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


OF the 800 eonvicts IN Tennessee p claim to
be college graduates.
some Of The Rand mines in the Transva2I are
worked at a depth Of 1900 feet.
We purchase from Egypt. strange TO say over
foTty-four million pounds of cotton annually.
Mr. Richard Cookers daughter shares her faith
es love for horses and Is said 10 be al accyta-
piished equestrieEne-
Judge Barker. Of Louisville has decided that the
Sunday saloon closing law is unconstitutional
being special legislation
Tire Emperor Of China and the viceroy Of
India. taken together, govern more than half the
population Of the world.
Euteric fever is calculated to have killed tea
Britishers in South Africa for each one who has
fallen a victim TO Boer bullets
More than twenty hotels, including several %
the largest size are going up in New York city
At an estimated cost Of S290oo.oo1-
Untold treasures Of money and Jewels are be-
Ecved to have been buried near the ANGEL Gate,
Genoa, and treasure seekers are digging for all
Richard L. Caffeine has under consideration
the point Of making his permanent residence IN
this country. which he considers rich in material
for persons Of literary mind
Peter PosteIl, who died recently at Hop,fnsyflls-
Ky, was said to be the richest negro in the
South. He was sixty years old. had been a slavs
in his youth and has left estate valued at
$4,000.
The Buslmen. or low-grade Hottentots. on the
plains Of South Africa have language which las
been proved by GARNER to be a close approxina-
ton 20 that OF the higher apes It consists Of
Kissing, clicking, and grunting sounds.
Probably more strangers arrive IN Chicago d.ily
than in any other city in the country The
! Windy City IS a great railroad centre and con-
Jains SIX passenger stations at which are de-
/ posted about 1000 strangers every day
Lord AvebUTy, speaking at recent meeting Of
the SeIborne Society. expressed the fear that the
wholesale destruction OF prinroses and cowslips,
! if not checked. would lead to their disappearance
/ from the list OF Wild towering plants IN Great
Britain.
The Locomotive published By the Hartford
Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.
gives the total number Of boiler explosions in
1900 313, ten less than recorded IN 1879. There
we're 2s2 IN 1898 as well a. N 1895 259 IN 1885,,
and 346 in 1896
4 building at NeEeesport. Pa, used until 4
short time ago as pesthouse, was raided the
| other day by the police who found the place
I full OF negroes, with q lively game Of poker and
/ .'speak-ea+y'' in full blast Smallpox had evi-
t IDENTIFY no terrors-
The influx OF settlers to the Kansas wheat belt
! in the last three years has caused land TO raise
p per cent in price. and land which in 1892 sold
. go IN and around Wichita wheat belt farms
sell for 5000 each and even higher.
The two surviving daughters Of Dr. Livingstone
the other day opened the extension Of Livingstone
! College at Legion, England, founded about eight
years ago for training IN medicine and surgery
I missionaries about TO depart for far away sta
| tons where they would be called upon 70 play
/ the part Of doctor as often as that OF priest
The meaning OF the word .-humph'' was dis
c1lssed lately IN the Irish Court OF Appeals. Two
justices held that ''humph'' was an expression
/ OF dissent, and two inclined 80 the conclusion
{
I condition Of the mind" The final decision was-
/ An expression Of doubt dissatisfacti0n-''
/ Chinese in London zho wish to worship without
leaving the city now have opportunity Of doing
so. The largest Joss ever brought to England
| arrived recently from Swatow near Foo-Chow.
/ Its full height ! about Eve feet ten inches Il
has central male figure three feet high, dane NJ
/ on rustic stand and holding up some sacred
! fruit
! One day when he WAS IN Cambridge the late
/ Bishop NandeH Creighton was asked if he could
j state the difference between an oxford man and
/ q Cambridge man The professor, as he then was,
! Immediately replied: An oxford man looks a.
/ II the world belonged to him; a Cambridge nan
as II he didn't care TO whom the world be-
/ lCnged.
Az interesting attempt Is being made TO nat
| uraiize the nightingale II Norway, and a largo
I-luEer OF birds, imported from Hungary, have
been released in the pine forests ringing Chris
! tiania Ford The nightingale has Hitherto never
yentured 50 far north as ChristiaHia, and 1t re-
| mains TO be seen whether these sensitive bIrds
| VIII take kindly to their home
| Women were first permitted to become en-
| pIoyes IN Government Offices IN 1852 when Secre.
! tary OF the Treasury Salmon P. Chase appointed.
/ six women clerks. There Is at least one OF the
ladies residing. at this day IN this city, though
she is not in any official department, but who n
! private life is proud OF her work IN Government
/ service, and her friends, who are many, ara
/ proud OF her
There is says a Kansas authority, zone sure
/ barometer OF financial conditions ID Kansas
Whenever the people feel rich they get Up schemes
to bore in the ground after oil or gas, or other
/ valuable productions. This propensity has given
Kansas some very valuable coal, gas OIL and SAT-
/ fields and 1t Is to be encouraged. not depiOred-
Today something Ike fifty towns are boring holes
! IN the ground
Only miIlionaires can skim across the ocean
/ with yachts Tie cost Of maintaining one Of these
/ fashionable boats more than ecIipses, c0mpaTa-
| lively speaking frst-cIass hotel IN any great
citr- There Is, however luxury aboard and hrst-
class discipline n sill the departments OF yachts.
/ The public generally, when determining to take
| trip 10 Europe, prefer regular Atlantic liner
/ to fancy COUNSEL
Burbaak, the celebrated painter Of Indians, has
beer IL Fort SilE- Oklahoma, for some time and
! has at last induced GeroniIuo, the bIoodthirsty
old Asache to SIT for his portrait The chief put
| on his full waE costume, but only did 50 after
| Geronimo has not. forgotten and probably never
viii forget his old-riue habit Of getting IN casa
| n every possible way
! Manufacturers are actually making marble by
the same process by which nature makes 1t, only
| IN few weeks instead OF q few thousand years.
| They take rather soft limestone and chemically
| permeate 1t with various CoiorIng matters, which
| SILK into the stone. and are not mere surface
coIoring. as in sCagl5oa- The completed material
! takes fine polish and many of the specimens are
/ OF beautiful color and marking
| Henry Lewis Morris, a descendant OF Governor
| Morris, q signer Of the Declaration OF Independ-
euce has purchased fer $1,000 piece OF prop
erty in New York which sold by his father
III 1852 for $50 The property Is located az One
/ Hundred and Forty-nInth street and Third Ave
| only eight houses between It and the Harlem
| liver now there 5000.
The Pullman Company IS arranging to estab-
Ish a pension system fer its entire force OF en-
| pioyes, numbering between 1900 and 5000 per-
/ sons sixty years VIII be made the limit Of
| service. For each year allowance Of 1 per cent
of the average monthly pay for the last ten
months Is TO be given Thus. employees VINO have
been with che company forty years receiving 80
| 4 month, would get 20 per cent OF SO OF 80 J
! month.
Two cases OF IepT0Sy have recently been dis
covered BY 4 physician IT a rural district Of
/ Wisconsin. The sufferers are woman and
I daughter. The .-o-hgr has been "a sufferer for
some wears with disease which has hatTied phy~I-
| clans but has aaa Developed into legrlsy- She