The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-26
NOTES OF THE DAY.

has been recorded for over a year.
The Notre Dame Church N Paris. which has
heretofore been lighted By candles l. % be
supplied VIth electric lights al cost o. $1,000
MOSCOW has the largest hospital in Europe
With 200 beds. There are s6 physicians and 90
nurses. and about 1900 patients are cared for
annually.
Recent experiments have proved that Austria
lizn iarrow wood IS almost the only wood which
can resist the Expectations Of insects No In
sects vii touch H.
In Italy sundays are usually preferred Tor mar
riages when the principals have never been mar
net before. Widows however. respect an old
custom b marrying on Saturdays
a gold-ueishing machine in the Bank o.
England IS ~ sensitive that ordinary postage
inceN On the dial distance o. SIX inches
Forty thousand medals Of bronze and 900
q steel have Just been made By German Arm
BY the order % the German Emperor for the
soldiers who have been hghting out in China
A boat carrying SIX persons has been towesi on
the Moselle by a Malay kite 81 feet long Head
way was made against somewhat rapid c1T-
rent and the traction could have been increased
by adding more kites
Il IS sid that there Is q benefcsnt provision in
Denmark that when a nan gets so drunk as 70
need medical attention the doctors bin must be
paid BY the proprietor Of the tavern where the
lneorlate gOt his last drink
A petrihed forest covering an area Of 100
square miles. has existed FOR centuries ia An
roma. Thousands and thousands % petrifed logs
strrw the ground, and represent beautiful shades
Of pima, purple. red. grey, blue, and yellow
A recent Government census Of India contains
a remarkable statement in reference % youthful
marriages. There are in that country 6.Ol6.753
girls between Eve and nine years Of age vino have
been or arc wives Over 10000 Of them are Wild
0ws-
The burning mountain Of M0nret. in Avey-
ron, France. which is often mistaken Tor active
volcano. because pillar q cloud rises from IL
by DAY and a pillar Of FIRE by night. IS IN reality
a coal mine which has been burning for several
years
Very little is known about hay fever, save that
il Is a very disagreeable complaint. but Cleve-
land paper adds to such knowledge as there Is
the information that educated persons most
likely 90 be- attacked hv H. Il Is admitted that
this discrimination in the disease is remarkable
and inca IlaII.llc. but that IL is true
Torpedo tubes made Of aluminium instead Of
steel have been placed on board OF two destroy
ers at Portsmouth The use Of these tubes az
present is experimental but 80 considerable VIII
be the saving IN ueight-4n important matter
in connection with light craft like desJroyers-
that n successful aluminium tubes viii be gen
orally used IN place Of steel tubes
Here are some names Of Maine girls which are
rather striking 20 say the least They are bona
fde uames. and for the suggestion Of owners
sweet and fair they distance anything conceived
by the noyeists There is Miss Daisy Peach.
school teacher Of Bar Harbor; Miss Pearl FROST
a stenoETZpher over IN Lewiston Miss Cherry
Bangs u Phillips and Miss MAY Blossom. a New
Hampshire girl. who Is visiting friends IN Lewis
ton
For a number Of years the largest ships using
the Suez Canal have sailed under the German
flag further, Germany has, the average,
larger ships than England for while the aver
age size Of the German vessels Is ABB registered
tons. the average size q British vessels Is only
f0I6 tons Twenty years ago only fifteen Ger
vessels passed the canal, and now the nun
Der hzs reached 46Z-
The south Dcrbyshire miners II England de-
rnand an advance Of wages in consequence Of
candles having been replaced in some mines by
safety lamps The dispute came recently 70 ar
bItration at Nottingham 1t Is ruled that the
miners are entitled % compensation when using
safety lamps the award beng a penny per Ton
extra II i not stated. however. whether Il Is
the deficiency II lght OF the alleged injury %
eyesiEht by the safety lamps that lowers the
miners working capacity
Poplar trees have been marked for slaughter in
Portland. ore. The city has many Of this kind
Of tree which were planted when the city vas
growing. and when shade trees Of any other va
rIeJy. except naples, were scarce The objection
the tree is its trespassIng on the sewers lt Is
a fast-gr0v5ng tree, and graceful when growing.
but 10 reaches far with its roots especially 70
ind water, and the slender rootlets penetrate
the smallest crack IN the teulcottl sewers for-n-
Ing masses Of slender roots inside. and eventually
choking the sewer
The traveller over the Kansas prairies fads
many towns that once had water works systems
now containing only dozen people The FIRE
plugs are sticking out IN the buffalo grass. and
IL .H-Ha ~ md
the r1OStiug places @ the prairie owls The ten
deucy % clean uu the deserted hui .dln-s Is TAX
ing away MANY o. these features The court
house Of what vas Garfield county has recently
become the property IL r. Herman and he lives
In the ssI-uptous building. which did rot cost
him a cent. he Eumesteaded the quar- er sec
tioH after the county organization MAS alan-
doned-
The dogs Of war have been more than a
figure Of speech for thousands Of wears They
were used IN Egypt il the wear 800 B. C.. The
Romans the Teutons and other fighting nations
Of antiquity depended much or them for sentinel
and defence purposes In the Middle Age they
said Co have even worn arnor- Lake the
foxes with the burning brands in The fields OF
the PhIlIsrIucs. sometimes packs Of them With
port fires their hacks. carried flames and de-
struction into beleaguerrd town or camp. The
Spanish DISCOVERIES used bloodhounds Ia tracking
the Indians in this country. and dogs were Ike
wise u Is stated, made OF service by our arm
les tie Philippines
Dr. George ?. Becker. Of the United States
Geological Survey. SAYS that copper deposits in
the province OF Lepanto. near Mount Data have
been worked by the Igouotes since before the
spanish discovery Of the Philippine archipelago
Tfles barbarians, who heathsnS living IN
squal0r, have developed industrislly % q
prisingiy high point. and the skill they exhibit
IN the extraction and working q metal Is eN-
traordinary- They turn out copper kettles no
less than three and a half feet in diameter. and
they also make numerous kinds OF implements
$50 20 1870 they exported fully twenty tons Of
copper utensils and IngotS-
globe which was commenced in the year
been placed in the building Of the Academy q
Sciences al Tsarskoc-SeIo- This curious relic Is
eleven feet in diameter and made of copper The
outside represents the earth. and the inside the
celestial spheres of the world. There Is a d0or
which there Is a round table with space Tor
twelve people 70 SIT By means OF certain ar-
planes the globe can be made 90 rev0lve upon
It's axis II weighs three and Uno-lalf tons
and WAS presented 90 the Academy 1t Science iu
I555 Lut has Up 90 this time been In the zoCloei-
cal museum az Tsarss Oe-Seio-
since the days Of Liehig the various German
Governments have displayed increasing arpre-
citation Of theoretic and practical education IN
chemistry The result Of this policy u shown
in the report Of Dr. F. Rose. His Msis~ty's
Consul AZ Stuttgart In brief 10 is this-that
Germany stands today the foremost country ia
ihe world Iu all thISe industries depending u-.nu
the application Of chemical principles ta man
uiacrure. Tie devotion of few hundred Thou
sand pounds per aHnu1u 90 that one science which
far more than all others l~ concerned with the