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

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Perfumes we've INTRODUCED into srsf, bv ,s.
4l1o9' VINO brought ma.- recipes Cor uskiav
Lubbock. free city q the Geo.. p-Bi--
/ has reis~erte,l its right 90 uiut IT'S oou t-t.
privilege in 7seyaace since lcli
/ Prince Carl Of Rouu4nia Is thirteenth IN or
/ der Of succession 90 the British throne the Cer-
man Emperor twenty-Sfth.
A scvcn-st0ry building in Chicago las just been
( raised with Jacks tWeHty-one and one-haIf Ret
without cracAlng pane q glass iHisring a
I aaIl.
| The steam yacht Arrow. being built br Lv-
I sander Wright, Of Newark. Tor CnarAs r. Flint
Is expected 20 develop a speed Of forty knots an
new line Of steamers % ply between Tacoma
1nd Liverpool via the Suez Canal, touching 40
Manila and other PhiliDp:He ports. comprising
nine ships, is announced
The British Parliament is busy at present in
investigating the various electric railway
schemes that have been projected in an directions
~ London since the opening Of the Central Lon
don Electric Railway
The experiments tried during the Ashantes
campaign by the British officers with che mega
phone for giving orders were Unsuccessful owing
% the ulick jungle and winding E.-hs prevent
ng the sound from travelling.
The Ssuth Dakota Geological survey expedition
into che Grand River region has been abandoned
on account Of the breaking out OF smallpox in
the Indian reservation where considerable % the
WORK would have 10 be done
The leader Of the New south Wales oppo-
sition threatens % bring forward a motion q
consurc when the house meets referring % the
non-p2yInent by Government Of the arrears Of
pay % soldiers returned from south sfrica
Hydraulic pressure is being used AZ st. Etienne
in making steel molds tapering tow
ard Che top by pressure from the bottom in
stead Of from the top Of the casting ID Is said
% produce more homogeneous steel and give
better results generally.
A German society Of engineers has in contem-
plation the preparation Of international tech
nical dictionary. % BE- published in English
French. and German The object Is % secure
completeness aud identity Of meaning in the use
OF technical words
1t is reported that a camera has been placed
so as to take each day one picture Of the new
building % the department % physics q the
Cornell University. now being constructed, with
the object Of producing hereafter a moving pic
tlre q the building from its beginning 90 It's
completion
hundred years hence writers who sketch the
history Of the twentieth century wil doubles
express astonishment that al its dawn civilized
communities that had long followed the practice
o. aruhciallg heating their dwellings in winter
had not yet adopted the equally easy and safer
custom OF cooling them in summer
Three years ago. says the London Nail"
British company secured contract to supply
tie whole equipment Of electric tramuays in
Barcelona and Madrid No firm IN England could
manufacture the articles required The company
executed the contract. but simply in the ca
pacity Of selling agents FOR American Inauufsc-
turers.
There has been discovered in China a curious
picture, evidently Of great antiquity. which IS
supposed to represent Noah's Ark resting on the
top Of Mount Ararat- A Is web known. the
religious literature o. almost every nation and
race contains account Of delJ-ye. buc
Chinese manuscript recently unearthed follows
very closely to the story recorded IN the Bible.
a well-knovn Cardiff golf player tells re-
uarkabIe story He was playing at PorthcaUl
and after a long drive the bali could not be
found There were numbers Of rabbit holes AZ
the spot where the bail had been seen 10 fall
and il was supposed that the bali fell in one
Of these Next morning the gentlemen vas pass
Ing thu place when ne saW his lost bail about
FOOT from one q the holes. II is supposed that
the rabbits Directing 70 the bail. had pushed II
The French Consul at Mcngtze in upp-r Hong
kong, reports curious source q wealth. i lies
in the wood mines. the wood being what is seft
Of what was originally a pine forest which the
earth has swallowed in some catacIvsm some Of
the trees. he says. are yard IN diameter. and
which covers them Il depth Of about eight
y ards. The wood from these timber mines being
thought 90 b. imperishabIe by the Chinese. Is
glady bought BY them for collins.
Some idea Of the value Of the coal deposits
in Indian Territory can be gained when II is
known the average thickness Of the vein Is four
feet, which wiz produce 400 tons an aeree.
These lands are leased in lots Of go acres each.
which means that $4,000 10 4.900O15 tons can
De- produced by those leasing the land. % this
output the lesSces pay ROYALTY Of S cents a ton
The output during the last year was J. 90. I2-.
interests Of the Chicsasaw and ChoetaW Indians
are protected.
Maryland is about % become the home OF a
new industry. Horace A. Field. who has a large
Angora goat farm in northern Pennsylvania has
been attracted by the cheapness Of land in Prince
George and Charles counties. in the former
State and has purchased a large tract on which
soii and climate Of Msryla are thought 20 be-
peculiarly adapted % the raising Of Auzura goats
and II Is promised that In the near future herd
Of these animals. numbering 400 VIII De roam
lnG the Charles county hills
The great tiffany is authority for the state
ment thar The finest pink pearls IN the world
come from the mountain streams In Tennessee.
and it is interesting TO observe how rapidly fash
ion Is approprating the finest Of these gems for
her own in~Istent needs Only those Of perfect
and ti- prices were cuTresu0ndingly high Many
.e1lly beautiful pearls that were not round nor
1ear-Sbaped were actually flung into the water
lSaIn because Of their odd shapes that rendered
them yaIUeIess-
AT a recent meeting Of the Paris Academy Of
sciences. NJ Berthel0t discussed Egyptian metals
md the presence Of platinum among the charac-
srs Of the hier0Elyphic inscription A metal
ic box c. cred with Inscriptions. and dating
roU about the year 200 B. C.. had a portion %
me 0f its characters made Of an ALLOW of pizri-
lum- The specimen VAS too small for a com
llcte analysis but from is behavior toward aqua
.e-ia IL appeared % De native platinum. pos
lhly obtained from the alIuvial deposits of NJ
lia or the upper regions Of the Nile Valley
Among the historical big gold nuggets found
in various parts Of the world there have been
some wonderful yellow Jumps In Cabarrus
county. North Carolina. one vas found in $50
which weighed 81 pounds rroy- In 1872 the gold
fields Of ZlatouSt. ia the raj. gave a nugget
% 90 pounds troy The Victoria fAustralial mug
get weighed lf6 pounds and peHnyUeights. q
which only ounces were foreign rock. and the
3lil4rat australia nugget WAS 80 pounds heavier
-er. The largest uu-get ever found was also dug
n AJl>tralia-the sarah Sands.' named for
lr-of loved one 10 reached the astonishing
weight q 25S pounds and q ounces troy
The roof garden owes It's existence 90 American
ingenuity. There Is nothing quite IKE il in
Europe and neither London nor Paris is abreast
q New York IN this most delightful Of au.use-
uent places Improved iron and steel construc-
ion as known iR this country has not been IN
reduced abroad and. until it Is the danger of
ire IN the great cities with Old-fashiOned build
n.S Wia forbid the construction ot roof gardens
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