The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-11
NOTES OF THE DAY

ing bullt Tor san Francisco and SEATTLE lines
\ company is being formed to supply L.ndor
residents with rain soft water Tor bath purposes
at ID. gallon.
There is 4 cave on the Jorend Ford Norway,
rom winch at every change OF the weather flashes
OF lightning issue
Swiss COW bells have been introduced into the
fiEaiaFas as protection for cattle against fiL--
eTS- Inc tigers run as s)oa they hear the bells
Londou's Oldest infabitant is woman who
was discovered by the census takers at Chelsea
She Is Mrs Pollock. who entered upon her I01d
year on February . last
No plant not even the nettIe. grows in all
parts OF the world. Only eighteen species are
xIsown, which show themselves at the same time
over haf the land surface.
4 Massachusetts, farmer claims to have found an
apple that was Outw2Tdly perfect but the inside
OF which was entirely consumed by a worm that
evidently crawled N through the stem
According. to the ''Morgautowu POST a tree
struck By lightning at Phillips, " Va. on
January q. IS still burning The tree IS a hiek-
oTy and began burning at the top when struck,
over four months ago
Miss Marian }. Ross, who has taken high honors
at Glasgow and o.her universities has been an
pointed junior house surgeon at MaccIesaeld IN
Ermary. Very few English women have adopted
surgery as 4 profession
The deposits at the mouth OF the Pc. IN TtaIv.
have caused the coast to gain upon the sea SO
rapidly that a point which in The time OF
Augustus was a seaport town Is now eighteen
miles from the Adriaric-
Mrs Clarence H. Nackay has restored the VIII
lam Cullen Bryant library at RosIyu, L. /. where
she has her summer home. The institution was
donated by the great poet when he lived there,
but II had fallen into decay.
To be acceptable as a soldier in the German
army, man must be able 10 swim The best
eF,r To
hundred yards width even when carrying their
clothing rife and ammunition
Dr. Josiah oIdfeld. author Of a new book on
The Death Penalty says that he wrote to all
the Bishops Of the Church Of England Tor their
opinion on the subject. and not one Of them
favored the abolition OF capital punishment
Miss Brechinridge. daughter OF Col. " c. P.
Brcckinridge. who recently attained the distinc-
ton Of being the first woman admitted to nrac-
uce before the Kentucky Court d Appeals, Is !
bachelor Of science and doctor OF philosophy
While walking across the Starr1ca Yiaduct. near
Scranton, Pa, 4 COW vas struck by an express
train and thrown q hundred feet without injury
Her owner now threatens 30 sue the company be-
cause the animal has giTeI! sour milk ever since.
a little country boz visiting his grandmother.
N Boston, cTawlei Under bed about O'Clock IN
the evening and went to sleep Before morning,
the police ali over the city had been instructed
10 look for him, MS parents s7G2PosiHg him TO De
lost.
woman in adrian. Mich. who protested with
out avail against a gambling den which got all
q her husbands weekly earnings set out the
other night with q can of kerosene and burned
the place to the ground She was acquitted. in
court.
King George Of Greece IS the latest victim, in
q small way, Of the irony Of fate- Not long ago
he framed law to fine the owrers OF unregistered
dogs Last week 1t was discovered that his own
four pets had not been taxed, and he vas fined IS
draChuas
Monuments to men still living are quite rare
in this country; but a monument has been started
b the congregation Of the lafayette Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. to erect me
moral 10 the Rev Dr. Theodore L CJlyIer pas
tor emeritus OF that church.
Dealers IN secondhand bread do good busi-
ness IN London. They collect fragments Of bread
ir0Ea restaurants and dust heaps. This escorted
into first and second quality The former Is
baked and then cut into discs Tor SOUP and
the second quality Is sold FOR fJJd for poultry
and domestic animals
The HydrogTaphic and Marine Congress. now IN
session al ChristaTia, discussing the best meth
Cd Of bringing back TO southern waters the an
nBat spawning misTarI0uS Of the herring which
o. late years have largely forsaken tie Baltic and
the North Sea IN favor OF bays and inIets on he
extreme northwestern coast Of NOrIyaE-
Miss Fannie Ruth Robinson. dean Of Oxford
College, has been elected president OF the iusti-
tuition 20 succeed Or. J. 4 Thomas The cleo
ton OF a woman 70 the POST Of president Is
innovation at Oxford, which has always had I
Presbyterian minister for its head Miss Robin
son has been educator for twenty years.
\ tobacco company contributed for the com
fort OF the Confederate veterans during their re-
cent reunion at Memphis Tenn, :, go pounds OF
smoking tobacco, 1900 pipes and 1860 boxes ..
matches The tobacco alone vas worth CD cents
a pound Iobbing rates The 200 pounds was
divided into 1890 rations- Another company
gave the veterans Il, 90 sGti0ns OF chewing to-
bacc0-
General Andre, French Minister OF Var, mas
issued circular to the effect that henceiorth the
rations of eau-de-vie supplied the soldiers and
sendarres VIII be suppressed In time Of peace
Parliament has given the Minister OF War credit
Of So5, ESQ francs TO supply vine cider, OF beer,
and this enabled the Minister to adopt measure
which the excessive Use OF spirits in the army
had rendered imperative
Steps are being taken for the erection n Dun
dec Scotland, Of a granite monument over the
grave Of James Bowman Lindsay who died there
forty years ago Nr. Lindsay was : student Of
electricity. having reached such 4 stage IT his
Investigation as warranted him IN writing pam
phlet on the subject OF tnIegTaphing without
wires. In 1874 he transmitted Geographic signals
through water, sending them across the h2rbOr
OF Dundee
klDE ElA1ru ana ms TlTUtlT are very iona o.
Lord Leicester's family and their wonderful
home which outvardIy IS a cross between the
British Museum and the National Gallery and
internally IS veritable st9Tehouse OF artistic
treasures. Priceless old manuscripts and misSlIs
and exquisite examples Of the old masters are
stored within the walls Of HoIkhaul- and what,
too, perhaps interests the bing less than these
artistic treasures are the magnificent ShG=tborIs
and tho black-faCed sheep, Tor which the estate
: famed.
Vclney Garrison a Chicago shoemaker, subssa5s-
tiatcd his claims as a prophet By dying. Gar
rison was hity-siy years Old and had lived for
years alone Recently he suffered from pneumonia
and drops7 and within the past few days re-
marked 10 his patrons that he would not i've
through the month OF June Early few morn
inGs ago the shoemaker found sitting N
chair. fully clothed and dead NaiEhb0rS re-
allied his prophecies and an inquest was held at
which death WAS found 10 have resulted from
natural causes.
Queen E5rgherita Of Italy vas the sculptor OF
he statue Of the Virgin which crowns Rocca
aeIone. one Of the highest peaks Of the Italian
Alps The cause Of its erection was the accident
which happened at that spot a few years ago. \
company of Alpine militia was marching over
3ocCa MeIonc when a avalanche buried nearly
II. but assistance being quickly available the
ombed soldiers were rescued The incident I'M
pressed the ready sympathy Of the Queen 50
much that she determined to make a statue and
AVE 1t erected on the scene OF the rescue
On February Is. 1902. viii be celebrated
throughout France the centenary of the birth Of
Victor Hugo. By way Of concentrating the
went in a fitting manner L. Paul Neurice has
.fTgrp1 the suru Of % i-f francs 10 the city Of