The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-10-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

I -.- aaHaa aaa AIaalI years
| How great are the possibilities O Hawaii
! as a fruit and vegetable growing country viii
I be understood When 10 becomes known that
| four crops of potatoes have been produced IN
twelve months Radi-hes become edible ten DAYS
aIter sowing strawheuy vines bear fruit al
/ the year
One oi the most striking relies Of the siege
OF the legations in Peang last yeaes IS 20 be
I exhibited in London. II Is aa- torn almost
I % shrsds By the inceSsant f1si-Ta ds Through
cut The siege this flag doated over the British
quarters II vas taken 90 England By SIP
Claude Macdonald.
The ohamois is another animal that seems
/ doomed % extinction The complete disan-
1 pe1r4nce Of the pretty animal from the French
Alps IS seriously Threatened and the zci~u-
I tfc papers are calling for measures that Vil
I protect IT, The channels makes is refuge and
bone m me most inaccessible places a. heights
varying from 25tJ to II SO feet. and yet the
gun mercileSly hunts II our and shoots it
] d0sn-
The Paris Nat.n" asserts that the recent
exploits % the alhmarine torpedo boats Gus
tave Zsde and Morse prove that vessels OF this
class are safe and can be easily hanElcd TLey
discharge t1rpet0cs perfectly ard are pleasant
90 1--we on The article concludes Eighteen
months hence France VIII De able 20 DEFY the
te'r ~ any other ru1ntry- Whatever Efforts
others may make 30 viii be impossible %
0yert1ke US IN this respect
The Arctic summer is brief. but for weeks To-
gcther there Is nothing % distinguish DAY and
night. Once. at Dvurnik. two naturaIists had
Z lett their zhlp az different hours Whcn. Ia
{ Ter. they net. one said Good u1ruirz-F the
other Good eveuIng.' Both agreed that the
nnlF was q but while one traveller held that
I ~ was toEnrrow morning, the other maintained
2 thlr 70 vas ! O'Clock last night On return
I ing % the ship they settled that 10 was last
night So they diucd md went 90 bed again
! The first regatta in England vas in I775. and
I 81 int.
Mary Wortley Montague. uao had been Impressed
By the water show % Venice There was No
series 90 races There was a procession q
I % CITY hargos TO a ''te=nporarv 0ctagon"
where there was reveiing that night and well
into the next day Only seven OF the company
we're drowned on the return journey. which
l speaks we'll for the average s55riety Of the
crowd.
An organization Of the coIorcd business men
I o. Louisville has been formed for the uplifting
/ oi the young negroes 90 be conducted By ne
groes, = the plan first c0ntemp Izted and II these
/ are successful other Industries uiu be added.
small dry goods stores and corner groceries
are 90 De established. and young negroes are
o. be employed clerzs. the idea being %
/ put business principles IN their minds and %
| teach then 90 practice economy. with a view
I 20; starting IN business Tor themselves
Mrs Cora D5bert. a woman Of Altoona. Pa.
/ escaped death uy one inch o.; water bic other
Cly- She was pumping water, When tfr- plat
l form On which She was standing caIIaase5. ana
[ she dropped % the bottom 70 the well She
was Just able 20 keep her head above water b.
standing On her tipt5es- When unable 90 stand
longer she covered her mouth and nose with
one and and went under FOR ~ long as she could
bold Eer breath Her occasional shouts were
finally heard. and she was rescued Just In the
nick q time She says tEat one more dip undec
I Che water would have been her last
The original liae q the Boston and Vermont
The original line q the Boston and Vermont
> st-l IN place and does good service between
HI-e River Junction and Montreal IL vas
erected ln l-4>. and has Therefore been lu use
nrty-rlree years The wire = Jf English man
uidcrure, and did not show any signs lf tete-io-
ration flr forty wears L j. claimed that the
Locomotives has caused some Impairment %
the wire during che last thirteen wears The
claim tlat the line has probably che oldest
wire intact iu tho United states Is wrlI found
/ Il the Inhabitants Of Wyoming wanted u spread
/ themselves cut each OF them could have a little
more than a square mile an Co himself n
Nevada every four people could have ten square
miles Arizona. New Mexico. Montana. and
Idaho r4u Afford almost a square mile each o.
tleiT men. women. and children while up in
. frozen AlzsEE there are ten good square miles
I for every soul cf population Rhode Island j.
