The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-08-08
0LIO OF EVENTS.

DiiStOli DhSldlh, hdS hluhlNlpdllHth
it's docks and harbors at a cost of be-
tween $4,000, 900 and SIS, 900, 600.
The biggest average farm in the
world is in South Australia, where the
average squatter holds $4,000 acres.
Ohio courts have sustained the right
of the city of Columbus to charge its
citizens for water by the meter system.
According to the Boston directory,
there are 1853 grocers and $50 provi-
sion dealers in that city, making a total
of 1903, while the lawyers number
2,1SS.
W~arrensburg, Mo-, has three licensed
saloons, each of which pays So, 200 an
nually into the treasury. They com
ply with all of the laws requirements,
and aid in its enforcement, keeping out
jointists and bootleggers of all kinds.
The $50, 900 in bills which figured in
the bribery cases attending the election
of Senator Clark by the Montana legis-
lature still remain a part of the ar
chives of that state. The man to whom
it was given as a bride never claimed
it; naturally the bribers have not asked
that it be returned. and there is no
manner by which the state can appro-
pirate it as part of the public funds.
1t is asserted that the Jews Free
School. Spitalfelds, is the largest
school not only in London, but any
where. There are A classrooms for
boys and q for girls. Each room is
fitted as completely as modern inven-
ton can make it. The fact that the
school has never been closed owing to
the spreading of any epidemic indicates
the sanitary perfection of the enormous
structure.
General Andre, the French minister
of war, is the thirty-first man to hold
this Office since Sept. A., 1870. Should he
remain in the cabinet for two months
more he will have surpassed any of its
predecessors in the length of incumben-
cy, as he has now held the portfolio for
two years and one month. 1t is gener-
ally admitted by foreign observers that
the army, and particularly the form of
the military-iudicial procedure, has
progressed much under his leadership.
King Edward holds an easy record
against all sovereigns or officials, liv-
ing or dead, for military honors. re-
views and practical commands. He is
colonel of eleven acknowledgment from
his office as field marshal-command-
ing two German regiments. one Rus
sian, one Italian and the corps of Greek
Guards. All these regiments he has
reviewed in person, and since his 2lst
year he has held $50 reviews, as against
the kaiser's 200 odd, and his various
regiments give him command over 12,-
600 men.
Some three years ago the Shah of
Persia gave the minister of state the
exclusive right for so years to spin and
weave cotton and wooden fabrics in
that monarchy. The concession per-
mits the beneficiary to associate with
himself either foreign or domestic capt.
tai and other aids. A member Of an
Australian weaving establishment has
been requested to form an association
for the exploitation of the Persian mo-
nopoly. Austrian textile manufactur-
ers have a special interest in this mat
ter, as they export 50, 600, 600 worth to
Persia annually.
The first office to be recognized un-
der the new system put into operation
in its southern division by the Postal
ltleSIdpH COluDdHy Is at LOulSNlllt,
KY, and the man appointed its mana
ger is w. j. Slater, for some years chief
operator of the Office at Washington, u.
c.. Mr.. Slater has been IS years in the
telegraph business, beginning as a mes
senger boy and working his own way
up by merit till he has filled every part
along the line of promotion, including
acting manager. He has peer con-
nnotnI c,,oncciNvo1u with tho old ph1 Iii
more and Ohio, the Western Union and
the Postal companies, and has had a
very large share in building up the
Washington business of the last-nam-
ed corporation. His selection as the
first of the new corps of Southern man.
ayers is the highest compliment his
employers know how to pay him.
One of the earliest members of the
Royal Academy, it was Gainsborough's
custom to have his pictures conveyed
to the metropolis by a prosperous Lon
don carrier, a Mr.. Wiltshire. of Shock.
erwick, near Bath, says the London
Academy. The man refused to accept
payment on the ground that he loved
pictures too well. He was not, how,
ever, allowed to go unrewarded, fol
Gainsborough presented him with si1
of his best works, and some idea Of
their ultimate value may be gained
from the fact that when at length they
were sold the National Gallery secured
two, "The Parish Clerk of Bradford-on.
Avon" for 500 guineas, and The Har'
vest Wagon" for 92, 800, these prices
being considered low. Later. "Thc
Sisters" from another gallery. realized
close upon 10000.
A Swedish consul at Bombay says
that because of their fear of sanitary
inspection and modern methods of pre-
venting and curing disease the native:
of India in vast numbers are victims o.
plauge. In consequence of the hat
red and fear of hospitals and medica
men the population of Bombay has de
creased in the whole of India In thu
same time about Is per cent. Bombay
now has 760, 900 people. The hospita
and general medical service in India
are of the best, and do much good IN thu
affected districts in spite of the Dreju
dice which prevails against such things
The plague is generally fatal withou
the most skillful medical attention. TIL,