Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1902-02-18
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

CAUGHT Al RANDOM
j. p. Spur. of the United States Geo
logical Survey, is making a survey OF
Macedonia and Albania at the request
land expense Of the Sultan of Turkey.
London took practically one-half of
the ice imported by England during
1901, THE total for fifty-one ports OF the
United Kingdom being 460946 tons, val
ued at e269.S97
Following the example of Leipsic,
several other German universities are
refusing to admit Russian girls who
have only the certificates OF Russian
high schools.
Fer using the Polish word "zobe" in
stead Of the German word "lhier,' an Of
ficer in the Austrian army has just
been sentenced to six months impris-
onment on bread and water.
10 is announced from the Vatican
that during 1901 only 100000 lire has
! been contributed as Peters Pence,
which is the worst year since 1870.
The United States is third in the list
of contributors, with 100000 lire.
King Alphonso's coronation is to be
commemorated by the issue Of thirteen
new kinds Of postage stamps. each Of
which is to bear the head of one OF the
thirteen kings of the same name who
have ruled over Spain.
In France the excise duty is taken of
alcohol if it can be shown that it is
to be used as fuel for motor cars. For
this purpose some highly nauseOus
compound must be added, making it
absolutely unfit to drink.
The French Government is so much
interested i'm the briquettes of petrol
cum used as a substitute for coal that it
has ordered that all the petroleum used
Tor this purpose for the present be ad-
nitted free of duty.
Every Sunday at the famous Roman
Catholic Church in London, the BrOmp-
ton Oratory, prayers are offered up for
the welfare and success of our troops
in South Africa. Fervent invOcations
are addressed to "St. George. Protector
of England in the same connection.
Some years ago the Vatican deposed
st. George. and placed St. Setter in spe-
cial charge Of England, but apparently
London Catholics still pin their faith to
the dragon slayer.
Mrs. Sarah St Justin Beale, a New
York author. through a series of un-
fortunate financial misfortunes, has had
to enter a charitable institution for
women in Denver.
The British army clothing factory in
Calcutta recently received an order for
500 khaki suits for a regiment already
on its way to South Africa at , p. m.
on a Saturday. Although the day was
a holiday, the factory succeeded in get
/ ting its tailors together, and by work
/ ing almost night and day completed the
/ l 800 pieces required at a. m. the fol-
lowing Monday, forwarding them to
overtake the departing regiment before
it left India. This savors more of
American than English methods.
All the transportation in Venice is
done by gOndolas, big and little The
freighting and delivery service is car
ried on by means of barges built on the
same lines as the gOndolas, and mer-
chants either send the goods of their
customers home that way or in pan
niers upon the backs OF men.
Germany, ait the end Of the present
year, will have a standing army of 49,
500 men.
The masons of Valencia, Spain, are
the first organization in that country
to successfully strike for an eight-hour
dav.
The United States has S.546 million
aires.
It takes about 171s years for dollar
to double itself at per cent Interest
compounded semi-annualy.
In the United States the number o
miles Of railway in proportion to TIN
number of inhabitants is nearly double
that of any European country.
There are still districts in Italy wher
the peasants live ON chestnuts ant
acorns, and in the agricultural region
i of the north the diet is almost eXclu
= sively corn meal, without meat
The driving of the last spike on IN
Northern Pacific railroad at Gold Greek
: Mont, in 1888 is to be made the sub
iect of a painting TO overlook the gran
staircase in Montana's new Stat
House.
! An ingenious headmaster in Mort
il Wales has calculated that the BIRTHS
II boy loses on an average 27S whol
: school days by the clumsiness Of tn
d present system of weights and meas
= ures. The cure, he says. is the metri
r system.
a An Austrian scientist has discove
'e ed that a cold in the head is dut to "
'e presence in the membrane of speci
If bacillus, which he has called the mic
n cOccus cataarhalis.