Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-24
HERE AND THERE.

received ten prizes FOR them from the fat
tered judges. TEL
The Chinese voice lacks two notes: its
scale has six notes, instead OF eight The
Ing ones.
A London Judge Leaned the other day
that policemen with "a black eye ''felt
delicacy'' about doinE Day duty. and, until
the eye got well, ai7a3 did night duty.
The two elder SOFAS 5ef the Prince and
les for the navy next year. They are Ed
ward, born June %, 1894, and Albert, born
December IA, 1895.
DIR. Thorley, medical town councillor at
Bolton, England, calls small bed rooms
death draps, and the COUNCIL is seeking
parliamentary powers to prescribe mini
mum cubic space for, bed rooms.
The Y. M. C. A. in England has an army
branch called, 1.-THE Christian Soldiers As
ISOLATION The other day at the eighth
annual meeting. in London, GOO delegates
from the regiments were present
An ingenious thief. who secreted himself
| in a trunk addressed to the freight station
at Smichow, In Austria, was captured after
he had filed the trunk with miscellaneous
valuables from other luggage.
Recently the monks of ST. Bernard re-
ceived with great deight-"cheering like
schoolboys'-a piano sent them for a pres
ent by King Edward. They took 1t in pro-
cession up the mountains to their monas-
terry.
One of the recent Incidents of the Welsh
religious revival was the ceremonious ere
nation Of ball by the members of the
Aberamen Foot Ball Club to show that
they were done with such frivolities as
foot ball games
An English. firm has received the contract
to erect the tower and Spire of the Ameri-
can church in the Avenue d. Alma Paris.
The spre will rise to height of 246 feet
and will be higher than any other spire or
tower in the city.
The strenuous man often wins a victory
that isn't worth the effort.-Chicago News.
You may whitewash a mans character,
but you can't wash it white.--Chicago
News -.
Don't think that because men ask you for
advice they really want it.-Chicago News.
The man whose wife takes in washing
pays no attention to laundry strikes.-Chi
cago News
When some men fail to make a hit they
try to blame 1t on the hammer.-Chicago
News.
girl never told him the line was busy
Chicago News.
Love lives on hope, therefore few cases
OF hopeless insanity can be attributed to
it.-Chicago News
A wise girl learns to cook-then proceeds
to marry well that she doesn't have to
work at it-Chicago News.
A mans seif-esteem often receives a ter
rife jolt from the small boy who wants to
know .things.-Chicago News.
He who expresses his willingness to die
for woman always reserves the right to
fix the date of his demise.-Chicago News.
It's all right when the right man marries
the right woman, but when the wrong wo-
man marries the wrong man it's all wrong.
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Patent medicine manufacturers pile up
fortunes because the public would rather
pay dollar for pound of cure than 10
cents for an ounce Of prevention.-Chicago
News.
The worlds largest dredger Is now
locked at Liverpool 1T is 200 feet long,
and can raise 1,OOOntohs of hard material
an hour. Hsct5
A city firm receiged no fewer than 99s
applications in resnonse to an advertise
ment for a clerk. The salary offered was
80 shillings $3.50 #eek-London Daily
Farming on gigantic scale is to be
carried on by the jksi1er colony In Santa
Rosalia, Mex, which has recen y OBJ
| tanned possession of 10000 acres of land
in Chihuahua.t do EN- 1iatniaer ,:
| The discovery Of alluYtal eegold in the
Victoria district of southern Rhodesia has
caused no rush from Cape Colony in spite
Of glowing accounts by telegraph. The
discovery is regarded with skepticism.
Fifteen million punches of bananas were
brought to the United States last year
by one fruit company which runs eighty
three steamers. They came chiefly from
Cuba, Costa RIGA, Jamaica and Honduras.
Pickpockets and swindlers are multi
plying in Madrid at startling rate, and
they carry on operations in the principal
streets and squares, under the eyes of the
poorly paid policemen, many of whom
4 hot, f1nni,.
Field hospitals for sick and disabled
horses is to be part of the war equipment
of a British army in future. Two have
been formed in England, and the system
| is proving satisfactory in India. The Japa-
nese have adopted it in Manchuria, where
| the loss of animals Is only per cent.
Working girls in Berlin average nine
| hours and a half day for which they
| get about 81 80 week. Only one in five
| is able to have her own bedroom; the
| others share their rooms with from one
| to six other girls. Some of them hardly
know what a warm meal means, rye bread
being their principal food.
| The African explorer, Shillings, has
brought to Berlin an extraordinarily In
teresting series Of photographs Of wild
animals taken by themselves. His method
| was to attach to piece of meat string.
| which, on being touched, brought on a
fashlight exposure. Leopards, hyenas,
lions apes, zebras and other animals We're
thus taken III ulOSt uiNclSC siltitouCS
popularity of the southern part of
| the Congo valley is that one side of the
hills is usually bare, the other covered
with thick vegetation. This difference is
| due to the. fact that one side gets little
moisture while the other is dampened by
fogs blown against 1t every morning. The
natives often shave off their hair from one
| side of their heads, the effect presenting
the same appearance as the hills or the
country
Herr Book of Babenhausen, in Germany,
has been carrying on observations or the
| humming of telegraph and telephone wires:
The humming of wires running east ana
| west is said to presage fall OF tempera-,
| ture often ten or more hours In ADVANCE
| of the thermometer The humming OF wires
| running north and south advises rise IN
| temperature almost always several hours In
| advance of the thermometer.
The fact is worthy of close attention that
while the increase in imports has OF late
| years occurred entirely in the shipments
| from British possessions, the expansion OF
| exports has been just as exclusively IN our
| own trade with foreign countries.-London
Shoe Manufacturers Monthly.
1t would be very interesting to know II
| there is going to be a7winter campaign. for
| this decision will have great Importance
| from the point Of view of the duration OF
| the war. The war will assuredly be long