The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-20
NOTES OF The DAY

Hzlu be- forth ia
San Francisco schools.
over seven thousand persons are ernploysd in
the fishing industry on the Mississippi RIVER
and its minor tributaries.
Pupils IN the schools Of SaToay are REQUIRED
20 commit TO memory 81 Bibliral verses sad
ls2 verses OF hymns IN addition 20 the cate
chiSrB.
Alfred the Great founded the University Of
Oxford IN $50 4 D. zhile an academic fr.tifu-
Ton Hss founded st CaruHzidqe by sisgbeEt, kiag
@: last Anglia. IS far back G4f A. D.
New Jersey amply eompensates her state
GERS The Governor receives salary 81 s.
90 a year; the Secretary Of State $3.50 and fe-
which make she office a very lucrative ore.
Attorney General s1.OG1 and the state Tse3s-lr
and Comptroller $500 each
Nr Baldwin has shipped forty balloons TO
Tromsoe for Use in thc North Pole expedition
These balloons are not intended 10 carry pas
senS=rs- but each WIN have ten messenger buoy
alta, ned, which viii be liberated automatically
thus recording the route nortbWard
Ohio chooses lis Covcruo.s for terms OF q,
years in the year preceding and in the "
following each Presidential contest can't
date for Governor Of Ohio runs, therefore. in od
years lie has no veto power. and, therefor,
very little sctual control over legislation at Co
IumbUs
The Vermont custom Of not hanging a con-
ing of the desth sentence upon him Is founded
upon the assumption that any possible Doubt
as % his guilt viii be removed in that time,
and ali dan-er Of putting an innocent man 70
death Is thus eliminated
The Prlsssian Government, in order to suppress
the growing discomfort of the Poles ia Eastern
Prussia has arrested sixty leaders Of anti
German societies The agitation has been Iuten-
si5ed By an edict forbidding Polish clerg-Hea
10 give religious instruction in the national
schools in the Polish language
The ''Irish-American'' declares Of the 200 men
appointed to the New York police force BY Com
missioner Murphy. only l3c have Irish names
OF the other seventy new policemen 30 are Ger
mans-a nationality whose representation IS IL
cEeasins-and the remaining 30 English,
American, Spanish. and Russian.
An English army officer who has $ close ac-
quaintaace with both the French and the Ger
man armies has been endeavorirs to arrive at
the average amount per snnuu which IL costs
sDbaItern In England France. ard Germany %
live IN the army. The figures he gives are:
France S499j Germany. 500 England, 100
Last week the people Of western Missouri ex-
Ploded several hundred sticks Of dynamite in the
hope that it would cause rain But as Il faiied
70 % 50 theS have decided to resort to religion
instead q science and N johnson county they
are hridinE daily VTayer-rneetings for ram If
fain does not come, the meetings VIII be held
twice a day
Dover. Ire capital Of Delaware. cannot be cor
rectiy described thriving town in respect
70 its growth in population. which Is less than
that CT Duck Greek Hundred. in the 5su1e
comfy. and also less tnsr that Of Little creek
Hundred in Sussex county Dover had BIS the
last census population Of 3 $50 The population
OF Wilmington was 76.5
The British Government intends utilizing cy-
cIists fJr the purpose Of guarding the railway
IN South Africa This i commended as- an ar-
MA
Of the cycllst IN warfare. his difficulty OF get
ting over rough and broken ground as CON-
pared with the horsemsn. are conceded. It Is
SAID that IN the matter OF railway guarding
the cyclist IS more useful
Old mirrors IN old-tirne gilt frames espe-
cially oval ones, are quite fad Of fashionable
folk very smart house recently furnished
for Z wealthy New Yorker had lo-y mahogany
buffet IN the diEzi7E-T0om. and over I q very
handsome mirror IN triple effect Tie three
pieces OF mirror were oval. the centre one Z
trjfe larger than the two end oneS- Then the
beautiful gilt frame bound them ali together,
giving an eject Of oneness
The big 6r tree. forry-four feet in cfregIrnfer-
ence- which grew one mile vest Of Arlington,
Wash has been cut down. and nine feet of
the base, with a cut for the floor and another
for the roof, has been shipped 70 Everett 10 be
converted into ofice for Commissioner John
stou at the PaH-AmeriCan Exposition The foor
part IS fifteen feet IN diameter, and the roof ten
aad cne-haif feet in diameter
About a year ago the Hawaiian Government
authorized the destruction by hre Of a number
Of plague infected buildings in Honolulu. thus
sowing tEe seed o; . crop OF claims now nearly
ready for harvesting. A million and a bali vas
appropriated 10 meet them but they already
exceea S5,510-5ss2, and are still coming IN. Most
Of the claimants are Cinnamon, the plague in
fected district having embraced nearly the whole
Of Honciuig,s Chinatown.
Washington Market the largest in View York,
was established IN 1913 Fulton Market IN 1891,
Cathariue in ITs6. Centre Market, part Of which
Is now used for court purposes. II 1917, and
Clinton Market II 1870. jefferson Market e
poses and IoHPFIHs- established IN 1876 Is p=rr-
" used srmOTy- Hallab0ut Market
Brooklyn was opened II 1854. Harlem Nari-et,
on East 0ne Hundred and Third Street. il 1891,
and y est Washington Market IN 1859.
While exc=vuting for the sewers x Decatur,
Ala. edne sCiay afternoon the UoElunen found
what IS believed To be 4 relic OF the Revolution
ary war. Buried under eight feet OF Garth
saber- still clutched by q skeleton hand. vas
found Nearby skull and several other human
Zones were uHeartked- Il Is believed that the
s-btT belonged 10 Revolutionary general as
some OF the older citizens remember their fore
fathers telling OF an American officer having
been killed and buried near that spot The
weapon Is IN good state Of preservation
The natural fertility of Sicily Is indeed re-
markabIe- Without the use Of fertilizers three
different erowths-oiivcs, vines and wheat
flourish in close proximity. Great sections al
ready srtifcisliy WaJered are among the garden
spots OF the world The Piano del CapFucinui-'
at Trapani, the western shore the faT-fsmed
"ConcS FOro." near Palermo. and the entire
eastern coast north Of CatSnia are sections which
surpsSS IT fertility the favored valleys cf TIs-
gauy- Already 100000 orange trees. OF two
thirds OF the total number grown IN Italy.
| flourish on the island. while cotton and Hnseed-
the almond, the olive. the carob, and the max
DARN are extensively raised
Taking frogs for market as business has
so steadily increased during recent years that,
according to the estimate Of the United States
Fish Commission, the annual catch IN this c0un-
Try is but little less than 2.C10.c4o frosS with
i total value 70 the hunters Of about sIoo.JoO
and a corresponding cost 10 che consumers Of
United states frog hunting has been carried on.
in fifteen OF the States TO such an extent that
II NAV be said o. be Of economic i-up0rfauce.
SO important has the industry hecoma-the
United States consuming FIVE times the amount
OF frog legs used IN FTaHgC-that the Fish Com
mission has for years busted itself irving 10 de-
wise means Tor the artificial breeding Of fzoSs
10 be used for market. the natural sources Of
the batrachla threatening 10 become exhausted
Near Marquette, Wis, an old nan has lived
several years in tree home. He Is a FIST
class cabinet-makcr, and when he moved from
Detroit TO Marquette he took I'd his resi-
dence in the hollow trunk OF tree near that
town. The tree Is a huge linden that has been
sawed of about fifteen feet from the ground,
and IN 1t the occupant has brought 10 bear his
accomplishments as 4 workman 10 decorate his
queer abode artisticaIIy- door and 4 window
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