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King Oscar of Sweden has presented
a gold medal Ior award every fifth year
to the worlds most prominent mathe-
matician.
1t has been arranged to hold the
eleventh international congress of ny
glenne and de~mography at Brussels in
September next.
The original record book of the con-
ference of Baptist ministers in Massa-
chusetts has been discovered in the
vaults of the Missionary union, Ire
mont Temple, Boston. 1t was formed
in May, 1929. The book is of much in
terest and value and worthy of careful
preservation.
The Illinois legislature has been
asked to Inappropriate $4,000 for a
statue of Miss Frances e. Willard, to
be placed in Statuary hall, Washing
ton, the time limit of the first a%ppropri-
alton having lapsed. The failure 10
draw the appropriation was due to the
delay of the artists in submitting their
competitive models.
Melton Prior, the famous artist of
the Illustrated London News, repre-
sented that journal at the Delhi durbar
and has now gone to Somaliland,
where he will join the expeditionary
forces. This will be Mr.. Prior's twen-
ty-fifth campaign, besides many other
important commissions.
A note from Berlin states that Pro-
lessor Delbruck, a well-known German
historian and editor of the Prussische
Jahrbucher, has paid a fine of SIS for
an article in his publication attacking
the governments Polish policy, and in
%sinuating that the so-called East Mark
association was establishing a system
of espionage and denunciation.
The young Duke Charles Edward of
Coburg and Gotha, son of the Duchess
of Albany, is in training to be ruler.
He will spend several months as a
clerk in the government Offices at Ber-
lin, then perfect himself in French, and
study the system of government and
administration Of Gotha. Then will
follow the study of law at Bonn uni
versity.
One Of the best governed commune
ties in the Russian empire, the interior
minister reports, is that of N~ikolskoye,
in the district of Rybinsk. The men Of
the place are all employed in the fac
tories of large cities or in business in
Moscow and st. Petersburg. The wo-
men run the affairs of the community,
meet in council, elect officials, and, &C
cording to reports, do the work well.
Mr.. o. H. Titman, superintendent Of
the coast and geodetic survey, says the
earthquake reported as having caused
disaster in the South seas o. Jan. 10
was recorded as a seismic effect at the
magnetic o~bservatories of the coast
survey in Baldwin, Kans., and in
Cheltenham, Md. According to the
record at Cheltenham, the tremors be-
gan at S:55 o'clock and lasted twenty
minutes.
The emperor Menelik, Of Abyssinia,
among his other hobbies, takes great
interest in clocks, and several chron-
ometers have recently been imported
from Switzerland by his Swiss adviser,
which vary no more than six seconds in
two months. Ras Makonnen has also
ordered several curious mechanical
clocks from Swiss firms for presenta-
ton to the negus and the empress. The
most remarkable of these is a great
Ginning clock to initiate that Of st.
Margaret's, Westminster abbey.
Bishop Doane, of Albany, is chair
man of an executive committee ap-
pointed by Episcopal, Presbyterian and
Methodist churches to aid in securing
uniform marriage and divorce laws.
The movement which eliminated in the
selection of this committee has been
going on for some time. The design is
to secure the cooperation of all relig-
ious bodies in making marriage and d.
vorce less easy and in removing abuses
connected with both.
Theodore II. Hostetter, the multi
millionaire, who at the age of 80, died
suddenly at a Park Avenue sanitarium
in August last, left a check book which
shows that in the final year of his life
he lost s636, 900 at gambling in New
York city. The places he patronized
were those run by Richard Garfield,
Phil DAILY and Dave Johnson. 1t is said
by Hostetter's friends that his passion
for gambling cost him about 81, 000, 600
in the last ~ months of his life.
An interesting relic has been found
} amid a lot of old lumber at the Palais
Bourbon. 1t is the throne which Louis
Philippe was wont to occupy when he
went there to open the sessions of par
lliament. 1t was thought that the
throne had disappeared, like that of
|, the Tuileries, after the outbrea,, Of the
revolution in 194S, but 1t has turned up,
certainly not the worse for wear, as II
has never been used since that date
and only requires a little busting.
Arrangements are in progress in Con.
cord, Mass, for the observance of the
centennial of the birth of Ralph Waldo
: Emerson, May rs. The Social circle
} of which Mr.. Emerson was a member
for AZ years prior to his death in 1881,
has appointed a committee to prepare
the program. In the morning there
will be exercises in the town hall for
the children, and in the afternoon the
exercises will be in the Unitarian
church.
Prof. William H. Pickering, the Har-
ward astronomer. has been at work on
: a new atlas of the moon, and discovered
7 in the course Of his researches that
2 mistakes have been made in the cal
cu~lations of the altitude of the craters.
I All measurements of the moon will now
have to be corrected by astronomers
t with the new series of tables upon
which Prof Pickerinp ia af work All