The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The latest quotation for "a seat in the
New York Stock exchange Is SIC, 900,
yet some may purchase at that price
who wouldn't buy a seat in church at
a t~housandth part Of the sum
David Mclean Parry of Indianapolis,
president of the National Association
of Manufacturers, was born on a farm
near Pittsburg. He rises at $50 a. m.
and is at his Office desk at 6:45 every
morning.
The Cook county (Ins Democracy
has invited David B. Hill to attend its
annual picnic on June 7 as the guest of
honor. Mayor Tom johnson of Cieve-
land has accepted an invitation to be
present
Admiral Schley's name now appears
in Burke's Peerage, according to a
Washington publication. It is placed
there, 1t seems, because his daughter
married a brother of the present Earl
of Wharncliff.
1t is understood that the president
will designate Adjutant General H. G.
Corbin and General Wood as represen-
tatives of this government to witness
the military maneuvers in Europe dur
ing the coming summer.
President Nathan e. Wood, of New
ton Theological seminary, says he will
encourage writing at his institution,
and deplores the fact that there are so
few Baptist authors, and SO little Bap-
fist literature being written.
A new mechanical genius has ap-
peared in Chicago, who claims to have
evolved a horseless, dustless street
| sweeper. The machine is to be run by
a gasoline motor and he says that a
cuctnpn of PanC which nnarofa with Ms
ton tubes, will take up all the dust.
Kansas City utters a loud protest
| against the assertion Of a shoe drum
mer that more number eight women's
| shoes are sold there than in any town
in the country. The rude SANDER orig
mated in a typographical blunder. The
| figure should have been IS.
An important discovery of human
fossils has been made in the grottos
near Mantone during the recent re-
searches ordered by the Prince of Mo-
naco. The London Standards CORES
pendent states hat four skeletons have
| already been found, not far below the
surface, which are of a type never be-
fore encountered in the q,raternary per-
iod. DR.. Verneau, president of the An
t~hropological Society OF Paris, has eX-
amined the remains. and ~pronounces
them to be of the paleo1ithic age. The
race they represent was of small size,
with a narrow, strongly developed
skull, and low placed, pointed features,
with an enormous nasal o%rifice; some
thing, in fact, between the baboon and
negro type. The arms were long and
distinctly negroid.
Chicago French-C Canadians are plan
ming the erection of a French theater
and clubhouse to cost 500, 900. The
structure, which is to represent the best
efforts of French artistic genius, is to
be on a site near Notre Dame church,
corner of Sibley street and Vernon park
place. One-quarter of the capital stock
has already beer subscribed. The work
on the plans is to be begun at once, and
ground will be broken within four
weeks. 1t is predicted that the formal
opening of the theater will be before
Jan. l, 1903. The prime mover in this
undertaking is Nectaire Rousseau, who,
with e. D. lie Tourneaux and Theodore
Proulx, has received incorporation pa
pers. The name of the corporation un-
der which the papers were issued is LIE
Monument National des Canadiens
Francois de Chicago"
An effort is being made to complete
the general catalogue of Philips acade'
my of Andover, Mass. The address
and business occupations Of a large
number of these students during Thu
last fifty years are unknown. TIT
alumni and friends of the institution
will confer q favor by sending sucl
information to Rev. Eugene G. Web
ster of Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Congressman Mahon of Pennsylvania
rose to a question Of personal privilege
a day or two ago and in the course D
his remarks said that the men who hat
been circulating a certain report abou
him had hearts "as black as the SCOT II
the innermost nues Of hell"