The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-18
0LIO OF EVENTS.

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houses Of Boise, Idaho, with hot water
for heating and domestic purposes are
gushers 450 feet deep. which emit wa
ter having a temperature of III degrees
Fahrenheit.
AS the site is wanted for a great I'M
foreground railway station, it is stated
that the famous Partisan markets
known as the Halles Centrales are to
be moved to the bank of the river
Seine, near Pont Neuf.
The porte has issued an edict forbid
ding all Turkish subjects, under pain
of severe punishment, to take lessons
in fencing, sword exercise or in revolt
yer practice outside the army, as these
practices form a danger for the public
security.
A man who has every chance to know
says that the reason the European mar
ket is not as good as it was is not so
much due to high prices as to the num-
Der of gold bricks which have been
sent across the water as the real arti-
Gle.
A Danish press exhibition, held in
connection with the forthcoming con-
gress of Scandinavian authors and jour
AN''ND hbS Ju1I D1Ch OpCIANb Ia ~
hagen in the presence of the crown
prince regent and other members of the
royal family, the ministers and the
principal authorities. NJ. ~Soerensen,
minister of the interior, has consented
to act as president of the exhibition,
which will remain open for two months.
Ripon still maintains a custom said
to date 1 900 years back. Puctually ev-
cry night at 9 o'clock the city wake
man." attired In official costume, ap-
pears before the mayors house and
blows three solemn notes on the horn
of Ripon," an instrument decorated
with silver badges and with the insignia
of the trading companies of the city Of
Surs. Thereafter he marches to the
market cross and gives one blast of his
horn.
Bob Womack, who discovered the
riches of Cripple Creek, Col, but who
never profited by what he learned re-
garding the wealth concealed there, is
working as a day laborer in Colorado
Springs. He was invited to spend the
Fourth Of July at the great gold camp,
near which he fingered until his old
time herding ground had yielded nearly
800, 900 900 to the men whom he in
duced to investigate his find in the win
ter OF 1S9O-91.
The chief justice of the supreme court
of errors of Connecticut has decided
that the bequest of S100,0 600 made by
a decedent to controvert the doctrine
of the immortality of the soul is valid.
The testator was Sidney Hall, an &C.
centric resident of Hartford, who died
three years ago. He was a member of
the Advent church of that city. and left
the sum named to the Advent Christian
Publication society, of Boston, to be
disbursed as directed in his last tesla
ment. Relatives contested the will, but
have failed to disturb the legacy.
Miss Mary S. Anthony has paid to
City Treasurer Samuel B. Williams, of
Rochester, S71,67 as city tax on her
property, with a protest" as she writes
to him, gin the name of 10000 other
taxpaying women of the city of Roches-
ter. who are deemed by the lawmakers
fully capable, intellectually, morally
and physically, of earning money and
contributing their full share toward the
expenses of the government, but totally
incapable of deciding as to the proper
expenditure of said money"
Human skulls are a strange article Of
commerce. Yet such is the demand
which has arisen among curiosity deal
ers in Europe for the skulls of New
Guinea native ancestors, which have
ornamented the poles of native dwell
ings in New Guinea that the Australian
government has inhibited the trade,
says the London Express. Large prices
were offered the blacks for the strange
relics, and it was feared that the tempt
alton was becoming so strong that as
4ha e,,np1,y ~ uannipo N nnacfnrC low
illegal methods of procuring spurious
ones would be adopted.
Several Of the Frenchmen who Wis
tied America as members of the Roch-
ambeau delegation want to join the
Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.
General Comte de Chalender of the
French army is an applicant for mem
bership, as are the Comte de Bougain-
Vile and the Marquis de Queste, who
are the eldest lineal male descendants
of French officers in the revolution who
became original members of the Gin
cinnati. Action on their applications
was taken on their application at the
annual meeting of the society at New
port on July 4.
A new l~ife-saving apparatus weighing
one and one-third ounces has been in
vented by Herr de Irsa, a Hamburg
engineer. 1t is The shape and size Of
an ordinary pocketbook. The action
of the water causes a small cartridge
to explode, generating sufficient gas to
enable the apparatus to sustain 206
pounds for three days. The old-time
life-preserver, Weighing as many as
several ounces, shaped like an ordinary
flash, when taken unmixed with water
says the Philadelphia Ledger, frequent
~ resulted in fine and costs, with the
alternative of ten days.
Gabrielle D'Annunzio, the distin-
guished Italian writer, has been receiv-
ing, during the past few months, so
many requests for his autograph from
collectors and admirers, not only in
Italy, but throughout Europe, that he
has at last grown tired of signing his
name and has adopted a novel method
Of notifying the public that he is unable
to comply with any such requests in
future. In the hotel at Bologna, where