Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Rr01eSS0r BaglnSky or Emperor and
 Empress Frederick Children's hospi-
 tai of Berlin, announces that dis
 covery of a serum against scarlet fever
 has been made by pr, Aronseg. Good results have already been obtained.
 The professor believes the serum will
 prove to be a serum specific for this
 disease.
 It is stated that when the Rock Isl
 and offered prize of sl0O to the per
 son proposing the most appropriate
 name for their new through train to
 California, George T. Nicholson pas
 senger traffic manager of the Santa .Fe
 proposed calling it the Santa Fe
 Overflow.
 A minister's wife tripping the fan
 dago to the tinkling of the castinets
 is one of the features billed at a
 Brooklyn theatre. The fair debutante
 is Mrs. Florence Brown formerly of Columbus Ohio and at present wife of the chaplain for the City Mis- sion society the favored charity of Bishop Potter. Mrs. Brown is highly educated and has ire quently appeared as soloist in | the most fashionable Episcopal churches of New York Mrs. Browns reasons for going on the stage is that her husbands salary as a minister is so small that it would not enable her totproperly care for and educate their little boy and that by her efforts on the stage she can greatly assist in maintaining their home.
 On recommendation of Admiral Fay Tor Capt Richmond Peir son Hobson will be aksed to hold his resignation in abeyance and make a trial of his duties. Admiral Taylor says the de- partment is reluctant to lose an officer whose record is so brilliant.
 The last week in January and the first days of February were the coldest on record in the Yukon district. | Last Monday the thermometer reg istered 76 degrees below zero at Sel- | kirk 72 at Ogilvie 74 at Forty Mile l and Ii at Dawson. The water system | of Dawson froze and according to telegrams eceived it is being thawed | out at great expense.
 SOusa gave concert recently to the King and Queen of England and other royal personages. King Edward | requested that the final piece be the Star Spangled Banner and throughout the playing of which the king and court stood. As the music ended Sousa turned and !faced the king and his majesty and the queen heartily shook his hand and thanked him. The king has notified his desire for an other concert stipulating that all the music played shall be American.
 Miss Mary Quivey of North Man chester, sister to Miss Grace Van the St. Louis opera star recently bought d treasure in an old lpi d SOlS -hlSS NtulNCy visiting at Silver lake a few days ago in quest of a second violin. She called on Hiram Rager and found one with one string used as a plaything by children and Mrs. Rager was about to use it for kindling Miss Quivey saw an old label with the date "1711" on the inside and suspected the in strument was valuable. She offered sl0 for it and Rager accepted prompt ly. Miss Quivey took the instrument to St. Louis. showed it to a music dealer. who offered her S400 for it. She went to Chicago and asked dealer for an opinion and he said the violin was genuine Stradivarius, easily worth the price. She sent the violin to St. Louis and has received a check for the amount.
 The sleeping car tickets bearing in ternal revenue stamps returned by the Pullman company to the treasury at Washington, for the re- bate due in consequence of the abOli- tion of the war tax, filled thirty-six cases and weighed 2l0 tons. A half dozen clerks will spend six months or so asserting the tickets.