Evening journal., 1902-03-03
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

! IN ioNJ ny Auidudlu lslutOlu IuOLuei,
and used by the President when he was
a boy The chair is about thirty inches
high and entirely of hickory.
An application to repeat the Pan
theon the pendulum experiments tried
by Leon Foucault in 1851. has been
made by the Astronomical Society of
France Apenduum was swung from
the dome and swung to and fro, leaving
a little notch in the sand ridge built in
a circle on the floor of the church The
notch made by each successive swing
was a little distance away from the
preceding notch. and at the end of
twenty-four hours they had gone COM
pletely around the circle This proved
that the earth had revolved
Judge Have the letters been duly
examined by the handwriting expert.
Prosecutor--Ye your Honor.
Judge-Very we'll; let the handwrit-
ing expert now be examined by the in
sanity expert
Velvet cuffs on coats, after the plan
of King Edwards new frock, We're hail
ed here as a great invention several
years ago when they were introduced
first. The wear and tear on cuff OF
an oyercoat is always likely to be so
great that the cloth soon shows 1t.
There was never any means of repair
ing this until the velvet cuff was heard
of No other consideration did so much
to gain for the style the vogue it got.
o. trfnF W.
velvet cuffs on Overcoats did 70 TO hide
the repairs that had been made.
Countess Cromer has already
achieved great popularity in Cairo and
the dances which she gives every We'd
nesdav are the feature of the season,
which is very gay in spite of the de
mands South Africa has made on the
garrison. Cairo. however becomes
more cosmopolitan every year, and this
winter there is a marked increase in
the number of American visitors.
Sewing cotton and pocket knives
are the only British made goods that
now hold their own in Brazil.
Teacher" Some one has been throw
ing paper behind my back, James. do
YOU know who it is?' James (who
is the culprit himselD- sir; but
hardly like to tell Teacher-"A
very honorable Telling, James, you may
sit down.
The Grand Opera House in Paris
holds a record for any one building in
the WAYS of locks and keys. Its total
is now 6742 of each.
Twenty years ago a few foreigners
had risked their lives in landing in
Korea. but today its capital has an
American street railway plant
The Victoria memorial fund is still
well below 100000, and is increasing
very slowly toward the required
e500.000. The reason for this
state of affairs is supposed to be
that people living out of London have
a strong objection to subscribe for the
erection of the memorial in the me-
tropolis.
Egbert-"Know herr? Filbert-
Yes" Edgbert-"Quite well?' Fill
/ bert-"We were thrown together from
the same automobile"
Earthen reservoirs are rapidly taking
/ the place of ordinary oil tanks at Beau
mant. Tex. Two companies have rer
| Gently undertaken to establish reser-
vOirs. each TO hold about 100000 gal
Ions The soil is of such a naure that
enrthen reservoirs can be used to ex-
cellent advantage and they are much
cheaper than anything else
Statistics of the l55 medical school.
lE isc mi ed States how tna. .u "a.
but two a four years coarse is ,0ia
IpulsoTy. There were 26.l47 student
lenrolled and 5,9S5 teachers in these col
leges last July. The degree NJ. ID. wa
conferred on 5,444 students during un'
medical colleges.
Because of two-thirds of Germany
10000 music teachers are alleged to b.
incompetent, the coming Reichstag vii
be asked to pass a law compelling tn
teachers TO undergo a State examina
don
81 A London dry goods firm which con
trolls thirty shops and has 1000 sales
d people on it's payrole hires a profes
sional shopper to spot discOurteOu
e employes. It is the business Of thi
5 person to visit the different shops 3
= the guise of a shopper put the clerk
I TO every possible inconvenience and tr
u their patience in every imaginable way
y i'm order to find out whether they al
< I uniformly polite to customers. ThOs
n whose patience is not equal to the OF
deal are reported and fined or dis
missed.
A shoe firm in Toledo. Ohio. ha
.ol traced to the depredations of mic
d losses in greenbacks and other pape
In money which have amounted TO $4,000
II i'm four years.
te phenomenally mild winter is bein
Of experienced in Russia. AT Kiev II
e. trees are budding. the River Dneiper
)t clear of ice. while at Warsaw viole
NJ are foworinn