The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

/ Africa
/ The umbrella and parasol we're used BY the
Eastern nations many centuries before the Chris
I tan era The oldest chinavare shows pictures
I Of ladies and mandarins shaded bv uarssols ..
patterns similar % those n0W IN use
The first man in the Boston directory is Aarold
and the last Is Zysick The shortest is Re
and the longest is Schneckenbcrger VEINS IA
tCamSteT, Jupiter a lahorer Mars a watrhrnan
Neptune baker, and Char0n hospital cook
Lord salisbury said recently that in his opinion
/ the art o. public Speaking vas merely cue--
ton Of training Anyone" he added who
knows his language. is a good observer. has
FAIR memory, and has something 70 say can say
it IN public and win applause"
The Jordan is the 'Desceuder-'' During its
course il falls over 100 feet At no point Is
IL Havigable. even by a snail craft. % anv
considerable distance and presents the UNIQUE
spectacle Of a river which has never been navi-
gated flowing into a sea which contains not one
living creature.
Jovial once meant the type Of character sup
posed 90 belong TO all persons who we're born
when the planet Jupiter. J0ve. was m the
ascendant They were Supposed % poses more
% the cheerful elements Of character than others
and hence % partase Of the benign qualities
attributed 10 the Father Of the Gods
one o. the cuiosities q international trade e
found in the shipment o. Marylan coal % Hall
fax, which is in close prozimity 20 the Louis
burg mines A regular line q steamers Is carry
ing LouisHurg coal % New England mauufactu--
er-- Noyd Ncutlans are nov complaining % the
quality Ci this article and have ordered the
Maryland product for a trial
Among the questions sent out oy a school e.
aminer was the following example in arithrne-
tic III one horse can run a mile in ! minute
~ seconds. and another mile in minutes.
N.H H-aH b. ID.
match race of two miles A scholar returned
the question with this attached. Il vii have
nothing to do with horse racing
Sailors. as g rule. 30 not like 20 buckle down
% study, nor % acquire a neE nautical yocabu-
larry but they ind that maritime terms and
methods have changed materially since the old
est Of them used 90 splice the main brace
Machinery has displaced sail power % such an
extent that a sailor rarely ha, % 20 aiost. Bow
line. reef points. and many other terms are be-
coming unknown 20 the seadogs-
The newest plan for attracting people TO church
is 90 deliver the sermon by means Of phone
graph The credit for the idea belong to Rev
T.. Selby Henrey incumbent Of 81 Georges. Ola
Brentford, who has introduced IL with consider
able success Men from the gas works, women
from laundry IN the neighh0rhood and many
others attended the first service IL their working
clothes-Uhich Is precisely what was desired.
A curious thing about children Of Russian
i--N---' - @A'At -i-t- -tlsHA 81 AAc-AleA OK
sunburned Ike the Children Of other uatioualirieS
with protection but single garment. and vet
low hair. they VIII play all day II the streets
with no protection but a single garment, and Vet
never show the slightest trace OF freckles or
Sllnburn- An explanation Of TINS Is that there is
said 90 be no yellow pigment IN their skin
The eight DAYS period OF general mourning
which Emperor William ordered 20 be observed
throughout the Empire on the death Of him moth
er. and which included the closing OF all the
theaJres concert halls. and other places Of
amusement. VAS severe blow % the play people
q Prussia The contracts OF the PLAYERS contain.
As a rue sIlpul4tion according 70 which no
salary shall De- paid during a PERIOD % general
mourning which continues for more than three
days.
