The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-15
NOTES OF The DAY.

years Old. ga farmer.
Recent Investigations have determined that the
| German sra coast ln the vicinity of H4maurz "a
| gradually sinking Within the la-t SITS years n
has subsidized Eve feet. nine inches
/ During the year I9JJ no fewer than 272 rocks
/ and shoals which were dangerous to- navigation
l were reported by the British Admiralty survey
/ Department Nine sInkeu rocks were discovered
/ by vessels striking on them.
/ A fuII-length marble statue o. Dr. W5,lisu Gil
I bert. the father Of electrical scencc and author
| Of de Naznete- Is o. D. erected at the insfanc.
~ members of the medical profession at C5.ches-
I ter. England. his old home
/ Exports from France during the last SIX months
increased ST. l30o00 over 100. imports decreased
I SI3,Tio.010 OF the increase in exports sI7.00O-
900 is Chased under Manufactures EhIic az the
] $1,000.
| Fo-ty-eight out Of the 100 counties o. Kentucky
/ are entirely dry and tSenty-one other have
only one point 40 which liquor is sold In seven
teen Others liquor can be obtained oaiy at two
/ points There are only seven 0Ut-and-0ut wet
counties IN the whole state.
Utopia is the name of small toxin in sweden
whose Inhabitants make bJlsins=r % tree culture
[ Iu the course of a single generation the commu-
visions have been made % assure a similar m
come every thirty OF forty years
The first Labor Day ever known was observed
IN Tokyo on April last. The celebration vas
proposed and managed by The '.Niroku shsspo," a
newspaper. ga friend 81 the laboring man
seaTce.y Ten days had passed after the frst
announcement % the '-NIr0ku's undertaking
when more than 5000 Iaborers eagerly secured
their tickets Of aduittaacc 20 the picnic
Peter Dyer. the pond lily man from Mantle.
Conn. brought in foral curiosity the other
morning. It was lily stem which bore three
blossoms. II his fourteen years O. experience IN
the business Mr. Dyer never saw ANYTHING q the
sort before. and he has picked thousands %
. lilies Til t-iplets were found in D0dse's pond.
WITH view to the adoption Of voting machines
for elections in Boston the Boston Board o. EIeC-
tion Commissioner, OF that city. Is making tour
% the principal cities OF New York in which such
machine have been used and gathering informa-
ton about their operation Utica, Syracuse, and
. Schenectady are among the places which VIII be
visited.
In handling fishes IL requires certain amount
Of care 90 avoid being cuJ by the fms, which ia
some species are % some extent poisonous Tie
key West fisherman has an Jnbounded horror q
being bitten BY almost any kind Of dsh. be
fears blood poisoning wiI st IN. although
ccrlinE 90 Those who have stulied the question,
there seems to be very little foundation Tor this
II is not generally known that the site %
ApsIey House. she London residence Of the Dukes
Of Wellington. originally formed part o. Hyde
PARK, and that IL came into private hands through
grant hy George II % old woman who kept
apple 5taI there and who had been ordered
% move away by the then ranger q the PARK
The site ives sold after the old W0nln's death
by her heirs 90 Sir John Apsley.
