The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-29

treatment of malarial fever. It is said that when the Victoria gardens and Al- bert museum were established in Bonn bay the men employed there were so an- noyed by the mosquitoes that they could hardly work. The basil plant was intro- dnced and the insects were immediately put to flight. The malaria also dsap- peared and the spot is now comparative ly healthy, although at first 1t was a veritable pest hole.
 Dr. Emanuel Lasker the famous chess player, has gone back to Europe. and Harry Pillsbury has just returned to America. This simultaneous exchange os countries has led to the suspicion that the two great chess masters are dodging each other. Whether there is any truth in this or not, a match between them would be magnificent battle of intel- 1ect and there are many devotees ef the game who would be glad to involve pillsbury and Lasixer in a tournament. It is rumored that a certain western university is anxious to place Lasker In a vacant chair of mathematics or phil osophy.
 Not one man in twenty knows that the Aleutian islands are the property of the United States and can tell on the spur of the moment just where they are To- cated. These islands were acquired from Russia in 1867 and there are about eighty of them stretching out from the 7s1.. area is not more than>5O0 miles. They are inhabited by about 15OO Aleuts. race resembling the North American Indians. who are fast dying out from practicing the vices of degenerate Rome.
 
 The Aleutian islands are mountainous but there are fertile valleys where vegeta- tion of a certain kind nourlshes. No use was found for these possessions of Uncle Sam until a Washington sheep company tried raising their flocks on the islands The sheep thrived In spite of the depreda- tions of wolves and now the company proposes to land 5000 cattle and 25,0O0 sheep this summer and take up perma- nent pasture lands. ~
 The "mother of women stenographers' died recently at Walters Park, Pa She was Mrs. Eliza Boardman Burnz. aged 80 years. Mrs. Burnz came to this coun- try from London 60 years ago and during her residence in this country she advo- cated the freedom of the negro and the emancipation of women. Early in her career she became a coworker with Eliza beth Cady Stanton. She was the inventor of the Burns system of stenography and taught it in little room in Cooper in- stitute which Peter Cooper gave her rent free. After the close of the war she taught negroes in the south. She was member of the New York society for ethical culture and was one of the found- CTS of the New York cremation society. An army of women have followed her ex- ample and are now winning comfortable incomes by the practice of the profession which she established.
 Newspaper men are fond of their little joke and many hard worked journalistic slaves have had their lives frightened by scraps of humor which have crept into the columns of the newspapers. Recently the editor of the Minneapolis Messenger ls- sued the following appeal (which was no doubt easily understood by those persons to whom it was directed: There is lit- tie matter to which The MeS$enger begs to call the attention of Some of It's $ub- Scribers. We really hate to Speak of 1t, but Some have Seemingly allowed it to Slip their minds To us this IS a very import ant issue; in fact. it's nece$Sary in our bus mess We won't Speak further on the subject. Perhaps you have already gue$s- ed the drift of our remarks