The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-23

year is bordered with black marble
| and inscribed with a text from the
Koran in Arabic.
The Rev DR.. Bradley of Grand Rap
ids, Ia, has been chosen president of
/ Grinnell (owa) College.
Prof. Henry Lefavour, of Williams
| College, who has been chosen president
of the new Simmons College. of Boston,
was graduated from Williams in 1888,
and has spent nearly all his teaching
| life there.
w. !. Spillman of Pullman, Wash,
has been selected to succeed Prof. F.
Lamson Scribner as agrostologist of
the Department of Agriculture.
Earl Grey, who introduced the model
public house into England, is always
bringing some new scheme forward for
popular consideration. His latest plan
provides for the periodical measure
ment of school children on system
somewhat akin to the Bertillon method,
in order that it may be ascertained
whether they are living and studying
under hygienic conditions.
David Jardine, chairman of the Gu
nard Steamship Company, has re-
signed his office, and will be succeeded
by George Arbuthnot Burns, Lord In
Yerclyde.
A Berlin dentist was Vantenced the
other day to five years imprisonment,
a fine of 1000 marks ($23S) and five
years loss of title and privileges foA
overcharging, cheating and injuring
| his patients, as well as compelling
them to sign contracts while under the
influence of anesthetics.
The Rev. John H. Race, president of
the Grant University at Chattanooga,
Tenn, has been called to the pastorate
of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church of Binghampton, N. Y.
The State Department has been Off
cially advised that the Crown Prince
of Siam, Maha Vajiravudh has COM
pleted arrangements to visit the United
States next October No member of the
royal family of Siam has ever visited
America.
Prince Nicholas of Greece, recently
won a poetic competition held at the
Athens Academy. The poem was a
comedy in blank verse called The
Reformers."
Mrs. Robert S. Robertson, an art
critic and lecturer on art of Fort
Wayne. Ind. during a recent visit to
Kokomo, found. in a secondhand store,
where she was searching for antiqui-
ties, a picture of Martha Washington,
which artists have pronounced a strik-
ing and beautiful work of art.
Prof. L. Boutemy, of "L'Alliance
Franchise" has established in St. Louis
a branch of the French National =
ciety. whose object is to propagate the
French language in foreign countries.
Like another famous actor, Forbes
Robertson. Weeden Grossmith is a
clever portrait painter. He is. indeed,
a devotee of three arts-those of music,
painting and the drama.
Richard H. Cooper a private of the
Eleventh United States Cavalry. who
has just returned from the Philippines.
brought with him the regalia which
Aguinaldo always wore on dress pa
rade before the outbreak.
Rev. DR.. ]. H. Hertz, formerly of
Syracuse. n. Y, is the only American
preacher in the Transvaal and Orange
River Colony. He delivered the address
at the Mckinley memorial services held
in Masonic Hall, johannesburg, Octo-
Der last.
Gen. and Mrs. William F. Draper, who
are settled in their new Washington
home, the former residence of Mrs.
washington Mclean, entertained the
Massachusetts senators and represent
atives at dinner Tuesday evening.
John Sousa, at the opening of his
New York season with a concert next
Sunday, will play national anthem,
Hail to the Flag" that was composed
by Richard Mansfield.