Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-18
OLIO OF EVENTS

pane from the bed.
The number of laborers engaged on
the Simplon tunnel in September was
3,O14, who added 334 meters to the tun-
mel, which now measures Il, 249 meters.
George Foster Peabody has endowed
permanent scholarship in the Gradu-
ate School of Harvard university for
the benefit of some graduate each year
of the University of Georgia
| The British government in India has
undertaken the task of making 7,000,-
600 of natives immune from the plague.
The laboratory at Bombay has received
instructions to provide the material for
$4,000 daily vaccinations.
The Texas exhibit at the Worlds
Fair, ST. Louis, to cost $500, 900, may be
supplemented by special county exhi-
bits. Bowie county has undertaken to
prepare an Independent exhibit in addi-
ton to its doing its full share in the
! larger exhibit of the great state.
The Journal of Tropical Medicine
! prints an article by DR.. Sambon on the
enemies of the mosquito. There are
many of them, including a number OF
parasites, and the doctor expresses the
hope that it may be pussible, with the
aid of one of these, to exterminate mos
quitoes, just as the scale was destroyed
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from Australia.
Chancellor James R. Day has an
nounced a gift of $4,000 to Syracuse
university by Mrs Esther Baker Steele,
widow of J. Dorman Steele, the famous
scientist, and donor of the Esther Bak-
er Steele Hall of Physics. The gift was
made some time ago, according to the
chancellor, but for various reasons on
the part of the university authorities
| the announcement was withheld.
In this land of innovations the sight
of a father and son earnestly seeking
an education at the same institution of
learning can hardly be regarded as I'M
usual. The University of Pennsylvania
| has on its rolls two such students. Ber-
net Medoff, the father, is A years of
age, and Joseph Medoff, the son, is 25.
Both will be graduated in the same
year. The father is taking three
year course in architecture, and the son
is taking the arts and sciences course
AS result of some rough hazing in
connection with the freshman banquet
at Lehigh university two sophomOreS
were expelled. The freshman and soph-
omore classes have agreed to abandon
all forms of hazing if the faculty will
reinstate the two men. 1t is expected
| that the faculty will consent. Lehigh
forms of hazing have been given up as
a result of such an incident.
Nine Bella is to have an unusual
honor in her native city. Her name is
to be associated with wing of the Mel
bourne hospital She has announced
her intention of giving a special con-
cert for the benefit of this institution,
and has herself subscribed for three
boxes of $500 each. One Of them she
has presented to her father, David
Mitchell; the second to her manager,
George Musgrove, and the third to an
unnamed friend.
In private letter Bishop Charles H.
Brent, the Protestant Episcapol bishop
of the Philippines, reports that he is
studying Spanish and Tagalog, has
| journeyed as far as Dagupan, intends
to travel around LuZOn for three
months after Christmas, wants mis-
sionary to move about among the
Americans and Englishmen scattered
through the islands. and has decided
to establish his church settlement in
the Tondo (native) district of Manila.
That the greatest gold fields the
world has ever known are in the Amur
River country in eastern Siberia is the
opinion of E. B. MCGOWAN, mining
expert, who has just returned from a
| 12,000-mile trip Of exploration through
| the Asiatic possessions Of Russia. The
Russians, he said, took out 10000, 900
| of gold last year from the placer de-
| posits and have not yet begun to work
the quartz. The mining methods of the
Russians are very crude, Mr.. MCGOWAN
says, and do not compare with Amer
| lean methods.
Henri Murger, author of "La Vie de
! Boheme," whose name is inseparably
1 -
| tier Latin, is said to have arranged his
life month by month on a plan char
acteristic of that happy-go-lucky re-
| gion. He chose to have three days of
enjoyment at $50 a day, q days of
drudging and pinching at the rate of 81
a day, and If the month happened to
have 81 days the extra day was pro-
vided for with the help of a dollar bor-
| roWed from friend.
An extraordinary case has been in
vestigated by the city coroner of Mel
| bourne, Australia. Two little girls,
aged, respectively, 51s years and 81
years, were playing, when a quarrel
arose. The younger child struck the
older one on the forehead with a stick,
causing her death. The jury found
that the little girl had not discretion to
discern between good and evil, and the
coroner informed them that by this
verdict he would be spared the pecessi-
ty of committing the child for trial.
The Royal Scottish Academy at Edin-
burgh is about to lose its president by
retirement. Sir George Reid was elect
ed academician in 1878 and president in
1891. Hitherto the academy has shared
its galleries with the board of manufac-
turers; but it is now petitioning for
possession of the Royal institution, and
to be relieved of it's obligation to teach
art. The proposition is that the pres
ent galleries be retained by the board
of manufacturers for the display of the
national collection OF works of art.
The academy desires to become more
purely an art society, less a teaching