The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-12
OLIO OF EVENTS.

The people of Alexandria, Va, pro-
pose to ere1t a monument TO comment
GRATED the Tooth anniversary OF the
death of George Washington. The first
president, in his youth, was one Oh
those who helped to survey the old city
of Alexandria in 1749.
After a lapse of several weeks, An
drew Carnegie has again taken up his
British benefactions. He has offered
to donate $4,000 for the establish
ment of free libraries in NE borough of
Marylebone, on condition that the bor-
ough provide maintenance.
A strange case is that of Mrs. Mary
Elvira Gillespie, who at the age of 81
has just been admitted to a hospital in
Denver. She is the mother of 81 chill
dren, including Is sets of twins, but
all nave drifted away from her and she
knows not the address of one of them.
The centennial anniversary of Louis
Kossuth's birth will be celebrated in
Hungary on Dec. II next. The munich
pality of Buda-Pesth is making prepa-
rations for a solemn celebration, in
Guiding a procession to Kossuth's grave,
where the foundation stone of a mauso-
leum will be laid.
DR.. Ales Hrdicka has Just returned
TO New York from a visit to the hidden
sacred caves of the Hutchol Indians of
J%alisco, Mexico, bringing back with
him many specimens of their handi-
craft.
Charles NJ. Schwab, the steel trust
magnate, cannot be in as precarious a
state of health as has been reported.
On the dining car where he lunched on
his way from Plattsburg to New York
the other day he disposed of the follow
ing viands: Soup 1.-TWO plates), roast
chicken (one-half), green corn, pota-
toes. Lima beans. cantaloupe, lemon pie
1.-TWO pieces), coffee Zone cup).
No one has amassed millions so rap
idly as Alfred Belt, the South African
millionaire, who is reputed to be the
wealthiest man in the world. His for
tune is said to exceed 81 600, 900, 900, and
nc has an income sufficient to make ten
new millionaires every year. The whole
of this colossal fortune was made with
in a period of % years.
Charles Becker. an expert forger. who
is about to be released from the Cali
1ornia pe~nitentlary, has agreed to quit
MS old business in consideration of a
pension that is to be allowed him by
the bankers. Five hundred dollars a
month is to be his allowance, and the
bankers think they are buying him off
cheaply at that price.
Rear Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge is
the Oldest living officer of the navy, but
is so sensitive and secretive about his
age that his closest friends can only
guess at it. The records show .hat he
entered the navy as a midshipman on
Jan. l, 1918. at which time he must have
been at least Is years old. He is, there
fore, probably SO. His eldest son, Rear
Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge, Jr., is &c
years old.
The most remarkable divorce suit Of
modern times is probably that just
brought by Mrs. Evelyn Moore, of Hia-
watha. Kan, whose husband is a Pres
bytorian preacher. In her petition Mrs.
Moore alleges that Mr.. Moore made a
paddle out of a plank and that when he
became enraged at her, which was fire.
quently. he would spank her cruelty
with the paddle, causing great bodily
pain and much mental anguish.
There is to be a gathering of the Rob
insons and their kinsfolk at the Hotel
Surfside, Gloucester, Mass. This is the
second meeting of the association,
which was inangurated under the aus
pieces of the Old Colony Historical So
ciety at Taunton. Mass, July IS, 1900.
The association is national in its char
acter, embracing all of the kin who are
descended from the original stock of
migrants to America previous to the
year 100.
The commissioner of patents has af-
tirmed on appeal the decision of the ex-
aminer of trademarks, refusing to Still
son Hutchins, of Washington, d. c.,
registration for the word "telegra-
phone" as a trademark for apparatus
for recording and reproducing sounds,
signals and the like. Registration was
refused on the ground that the word
was descriptive. and, therefore, it was
unnecessary to discuss any further rea-
sons for refusal.
Prof. William II. Wright, of the as
Economical staff of the Lick cbserva-
tory, has been chosen to take charge Of
the ID. o. Mills expedition, to spend two
years in Chill in making special re-
searches among the stars of the South
ern hemisphere. Director w. w. Camp
bell will go with the party to personal
ly direct the erection of the observing
station. Harold X. Palmer, fellow in
the Lick observatory for the past four
years, will be Professor Wright's assis-
tant.
General Greedy, chief of the United
States signal service, has sailed for
Alaska, where he will superintend the
building of the government telegraph
system from Valdez to Eagle City. Is
this the beginning of the government
control of the telegraph? 1t is an
nounced that owing to the difficulty OF
maintaining the land lines from Daw-
son to Ashcroft, the government may
lay a land cable over the most difficult
mountains. At present during severe
storms or freshets the lines are inter-
rupted by the falling of trees, etc.
The entire estate of William Lidder-
dale, late governor of the Bank of Eng
land, who died not long ago, amounts
to only 5 $4,000. He was an authority
upon all questions of British finance,
and for years was a power in the oper-
ations of the English eXchequer and
London Stock Exchange. His power
was immense, but it had to be exercised
in accordance with law and with strict
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