Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-22

by keeping a cigar aHght for two hours
and twenty-nine minutep
A morality plays founded on Bunyan's
Pilgrims Progress" has been successfully
produced at Birminshap.
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The men of the British garrison artillery
are to take course In "a general study OF
the characteristicsT0f submersible boats"
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Nineteen competitors took part in a race
In Paris for men with wooden legs. The
winner did a mile Atfd 81 half in twelve min
utes. H =,
According to the latest official statistics
the numbers of the sexes in Holland are
almost equal, women having preponder-
anee OF only peneent.
A British regiment recently landed in
Southampton after twenty years service
in India. Only six men of the regiment
that sailed from England returned with it.
A dairy maid has been arrested at CO.
Iogne for bathing herself daily in the milk
before 1t was sold, because she had read
that milk baths were good for the COM
plexion.
France hopes to achieve the bloodless
conquest OF Morocco, says the Paris Matin,
by establishing a schoolmaster and doc
tor In each of the4towns on the Algerian
frontier.
Dan Leno, the comedian. left his estate
to his widow and six children His prop
erty included shares in three theaters, one
OF them Drury Lane, and a life insurance
policy for $4,000.
Dakar. a French port in Senegal, West
Africa, is being connected with France by
direct cable. That connecting point on
the French side will be Brest The cable is
expected to be in working order in Janu-
airy. a-,a-
A Hull woman, named Flora Whiskers,
was fined the other day for stealing a
penny from Slot gas meter. She had
taken the same penny. from the meter by
means or a buttonhook and used it over
Seventy men had fishing competition at
Dover, England. recently. under the aus
Ihey hshed hve hours and the prize for the
heaviest fish was taken with a whiting,
turning the scale at six ounces.
The people of North Melbourne, Aus
tralia, decided at a recent local option poll
that they had thirty-seven superfiuous ho-
tells. These have now been closed, and
compensation awarded to their owners and
occupierS by an arbitration court.
A sarcophagus dating from the year 1000
and, containing human remains has been
discovered by some workmen while digging
The practice of oiling the roads has been
introduced IN India, at Bombay. It is
found that If the oil is allowed to soak in
slowly no obnoxious mud is produced, and
the result Is success. I
The djibboh is a picturesque garment
which Is to supplant the kimonO 1t comes
from Egypt, and Cleopatra wore one. II
recommends itself to American women be-
cause no one can wear it and wash dishes.
David displayed his wisdom by saying
"All mon are liars" instead OF picking out
one man and saying. It to him.
When man in ibis pajamas bumps his
shin on rocking chair, It, is surprising what
a weak, washy thing his vocabulary seems
to him.-New York Press.
Now that coats and .oYercoats have to be
creased as well as trousers, the London
News says that collarsnand tall hats will
be creased next.
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A novel suggestion is made in London
that the unemployed SHOULD be placed on
all the jures, as there is a fee of fifty cents
for each days service.
In the southern partrof California roof
gardens are becoming features of all the
new buildings.
A California woman, Miss Mabel Adams
Aver of San Francisco, has succeeded in
training number of butterflies. Sugar and
water are the Inducements, and the little
winged pets go through several cute per-
fofmances sTuEse9u 45ite 3t Ysrit ssT"t70- 4
Irrigation plans already outlined in Cali
fornia, Oregon and the Dakotas will in
voIve the expenditure, in round numbers,
of $27OOO,00O, and reclaim a million of
acres of land, capable of supporting a pop
ulation of 100000.
Two hundred Chinese are coming to VIC
toria on the steamship Empress of India to
join j. ]. Hills mammoth steamship Minne-
sofa when she calls there about the middle
of this month. They will serve as deck
hands, firemen, oilmen, sailors, servants.
etc.
Belgium is making prepare tons to cele-
brate next year its diamond Jubilee the
anniversary of its independ-
ence from the Netherlands. Local com
mittees are being organized everywhere,
and the government is expected to make an
appropriation of 5000 600.
The Rev. George Martin, an Episcopal
clergyman, is against all laber-saying de-
vices, and goes around the London markets
upsetting barrows- and push carts because
without their use more men would have
employment. Between times various magis-
trates admonish, threaten or fine him.
Until recently it was almost universally
believed that petroleum. like coal, was de-
rived from fossil vegetation or possibly
from animals or fishes of some long-past
age. Now. 1t is asserted by many Scientific
men that it may not be of any organic ori-
gin, but may be due to subterranean chemi-
cal action. >N
Ernest Terah Hooley, bankrupt companv
promoter. is on trial in London with Henry
John Lawson on charges of fraud and con,
sp1racy. A small regiment of LAWYERS a n
pears in the case and the cost will he great
Rufus Isaac, defendants chief counsel ra.
ceives $2,625 as a retainer and a refresher
of 1928 a day.
Statisticians find that something like Q ooo
vessels of all sorts disappear in the sea
every year, never to be heard from again
taking with them Il, 600 human beings and
involving money loss of 100000, 600.
The Australian government has adonted
machine that is QUITE
novel. When a stamp cannot be bought
person may drop a letter
with a penny in a box, and the legend. Zone
penny paid" will be stamped on the en-
velope.
A modern church, built upon the site of an
ancient one at Llanderand Wales had no
bell A farmer offered one that was living
in one of his barns. 1t turned out to be one