Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-26
OHIO OF EVENTS

While in Europe General Miles saw
a good many novel things He attend.
ed a cake-walk in Paris and Buffalo
Bits show in London.
Seventy German poets have formed
trust and agreed not TO accept less than
a half mark line fer their work. This
seems to be a confession that many Of
their lines are not more than half I'm
TO the mark.
Benjamin Waddell. wealthy and
public-spirited farmer of Marion coun-
ty, O., who some time since gave $50.
900 home for children to the town OF
Marion, is about 10 eXpend at least
100000 in building a home for old
ladies in the same town.
Anicla Rinzinska, the only remaining
god-child of Napoleon l., Is dead at
Warsaw, aged 81. She happened to be
born the day Napoleon passed through
Warsaw on his way back from Moscow
and the great general stopped at the
baby's fathers hotel.
The Yale News celebrated the other
day it's twenty-fifth anniversary. The
paper is daily journal, having eight
senior editors, fourteen associate ed
itors and innumerable ''heelers,' or re.
porters in the lower classes, who are
trying for positions on the editorial
board.
The sultan has taken radical steps to
suppress drunkenness in the Turkish
army 1t is announced that any soldier
found drinking in public will be i'm
prisoned 45 days for the first offense
and severely flogged for the second, be-
sides having his name entered on a
''back list for the sultan's inspection
BY order of the Austrian government.
anti-toxine must be sold in every drug
store throughout the empire below
cost. According to the official report
out of $4,000 cases of diphtheria in Aus
tria last year treated with antitoxine
1879 per cent. died. Our of 10000 not
treated with antitoXine 37.5 per cent
died.
Many of the larger technical and en-
cheering schools at the st. Louis Ex-
position will maintain working labora-
tories, in accordance with the motive
which will mark the distinction be-
tween this exposition and preceding
ones, that processes and live exhibits
shall be Installed rather than products
and dead exhibits.
At the recent international confer
ence on tuberculosis at Berlin, Dr. Ober-
tuschen suggested that teachers suffer
ing from consumption ought to receive
sanitarium treatment, and permission
to return to duty ought to be withheld
till all danger of infection had passed
away They should receive their sal
aries during their illness.
Having in mind how the eighth letter
of the alphabet Is misused in England
some one in Washington has perpetrat-
ed this crime: What vas really the
disease from which Sir Michael Herbert
suffered when he had his row with
Bowen?" OF course the listener gives
it up, whereupon the answer is given
at was a severe attack Of the
(H)ague."
Some missionaries lately returned
from Japan say there is great demand
for American teachers there Salaries
ranging from SIS to S135 a month are
offered them, and houses are provided
in addition. The government is devot-
ing great attention to the development
of educational institions. There are
now a number Of American teachers in
the big schools
An Ottawa telegram to the London
Standard states that the number OF
homestead entries in the dominion dur
ing the calendar year 1902 was % 1874.
as compared with 9,145 in the previous
year. or an increase of over 1900.
This represents 3,600000 acres and
about 1000 people. Many new settlers
purchased their lands from the railway
and land companies.
At the beginning of 1902 Germany
possessed about 800 trusts. of which
about 800 were organized by manufac-
turers and the remaining so by dealers.
since then the total number has risen
10 400. of which the chemical indus
tries contribute propoTtionately the
largest number. At the present mo.
ment negotiations are pending in Ger
many for the formation of a Central
Europe Electric Trust.
Samuel Timmns. who died recently
at his home near Birmingham Eng.
at the age of rs. was an eminent
Shakespearean scholar and a man OF
wide culture He was associated with
the late George Dawson and others in
a movement which gave a great impe-
tus 10 the intellectual life of Birming-
ham two generations ago. The estab-
lishment of local Libraries received
great assistance from the movement
the most notable result in this drec
tion being the formation IF the great
collection of Shakespearean Literature
in connection with the Central Free
library Many of the educational ils-i-
tutions of Birmingham derived Their
inspiration from Mr. Timmins.
Bitter complaint is made by the ST.
Petersburg Svet that in Russia private
letters are frequently opened, read and
intercepted by the authorities, and that
when they are not altogether suppress
ed they only reach their destination
after considerable delay The journal
further remarks thai even registered
letters are nor exempt from this an
noyance. and goes on 10 enumerate IN
stances in which certain letters of news
paper correspondents have been three
weeks In transmission between Paris
and St. Petersburg This happened