The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-01-09
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Brazilian congress in commemoration
Of his airship voyage round the Eifel
Tower, Paris, on Oct. 10, 1901.
Kenyon K. Butterfeld, who was in
structor in rural sociology at the Uni
versity of Michigan. has been appoint
ed to the presidency of the Rhode ISL
and State College of Agriculture, at
Kingston.
The London Times correspondent at
Wellington, New Zealand, says the New
Zealand government has resolved to
pay the freight on fodder to be sold for
the benefit of the sufferers from the
drought In Australia. The premier con-
siders this no more thar a ~neighborly
action.
Last year was the biggest sardine
a ever known in the history OF
the American industry. The pendulum
has swung back this year, however, for
the sardines-or, to be more frank, the
little menhaden or herring-are SO
scarce down East that only a few OF
the canneries are doing business.
Secretary Won Nostiz. of the Saxon
legation in Berlin, has been appointed
SaXony's special commissioner to the
ST. Louis exposition. He will cooperate
with Herr Lewald, the German imperial
commissioner to the exposition, in in
duclng the manufacturers of Saxony to
participate in the fair.
Secretary Hitchcock's recent order
than Indians must support themselves
has driven a number of dignifed saw
ages to the desperate issue of going to
work. Quite a lot of them along the
state lines of Nebraska and South Da-
kota have accepted positions" involv-
ing manual labor on the railroad tracks
In that section.
The Petit Bleu publishes a prediction
by the meteorologist, Herr Finger, of
Prague, who is of the opinion that Mar
Unique and probably other West Indian
islands will be virtually destroyed by
volcanic eruptions in 1903. He points
out that the most violent volcanic dis
turbances on record have occurred in
years ending with the figure 3.
Literary people of Boston are agitat-
ing for the setting up in Boston OF q
tablet in honor of Edwar Allan Poe.
Poe was horn there In 1909, his mother
being a leading woman at the Hay
market theater. His first book was
signed "a B%ostonian." The present
movement is one of the results of the
labors Of Prof. Richardson of Dart
mouth in reviving interest in the writ
ings and history of Poe.
The French mariners record for big
icebergs off Cape Horn was broken re-
Gently, says a San Francisco dispatch
to the Chicago Inter-Ocean, when the
British ship Anglesey, Captain Thomp-
son, arrived from Newcastle, England,
and reported that On Sept. 20, off Cape
Horn, she sailed into a great ice field,
in the midst of which was a gigantic
iceberg, approximately 100 miles long
and over 100 feet high.
Treasurer Wright Parker of the Wis
consin Republican state committee
spent $16 ,307.3 8 in the recent guberna-
torial campaign. The contributions
came from 1868 persons who gave sums
raging from 81 to 81, 900. Only two per-
SOM gave the largest amount, these be-
ing, as stated, Senator John c. Spooner
and Isaac Stephenson. Postmaster Gen.
eral Henry c. Payne and Congressman
Joseph w. Babcock are credited with
giving $500 each.
Attorney General Taylor, of Indiana,
in his biennial report, urges upon the
legislature the passage of a collateral
NIX dlI ldA law, Lhtolio 6iN
ing the state the right to tax a certain
portion of an estate which falls to any
indirect heir. 1t is based on the theory
that the collateral heir did nothing to
amass the fortune by which he benefits,
and that, therefore, there is no one
upon whom the burden of taxation falls
more lightly. 1t is proposed to cover
all estates more than $40 900.
The very first thing that is usually
done by a trust after its formation is
to withdraw all the advertising tina
was being run by the firms composing
Il and to put one or very little in Its
place, says the Medical and Drug Ad'
vertiser. The American Bicycle com,
pany did just this thing, and to this
fact is attributed the recent failure Of
the corporation. Col. A. A. Pope, iti
vertising killed the bicycle business
and the way to retrieve it Is to resume
that same important matter. You cal
see how l feel in the matter when tel
you that l spent $500, 900 in one yea
on that sort of publicity, and that it Il
my Idea In the future to advertise, ant
to advertise extensively. You can't get
enough advertising or overdo It."
Henry MARI, a farmer living neal
The walters of Paris, says the New
York Tribune, are up in arms agains
tips. They held, the other night,
meeting whose battle was "A bai
lie p%ourboire!" and are shortly to issu,
the tipping system-familiar topic
though never before presented from
the walters viewpoint. Tipping is
complicated system in Paris. Eacl
"~pourboire," as it is collected, is pu
into a general box, and at the end o
the day the total is divided equal!
among the walters. They receive n,
wages, but, on the contrary. have to ad
n to the cafekeeper at the begin
ming of each day a sum estimated a
one-half of the days pourboire
Whether or not the gratuities reach tn
estimated total, the fixed sum is pal,
to the owner for Expenses" On
garcon recently brought suit agains
his employer for these expenses an,
recovered. The 1000 walters at tn
meeting determined on similar action.
In a recent review of British trad
the London Daily Mail states that tn