The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.

/ present summer
| A curious cssfon prevails in Korea. II a nan
meets his wife in the street he ienores her -.
| e''ee ana passes her As II she were stranger
/ In Noo,Vieh. Ne, pine tree and birch rec
| have grown So Close together that tbei- t-7r,t-
nave united Pine branches grow on one side and
/ birch on the other
The big grey kangaroo o. Australia measures
about seven feet from the tin % It's no. IN ~
! e,Id q ITS tail He can run faster than borse
aai clear thirty feet at q jump.
Georgia man who moved to kansas some
81" ago writes This IS the best country I
ever SAN Ny wife IS chief u police. and shs
! has promised me a job on the force"
Experts 6slre there is q. 800 90 90 worth ~
gold m the mining area 81 the Rand within
/ reach q modern mining appliance A similar
l-.su.st'on shows 6oooooo0.ooo tons Of coal
The United States gets away with l221 o00O0O
21ll"iA OF beer m twelvemonth but it's a big
( country, and proportionately By no means 70
thirsty for the amber fluid several others
Fans originated in the western countrie, and
vere first universally made o. peacock ostrich. or
parrot feathers Three hundred years ago. We
are told. the men used fans, and were not con-
>idered efeminate-
Burglars find the telephone very useful in their
business They ring up the residences q people
IN View Rochelle. y. Y. and when they ind the
residents are absent they get their tools and Al
The nests Of South American hornets are used
10y the natives as baskets. being light. strong.
and - tight a. 20 be waterproof They are
e-eared q the partitions and cells Of ~ int
LlpI. anu with handles affixed. make usefal do
nestle utensils
recent discoveries in jerusalem prove that the 4
ancient aqueduct which brought water trom
bethlehem through the Hinnah Valley. thought
Co be the work 0f Herod vas built 81 tha So
EtfUE NrFerEg na A
tons 20 that eject have been found
4 wager was made by a resident Of London
that he could cook plum pedding ten feet be-
meath the surface q the Thames lie won tie
bet by placing the pudding in a TIN ease and
putting the whole IN a sack % lime. The heat
~ the lime Sl1ckirg ULen IL came IN contact I
win me water, was sufficient % cook the padding
The Duke Of Fife. Lord Lieutenant o. Lon Z
Con. on July q. formally opened and dedicated 4
20 the use q the public forever H0rniman's 4
Museum. Library. and recreation grounds. Forest
Hili- Mr. Hornlman's gift % the people % Lon
Don represents more than a sum q EIGl 90 or
sJ0op0. for IN addition 10 the contents ~ -ba
museum and the land surrounding IT, the han
tiiul new building has cast E4QC00. or sz00.-
German physician SAYS the decrease Of height
begins as early as the age o. thirty-sve years 4
At thirty, We are told, the human body has
IeN years, after which the growing dosn'
process begins At hrst and for many years the
process Is 50 sloW As 70 b almost irperc~ptibl-
but az the axe Of about sixty il begins 70 be
noticeable, and after seventy even though the
veteran does not stoop al all. the fact that he
Is growing down becomes apparent 10 eTgry-
one who sees him
The corn crop is the most valuable crop in
the country The crop Of 100 was the largest,
except that Of ls97. in our history he total
UrflFrr- q
little more than 70 per cent was exported Ths
wheat product Of the sane year Aggregated 81
ai- SO bushels OF this 81 per cent Uas nj
abroad The cotton crop for this year amounted
10 a.f5I,uo2,y42 pounds Of which more thaa IS
Ter cent went abroad The value Of tksse crous
were IS follows Corn. sg4l. 900 900: uheaf So
10000; cotton, SS57. 10000
AArconPs wireies teiezraphy uorksS admirably
around New York city until IL met a Stumbling
bloch IN the great buildings Of steel and iron
That looms skyward On Manhattan Island. One
day recently the Kaiser Wilhelm der Cross ssiled
for Europe and undertook 70 keep ID co7uru,,li-
cation with the Cunarder LucaEi1 a she Iav AZ
her pier n the North River All vent weIl
until the big Kaiser passed the Battery. when Il
> sad that the Instruments Of the Lucania
i4iled 70 respond The reason ascribed Was that
mere are was too much steel and iron IN New.
