The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-14
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to the worlds most prominent mathe-
matician.
It has been arranged to hold the
| eleventh international congress of hy-
| Glanne and demOgraphy 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 re-apprOpriate $4,000 for a
| statue of Miss Frances E. Willard, to
| be placed in Statuary hall, Washing
ton, the time limit of the first appropri-
alton having lapsed The failure to
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-
| scented 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 TWEEN
ty-ffth campaign, besides many other
important commissions.
A note from Berlin states that Pro-
lessor Delbruck well-knOwn German
historian and editor of the Prussische
Jahrbucher, has paid fine of $75 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 communi-
ties in the Russian empire, the interior
minister reports, is that of Nikolskoye,
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, ac-
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 on Jan. Is
was recorded as a seismic effect at the
magnetic observatories Of the coast
survey in Baldwin, Kans., and in
Cheltenham, Md According to the
rocOr5 at CboJtonl,o,,o Tho trar,or, no
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 oil
vorce less easy and in removing abuses
connected with both.
Theodore H. Hostetter, the multi
millionaire, who at the age of 3d. died
suddenly at Park Avenue sanitarium
in August last, left a checl, book which
shows that in the final year o. his life
he lost $696,000 at gambling in New
York city. The places he patronized
were those run by Richard Canfield.
Phil DAILY and Dave Johnson 1t is said
by Hostetters friends that his passion
for gambling cost him about 81 900 600
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
lament. 1t was thought that the
throne had disappeared, like that of
the Tuileries, after the outbreak of the
revolution in 1913, but it has turned up.
certainly not the worse for wear, as it
has never been used since that date.
and only requires little busting.
Arrangements are in progress in Con-
cord, Mass, for the obseT vance of the
centennial of the birth of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, May %. The Social circle.
Of which Mr.. Emerson was a member
for 43 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 Fl. Pickering, the Har-
ward astronomer, has been at work on
new atlas of the moon, and discovered
in the course of his researches that
mistakes have been made in the cal
culations Of the altitude of the craters.
All measurements of the moon will now
have to be corrected by astronomers
with the new series of tables upon
which Prof. Pickering is at work. All
observations have previously been
based upon Franz's exhaustive treatise,
The Mountains and Craters of the
Moon -