The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Chinese have used ginseng tea as medi-
cine and a beverage long before the Christian
1t is estimated that 81 COO 900 pounds orfb Of
gold has disappeared from use IN the past 800
years.
In Paraguay all the houses have brick stoves.
9ulit IN the 50 there Is little or no necessity for
iron stoves.
An oak tree at 100 years averages Al inches in
dlaIneteT. larch 20 inches an elm 20 inches and
a yew inches.
Among the Burmese newly married couple, to
insure happy life, exchange mixture Of tea
| leaves STEPPED IN OIL
Nearly all the sharp edged tools used in
Mexico from gimlets to swords and sabTes are
| purchased from this country.
The Indian is proverbially lazy outside Of his
nghtlng instincts Who ever heard OF a red man
| inventing anything Of use to humanity
The stupid policy Of hunters IN South Africa
has led to the almost total destruction Of host
| OF Wild animals-the quagga among them.
There remains in Hamburg. in a good state Of
/ preservation. and held II high regard the drum
/ which Haydn played al festival IN that burg in
| I740.
/ Baron Kentero Keneko. Japan's new Minister Of
Justice, is Of the best English scholars IN the
| Empire He Is forty-seven years old, and grad
| Uate Of Harvard College.
Iron cooking stoves are almost an unknown luz
Ury among the people Of South America and the
West Indies They still cook in open fFepiaces
and BY other primitive methods
Iowa is pretty good state ssa occasionally
produces some excellent men, but it is not such
a very healthy State About three thousand peO-
pie die there each year Of cOnsumptis.
M Sturgeon has been dead more than nine
years; but the weekly publication Of his sermons
proceeds and viii 60 on for many years before
! the supply shall have become exhausted
Municipal music has become such an important
MIL +ha orrr1fv 7e-f+ az =
| musical director has been appointed at good
| salary to take charge OF the department
Maine IS noted for tail trees and tall men. John
| NUgent. OF Skowhegan. IS six feet nine and one
/ fourth inches in height He ms eight brothers
| and four sisters all over the sfx-fOOt mark.
Last year plays by Ibsen were performed IN
| Germany 3S7 times SchiIler's were performed
| Us times. MoIiere's Is2. Sardou's s25 Shakes
peares 81. Bisson's 405, and the Dame De Chez
Maxim SIS.
An aTmor- plate-piercing shell has been made at
| the Perm works by new process from pressed
steel It possesses extraordinary hardness and
! wiz pass through srmor plate without los
| OF shape OF alteration in the metal
The vexed questions Of street signs has been
| solved in novel manner by the city authorities
Of Topeka, Kan, where street crossing plates
used There are eight iron fOotwsy signs at
each intersection The method, It IS asserted IS
quite popular.
It is asserted that recent investigation Of the
sveatshops of Chicago brought to light the fact
that in some Of these dens women work sixty
hours per week for the r1unifceat sum Of 40
cents That Is twO-thirds Of cent an hour. or all
OF sol year
Owing 10 the process Of manufacture Canadian
maple sugar Is harder and Of a stronger favor
than that made in the United States The Cana
dian output IS largely shipped to this country
and commands higher price, because o. duty
Of cents pound
Turner Barr. of Sydney, Ne, has among numer-
Gus other curios, a gold watch over 200 years
old 1t was made in London and Is a splendid
piece Of mechanism. still keeping perfect time
II has been II the family for several generations
and is highly priced
The latest Swiss engineering scheme Is to pierce
the base of the Ehasis at sta-Crooe, near CHA
VIENNA, and so create a tunnel twenty-four miles
IN length. The undertaking. which seems likely
to take Immediately a definite shape, VIII take
ten years to complete
The outcry against the brutality Of the Austrian
army officers to their men has-had such an effect
that the officials have issued an order prohibiting
officers from touching the body Of a soldier witha
a sword gesticulatIng with that weapon while
the troops are drilling
An Indiana man has sued saloonkeeper Tor
5.o0o damages FOR selling him liquor and making
him drunk. It IS probable he enters suit Oh con-
pulsion from his best friend. the mistress of his
household. At any rate he has 4 foFIorn hope Of
obtaining more than one cent damages
Inmates Of alrashouses generally live TO a green
old age. At one English asylum recently a re-
pors mentioned paupers, one Of whom was aged
uinety-eight, another ninety-seven, while three
others had passed ninetythree years OF existence
OF fifteen Others the average age Is eighty-seven
and one-hah years
There was 4 lively time in Ellenwood, Kan,
the other day when a mad bull dashed through the
town The men fed to hall and stairSays, leaving
the women on the streets exposed to peril. On
the following day iackTabbit scampeTed over
the same course. and the male population bravely
chased It four miles, while the women fed N
terror.
In Italy there are between 800 and 400 produc-
tive cooperative societies. some OF them doing 4
business Of over $4,000 q year Cooperative
ere4meTies are revolujioniziug the butter and
cheese industries IN parts Of Piedmont and enItia,
as they have revolutionized 1t IN Denmark and
Ireland There are a thousand distrIbuC1ve CO
operative societies
White pine. a valuable wood like everything
else Of good calibre IS not easy to propagate, 50
many Of the seeds being unfertile. It dos net
as a rule, produce flowers and cones until II Is
fifteen or twenty years old During the first
decade OF its life it VIII grow about one loot
every twelve months, and then It grows 4 little
faster till maturity
Ocean steamships nowadays are as regular as
their habitual rates Of speed and are expected 10
make the voyage Of 1900 miles over trackless
ocean through wind and storm in the same num-
Der Of hours and minutes winter and summer,
never slowing down or heaving to except on the
very Tarest occasions
Corn. with its twenty-four to thirty-two rows
under cultivation wss once but a coarse grass,
hiding each seed it produced under a hvsk, as
wheat and oats now do Brought out to tie light
and with chance TO get at enough plant
food, It has worked its way up TO eight rows
Of seeds covering these with one husk. The Jar
mer and nature together have added the extra
sixteen and twenty-four lows
The Builders Trade Journal says that plate
glass the creation OF comparatively recent times,
Is responsible for many OF the enormities which
render the street architecture of today so devoid
of grace and harmony Those however who con-
tend that q house window glazed with small
paneS-even those so popular at the beginning OF
the nineteenth centUry-about y by IS inches IS
much more pleasing IN appearance than one
glazed with great sheet, are, we think, quite
in the right
\ Frenchman recently conceived the idea Of
dosing a geranium plant with alcohol 10 see
what effect the spirits would have on K, He
poured the alcohol on the earth around the plant.
First the leaves TUNED yellow and gave of an
odor As Of ether. Then symptoms Of poisoning
appeared: the ruotl,ts turned black and seemed
to have been burnt; the circulation stopped N
the branches; the leaves droeped toward the earth
and in four days the beautiful plant had become
q total wreck
A Tokyo correspondent SAYS that Japan Is ccntin-
ually extending its industry into other countries,