Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-15
OLD WORLD.
4 SUMMARY or CURRENT NEWS.

| SUMMARY or CURRENT NEWS.
| An Interesting Scientific DiscOvery-A
Wonderful Singing valley -Turkish
Grand vizier Dssd-King Edwards
Birthday and the Royal Tities-Vaiu-
able Egyptia. Diseovsriss-The Kohl
moor for the Queens Cr0wn-Li Hung
Changes Widow.
King Edward has decided to have the
celebrated Kohinoor diamond mounted
in the crown Of Queen Alexandra for the
coronation.
1t is announced In London that j
Pierpout Morgan has bought the White
Star line and has contracted for the
Dominion line.
Sir Joseph C Dnsdale, the first Lord
Mayor OF London chosen in the neV cen.
fury and the first installed under the
reign of King Edward VIII took his
seat Saturday with much pomp and
ceremony.
The Berlin authorities have forbidden
hypnotisn and suggestion as dangerous
to public health, a student named Lau,
who vas employed as subject" by a
hypnotist Of konigsberg, DIR Weltmann,
10 lectures to medical students, having
| gone TaVlng mau.
HALL Rifat, the Turkish grand vzier,
died at Constan,inople Friday. tie had
been for years an innate friend of the
Sultan and WAS well known in diplomatic
circles all over the world. Abdurrahman
Pasha, minister of justice, who succeeds
him, is comparatively unknown outside
of his own country.
The Chinese minister in st Petersburg
is said to have sent secret dispatch TO
the Empess Dowager of China warning
her that Russia is determined to hold
Manchuria, and that if The Manchuran
conve ton is denounced, other terms
will be exacted that will greatly menace
China's independence.
Au artilleryman forgot tn close the
breecb before the gun was fired 90 the
\ British b-ttleship Royal Sovereign
outside Astako harbor, Greece, S tur
day. One officer and six artillerymen
we're killed outright, the bodi S being
terribly mutilated, and the captain
and l3 sailors were seriously injureh.
Chinese officials gathered at the Pekin
Board Of Rites Monday to rescue the
sun" which was suffering from par
/ tia eclipse. The rescue was accom-
plished by orostratiOns, the burning OF
incense and the beating Of drums. A
| few foreg ers, for the first tim 10 his
tory, were permitted to witness the eere-
mony.
| II is reported that another letter has
been received at Sofia. Bulgaria, from
Miss Stone. the captive missionary, in
which she says that Nine Tsiks Is still
alive and that they are both we'll sin
spite OF sll our hardships." There are
many conflicting stories regarding the
case and nothing can be definitely
believed.
Kate Greenaway, the famous Illus.
traitor of children's books, died at her
home near London last week. Her little
people in all sorts of quaint and original
costumes are familiar to all. She illus |
trated The Pied Piper of Hanelin,"
"M-rigold Garden Tue Language of
Flovers,' Under the Window" "A !
Day in Child's Life. Mother Goose"
Kate Greenaway's Alphabet"
Ii Hung Chang's estate will remain |
inta,t for the use of his eldest son, who I
will provide for the rest Of the family. !
His widow is the wealthest woman in |
China. She is An expert bookkeeper
and keeps detailed accounts of all the |
transactions Of her vast household, /
which Includes over 1000 servants She .
is said to indulge NOR ing ard night in
a bath largely composed of oil of
oranges and flowers.
Russia will spend next year only u
copecks (about 10 cebts) per capita for
educational purposes hut, in addition to
the expense Of the iterian railway,
eco ,0O0. 600 " to be- spent on new strate
gle railways to the Prussian and Aus
trian frontier. On ordinary land roads,
on the good quality of which the sue
cess Of the Russian farmer largely de-
ponds, only 100000 will be spent, and
an equal sum on repairs and maintenance
of land roads.
Petritied tropical fruits have been
found 10 some Spitzbergen coal Spitz.
bergen Is group of islands in the Are.
tic Ocean. midway between Greenland
and Nova Zrmbla. in lat. so deg. north
and long. 90 deg. 30 min. east. Hsny
scientists have asserted, and this report
ed discovery seems to bear them out.
that in revolving about the sun the earth
bias shifted its poles, so to speak, and
that millions of years ago perhaps those
parts which are now encased 10 peren-
ni&l snow were the tropics.
One of the most extraordinary natural ,
phenomena 10 the world has been discov- ]
cred in a valley watered by tributary
Of the river Moselle. The air at different
points uf this v LEY vibrates with three 6
distinct musical notes-C major at the {
entrance, f toward the middle, F at the i
lpper end. The sounds are like those of I
bells. Prof Gunther, an expert 10 acous-
'ipa will ipyesfiJata the phppon pn0n -
other scientists who have been there r
favor the theory that the aerial bell like q
notes arise from the fail of a stream in
he middle of the valley.