The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-04-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Its mouth to the lakes taxes IN 800 miles.
Kangaroos can jump eleven feet in height
against deers bess record Of nine feet SIX inches
Norway is the only country in the =aorld whose
! banks boid+rore specie IN their safes than they
Issue.
declaring marriages between whites and negroes
In prehistoric lines the rbinoeero= aourished
m California. SMILE large lions and tigers lived
| in the iungies.
There are no milIionaires IN Iceland The peo-
pie there are al poor, but there are no depend
CTS and no paupers-
TIE Oldest large bridge in Europe Is that st
Ratisbon over the Danube It vas built in fiss
and is S9i feet in length.
The largest sponge ever fond came ssom the
Mediterranean IL over three feet across and
ten feet IN circumference.
Lewiston. Ne. has an infant prodigy two and
one-half years old. who speaks French and E4zlil
| hueutly and wonderfully we'll
Excluding 5000 small craft. the commerce Of
the world Is carried on BY 10 90 vessels with
carrying power OF 10000 tons.
Railroad bridge builders are adopting the FIR
timber Of the North Pacific Coast for bridge build
ing because OF Its remarkable strength
Cattle herds in the Argentine Republic are said
20 number 100000. ali descended from eight
COWS and one bull brought 10 Brazil abou; 20
years ago
The order Of St Francis has supplied ten P0pes.
that Of st. Dominic four. The order CT s. Bene-
dlet holds the record Eith forty-three PoPes and
1000 bishops
boy baby l1onth old can expect but forty
two years OF life When be Is ave years Older
his chances Of living have increased 10 ffty-one
years six months
Fifty servant girls Of st Paul 7he propose
70 form a union for their protection against
and IT,
temporary organization
London is the most expensive port in the world
Ships which can discharge In three DAYS al
Liverpool or New York take fOurtecIi II London
owing to lack Of facilities.
NiRety-oue thousand readers visit the British
Museum Library yearly. II has tbirry-tFo niles
OF shelves flied with books. against eighteen IN
the French Imperial Library.
The desert OF Sahara covers z.5oo.0oO square
miles between the Atlantic Ocean and the Nile
Valley. Crossing this waste on 4 c2meis back. II
any DO 50 now, is no easy enterprise
According to a recent regulation pupils IN the
schools of Saxony VIII hereafter be required TO
commit TO memory 29I Biblical verses and Ia5
verses Of hymns N addition 70 the catechism-
improvements on the Rhine River this year aiH
cost the Government OF Baden Bavaria and
Alsace-LsTraine q, 900 90 marks The improve
ments VIII be on the river rom StFasburg down
Saloons IN Toronto are forced to close at :
O'Clock on Saturday evenings This Is % that
woTkingmen who are paid OF on Saturday night
may not squander their wages in An indulgence Of
their blbulotls pFopensities
Popular opinion mas at last done away with
the demo-alizing spectacle of public executions.
law having been passed By the Legislature pro-
yiding that IN future the gaiIows shall always
be erected inside the jail.
The gold dug from Australia and California
since their mines were discovered would iii 4
room 30 feet long and % feet wide and 20 feet
high and It Is problem 70 tell what is wealth
counted IN dollars would be.
The members Of tie Toronto public school
board have made Up their minds that they don't
like the vertical writing Under an order just
adopted the Toronto boys and girls VIII hereafter
slant their letters 70 the right
Minneapolis man bought from q Russian n
Halifax five years ago curious rough stone Of
: reddish hue Acting on I recent hint lie sent
the stone TO Kansas City. and cutters developed
ten fine Siberian rubies worth SO karat.
A WoolWich. Ne, man has hIled his ieebouss
with cakes which have foated down with the
tFeshet. All JlTe crew has had to % has been
10 watch for the hne blue cakes and then float
them into The dock and hoist Them into the ice
house
The length Of peeress' train IS strictly regu-
lated. and varies according TO her rank 4
duchess VIII have her train three wards long. 4
two and half eoUntesseS are limited
TO two yards. viScountesses 10 one and a ualf and
5aTonesses TO one yard.
Running the gantIet As a military punishment
vas, It Is said originated by Gustayius Adolphus
10 punish thieves in his army It was borrowed
BY the English from the Germans who copied II
from Gustavus, and being employed n the Brit
Sh regiments N America WAS readily taken W
y the Indians Of this country
From DaInratia has come perennial cabbage.
which forms the principal food OF hundreds Of
antilles n Dalmstia- Il grows 10 a height Of FIVE
eet and bears tender leaves throughout the win
-eT- lneSe are picked slnSlT OF the whole head
5 cut and the stems sprour again Il stands n
he fields for three or four years.
The great brood OF The seventeen years locust,
according TO Prof P. R. Uhler, provost Of the
Peabody Institute Baltimore, VIII reappear next
rear n most parts OF Maryland north OF the
Patuxenu River Great suarms Of this species
nay be expected n 1872 between the latter part
II May and the early part OF July
The origin Of the tiger as an emblem of Tam
many Is said TO date from the time when William
" Tweed, then foreman OF big SIX IRE con-
DanE tsok 4 fancy 70 picture Of royal Bengal
ler displayed N spice and coffee store Tweed
adopted the emblem for the Americas Club and II
vas soon accepted BY all Tammany-
Goust : the smallest republic as TO area, but
Tavolara Is the smallest republic as 70 PopuIa-
ton Goust Is only one nile IN area. Il Is 10
Gated on the dat top OF mountain IT the Pv-
-enees- between France and Spain and IS TecOg-
liZed BY both Of these countries Il ) governed
by a president and a council OF twelve
Hiram CTonk OF HeTkImer county. y \, Is the
1RIy surviving male peasioner OF the gar OF IsI2-
4 lifelong Democrat. he cast his first vote for
ANDREW Jackson ard his last For Grover Cleveland
hen asked why he did not go TO the polls now
ldays the old gentleman said: When I got to
Grover thought II was time 10 call 1t hall
lay and quit
1t has always been said that horseback riding
,eeps men alive beyond the three score years and
en- Many Of the old sings OF Europe have Ger
.siniy profted by L. That there Is ne doubt Of
L healthy pToclivities : found in the fact that
King Christian OF Denmark. though eighty-three
ears old, rides horseback every morning and
frequently goes out walking unattended
William Fl. Brown. Of YcBacn Mich. is reyu-
ar Pooh-bab. He Is deputy sheriff. marshal
treet COMMISSIONS. Touudlraster, ire warden.
leaitiI officer and trJlant officer He Is also an
tsfcer IN several lodges The combined earnings
u ali these positions cots up about SEQ per
nRUns and Air. Brown busy day comes around
even times week
Salt Lake City and savannah. Ca. have about
be same population salt Lake City has 100
niles OF streets Tor police patrol; Savannah mas
es, thau 100 but the number OF policemen IN
alt Lake City i less than one-thiTd Of what It
IN Savannah and the number OF arrests IN the
tab capital IS less than one-half the number in
be Georgia city-a crediI4ble showing for salt
axe City.
Canadian papers note with some degree of
oncern that arrangements are being made TO
evastate q vast forest in the wild St John
istFict north OF Montreal. 4 New York syrdicate