The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14
GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON

GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON
AS speaker of the house of representatives
Congressman Cannon expects to take lit
tie more active part III social doings next
daughter, who is a bright Wellesley college
graduate, and very popular in the congress
stonal set. She calls herself a bachelor girl:
For several winters the Cannons have boarded
at the Cochran hotel on Fourteenth street,
but next winter they will have house out in
me the n northeast section near where General
basement house taken on a years lease.
Altho Uncle Joe Is supposed to be in COM
Portable circumstances. being large stock
holder in the street railway and local bank
at Danville, he does not believe in snowy
or expensive way of living. What entertain
ing he does will be quiet and informal
Bamboo sprouts are recommended as a veg
etable for the American table and an article
for kitchen garden cultivation. The bamboo
young and W We'll e h
as vegetable Or salad. The agricultural
department has had an expert in Japan study
Ing bamboos, and his discoveries and recon- |
mendations are contained In little pamphlet
just published. From this it appears that
there is mo reason why bamboo should not
be grown in the United States quite as ex-
not, as commonly supposed, tropical plant,
but will survive winters where the temper
allure drops to. zero. In California and all
would thrive beautifully And Just to watch
them grow would, 1t is averred, be delight
for there is nothing grows so fast when it
there is nothing day,sis the way a shoot will
push ur##fr hardy bamboo tree The
farmer f. n CAM stanas anaases his crops grow.
growth hat thags gardsh must be spry about
not NECESSARY Is MS i Bamboo s' asparas.
SrlfJ IfoS,. &raA I1,,nr =.oa..l
get tough and a trife' rank as it grows Older.
the average rate Of growth during the quick
period 81, Is.about twenty feet il; fifty days.
the popular song should be "Un aiepr1 the
Bamboo Grasses. = The phyllostachys whether
OF The nigra, quillioi.: or reitcht variety, as
me me Arundinaria somon and the bamboosa
grow to a height Of a hundred feet, fire.
quently, but this Is simply because they have
an ambition to be a tail grass. t.f,s
ASIDE from Its use a ready, quick-g grow
Ing asparagus, the chief commercial value OF
the bamboo is as a fishing pole. Any Amer
lean boy can an give testimony as to its super
tions: It Is also, good to split up, its
Suitability ranging downward to the d.
mensions of horse hair from the taiD. BY
poklng Que the joints the bamboo mays be.
converted into perfect tube, which may
De USED Or anything that seems to be needed,
at at me time. The wood is unequaled for
enid author of the pamphlet, that bamboo
entered into the construction of the SAINT %
Dumont lying machine So. If the farmers
lntend TO encourage the construction of&do-,
nestle flying machines, they will start BAN
boo gardens at OF ce.; ,>,.,,s,-. 4
But 1T is as an addition to the scenery
that the bamboo is particularly recommended
AS shade tree, on moonlight night, it. is
declared to be all that is represented on the
S s. e, It is distinctly tree to sit under
| is seven or eight inches in diameter. :, 80
| The department will assist farmers de-
slr1ng to begin the cultivation of bamboo
groves. o''oo
Cranberries grow in the United States
e,cn year, 80 10, the census office says, to the
come from Massachusetts, New Jersey and
Wisconsin. The two states first named raise
Of the entire supply The 6rs
at Cape Cod in 1907. 1t was brought from
england, the seed being Incorporated in some
2elly tnat YVES sent to the good wife of Hold
Las last W,h1lttacker residing near Salem Quite
the Kitchen door, and took root, and in the
second year bore crop of cranberries which
were recognized and carefully harvested
The enemies of the civilrservice are finding
mueh to comfort item in the postoffice in
evsry nasn ,n They point out that nearly
a civil service employee, who has grown up
to his present position slowly and that the
postmaster general has very little to say re-
|
| IS held strictly responsible for everything
mat these helpers do. Machen, Beavers and
the rest have been in the employ of the post
office department for years, and secured po-
sltions OF trust thru promotion. In the lower
grades they learned the ropes and this knowl-
edge gave them an opportunity finally to do
those things that have brought reproach to
the department as a whole. If recent post
masters general had been permitted, say the
antl-civll service folk, to choose their as
! sistants, there would have been nothing
| of the present trouble -
| The plans Of the foreign ministers and
ambassadors to visit western cities in the
4 fall is simply another Of the many evidences
OF increasing interest foreign nations are
1 taking In the commerce of the United States.
I The wonderful prosperity and growing wealth
] OF this country has challenged attention. All
the rulers of the old world are alive to it, and
i are manifesting desire to penetrate its
secret The diplomats have had orders to
make tkoro study Of our commercial sys-
TEN. and to discover If there are any ways in
which the consular branches of the service
4 may be used to strengthen the commercial
ties between the old and the new world
i powers.