The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-25
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riculture.
The Paris National Library has re-
ceived an important gift of a collection
Of rare Alsatian antique money and
medals, some 1000 pieces in all, made
by the late Henri Meyer. When the
auction sale was announced, German
agents were sent to Paris to bid. hnt
a Mexican gentleman, Carlos de Bel
stegul, bought the collection at private
sale for S75 900, and presented II to the
library in recognition of the hospital
ity Of France to him during the last
80 years. Many of the coins are unique.
There are almost complete Gets of the
mon y USED by the landgraves of Alsac,
from the beginning of the 18th century
the municipal money issued by Stras-
burg, Colmar, Mulhouse, Wissembourg.
etc, and the coinage of the abbeys Of
Murbach and Lure.
The two selections for the faculty of
the Clark college were made by the
trustees on the personal choice of Car
ron ID. Wright. the new president.
Dean Bentley, who will start in at once
on his work at Clark college, was grad
uated from the University of Nebraska
in the class of '94, and last yea was a
fellow i~ education at the Teachers
college of Columbia university. Prof.
Hodge, who will be instructor in
mathematics, was graduated from Bos-
ton university in the class of 81 and
took a postgraduate course as a SIP 'eial
student at the Massachusetts Normal
school at ~Bridgewater. He studied
mathematics as a graduate student at
the University of Chicago, and later at
Clark university.
Consul General Guenther, of Frank
fort, says: From the latest volume of
German statistics l have compiled the
following figures with reference to the
beer industry: The production of beer
in the German empire during the year
ended March 81, 1901, was 1850, ga 500
gallons. The imports of foreign beer
(mostly Pilsener beer, from Bohemia.
probably were IA, $3.50 600 gallons. and
the exports of German beer amounted
to 21,172,S0 gallons. The estimated
consumption of beer per capita of. pop
ulation was 1922 quarts for the whole
of the empire. The government rev.
enues derived from the manufacture OF
beer in Germany amounted to s22,175,-
976. The tax on beer per capita!
amounted to 400 cents.
The London Express says: Those
| about to celebrate their birthday might
take a hint from Grand Secretary Yung
Ii of Pekin. One the Goth anniversary
| Of his birth, a few days ago, he refused
to accent any presents unless they were
of intrinsic value. Some brought him
storks and deer Of solid GOLD, each a
foot high and beautifully chased; gold
buddhas: green jadestone cases of the
most beautiful shades; diamond and
precious stone belts and rings; and a
foot-high god Of longevity Of solid
pure gold, e%nsconced in a miniature
temple OF the finest jadestone of the
purest white color, incrusted with dia-
mon6s and precious stones of great val
ne. All these presents were ~graciously
received, but others, such as scrolls and
tablets, unless of great antiquity. We're
uniformly refused without even a word
of thanks.
The London Chronicle y In
Connection with the cession of the postal
and telegraphic services from the
states to the commonwealth, a curious
discovery has been made. For many
years it has been the practice in the
remote parts of South Australia, when
IPOIlt ltlI ~llblSDOStu, w l'ltSl ulbl
their symptoms to some Adelaide doc
tor. who wired back a prescription.
Every country postoffice was supplied
by a p~aternal government with a med
icine chest, and there the telegraphed
prescriptions we're MADE up by the
postmaster. But the federal postmas-
ter general thinks the system open to
abuse. and has ordered the pastmasters
to do more dispensing. 1t certainly
lood like risk at first sight, but the
fact that no one has ever heard of any
body being killed by a postoffice pre-
scription argues that it has worker
pretty well in the past. One leading
Adelaide surgeon proudly boasts that
he has set broken legs by telegraph.
A somewhat singular story is that Of
the V-wound cop invented by S. J.
Wardwell in 1891. A cop is a cylinder
of wound thread, and the V-wound cop
is superior in compactness and uni
formity of tension. The patent Office
issued a patent to Mr.. Wardwell, but a
subsequent lawsuit brought out the
fact that at the National museum, in
New York. there are cops Of corG pre-
cisely similar in appearance to those
patented by MI. Wardwell. These, It
seems, were made years ago by the Fiji
islanders, so the Wardwell patents were
declared invalid. But the museum au-
thorities refuse to allow the Fiji cops
to be unwound. and, as it is therefore
impossible to find out whether the v
wind extends through all the layers, the
patent Office has reissued a patent to
Mr.. Wardwell.
One of the most picturesque candi-
dates nominated for congress so far is
Andrew Furuseth, who aspires to sue
coed julius Kahn of the Fourth Califor-
mia district. Furuseth is a Prussian
Finn, who used to be a sailor, and he
has sailed pretty much every stretch
of open water in the world. For years
he has been a labor agitator in San
Francisco. He is a keen, sharp-visaged
watchdog, and does the full duty AS
signed to him. An artist seeking
studies of faces to make up a revolu-
tionary crowd would find in him a strik.
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