The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-13
CLIO or EVENTS

the grave irreverence' of reading q
newspaper in court while a case was
under trial.
"Etherogram" is said to be Mr.. Mar
coni's preference for a name for dis
patches sent by his wireless method.
He disapproves of "marconigrams," be-
cause, he says, it savors too much of
self-advertisement.
Benjamin Leo, of Cleveland, the in
ventor of a new type of street car fen
der with hollow rubber cylinders along
the edge, allowed himself to be struck
by a car going twelve miles an hour the
other day and escaped injury.
New South Wales (Australia) laws
against child labor are very stringent,
n all girls in shops and stores must
have seats. All stores must close at 6
p. m, and public houses from II p. M.
Saturday until Monday morning.
The six most important Swedish
match manufacturers have formed a
trust, with plants worth more than ST.
600, 900. Swede matches furnish the
principal competition of the Diamond
Match company of the United States,
Great Britain and Chile.
Prof. Adam p. Haupt, the noted ed
ucator, has just died in Cleveland. The
Haupt system is well known through
out this country and Canada, and Sec
rotary Hay and Representative Dick
have been pupils of Prof. Haupt.
DR.. Leuriaux, a Brussels physician,
the success of his serum for
the cure of whooping cough. The SER
UNI is injected under the skin, on the
abdomen, and a cure is performed in
ten days, whereas the disease ordin-
arily runs six to eight weeks.
A number of tests made by the Yer
mont experimental station found that
arsenite of soda and the arsenic-sal-
soda mixture are very satisfactory for
killing weeds along walks and drives.
These can be kept perfectly free Of
weeds by the use of these mixtures.
Ten portraits of heroic size are to
adorn the colonnade of the Industries
building at the st. Louis exposition.
Ten great inventors have been selected
as the subjects of these statues: They
are Howe, Fulton, Bessemer, CHECKER
ing, Clark, Erickson, Watts, Colt, Hoe
and Goodyear.
During the last few years expert
ments have been carried on in the La
hore territory to cultivate beet roots.
The results having been very satisfac-
tory in every respect, it is now intended
to start work on a large scale. So far
India has imported almost all the sugar
required from continental Europe.
Instead of beating swords into plow-
shares now, the Beers of South Africa
have thrown their swords to the scrap
heap and ordered their plows from
American dealers. One dealer in New
York has agreed to ship II 1000, it is
said, and orders for agricultural imple-
ments of all kinds have been received
here.
Large new deposits of bituminous
coal have beer discovered in the dis
trict of Campine, in Belgium. The
field is reported to be over As miles in
length by s miles in width. Boring
trials have shown several veins of a
thickness of 25 feet. The government
has already granted II concessions for
the exploitation Of these deposits.
Madame Emelka Szigavari, who was
once the most popular actress on the
Hungarian stage, has died in the work
house at MoiskoleZ, in Hungary, where
she had spent the last ten years of heI
life as a pauper. She went on the
stage at the age of twenty, and fol
nearly thirty years she was in receipt
of an annual income of over S25, 900.
Since Japan has gone to school II
Europe and America her influence
throughout the East has been steadily
growing. In the interior of China
where no European merchant has eve
thought of going, the japanese are To-
eating themselves, and in Manchuria
where Russia is supposed to have SUI
preme control, the japanese tradesmer
outnumber the Russians 30 to 5.
DR.. Charcot, who is projecting a polar
expedition, is a son of the late DR.
Chareot, who was famous for the use o
hypnotic suggestion in the treatment o
diseases. Last spring he made a three
months trip, pushing as far as Jal
Mayen Island. In the expedition he il
now planning he intends to proceed t.
Franz Josef Land. No French eXpe
dition in that direction has been under
taken since Dumont d'Urville's, in 1926
and DR.. Charcot says It is high time tt
repair this omission.
Nate Salisbury, who died at Lon
Branch on December "a last, by his vii
left $4,000 in personal property an
no real estate. His widow, Rachel Sal
isbury, Is made sole legatee, KNOWING
that she will devote the income of m.
estate to the care and education of on
children" as the will reads. The vii
names Milton e. Minor of Fort Benton
Mont, as executor, but it is understood
that he has renowned in favor Of tn
widow.
The author of a new biography of ex
Queen Margherita, La prima regina d
Italia" relates that when the presen
king was a boy his mother shared hi
lessons in Latin and music. To tn
music teacher she said: IF the prime
does not attend to his lessons, do no
hesitate to pull his ears" The queel
has translated those of Elizabeth Bar
rett Browning's poems which relate t
her country into Italian, and she ha
written poems of her own in Italian
French, English and German. Guber
MATHS gave her lessons in Sanskrit. &c
sera pour mes vieux %jours,' she said
She associated much with Italian art
lists and poets-except D'Annunzic
: whom she never liked. Among he
musical proteges were Puccini and Tel