Paris, Is everybody knows, raises large por-
ton % its revenues by means Of tolls collected
or breadstufIs, spirits and suBdzr produce pass
ing through the city gate. and. Of course. more
OF less smuggling goes on man was arrested
recently az the O-rroi the officials having got
Information that he Struggled spirits IN the tires
81 has bicycle Their Information proved cor
rect The duty on spirits j. 90 large that it *
probable a large amount OF liquor i su,lggied IN
This fashion
The succession Of Roosevelt calls attention 70
the fact that in ancestry al Of our Presidents
have come from British ancestry except two. both
d whom we've OF Dutch Martin Van Buren VAS
the drst President OF Dutch ancestry. and Roose-
welt Is the second. Washington. Adams li1dl-
son. John Quincy Adams. William Heury Hir-i-
son. Tyler. TAYLOR. FILLMORE. P5eree. Iiurolu.
Johnson Garfield. Cleveland, Benjamin Ha-1-on
NC-e 1f English ancestry. JACKSON. Polk b.
lauIn. Arthur. and NckInIey were >cotch-lriSh.
Monroe. Grant. HAYES were scotch jefferson
vas Welsh TalGLarrd the record stands ing
lSa if; >eoteh-lrisI, 5; ec1tcn 8; Dutch- >
Welsh. j.
a London medical Journal SAYS the English
IS possibly the most announcement
and most uutidy city 1i Europe The streets
sre either muddy. siushy. OF dusty; they are
uttered with straw. cabbage leaves. newspaper
posters and omnibus uca-r~- they
SANITY being Eruaaed up tg- some reason g-
.tEar- barrels az beer, Goals and other goods
lr- delivered across The tootUav~ az an hours
% tle day So long London IS governed
av- or rather IS dependent for its due re2ula-
non upon a number o. bodies an independent
% each other. SD long viii uulslnces Of various
--uLs continue
Chestnut groves with fuIl-grovn trees, pro-
Iloe SIX times as much food per acre as any
cereals and Humboldt estimates that ban
anna orchard VIII feed twenty-five human beings
whore potato field Of the same size would
support Two and a wheat farm only one A time
may come when the staples % human food via
be- chiefly derived -on trees, thus increasing
he Eie-~JL,taInIuE capacity ~ our planet more
han nvetolc- not 20 mention the saving in
irIdEerF. nor rhs beneficial climatic influences
moving. DO worrying about winter food for
hungry cattle, deserts overs reading vast areas
q Jr,e-deprIyed territories.
Kentucky Is known as The ''Corncracker state
rom game bird enjoying the sane name which
MAS formerly found IN great abundance I'm most
Iarts Of the State Ir is also called the Blue
grass State" from the belt OF land RUNNING,
through the cr2tua in which this variety of grass
,r0N~ 20 great perfection In the early days uf
'ur history It was known rs the Dark and
ilU0Cy Ground being termed by the In
hans 10 then a Lelltlble land between
De Indians living north gi the Ohio and those
living Iu the mountains of Tennessee and Georgia
sort Of battle-ground tos these tribes. which fact
gave 10 the name iSnS before II settled by the
,hite-
Mr. Cleveland has been charged with shooting
game out Of season and wiki catching fish SMALL
y than the law allows 90 be taken. but nobody
believes he ever was guilty Of committing an IN
porcsmanIIkc act His fruneSS in the pursuit
g game and fish and his bulldog perseverance ia
whatever be- undertakes whether IN the line %
pleasure OF business. recalls the following dUec-
i1-r- An lrl-lDau. discussing with his ne'-haur
be Venezuelan message of the Man of Destiny
eulrlod with iuhilarion- "Aoh Pat Wen have
sCLrlD Uid Guild InEIand now. 20 be sure
How Is that asked Pat. wait and see.
lirelud viii have the chance. all rOiglt tse
elrty. tur Guild Cleveland Is as hull-helded Whin
,e's ro.Sht as wbiu he's wrong"
Press dispatches state that the final arrange
meats between the Rocky Mountain Telephone
Company and the Northwestern Telephone Com
AMY have been made whereby the construction
j the missing link, teleqbguieaIly. between the
At'aUrie and Pacific Oceans VIII De begun AZ once.
% is stated that the Rocky Mountain Company
yiU huiii an extension from It's present Eastern
Q .rrr I rE