The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-10-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The new p1-roafce telephone system % Lon
con "iH cover. when completed, an area II
go square uls.ss-
Al Sl.-s. in Argentina "a l-t % boss and
g'r.s who have failed % attend school is Pu5-
[ i->-ed ln t-e newspapers.
m -Ne Ode seven stars INN. MaucHe---r
boasts tle oldest p.aIe house iu an EE1-llL-
I ll has been licensed for a55 years
There are I'm che world 900 cities als5u- more
l-1A l'.-.H" inhabitants eleH- - lsviu1 more
than Iupto1p.
pores i' The square inch. o. these pores we're
united end 20 end taey would measure nearly
five miles.
The common and familiar thread spun by the
spider D. 30 tine tlat 1900 miles at it enough
90 90 arolnd the world would weigh only ei-at
ounces
among the pets % the Sultan OF Morocco are
seven lions These Do permits o. range the
courtyarcs of the palace 40 night to act As
s1arcs to the royal h8rem-
There is iu existence an uu-epealed law in
SNilzarland which flrbids TIE g...4r-7. 1F hsls
laore than eighteen iuches IN diameter. artificial
ally.
Leeds. England, has q teetotaI w0rkh5rze The
cost Of iUtozIc4uts in the Institution is under
fsrthing per head per anuura. brandy being
me only stlmu-ant used, and that solely ior
the lHa-naTy patients
Georgia farmers and planters are Appealing 70
negroes % help them With their turpen,lne
getting Esiiders Of new gotten mills are
greaiy concerned as % where they VIII geI
hands % run their mills.
An enormous capital is suEk in the mineral
water industry in Great Britain It Is probably
not oversstinatins the asure 10 put It at SIS
oin"J1. while the workers employed VIII mum
Bcr not far short Of 10000.
Tie c0-ored people Of Cuba have a kind q
rattle made o. Castillo cane with had seeds.
about tie SIZE Of marbles, placed inside TO
produce the effect desired. u j. used in dances
as an aeeo1npanlueut FOR guitar
An American Bishop iu China writes Of an or
dilati0n service In which he and four natives saok
part At the close. after the congregation had
gone out, there vas dl-ieH.ng noise caused by
hrecracaers with which the native Christians eE-
pressed u.er l9y and Their C0usrstI-1tIous 90 the
newly ordained
A notable sale Of obsolete and unseryioesbIs
small arms vii be held at the Mare Island
Navy Yard on October 81 ard the occasion
wlL De notable for the reason shat much %
the usaterI9. vll embrace guns 1f the most Gu
nous and oid-fasaiolsd designs A barge part
% the collection includes many arms brought
.ram the hatrletelds of samoa
The black hauLkerlhief which the saiIo- Of
che EnzIisa navy knots around his throat was
n-st worn IS mourning for Nelson. and has ever
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around the broad blue collar OF the sall1rs
jumper commemorate the victories % Ira
talsar- Copenhagen, and the Me The broad
blue collar itself IS older than Nelson. and
first adopted az that period which sslIa-, pIas-
tered their hair into s-ir pigJad With sfelss
and powder
Catherine designed and built the Cathedral OF
81 Isaac. one Of the four yrandest churches in
the world The foundations cost million dol
lars, and the value OF the eight pillars Of
ID q. HT. ire "a -r.Hr an
elcu- is beyond computation Qtarries oi ma-a-
cHlte were practically destroyed ia order 70
obtain mon0lIrhs Of that precious stone Of suf-
hg-ert size % support the roof Of the C1Lhe-
oral The ll2 pillars Of p0rpaEry. o. fee- hlzh
and feet IN diameter. which appear on Lne
FOUR sides Of the temple. are said 10 De the
largest and finest mon0lIths IN existence
An e-epLaut-catcher seems TO be needed il
India On the railroad between Bengal and
Assam A. the superintendent OF the line vas
making Inspection trap over IL on the night
q July II last. Whlle passing Through the great
Nau.rar forest the tram a stop With
jolt that threw the travellers out Of their berths-
IL had run INTO herd NJ Hl-c elephants which
were rr0tJIus down the track. the Einlu1sJ u
which had both legs broken. and thrown into
the ditch, ahlle the enEiaem4n counted seEca
others which got away This vas uoJ tEe hrst
time tLaL Mid elephants had g1- the Lrael.
and ordinary fences and c4-,l-guarIs are 10 pro
lection
Neu Guinea is just n1U suffering IRON a Fisi-
tatiou of Vhoopias cauSG- This Is the frss
time that tae uaLaly has occurred there, and
AS usual in such cases it Is spreading Ike
wiI6fre. u Is EeII known thai Infectious dis
cases occurring among hitherto unattached Pe0-
pie rage with -l= greatest vIr--eUce and ULoJ2-
ING cough IN New Guinea IS no exception. the
natives are diving By hundreds Being at
Joss 90 account Jog me 1-z1.J -cal-Er tnr IA
tvss attribute lt % the altclcraf OF heir neigh
aurs. with tle result thar there have been many
in-e-lr-a1l and mterTl--ase nights and m1za1-
crss-
The United states. the greatest paper pro-
duein- country of the word is also the one
IN which there is the greatest demand Tor IT,
both absolutely and per capita, and 10 coase-
guguce very little American paper has here
tr-a-e been exported OF recent Telr- how
ever. the American manufacture has begun
o. reach our for his share ut the trace IN for
eI-u UarsetS- In the year l>.- American cx-
ports 90 paper uiaHu-4eture- Of paper and
wood pulp were valued az S4----s-G- IN ISIS
they had advanced IJ >5.I64-l7, and il l,55
Jaag reached >G.Z55.5lI- Even ln the Ias--naued
year the United states held only eighth place
as an exporter of paper p-oe---s-
The enormous strides IN the deg0- opmeut Of
teI,-rarHy in the nineteenth century is wsu
Illustrated by Sir " Il. Pr-a-e h. C. B.. in
an English Magazine Tie progress iu speed
is shown bv tha statement tdlr whereas Ia
$50 The number az words IIlr could BE- sent
per minute was only eighty. I'D l-tJ the number
gt words per minute had increased Oh EJa In
contrast tg The @ s5f.Ill messages despatched in
ti- United Kingdom 90 q COST ~ E6--.-1l m
1870 last year -l-5l5.-ll rela--lIs were sent.
bringing iu revenue Of E5.4ls-55S- The total
number of Government and private cables in
the world IS Dol. L5-+. covering length IN
nautical miles 81 -.SS5. i-Z-
There is 10 wilderness where discarded
milk TIN does not glitter IN tile sum- Dc has
bIsz-f the way across Afriea, iy has been very
near 10 JEe Pole. In the Businesses Of North
eru Luzou where an Amariran face had never