The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-10
0LIO OF EVENTS.

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to Rico. The attendance totaled over
$4,000.
Signor Galimberti, minister of posts
of Italy, is projecting an international
envelope, for use throughout the postal
union, permitting a postpaid reply.
Grim Jiggs is a politician who has
recently come to the front in the pub
lie affairs of Texas. He aspires to a
seat in congress.
The Republican who wanted to run
for lieutenant governor of New York
is said to be worth IS, 000, 900 and
smokes Turkish cigarettes.
Crowfa Maha Vajiravudh is the name
of the crow prince of Siam, who will
be here in October. Might as we'll begin
to study out the pronunciation now.
N. J.. Bachelor, Republican candidate
for governor of New Hampshire, re-
sides on the farm at Andover, that
state, which was cleared by his great
grandchildren in 1882.
Mr.. Reed, Mr.. Wright and Mr.. Sypher
met in the elevator OF a Portland, Ore,
building the other day. There was no
Burchard present to give the meeting
a political bearing.
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania was 60
years old on Thursday, the oath inst,
and celebrated the event by abstaining
from all political work and spending
the day with his family at Beaver.
The beautiful Wanda de Boncza Of
the Coincide Franchise, who all play
loving Paris is mourning just now, left
a few debts when she died. One dress
makers bill amounts to the pretty sum
of 500, 900.
Prince Rola, son and heir of the
muree of R%ajputana, India, will soon
become a student at the University OF
California. He Is a graduate of Calcut-
ia university. The prince is the first
native prince of India to go to the
Western states for education.
Georgia fruit growers are claiming
that the peach crop of their state yields
more money to the producers than does
the cotton crop. The area devoted to
the fruit is now large, and these asser-
tons are likely to cause it to be in
creased.
Mr.. Kruger will probably leave Hol-
land at the beginning of October. He
will remain for q few weeks at Mont
reaux and then pass the winter at Men
tone, where three villas have been hired
for him and the Boer delegates who ac-
company him.
The Cocos, or Keeling islands. which
belong to the British empire. are the
private property of G. Clunis Ross, who
lives on them and governs their prim-
tive population as an autocrat. They
are a ring of coral atolls lying coo miles
of Java Head.
Marion, Ind, was a trife premature
in its greeting of the president. Three
hours before the executive PASSED
through the town the boiler of an oil
refinery blew over the ~neighboring
block with a o a heard three miles
away. Nobody was hurt. Even the
sleeping engineer escaped injury.
The stalwart footman of six feet or
more who so long was in favor among
the ultra-swell set of New York has
been displaced by good-looking boys be-
tween IL and Is years of age. especially
on carriages. Handsome little fellows
of the Fauntleroy type are now quite
the correct thing.
At st. Paul, Mimi, the young wom-
en- of the Clerks union have completed
arrangements for the organization of a
girls league in which every member
will pledge herself to marry lone but a
union man and to refuse absolutely to
receive attentions from any but men
with cards"
Major w. J.. Buchanan, prison inspec-
tor in Bengal, reports in the Lancet, on
the treatment of ] $50 cases of dysen-
terry by the use of sulphate of soda in
cinnamon of fennel water five or six
times daily. Only nine deaths oc-
Cured. and in the last 272 cases none
at all.
The Office of lord mayor of Dublin is
to be filled in 1903, for the first time. by
n representative of labor, Alderman
Dowd, a member of the trades council
of Dublin, having been selected as the
successor of Mr.. Timothy Harrington.
NJ. p. the present lord mayor. Dublin's
lord mayor receives an allowance of
$4,000 a year. with residence in the
mansion house.
The estimate of the postmaster gen
eral of the appropriations required for
all postmaSterS in the United States
during the next fiscal yeac will aggre-
gate SAG 1926 ,220. an increase of S3,614,-
700 over the current year. Estimates
for the regular free delivery postal SER
vice. not including rural free delivery.
aggregate $21, 1928, 800, an increase of ST.
1882, 800.
Drastic orders have been issued by
the governor of a district in Manchu-
ria in reference to the prevalence of
gambling in that district. All persons
who play cards are liable to be arrested
and receive 100 lashes. in addition to
being compelled to wear around their
necks for one month a metal ring such
as convicts wear. Any official convict
ed of gambling will be flogged and dis
missed from the service.
Commander William S. Cowles, Pres
ident Roosevelt's brother-in-law, will
shortly be given command of one of
the best war vessels that can be found
for an officer of his rank. He is at pres
ent assistant chief of the navigation
bureau and is also naval aide to the
president. Mr.. Cowles is now the sem
Tor commander and becomes captain at
the next vacancy.
Miss r. o. K~anyevsky, a Jewess. is
the first woman student to take her de-