A curious win case has just been decided by the
courts IN Ninnes1ta- Tie witnesses stepped
through doorway into the adjoining rooE and
affixed their signatures az table ten feet from
the testator. Just out of bis sighr. but while he
vas seated on the side q his bed and cllid have
seen them by stepping forward two o- three feet
Tae atse=rati-n and subscription Of the VIII under
these Circumstance are sustained
A new church was opened recently at Nrt-in-
Hin, London, the chairs IN which are most con-
Portable and convenient. and nearly 80 Of them
have been presented hy individuals unable TO give
llc0ulrl1dariCn f1- books and umbrellas but there
IS place between each chair for a tat which
solves the hlr dlthru-fF- They are also SD fzr-
tened together Co prevent the disIgre5able
noise wteu movable CHAINS are used
Near Wakefield. in Yorkshire. a most com
Portable cottage has been made, So FAY as tie
walls are concerned, Of a number Of drain pipes
left by q contractor for years. whilst the roof
consists OF the refuse OF 0iIeloth factory There
are in England alone half dozen cottage. not
% speak gf many summer hoses, made wholly
OUT % ola preserved provision cans The house
BlmsL5y contains i've Rooms ret rhe whole q
The outer walls and roof are made of meat and
other tins
There Is a vast coal supply II Australia which
is almost uuuorzed AS yet The total product
40 present about a million tons. and the
larger part Of this output has been from the
province Of Ner south Wales. The resources %
Victoria appear % De vastly greater. The La
trobe Valley produces Ignite OF good quality.
and the supply d estimated 40 80 oJfoJ10,8 tons
shafts which have been sunk revealed bads 80
teet m tlicsness- 10 has been found that the
Australian Ignite vas superior 90 the German in
quality, and 10 a-so leaves less ash.
Az one time, not very long ago. there was
on the Lancashire coast near Lynthau. England.
cottage and bolthouse that were made almost
entirely from the remains OF a score OF So Of
whales thar had been driven ashore some years
before The framework ~ the el-hee consisted
T.ol-y ot Uhaleh1ne, and che dried skins Of the
huge creatures were neatly and strongly fastened
as covering for walls and roof There Is an
other building of exactly jLe same Kind az Peter
head. IN scotland. and IN this case the skulls q
rae whales and some 1f the heavier bones are
used with great eject as outside ornaments.
There IS story illustrative Of Japane-e Office
holding says a Tokyo correspondent in the .-Ne.v
York Post" A rish tourist who feared that his
heavy baggage would make trouble for him with
the customs laid O sve-ysu note c1uspicu5usIy on
tae top tray % one of his trunks The Inspector
q
pieces As b. examined chem That's for r1rs.r'
y.re tourist rxT lzinCd- Very Crlve.y the Er-Ie
NAN put a chalk marx i-, and passed 10 hack
~ It's Owner. Who UaU slgs that no 1at need
r,I him tEar the japanese haven't q sense u
Lumar-
Generally speaking foreign matches make
less noise uhsn isuitiay than American MATCHES
The majority OF the latter crack like a pistol
shot when scratched This -fcct results from the
peculiar composition syi-h which the American
matches are tipped sweden. 20 which country
che world l~ indebted frr several other limo
E--InuS in tLls line lt business is.nsr-ti what
d, called the safety ult.l--' which viii Iieht
only when scratched upon IT'S own box This re-
cult d. attained nI putting one important In
-r-.i1aut 90 the friction compound the ph1s-
IAorus. on the box rather than or the match.
curious preference OF certain pigeons for
the use of metallic oIj-sts in building their
nests IS noted by NJ Maurice D,lsoIser in the
Revue SCienrifqgc" tie asserts that several
pairs Of these birds that De has observed in
PARIS have raised their young IN nests made
,i.--rt.t 81 ---lf-n-- lae-e articles they COL
lr.Irl ln The paths ~ the LuNeuIhoJ.~.g The
young pigeons grew up normally rs rhrg would
lu softer nest 81 D-Isolic- believes that
there IS a useful suggestion IN this Tor pigeon
iineler7 who are often gyerlnyious De think,
tn see thar tlelr charges have s5tt material for
their nests
Ir has been noticed that during thunder
storms iusaHdssoeat lamps sE1t are aIizh- sud-
JauIy brighten mp very considerably. ir -5---
cases sufficiently 90 break the dIameu-- and in
some cases the frightening Is followed DIX th.
lamps sI'iTS an inferior HgHr o. that which
Dc gave previous fr The storm. Ir has been
suggested thar the phenomenon Is due Ia an
action similar o. that which takes place fn IA.
eele-er 0Aieh Is used in the higl-Jensirr form