The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-04-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.


( in Cuba and $1,000 OF them at school. There
| are 90 >choolHouses ia daily use.
| Thirteen British steamers and Sixty-seveE sail
/ ing vessels were lost last month. the number OF
/ lives lost being rs and 4 respectively
| Tie Great Eastern has faded into the Of
small things Her tonnage was 1880 below that
/ OF the Celtic, Just launched At Belfast
It vas a quarter of century before the sign
ing Of the American Declaration Of Independence
| mat the first theatre was opened IN New YoEk-
The newspapers Of Brooklyn say that the free
lecture system IN that city has proved great
| success During the course which lasted thir-
1 Teen weeks ll2,43i people attended.
" Alien. now siKty-four years Of age, j. one o,
Tue most picturesque figures in the British Par
lament He has also figured prominently as
blockade runner IN the American civil war.
When completed the new Naval Academy at
Annapolis VIII have cost 3. 10000. and vii be
finer than any Government structure outside Of
Washington. 1t viii hive accommodations for
80 cadets
The art building Of the Worlds Fair. now the
Field Museum at Jackson Park, Chicago, viii
be reproduced IN marble on the lake front By
Marshall Field, provided permission IS secured to
place 1t there
The Tennessee House Of Representatives H..
passed bill which provides that members Of that
body shall be ''docked'' the full amount OF their
per diem allowance for each days absence from
the Legislative sessions
While Henry Stone living at IngIeAeld Ind
was PRAYING in church last Sunday afternoon he
tell dead The coroner said death was caused
| from heart disease brought On by excitement
stone was sixty-fye years old.
Very little black walnut Is now to be found in
Ohio. though N pioneer days settlers found their
cgieL endeayor in clearing dense forests made up
| chiefly Of this wood One Of the few walnut
groves N Ohio has Just been sold for export
Miss Lizzie Wooster, OF Topeka. han, whose
works have Just been adopted BY the United
States Government FOR use IN the Indian schools
Is d descendant Of General Wooster Of Revolution
airy fame, after whom Wooster Ohio, was named.
London Truth" gives the following rules for
writing q successful icur-act comedy. Act J.
Get the characters into a mess act ? Get them
into 4 worse mess Act 3. Get them into the
worst possible mess Act l. Get them out Of it
as best can.
The roads n ancient Rome were from eight to
thirty feet in width. according to their import
ance. At the present date-they are neither Wild
ened nor shortened but most Of them remain as
they originally we're, and many OF them are IN
condition Of decay
Bunker Hill Chapter OF the Daughters OF the
American Revolution has decided 20 mark the
spot from which Paul Revere started on his his
t0Flc Midnight r1de to warn the Inhabitants OF
the towns between Boston and Concord Of the
approach Of the British.
The Armour Institute Of Technology in Chicago
Is 80 n to have magnificent memorial window in
memory OF the late Philip D. Armour. r. 1t IS 70
cost $1,000. and VIII show the respect and e.
TEEN IN which the employees OF the firm held their
friend and feIlOw-.yorker-
About forty-eight miles from Deatwood. S. D.,
Is mountain Of good size which prospectors say
Is almost solid copper 4 company capitalized for
100000 has secured control OF the mountain
The men interested say Il VIII be the richest
copper mine N the world
The State Of Texas Is printing itself upon the
prospect Of an immense number Of visitors from
the North during the coming summer The citf-
zens of the Lone Star State have a multitude
Of Inducements 10 offer to capitalists from every
other region OF the country.
In Adams County. Ind there live several
thousand members Of me Anlisll Church. Who are
refusing 10 pay their taxes on religious grounds
They absolutely refuse 10 make oath 10 any STATE
ment, and have 50 tar declined 10 swear to the
tax lists after making them out
i pleasant way Of spending some OF the sum
mer months Is that adopted by the King Of
Greece lie turns farmer and works as hard as
If he were land Isborer. He can DloF a field
Cut and bind comm short keep a farm going
from start to finish, As though II we're his bust
ness
The faculty of Stanford University, IN Califorrs-
ia, a7s directed that saloon and cafe advertise
ments must be omitted from the Daily PaIo
Alto the college paper Tins, it Is thought
viii result IN the suspension OF the paper as its
managers relied much upon saloon support n
the way Of advertisements
An indictment IN q case to be tried n Calves
ton, Texas charges that the defendant entered
a church where religious service was in prog
resS and did then and there Unlsvfully and
T1llfUlly. by loud and y0cifeToUS talking and By
other noise Ito Wit. kicking z joint OF stove
pipe disturb the congregation
Twenty-fOur OF the leading bankers. profes-
sionaI men and merchants Of RichIand No.,
have entered into an agreement 70 parade IN
shlrtwaISt on Nay l. when they viii march
through the principal streets. At night they VIII
give an entertainment and supper to introduce
the shIrtwaist a substitute for the swallow
tsTi and Tuxedo
The bishop Of the missionary diocese Of Moo
some, James Bay, in the remote Northwest
arrived at Ottawa recently. after having Travelled
90 miles on snoUShoes- He started from Moss
Fort. the most HortheTiy post on Hudson BAY
and walked southwark until he reached tue Ca
madam Pacific Railway, over which he IOuFneyed
10 his destination
Chinese annals OF great antiquity contain nrni-
circus detailed accounts OF the supposedly fabu-
oJis unicorn in which the descriptions are Idea-
ticsl with those handed down from the earliest
times IN the mythology or occidental countries
From this 1t Is inferred that. time IN the
remote past. there actually did exist a single
horned equine or eervine animal Of some sort
When IuxurieS increase men decay said one of
the old poets They. the luxuries are constantly
increasing Babies are now put TO sleep by Iul-
abys put forth BY monographs If life should
last forever until the crack OF DOOM the baby.
Il he could have his VIII, would rather 90
sleep in the old-fashioRed way his mothers
breast, but ''the times changed and We are
changed with them
A woman IN Illinois town was 50 grievously
stricken with disease that she sent each OF her
seven children for different doctor. with the
result that during the day at least three phvsi-
-ianS responded TO her calls. At the ceToner's
inquest held over the body the jury brought in
he following verdict We find that the WOMAN
anne TO her death from bowel trouble and 4
complication OF physicians
There Is no one in this country who VIII rot
ON in 4 congregation 10 do honor to President
Mckinley on MS coming tour. It cannot be a
political tour, for If the President should hint OF
viii be many-that fact would be resented. The
general wish Is that Mr.. Mckinley VIII have a
pleasant. heaith-gIvIng journey. and come hack
o Washington safe and sound on schedule time
Few OF those who talk Of the marriage knot
realize that the knot was ever anything more
han d mere figure of speech Among the Baby
onians tying the knot was pG=+ OF the marriage
ceremony. There the priest TO K thread OF the
garment of the bride and another from that OF
he Bridegroom and tied them into a knot, which
ng nature of the union which now existed be-
ween herself and her husband
The prosecution Of Jews for violation OF sun