AcTA's Big downtown buildings
When girls are chosen FOR the new Government
telephone service in London SAYS the .I.5nd1n
---t-N7S -l4e EDUCATIONAL Silks
into insisnifcInce before the physiological test.
No girl viii be employed if she is below feet
2 inches high IN her stocking feet She must
Posses good hearing have defect o. speech.
and must be tested by viyi voce exzm5u1ri-rr in
winch particular attention s. 70 be paid 10 ar
ucuiatiOn. pitch q voice and general-Seis-rrs--
session Any candidate showing any indication
81 nervousness, hysteria, want Of self-posscssion
or q strongly marked tUInE shall De rejected The
majority VII probably pass in seif-posssssion,
hui dialect Is a severe test
'-Of the interesting numisnatic finds which
Dr. Carl Peters has Just brought home with h:n
from Central Africa" SAYS the London Tee
graph, perhaps the chief Is a Portuguese coin,
IN splendid state % preservation. which bears
The date o. l5-c- This would De about the time
that HCUem. the first PortuzUssa commander.
went % Mauicaland. and Just after the Parta-
Guese took possession OF Inyaea- The azure Of
The Egyptian goddess Isis. upon which mlc1
store Is -1'u- and which Is supposed % date back
o. che year Z5"a b. c. was discovered Or a ne
g-o m a garden little % the west Of Fura
station These VIII be forwarded IN due course 70
the British Museum for Identification.
A curious menace 20 brick street paving las
come TO light in Council Bluffs, Iowa Numerous
ants began buuoVinE into the sand beneath the
bricks and removed So much Of II 20 other and
unknown quarters that the CITY engineer vas
called IN 90 repair the damages one street was
made unit for travel fur several blocks While
inve'tlgating what was going on. the officials
witnessed a hattie betwesnt arsuv Of red and
back ants The latter were intrcnched in their
home. when the former made a raid upon them.
routing and driving out The reds SVarmed
across the street and moved in solid a-rly some
nifty feet down the avenue. there attacked the
enemy. broke into their home. and carried Of
large number Of Gigs The battle Vas sauguuzry,
and lasted fully half an hour.
Pathetic and interesting are she methods
adopted in warm weather by teneuen5-house
jewellers 10 get q little sleep in the night Many
Of them use the roofs for sleeping pllccs- Others
tener the bare steps Of StoopS. StilI Others walk
the streets IN the neighbOrhood Of their teseeu-s
unit! the cool 81 the early morning makes IL pos
SIhle 20 stay IN their rooms To give re-t 4ad
sleep 20 the little ones. even the roadway pave
meut Is used. Parents. grandparents. brothers
its carriage OF m a chair and perhaps carried IN
arms and rolled or carried until &c hnl~ FORGET
fllnCSs % ~ discomfort IN sleep. When one
nurse gecs tired some other member ot tire
family takes II, and the good work goes on guyI
daylight
Taking frogs 20 market as a business has so
steadily increased during recent years rh1s. lc-
oorLing % the estimate q the United states
Fish Commission, the annual catch in this erur-
try is bur little Tess than 2o0o.0O0 frogs. WIKI
a total value 90 the hunters Of about $4,000
and corresponding cost 90 the Consumer q
not Tess than $1,000 To all sections q. -te
niJed States freq hunting has been carried ON.
u fifteen Of the states 10 such an extent that e
may be- said To Pee ot evCuomir importance. 50
important has the industry beeume-the United
States consuming five times the amount of frog
LEGS used IN FTluCc-tlut The Fish Commission
has iuT years busted itself trllu t1 devise
.ar TIE artificial breeding az frogs 90 he t.~.L
Tor the market. the natural sources ci the
1atraCha threatening 20 become exhausted