The National tribune., 1902-11-27

can do is the fancy step KIM, J1gS ana
breakdowns and such like. And sing
why they do say that when Mr.. Kahn be-
gins to troll the very birds cease singing.
On the whole he is an all-around good fel-
low, strong, reliable, and with q DISPOSE
ton for hard work that is equalled by few.
California ought really to see that Mr..
Julius Kahn comes back.
Electric cars and the Presidents en-
tourage seem to have an affinity for each
other. One day last week, DIR. George A
Lung, L. s. N. physician to the Presi-
dent, was driving, when his horse got
frightened and backed directly in front of
an electric car. The carriage nearly over
turned, but the plucky man of medicine
stayed with it, and the car in showing it
righted the vehicle. Then the Doctor drove
uncOncernedly away.
Mrs. Cushman X. Davis will erect a me-
mortal statue to her husband, the late
Senator Davis. Mr.. Treutanoye, the
Sculptor. hopes to complete it by Spring.
1t will be placed in Arlington.
There is to be remarkable convention
in Washington early in December. 1t will
he comprised of the Red Cross Nurses of
the war with Spain and in the Philippines.
The organization is known as the Society
of Spanish War Nurses" and numbers
nearly 1000 of these splendid young wo-
men. The National President is Dr. Anita
Newcomb MCGEE, who was Assistant Sur
geon General during the period mentioned
and the only woman ever so honored.
The new Pinch battery at Point
Bonita, California, has been named BAT
terry Mendall,' in honor of Col George H.
Mendall, who was gallant soldier in the
War of the Rebellion, receiving a brevet
for service before Richmond. and another
at the close of the war. His death &C.
CURED few months ago. The new NOR
tar battery in the same locality is named
for Gen. B. s. Alexander, fine old soldier
of two wars, the Mexican and Rebellion.
He received several brevets for gallant ser
vices in both wars. He died Jan. 8, 1888.
Nobody has ever invented typewriter
| that would spell ordinary English. Not
paste diamonds and pearls and chews gum
while you dictate to her, can sometimes
spell the most insignificant words, but
along comes man who has invented a
machine that will do Turkish characters
| and spell Turkish gibberish. Selin s.
Haddad, of Cairo. Egypt, is the inventor,
and he is in Washington now trying to
| arrange with the Turkish Minister to
transport to the Sultan of Turkey a very
handsome machine which Mr.. Haddad has
had made in the United States. 1t is a
rare curiosity, writing from left to right,
| instead of from right to left, as the cylin-
der moves on an American machine.
There are 600 characters in the Turkish
| language, but Mr.. Haddad has reduced
these to about 30 for machine purposes.
Just what the Sultan will do with the
typewriter when it arrives is a question.
He will probably have it doused in the
river for an Internal machine, for one
thing.
Adj't-Gen. Corbin says that young Off
GERS should not marry. Such hostages to
fortune as a wife and babies are, in his
opinion, great detriment to a young Off
Ger who gets married, then gets in debt,
who is veteran of the war of the re.
bellion. takes his own advice. He was
married last year.
Thanksgiving Day is purely an Ameri-
| can institution, and is not known abroad.
Our ambassadors at the Court of St
James usually have THANKSGIVING din
ner and invite members of the nobility to
| partake of it with them, but its observance
on foreign soil naturally ends with that
| 1t has no significance to a foreigner, and
never can have, unless he comes to US to
make his home, and becomes imbued with
| enthusiasm for our institutions.
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Where does tire cranberry come from!
| Who eats it? How many people can an
| swer the questions? For one thing. it
grows in Massachusetts, near Cape Cod
principally, and 100000 barrels in sea-
son. New Jersey raises about 1000 bar
rels year, Michigan and Wisconsin about
10000 barrels each, and Oregon, Washing
| ton and Nova Scotia chip in with few
| thousand barrels each, and the story is
1 n n n 0ieip hnrr &c,
concerned. The people who eat it live
north Of Mason and Dixon's line. South
ern people eat very few cranberries, and
the shipments of the fruit seldom go south
of Washington and Baltimore 1t is not
eaten over the ocean. Many attempts
have been made to introduce it in England,
for instance, but British cooks are too
economical Of sugar, and the pretty red
berry gains no friends there.
| A man Of promise has been taken away
from the world which needed him. Mai.
Walter Reed, of the Medical Department,
U. s. A., died last Sunday morning at the
Hospital at the Washington Barracks He
was only a little past so, and there were
many years of usefulness before him, could
he have lived. His loss to science is well
nigh incalculable. He had long believed
that yellow fever, instead of being con.
4 tagious disease, was caused by musketo
bites, the insect carrying the disease. Dur
ing the epidemic of yellow fever in Cuba,
while our troops were there, DIR. Reed was
given full permission to test his theories,
and proved them accurate, beyond doubt
and scientists all over the world applaud
ed him. This year there was not single
case IF yellow fever in Cuba, and the
principal protection against the disease
was to guard against the invasion OF
musketoes. DIR. Reed was recognized by
the scientists of the world as its mosl
eminent Psychologist. He was conduct
ing some experiments at the time of his
death, which it was thought would be of
!, immense value to the world but they may
now be dropped. He died of an operation
for appendicitis.
i The Patent Office Is the only Depart
ment of the Government which is making
!, money. Last year this Department turned
!. over TO the Treasury of the United States
: $161,614. Over $4,000 applications for
Patents were filed. The Department has
, now to its credit several million dollars
/ and has pipe dream coming Of beauti
special needs, for which it will pay from
? the surplus funds now piling up It the
: Treasury. This Bureau is now scattered
: over two or three buildings, and ought to
see its dreams coming true, for its Ger
tainly needs a new home.
s The figures in the cost of the last census
e enumeration are somewhat startling
e especially now, when it is said that tn
r Agricultural end of that Bureau is away
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