Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-27

ment has been equally successful, and Or.
Seaman reports that out of 9.6S2 patients
who were cared for in the hospital at Hlro-
shima during certain period only thirty
four died.
School Savings Banks.
There are now 7s9 public school savings
banks in the United States, in JOG cities
and &c states. The number of depositors
on the 1st of January was 90.961, all of
them being children and scholars in the
various grades of the public schools. Dur
ing the year 1904 there was deposited 81.
367 ,93025, which was an average of $loo4
per depositor. The city of Los Angeles has
the largest number of school banks, there
being Sd, with 6,69S depositors and 2399 Z
on deposit Pittsburg is second with ~
banks with 1880 depositors and 500, 023. 16
on deposit.
Largest Bank Note.
In answer to an inquiry. 1 would say
that the largest national bank note issued
is for 81 900, and 24,000 of these are out
standing, and $500 five-hundred-dolla
notes. When ordering circulation a bank
map apply for bills of any denomination
commonly used. Ten-dollar and twenty
dollar notes are the most popular, there be-
ing nearly 2O0,OOO,OO tens and 15OOOO.OOO
twenties in circulation.
Experimental Tea Gardens.
Most encouraging reports are made by
agents of the Agricultural Department con-
corning the tea gardens at Summerville,
S. c. Those started by DR.. Sheppard some
years ago are now yielding from 5000 to
10000 pounds of tea, which Is sold at retail
in Washington, Philadelphia, New York
and other cities for 81 and 81 per pound.
He has been so successful that other people
are now going into the business In that
neighborhood. and the Agricultural Depart
ment is starting a plantation near the
town of Pierce, Texas, where about forty
acres have been planted with about 100000
plants, and fifty acres more will be set
out during the coming spring.
Return of the Bottle.
In June, 1898, Lieutenant II. T. Mayo of
the navy, in charge Of the photographic Of
flee at Port Townsend, Wash, gave the
captain of the Northern Pacific Steamship
Ccmpany's vessels Victoria bottle which
he asked him to drop into the sea when
his ship was about half way across the
Pacific on it's voyage to China. so as to
test the currents. The bottle was securely
corked and sealed and contained a request.
printed in seven different languages dn-
Guiding Russian, Chinese and JapaneseJ,
that whoever found it should send 1t to the
nearest custom house in the United States.
with the date and the location and time
when 1t was first seen.
On the Fourth of July, 1893, when the
vessel was in latitude 40 degrees 50 min
utes north, and longitude 175 degrees AZ
minutes west, Second Officer Dobson of
the Victoria took the bottle, and, with a
swing of his long arm cast it into the sea.
One morning, few weeks ago. when
Lieutenant Mayo came down to his Of
flee, he found on his desk package
wrapped in an ancient and much soiled
German newspaper, which, to his surprise,
was found to contain the very bottle he
had sent on that queer errand so long be-
fore. The janitor said the package had
been left there by two rough-looking sail
ors. Upon drawing the cork the lieutenant
found rude inscription upon the back of
his carefully printed instructions, which
read:
Here's your bottle. Found on such and
such a date, In such and such latitude
and longitude. The next time you cast a
bottle adrift please put something else in
it besides a piece of paper