnst neither drums nor trHmpets are
purchased. I'm order that the children may .un
No risk Of acquiring the military spirit.
It Is not often that shopkeeper can profit By
burglar excursion to his premises. but the other
6ay when thieves raided q store At CenterviIIe
no, bur did not take anything the storeEeeper
advertised laVIshly saying his prices were so low
II would not pay anyone to steal his goods
With population not far from CO. 0o0.O33
crowded VITA an area smaller than that OF the
single American State Of Texas. Germany yet has
only thrty-5hree cities Of l9aoe9 or more inhabi
tauts while the United States with It's 70 00G. 600
scattered over a vastly larger area, has thirty
eight such cities
Csttlenen IN South Dakota are generally agreed
that It IS tine 10 abandon the present method OF
have composition which IS used TO make
easily ,listinEUisirable mark Il Is applied with
a cold ron destroying the hair CT hide. but not
caasJnS pain TO the animal
Tho women lawyers of Boston have large and
fourishing -cial club and once in two months
the members meet and dine at a ygeII-knovn hotel.
The onlS OLE o. the club Is the business man
ager who arIanges for the meetings The menu
berS preside N turn The club WIS founded IN
ISL oy the 3rst two women admitted 20 the
Massachusetts, bar
There are few countries in which mining forms
50 large and important part OF the national
wealth and resources in Australia, and the
union Of the colonies VIII doubtless haze "a
ToTahie effect on their mineral industries. as On
all others Uniformity Of tariff and patent Iegisla-
ton VII ne great advantage, and others VIII
be manifest IN time
There are II France-chfeIy n Paris-over 5O0.-
90 registered bicvcl;~ts In 1894 the number vas
7aS,G25 and n 1895 4S3-tI4- Each one pays tx
and carries q license The above number does not
include motorcycles and meter cars. which are
far more plentiful IN France than n England
Motorcycles are TO be used BY postmen for col
lcctlng letters N Paris
Pennies do not consist % copper alone there be
ing IN them Der cent Of tin and per cent OF
zine to % per cent Of copper. They cost the
Government about y cents pound exclusive Of
stamping and there are rs in q pound so that
the Government makes fair profit on every
pound uinted- since while they are redeeusble
in gold. bat few axe ever presented
The largest landowner in England proper IS the
Duke 81 Northumberland. who possesses Is6.0e9
acres mainly. Of course. in the country from
which ne takes his title, and he : the only one
OF the eight and twenty great lords who has uOT
az acre either n Scotland Ireland The largest
landowner IN Ireland IS MARQUIS Cuuyugham who
OWNS $4,000 acres. IN Wales Sir Watkin Williams
Wynn, whose acres amount to li5,l30
The new electric railway at Paris has proved
great success, despite the IuiSbaps that have oc-
cured thereon from time to time From the date
OF its opening on July 10 until October 81
i%,;S1,olp passengers were carried Occasionally
the daily number OF passengers carried amounted
to l7b:G0. II originally intended To run
oaly Zs0 trains Per day. bu- this number has been
considerably increased, and further trains are TO
be added
JaRa-cs. Browns, Smiths and other families. all
of whom have produced men prominent and re-
spccted in every station of good sociesy are OK
trenaeiy plentiful wherever one goes In Wales
the JonesaS arc numbered b. the Thousands 4
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