The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1901-11-29
OLIO OF EVENTS.

amounted to during the Napolccnlc
wars.
1t is expected that tho railway r"w
being built to connect valparaiso vitt
the Rio dc Ia Plata 0,43l kilou to,, I"
length will be completed in five or SIX
years.
Alta cost of about a million Goliac#
the government of SaNony has compt"l
ed a map OF the whole country. giving
minute details regarding fertility
wines. etc.
Kubelik. the strange, weird boy vic
linist, the magic of whose bow has t"r
some time enslaved the hearts OF Lu.-
don society, will sail for America Nj.
vember 2U.
Norway, Ireland and Spain have moer
blind people in proportion to poputa-
ton than any other Europen countries.
Spain has PIG per 10000; Norway, 20s.
and Ireland. Ill.
Western Australia is making heroic
efforts to develop farming industries,
especially the growing of grain. In 1899
the cereals harvested in the colony az
gregated less than ! 900 600 bushels.
There is in existence an nurepeaiet
law in Switzerland which forbids the
wearing of hats more than Is inches ia
diameter, artificial flowers and ~foreise.
feathers. under a heavy penalty.
So little confidence is there in Turk
ish p~ostoffice employees that wheU.
sometime ago, opportunity was given tp
senG packages and registered letters.
only one of each was received ut Staw-
boul in ten days.
An enormous capital is sunk in tie
mineral industry in Great Britain. Il
is probably not OvcrestimatinS the Zig
ure to put it at els, 900 600. while the
workers employed will number not Tar
short of 100, 900.
1t is said that Canada is 500 to- have
her W mint. and that the gold coiue
will be called beavers In value tin
beaver" will correspond to our eagle.
$40; double beaver $50. and haIt
beaver" So.
No fewer than 5S1 .SS4 prisoners Were
in the prisons of British India in 1879
1900. an increase of 92,0il over the
number for 1891. or this huge total
only "a LOSS were females, which Is a
much smaller proportion than in west
ern countries. I
French scientists will hold 4 special
meeting in November 10 honor their
colleague, NJ. BerthelOt. W'1 IS about to
complete fifty years OF service in the.
cause of science. On this p%articulHr
occasion Derthelot will receive Il gold
medal from his friends.
]. w. Adam. of Buffalo, Il merchant
and at present a candidate for alder
man, has bought the big organ in the
Temple OF Music at the pan-.hmericaH
exposition, and will present it to the
city. 1t will be placed in Conyentiou
Hall.
Exercises will he held in Boston 0u
Monday, Nov. II, in memory OF Or.
Samuel Gridley Howe, the great benz
factor of the blind. who was born Just
100 years ago-on November 10. 1901.
United States Senator George I. Hose
will preside.
Ole Hansen, the peasant VINO was aI-
pointed minister Of agriculture in tn"
present Danish cabinet. was visited by "a
journalist recently who found the min
lister engaged in harvesting. The states.
man looks after all the work OF the .farm
ana even personally feeds the COWS in
the sheds.
MIGUEL. the late German minister of
finance, was frequently represented ia
the comic papers as Il sort of octopus
holding in II arm Il big money bag.
and trying, with Il hundred other arms.
to grab all the gold that was not yet
in that bag.
The Rev. James Addison lngle. who
has been chosen by the Episcopal gen
eral convention as bishop OF HankoW
China. was graduated from the Univer-
sity of Virginia as a missionary. Foe
some years he has been in charge Of the
chrucll at iIanluw.
The late j. G.. jacobson, the brewer,
of Copenhagen. Denmark, presented
to the state nearly 10000, 900 kroner
49, 800, OOO) to he spent for scientific
and philanthropic purposes. He also
created the Carlsberg fund, which now
amounts to 12,50O, 900 kroner.
The kaiser is said to be in a very uu-
satisfactory physical condition. lie sui
fers from abnormal nervous symptoms,
complicated by other conditions the
result of long-continued anxiety ana
strain consequent upon his mnltitudin-
GUS labors in keeping himself abreast
with the work in almost all the great
state departments,
The Duke of Alva, who died in New
York city Il few days ago, held 2o titles
being -four times IA duke. 10 lines Il
marquis. and five times a count. Though
the deceased was Il grandce of high
rank. his influence n position in
Spanish affairs We're not MS command
ing as certain other %grandees. Neither
was his fortune by any means ducal.
The supreme court OF Iowa has tiXet
: the cash value OLA mans leg at s 5000
{ In n case tried last week the jury gave
Il verdict for $14 800 for an amputated
( leg, but tho court declared that
excessive, and followed a precedent es-