The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-10-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

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80 % covers radias % two OF three feet
The ROYAL crown u Persia. which dates hack 10
rei17I. a-es. Is in tine form 90 pot of aousr,.
'- ID al uHalt rshy the size 90
,-ston ia.s year is thc lz-rast
I1s.ar
a a--.s-a. b. can te heard in room
iI jI" .r...r 20 ~'rs'-.. .-s. near Mian- A iaud
n'-a go r- Hssai sa1e, is repeated siNly
Is -'.. c.-7- in Australia some Of th- trsbe,
PH-=~s go excellent code that is almost as
efficient as th- spoken language
In place % wedding cake in Holland. wedding
sweets are Gwen oruilZ'llkers. they are called
They aye handed round bv children AMI are
served IN rousr- mined baskets
In some parts Of the north Of scotland s-lrr-
folk turn hack if hare or Pig cruzsss their
path; and a. -ea they never pronounce the
name Of the bare. the pig- the salmon, The
trout the dog
Glove makes memory eternal has been Sc
lected the motto o. the Society Of the United
Daughters Of the Confederacy. in session in
Stanton. Va and laurel as the embiematic
flower for Virginia
The term ''infantry'' was first used BY the
srzniards in the wars with the Moors 20 desig-
J. was extended % the entire body % foot SOL
diers' and finally adopted throughout Europe
The boiler tubes o. a liner. IL placed in a
straight line, would reach nearly ten miles.
and the condenser tubes more than twenty-five
miles The total number % separate pieces q
steel IN the main structure Of the ship is not
less than 5000
A Naples laboratory reports a singular case
q reversal Of habit in a certain aquatic plant
When the leaves o. this plant were buried in
the sIud, with It's roots uppernost the roots
changed % stems and leaves and the buried
portions developed roots
A building in a Georgia hamlet displays this
unique sign: school Of learning Lessons given
in poetry writing and novelty Also. viii teach
music 90 you. and dramatics- Hides and wool
taken for cash Also. a. the winter season is
coming on. oak wood and kndiing-"
The recently completed German census shows
that there are in the Empire so cities each
with population between l0.O00 and l00.ooo
In Ioi6 Germany had q. sz30o0 inhabitants. IN
1888. s5.Ilfooo. and in l,19. Jd.34j110- Between
lel6 ana 1870 the population Of Prussia increased
from I3.7e9.00O 20 q. G63.do0-
The Agricultural Building At the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in St Louis viii be 100
by 1900 feet. and viii cover over tao acres
more OF ground than did the biE Manufacture and
Liberal Arts Building al the Columbian Expo
Sitiou IN Chicago IN This thought the s.
L0ui7aTls take great delight
Chicago has named a new park Mckinley
Park Il has area OF forty acres. and along
its southern edge an artificial hill has been
built up, the only elevation for nearly mile
pool has been made and near II large swim
ming pool, about eight feet deep IN It's deepest
part
It is said that the speed Of swallows when
migrating. Is not less than fifty miles an hour;
20 THAI. when aided by the wind, they soon
reach warmer attitudes L has also been ca
Culated that the swallow can ~ at the rate
% niuetv-tgF0 miles an hour. snd hawks and
several other tribes at that Of 80 miles an
The carrier pigeon. when travelling. never feeds
II the distance be long il flies on without stop
ping 70 take uutri-uent and az last Strives thin.
exhausted. and almost dying II corn be pre-
ssuted % 10 a. refuses 60 cat. con-eurInE Itself
with drinking little vster and then Sleeping
Two OF three hours later it begins 90 eat with
great moderation. and SLEEPS again immediately
afterEard
Henry G. Watkins. q Appleton Wis. declares
that his system Il cvcrcharScd With electricity
With his eyes shut and his sears STUFFED with
cotton he can tell when he coHlrs within a
hundred feet o. electrical m4ehinlry. and curing
a thundcr-storm he Is state ~ constant aEIta-
lion He attributes his peeuiiarity to the fact
that his mother two months before his barth-
struck by lightning
A local paper Of Sterling. Nan. noted the other
day that "a feet % prlirie schaaners passed
through Sterling Wednesday. in a ~crli-htav-ay
race % windWard with Oklahoma as the final
goal They left here iH bunch 20 lr-22 with
cIuhtoFsail> and iihs st with nir prospects for
pleasant voyage ieeF had balloon Jlts and SPIN
makers furIrd away in their feed boxes. and 10 IS
expected all viii finish the course before the
expiration Of the time limit"
There has lately been formed in France an in
ts-uationaI committee On the price of wheat
r. has already received the support Of Frln-e.
Austria Hungry. Portugal and Ssrite---arI- The
object of the association. or committee. IS not
simply 90 register after q mcdaniel fashion
the prices quoted in the h0ureS o- different
countries. but 90 obtain influence. little hv lit
tie. in the ultimate fixing % the u=arke price
Registration Of the University OF Chicago for
the coming year is 5.7-2- an increase over last
wear OF 525- There were SIX universities in the
country last wear that had attenianes Of more
than 500 namely Harvard Ass. MEXICAN,
800; Minnesota $50 Georgia 3--5- Chicago.
SIsa. California a.s25. This large attendance
Is explained fr the case Of all except Harvard
the ground % co-eiucation-
memorial church has lately been erected
and dadiclted on the site OF Jefferson DAVIS
birthplace. in Fairyiew. by slab Of Ten
usssee marble ST in the vail bears this in
~eriVtiOu- jefferson Davis. ~ Mississippi. was
lie made Eift % the lot March 10. ISs6, 20
Bethel Baptist Church as a thank-ofcring %
God"
Berlin has child exchange The poorer people
Of the city Who cannot afford outings send
their children TO country peasants and receive
IN return for an equal length Of time peasant
children Who want 20 see the city. The plan
has worked Wei that the charitable German
women Who originated 10 would Ike 20 extend
IT, There Is even talk of exchanging children
between uEiEhhJrinE countries. 80 that they viii
gain still more valuable experience
The temperance on the English stage %
George Coppiu at the age Of eizhry-three recalls
that Of Charles Nacklin. at CoyeHt Garden IN
I1-9. whom IN his one bundreith wear He repre-
~rrted his favCri-e character 0f Shylocz and
even az that great age he was physically capable
the second act his memory failed him. and he
cr-rr f0--grd with apology % the audience
BE died no the age Of one hundred and seven
In England al the tine Of the great plague
IL was reported that no one living IN a tobzc-
consists house fell sick % the disease. This
caused q great demand for tobacco. Hrl-ne
saws IN ms diary II remember that heard
formerly Tom Rogers. who VS. woman hca1ic,
say that when be was a slLl5.bay az Esau
that year when the plague ragged an -ha h1ys
morning and thal be was never whipped So
much IN his life As De was one morning for
not smoking
The attitude OF the sultan % Turzey toward
France has suggested % the residents ir Turfs.
which belongs 10 France. a :lrm Of rap-5sll
which win not commend itself 20 che N1llm-e-
dan mind The evening PRAYER every Friday m
the mosques now concludes With the words May