The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-06-18
OLIO OF EVENTS

| house of representatives, Paul Won
| Pacher, recently took legal steps to re-
| owe the won" from his name. as he
| objects to such an alleged mark of no
| bility, and announces that hereafter he
will be plain Paul Pacher.
| Among the many singular provisions.
in the will of Prof. Sylvester Water
| house, Of Washington university, was
| beouest of $4,000 to Washington
university, which shall not be avail
able until the year 2o00 and not then
| unless the principal and interest
amount to s1,000,000.
The Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin,
| is only % years old. 1t was expected
| that after his arduous and dangerous
| trip to central Asia he would rest a
| few years, but he is already busy with
| new Asiatic plans He has also spolI-
| en- Of an attempt to reach the North
Pole lin an entirely new and compare
lively easy weay."
Th1rty-four men have been disfran-
chlsed for ten years in Martin county,
Ind, for selling their votes at the No
vember election in 1902. Many of them
pleaded guilty. Others in the county
are to be tried on the same charge. The
convicted ones also are condemned to
pay the costs. In such cases $100 goes.
% the prosecuting witness.
Prof. Edward w. Scripture, head Of
the Department of Experimental Psy-
chology, Yale, has been awarded the
| Edward Longstreth medal from the
Franklin Scientific Institute, Philadel-
phia, for his original Investigations in
color blindness. The professor will
/ col hi II 81, l.
will pass several months in scientific
research.
A Frenchman, writing in Revue Blue
OF Paris regarding President Roose-
welt as an orator, notes the following
characteristics: ga discourse for
him is veritable struggle. He has
no little paper at hand; nothing but
his memory and will to cid him. He
neither recites nor improvises. His
| speeches are singular mixture of con-
versetion, political harangue and
| preaching"
Mount Airy, Maryland town twenty
| miles east of Frederick, on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, was saved
from humiliation by fire recently by
the railroad. A special train took the
Frederick fire department to Mount
Airy, and the progress of the flames
was checked. Four freight locomo-
tives, each holding 1000 gallons,
hauled water from nearby stations to-
supply the steamer.
Ludwig Fake, the lyric poet to whom
the Hamburg senate voted an annual
pension Of $3.50 to enable him to de-
vote himself to his literary tasks, has
been music teacher in that city for
twenty-five years. Once before the SEN
ate helped struggling author. Otto
Ernst, while teaching in a public
school in Hamburg, received six
months leave of absence to enable him
TO devote his time to his dramatic
work.
The constitution of Tennessee pro-
vides that whereas ministers of the
Gospel are by their profession dedicat-
ed to God and the care of souls and
ought not to be diverted from the great
duties of their function, therefore no
minister Of the gospel, or priest of any
denomination whatever, shall be eligi-
BILE to a seat in either house Of the leg
islature
The well-known Italian journalist,
Carlo Paladini, has written book con-
tanning his "reminiscences of Gladstone,
Disraeli, Salisbury, Cecil Rhodes,
Chamberlain, and others, with many
new anecdotes. Cecil Rhodes said to
him one day that no Italian woman
wears artificial gems if she is rich
enough to buy genuine ones, but that
Frenchwomen and others often do so;
and he added: eff should ever want
to marry, should not take woman
who is willing to wear counterfeits
when she can have the real thing"
Count Zeppelin, the inventor of a.
navigable airship which was success
fully experimental with on the Lake
og Geneva Is months ago, has just an.
nounced through the Swiss press new
invention 1t consists Of an automo-
bile launch which, however, has it's
propellers in the air instead of in the
water. According to the inventor the
launch will be of the greatest use in
navigating tropical lakes and rivers en-
cunbered with aquatic plants, which,
of course, obstruct the screw of an Or
binary steam launch The counts boat
is extremely light, draws only ten inch
es, and on a fair day can make from IA
to Is knots an hour 1t can navigate at
the rate of 10 knots an hour against an
ordinary breeze.
An appropriation of $275,000 for a
New York state electrical laboratory at
Union college, Schenectady, is recon-
mended by commission appointed to
determine the necessity for such an in
stitution. The laboratory is to supply
information on questions of electrical
science, and an official standard for
electrical measuring instruments and
apparatus, together with standards for
electric wiring of buildings for the pro-
lection of municipalities and the gen.
eral public. Germany has such an in
stitution.
The French newspapers point out that
on March 20 General Andre, the war
minister, reaches the age limit of 65
years, and that consequently he will
have to sign the decree removing his
name from the active army list and
placing himself in the reserve. This
will not, Of course, prevent General
Andre remaining war minister; but it.
is pointed out that since the founda-
ton of the Third Republic this is the
first time that a war minister has had
to remove his own name from the ac-
tive army list
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