Z the fullest state in the Uui0u-with i0- people
10 the square mile But even that leaves a
good deal 1f extra ro1-u- Massachusetts,, SO
people @ the square mile follows Rhode Isl
land Then come New jersey. 20, Counecti-
cut Is: New York I52-f- Penusylvaui4 I4OI;
Maryland I-n-5- Ohio, lf1-
/ PeEiug Is rich in remarkable BELLS the an,sr
Z specimens being located in the Beil Tower. on
the western side Of the Tartar City, and the
B a-tLung-Su- or Temple OF the Great Bell be-
y1nd the CITY wall The latter contains the
great heu OF Picking. cast BY order % the Pm
plTor Yong L.. m I+Ij. and hung n the pres
cur tower IL I5->- Tins gigantic object I-ea,-
ures - feet I'm height, Is inches thick. and
! has eircuutereuce of 81 feet 40 the m u
weighs Ssh tons and Is covered inside and
out with inscriptions tr0r the Buddhist bpozs
I in Chinese characters How this huge pieCe Of
metal raised % its present position Is
mystery which has never been solved
Seuarita YsabeI Maria De Los Rios Is the
I first woman postmaster IN Cuba She holds
/ commission TO handle the mail at Cib-a- She
received salary of $500 a year as clerk
| in the office She displayed such executive
/ ability that her appointment % take charge
I % il meets with the fullest approval ~ The
I department and patrons % the office Sen0rit1
I de Los Rios Is the eldest OF a family Of rhir-
I teen children. and Is IN her twenty-th1rd year
! She Is the dll-hter Of the late Judge jose De
Los Rios. who VAS postmaster at Glura az the
time OF his death She viii shortly marry
/ Charles ". show. formerly Of View YORK city.
I Superintendent Of Carriers II the Hagaul post
I Office
/ Individual communion cups have been adopted
! by about 1000 churches in this country, ac-
I corlinG, o. a statement in the Church Ecoao-
mist ''TEe expressions Of the pastors it
] e
ne" system, and m most cases very e7illilll.-y
So out q the large number % answers IT,
CeIvcl there has been bat q single ul-av0rdolc
/ response Two three only are even doubtful
The enquiry vas made entirely without bias
or motive any sort except 90 get a- the
actual facts and make thorough test ot the
current church Practice in lliS regard To may
De put down settled therefore. that the m
t dIyiduaI c7ruuUGiCn system has thus far 1p-
proved itself EdnoSr without exception o. the
/ churches that have adopted It,
In a lecture before the ROYAL Institution ot
! London. Gerald NlU0v calls attention % the
I fact hat il uas Prof Cysrz-Naxreu who E-st
elaborated the theory that electrical energy
7 was transmitted through the ether by waves
although % greater wave length Mr. Nalloy
reminded his hearers that only a small part %
I the series of such waves g evident 20 human
-eu=Cs- D.. for example. We call the visible
l liEht-SuectrIm octave We may say thar We
/ have Investigated u1u-seushle waves in the
B proved waves have been investigated through
I -iN 1c-lves The situation ~ the RueutEcn
rays Is NOT vet perfectly determined, though
| DO nav now De- said that they lie somewhere
I IN the seventh OF eighth octave beyond the
| ultraviolet waves and the BeclUarel waves
| are OF even shorter wave length Ordinary cleo
! tric waves. on the other hand. have a wave
| length which places them far below the red
waves OF light
! A unique idea has been worked ont by a Das
/ Noines- Iowa inventor. SAYS the Railway and
I Engineering Review whereby the boiler Of a
! steam engine Is prac icaIly avoided The general
principle ~ the ems inc Is this That while IN
| the ordinary engine bur O small quantity 81
| steam is being used az any one t.We. yet a great
| quantity uf rue. IL necessary In order Oh keep
large volume Of water Continually boiling 90 pro-
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