The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-02-21
0LIO OF EVENTS.

women.
Organized laborers to the number OF
1000 are employed by the diamond deal
ers and jewelers. of Amsterdam
Philadelphia drunkards are now re-
leased whom sober for fear of their
bringing smallpox into the Jail.
The total number of medical practi~
TONERS in Great Britain and Ireland is
36,7SS. an increase of 40I within a year.
Husbands in Luneburg, Russia. must
be home at II o'clock at night, or pay
a fine of about $3.50, half of which goes
to the complainant. who is usually the
wife.
Following the example of Leipsic,
several other German universities are
refusing to admit Russian girls who
have only the certificates of Russian
high schools.
Henry Watterson is a fairly good mu-
stefan, and it was at one time a serious
question with him as to whether he
should take up music or journalism as
a profession.
Booker r. Washington's autobiogra-
ply up From Slavery" translated into
French, German and Hindoostanee, is
now to be done into Finnish and into
Spanish for Cuba.
The Marquis Visconti Venosta of
Italy has declined the decoration sent
to him by the Emperor Menelik Of
Abyssinia, on the ground that it was
stained by Italian blood
Some Chinese medicine consisting of
monkeys toes boiled dow and harden
ed by being buried underground for a
number of years figured in a police
court case at Shanghai recently.
President Roosevelt's biography Of
"Oliver Cromwell is about to be pub
lished in a French edition through the
efforts of the Societe Franchise de- I'M
phimerie ct de Librarie of Paris.
An official statement from the British
Cycle and Motor Trades association
puts the average profit on a bicycle at
S2.16, and the number of persons en-
ployed in the cycle trade at 1000
Dan" Emmett, who wrote the popu-
lar negro melody. Dixie" which serv-
ed frequently as a rallying son in the
civil war, Is living, at the age Of 81,
in a little cottage near Mansfield, o.
The latest bank statement embracing
all the banks in Mexico shows the total
banking capital to be $50, 300, 90; note
C|lICuldIlUH, poS,O 1000, reserves, Sl4,-
232, 1893, and deposits $112, 900, 900.
A movement has been started in To-
ledo, o., to erect a monument to the
late Chief Justice Morrison r. Waite.
1t is proposed to erect the monument
on the battlefield OF Fort Meigs. near
Toledo.
New complaints are being made by
county officers In Nebraska against
49,, n,e xrLD h,noL u,o1,o, o.. A.
bounty. At SO a scalp. wolf culture
often proves more profitable than rails
ing hogs.
One of the most expert chaffeurs in
Washington is Representative Joseph
Sibley of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Sibley has
become so expert hat he can cut figure
Fights and do other fancy stunts in
steering the machine.
John F. Dryden, the new senator from
New Jersey, is an expert mathematician
He has studied figures in all their COM
binations for recreation ever since he
was a boy and can solve the most diff
cult problems offhand.
The a~llopathic and homeopathic
branches of the medical profession in
Sioux City, Ia, are about to perfect a
third organization for the purpose OF
maintaining fees. Hereafter It will
cost more in that town to be sick.
The annual appropriation for the ex-
penses of the presidents office, includ-
ing the presidents salary, compensa-
tion for his clerks n secretaries, the
furnishings of the white house and
the maintenance OF the grounds, is less
than $500 900 a year,
The death Of DIR. McManigle, a promi-
nent citizen of Harper, Kan. was
%chronicled in the kilograms the other
day. DR.. McManigle was the father Of
Ferdinand McManigle, who, under the
name of Carl Athena, has been prac-
ticing the buried-alive fake in different
parts of the country.
Prof. A. A. Trevor Of Greencastle.
Ind, has been nominated by the fac
ulty of Boston university to the John
Sleeper fellowship of that institution,
which provides free of expense for a
fiscal year, the making of a personal re-
in a foreign country. He has
Palestine for this work.
At Governor Cummins' Inauguration
in Des Moines, Ia, on Wednesday four
generations were representative ia
and mother, his daughter, who is
Mrs. Grace Rawson, and his g~randchild,
.ummins Rawson, being present. The
governors father is 70 and his mother
is rs years old. They were both born
in Greene county, Pa, where they were
in 1S47.
Charles Meadows, known on the Pa
cifc coast as ARIZONA Charley" In
dian scout, has started for Tiburon or
Shark island, in the gulf of California.
to See what can be done toward tam
Ing or exterminating the Seri Indians,
who have resisted all attempts to civil
lze them. The island can be made val
from mineral and agricultural
standpoints.
Milan NJ. Hubert of New York, who
has just been appointed chief of the de-
partment Of manufacturing of the
fair at St. Louis, represented
the United States in Paris in 1900, and
for his services was decorated by the
government, and he was also a
figure at the Chicago worlds
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