The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-13
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 New York has German population of S09.000 and Chicago has 44O.000.
 The 25 largest London theaters seat 2S.- 600 people and earn $30,0Oo night.
 Post horns are to be abolished on the Prussian stage lines having their termi- nus in Berlin.
 Dr. Emil Kraepelin, of the University of Heidelberg, has gone to the Dutch East Indies to study insanity among the na- lives.
 J. Ogden Armour has presented $25o0O0 park in Chicago for new athletic field adjoining the Armour Institute of Tech nology.
 pr. Karl Burckhardt. formerly geologist in the Museum of La Plata, has been an. pointed chief geologist of the Geologie1 Survey of Mexico.
 Edward Porter Cheney, of Red Bank, N J., brother-in-law of Horace Greeley' has just died at Litchfield. Ct He se- cured for the Tribune it's first subscriber Mrs. Horace N. Allen, wife of the Amer fcan Minister to Korea, has lived for nearly 20 years in the section or the orient which Is now so prominent before the world.
 Commander William Pritchard Randall. the hero who fired the first shot from the sinking Cumberland in the fight with the Merrimac during the Civil War; has just died in New Bedford. Mass.
 Arthur Hill of Saginaw Mich, has do- hated SO acres of land to the University of Michigan as an experiment station for the Department of Forestry.
 The Czar has long been known as an amateur composer of music, but there ts an irony in the fact that his latest creation is called "A Song of Peace"
 Rev Joseph H George president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, has been offered the presidency of Drury College. a Congregational institution at Spring field, III.
 W Cameron Forbes, one of the new members of the Philippine Commission, will not go to the islands until June, and in the meantime will wind up his busi- ness at home.
 William Nelson Cromwell, head of the New York firm which had much to do in nrocuring ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty. is said to have received fee of $2.00o.00O.
 But three of the 15 members of the famous Electoral Commission of 1877 are now alive. These are ex-Senator Ed. munds. Senator Hoar and Gen. Eppo Hunton. of Virginia.
 Mrs Sarah B. Hadden. heroine of the Utah Indian wars has just died near
 
 neers who crossed the plains with the Nor mon expedition from Nauvoo, H.
 For 21 years Col. Daniel Stevens. ot Bristol R. l.. has been collecting buttons until he has now what Is said to be the largest collection of the kind in the world. Many of them are very rare and valuable.
 Mrs Syntha A. Sacrv. one of the few surviving pensioners of the War of 1872. and the only one In Illinois. lives at Bloomington. I'll. Her father was John Newman. of Pennsylvania. and her grand father was a Revolutionary War soldier. General Kouronatkin. the commander in-chief of the Russian Army. won the Legion of Honor in Paris in 1874 for assist ing in reorganizing the French cavalry. being the first Russian officer to gain that prize.
 The sultan of Turkey never sleeps two consecutive nights in the same room. sc great is his fear of assassination. h the palace are number of bullet-prooi rooms. all of which are furnished as sleeping chambers.
 Luther Burbank who developed the no- tato bearing his name and who has brought out seedless plum. has just
 Lz will supp1ant the present varieties. His home is in San Francisco.
 An autograph letter from Thomas Jef- ferson. written hundred years ago to the Indians of the Louisiana Purchase, has recently been unearthed from the archives of the Sac and Fox Indians in Oklahoma. The letter will be a feature of the Okla homa historic exhibit.
 The Eskimo wastes nothing. The care less white man drops a nall or throws away a broken tool or empty tomato can These are seized with avidity by the Eskimos who convert them Into articles more or less useful.
 Canadian exporters are year by year gaining a stronger position In the Scotch market About half of the apples im- ported now are from the Dominion. The system of inspection at Canadian ports and at British ports. whereby the quality of the fruit Is in a measure guaranteed. has proved useful to the shipper as we'll as to the buyer.