Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

The fashion of politicians starting maya
zines for the exploitation of themselves and
their theories is spreaalng sorm hss iust
launched a periodical of that character.
Georgians are already discussing the fact
that William J. Bryan has been engaged 10
speak at the state fair to be held at Atlanta
next October.
The late Maurice Barrymore adopted that
name when he engaged in England in anna
teur boxing matches, IN wnlch ne was d
skilled performer. He continued his ath-
letic training until few years before his
death. 80
Archibald Forder, widely known as the
Arabian Livingston for MS extensive
travels in Arabia, is in this country in the
interest of the neglected lshmaelltes around
and beyond the Jordan.
An effort is being made to form an actors
union in England Every actor and actress
in the country is being asked to join. Sey-
mour Hicks and H. b. Irving are at the
head Of the movement.
It is believed by those in a position to
Judge that President Roosevelt Is one OF
the most rapid readers now living. He lit
orally races through the printed pages OF
books and magazines. yet his eye is so Wen
trained that he is able to grasp the full
of what he reads Is remarkable.
According to the latest statistics Andrew
Carnegie is greater giver than Rookie
Teller. Carnegie has already given $l00Ooo,.
600 to libraries. OF this sum the United
States has received $6S,517, Az, Scotland
SIT, 713, $50, Holland $1,750,O0O. England, ST.
354, 500, Canada $1.016,50O, Ireland $4,000,
and Cuba $4,000. Rockefeller and Car
negie give more than any other two men In
the new or the old world.
Two full-blooded Indians are members Of
the Maine house of representatives. The
elder, Peter NJ. Nelson, belongs to the his
toric Penobscot tribe, and Peter F. Nep-
tune, the other red-skinned legislator, Is OF
the Passamaquoddy tribe.
The newsboys of Scranton, Pa, who have
arranged to hold their annual picnic upon
the same day that President Roosevelt Wis
its the city, August 10, have resolved to
make a determined effort to induce him to
attend, il for only half an hour, and make
a short address. They are planning to put
the invitation in such form that he will be
unable to resist.
Dr. Frank D. Gamewell of New York, one
of the field secretaries of the missionary
society and for twenty years a missionary
in Picking, China planned the Notifications
of Picking. He is at present visiting in
America.
The old brick house In Cincinnati in which
Thomas Buchanan Read forty years ago
wrote "Sheridan's Ride" has been sold and
is to be torn down to make room for new
manufacturing building.
Mary Benjamin and band of angels
have reached Benton Harbor, Mich, to wait
for the overpowering of Satan in 1916.
H. Clay Pierce of st. Louis, reputed to be
many times millionaire, has organized his
estate into trust, the first corporation of
the kind In Missouri and possibly in the
country, formed primarily to safeguard the
interests Of his heirs.
A German inventor has discovered a
method for obviating seasickness. as he
claims. BY a massive balance wheel on
the vessel he "counteracts the shifting of
its center Of gravity.
When Bishop Goldman was appointed to
the Episcopal diocese of Maine he made
tour of his diocese and happened to stroll
into woodman's cottage Asking the
woman of the house IL there were many
Episcopalians around there. she replied:
well, I don't know. They caught some
wild thing out here in the woods a couple
of weeks ago, II that's what you metn, but
/ think my husband said Is rsas a wood
chuck.