The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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The difference between the tallest and short
est races in the world IS one foot and oRe-halt
inches. and the average height IS five feet FIVE
inches.
Pere Hyacinthe has Joined the Greek Orthodox
Church, the EcUn.enical Patriarch IN person re
cciylng At Athens the profession Of faith Of the
ex-CaTmciite fri2r.
An old Danish wzrship dug up recently in Tot
teuham Marshes. England. has completed: disap-
peared, the mob that went to II having car
ried of every fragment OF IL
The annual report on the Michigan state Peni-
! tentiaTy at Jackson shows a total population OF
20, the losest in twenty Eve years. The tailors
shop had but one at work
A naval officer who has spent much time in
Manila says that the women and even young
| girls. seem TO grow old and f=lsa from day 70
| day from the effects OF the climate.
cyciist in Cheshire England. found church
which had above the door the inscription This
| i the gate Of heaven" and Just below, This
door viii be closed during the winter months"
The facE that a husband is a cigarette aend has
| just been held Sufficient ground for divorce in
Oshkosh, Wis. where Judge Bdrnell Of the circuit
court gave Mrs Beatrice Tracey her freedom for
| the cause named
The establishment OF mint in Canada viii
| make the fourth branch Of the Brit:sh Taint in
| operation outside London The otle. three are
| located IN australia, in Melbourne Sydney, and
Perth. respectively
1t Is estimated that the Canadian gold fields
yielded last year 1,257, s62 Of gold valued
at $259s).ooo Compared with the preceding year.
| 1923. this Is an increase in ounces Of about
! 5000, and in value Of S5,005.G99-
The Iowa State board Of health has issued 1000
/ circulars which viii be distributed throughout
| the States to arouse public sentiment to the ne
ce~aity Of establishing institution IN that
State for the isolation and treatment OF tuber-
! ouIosis
1 Not only Is education free IN New Zealand, but
| where necessary, children are conveyed to and
/ from school gratuitousIy on the Government rail-
! ways. At siNty-fye every man and woman who
needs It. white or native, receives an old age
! pension.
Every commandments of the United States
army. with the exception Of General Niles. serv-
| ed in the Army Of the Cumberland. Seventeen
| members have been in the Cabinet thirty eight
/ have been Senator's. and three hundred have been
| in Congress.
/ The old Spanish warship Reina Victoria, now
lying at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. which
! was captured during the recent war is to be
fitted up a training ship. Her fighting quail
tiles in scaway are Of no comparative conse-
qUence now
A celebrated Chinese dancing master. Hung
FOo-Choo. announces in Chinese paper that ne Is
| to hold religious service to which he invites
everybody N honor OF the I.OO0Ih anniversary Of
the death OF his ancestor. who the first Of the
| family TO take up the profession
| Near Burr Oak, kan, prominent stoekmah
! who had been losing many hogs by theft. en-
poyed a detective TO ferret out the thieves The
detective succeeded veil that ne soon uncovered
a gang Of stock thieves Of whom the prominent
stockIn2u's cUn son was the leader.
One hundred and sixty miles an hour is the
speed aimed at by 4 new electric railway com
pany n Germany urder the direct patronage OF
the Emperor Cars with accommodations for
fifty persons each are now being built and VIII
be tried 4 thirty -kiloneter track.
1t is said that hornets never use the same
nest for second season The hornet is about
as vicious an insect as natural laws allow and
he probably gets in all the work he desires upon
humanity in the course OF one 1ssaAn. certain As
he is that wherever he locates himself some one
viii make ar efoyt 10 dizp9sseSs bin
The city council OF Cincinnati, ONO. has passed
ordinance requiring that ell T.e~ tenements
shall have a bathroom for each suite Of rooms
having a separate hallway and that remodeIed
tenemeniS shah have a bathroom for each three
rooms Penalties Of fine and Imprisonment are
provided for violations Of the ordinance
An appropriation Of $4,000 is asked from the
Indiana Legislature 10 be added 70 funds col
lected by the Indiana LawtOn commission for the
purpose erecting two equestrian statues at the
capital city Of the State IN memory OF Gen
Pleasant A. Hackieaan. who vas killed early IN
the civil var, and Gen Henry ". Lawton, killed
n the Philippines
Western timber Is composed almost entirely Of
conifers Forests Of the Western coast probably
are the deusest and heaviest on earth. They may
be compared with those OF tropical regions, such
as the forests q the Amazon and Congo basins
u hilc the Jungle OF the tropics may oe denser.
the trees are hy means as large, nor DO they
contain much lumber.
The campus OF the University Of Chicago Is to
be ornamented with fifty elm SHADE tres at a
cost Of $500 Dr. Cioodspeed said that fifty OF
these big eIn7s would be worth more than
TO -rTiE an .arr- ,F71r and
shade producer the college campu=- The plan
Is plant these trees in syruIuetrszzl arrange
ment the inside Of the quadrangle
Thirteen years ago sim Bell and his wife OF
. Ottumwa. Iowa, quarreled because they could
not agree on a name for their baby daughter
From that time neither spoke 10 the other until
last week. when both happened 70 attend the
same revival meeting IN a local church The
excitement ut this gathering hToke the long
period of silence. and How they are fully recon
ciled-
Ms. Elizabeth Lidy, eighty years old, SIX times
married and FIVE times divorced has been adjudg-
ed insane at Petersburg Ind She began her natri-
monaI adventures while still q girl and she con
tinued through life describing one husband after
another, hopeful that she would find an ideal one
A commission decided that this hopeless aIBbi-
/ ton was evidence Of insanity and ruled accord
( ingly
/ A queer English law. called the ''tIppiiHg act
/ Of ISL provides that an innke5per cannot re
I
/ than :. The son OF IN eminent English throat
/ specialist lately up a bill Of $50 n Eng
Ii-h public house and refused paTtnenJ upon the
/ vaIiditv Of this act As the St@tIre was stu
/ the books the judge was obliged to acknowledge
} is force
/ John Riley Of Sioux Citr l. suing railroad
I company there because 4 locomotive hit him
/ with a rock The stone had been rolled on the
track in some way and passenger train threw It
! of II hit Riley's leg and broke It. therefore
I he slIes for SI.gT5- He was IN the con7any'
! compauy's plea IS That hc should have kept the
I tlack clear
There Is some feeling in Missouri, because Of the
! iact that estimate has been made Jhat 1880
( NHs~ouriauS, men and women, attending edu-
catiouaI Institutions outside the State and that in
every two years these students spend SIo10 e02 IN
{ other States. nearly all OF which might be- re-
tanned bv increasing the opportunities for higher
education that state by making more liberal
/ appropriations TO that end
| One OF the busiest industries in England i1Ss
| now Is that Of the manufacture Of sigraI flags On
| January I next the mercantile marine viii he
! obliged TO adopt the revised system OF the in
] JCrnatioEa code of flag signaling and each res
/ sci EiI need ten flags As England and her
! colonies have nearly II0G0 vessels IN this cate
CORY, Il prodigiCjIS amount of preliminary work
| IN bunting Is made necessary
! IN Episcopal Church III Benton Harlsor. Mich.
| has been obliged TO close its doors On account
| Of differences between the people OF the cousre-