The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

nate a representative of the teaching
profession for Parliament.
Charles Edward Magoon, who has been
made provisional governor of Cuba, was
born in Minnesota in 1861, and after q
farm bringing up in that state worked
his way through the University of Ne
braska, graduating in 1881.
When the British Parliament reassem-
bles a motion Will be made, at the in
stance of the Irish party, for the re-
moval of the statue of Oliver Cromwell
from the precincts of the Houses of
Parliament, where it now stands.
French military observers of the re-
cent German army maneuvers say the
old rigid, mechanical, vigorously passive
discipline, once characteristic of the Ger
man army, is disappearing, though men
ton of acts of characterization are care
fully repressed, or, IL very fragrant much
mnimized.
For nearly half century after the first
permanent settlements were made in Ohio
that commonwealth, always opposed po-
litically to slavery, was curiously toler-
ant of the presence of slaves from states
where slavery existed. II they were
brought into Ohio by their masters, for
temporary purposes.
The general prosperity of New Zealand
is remarkable Out of population of
a little less than 1000, 900, one-third have
money in the savings banks. The wealth
a head is nearly $1500, which is the larg-
est of any country in the world Statis-
tics show for New Zealand the highest
health and the lowest death rate of any
country.
Charles e. Hughes is the only repub-
lican to be nominated for governor by the
republican party in New York, since Its
organization fifty years ago, who had
not previously held public office. Edwin
ID. Morgan, Reuben e. Fenton, John A.
Dix, Alonzo b. Cornell, Levi P. Morton,
Frank s. Black, Theodore Roosevelt, Ben
jamin B. Odell, Jr, and Frank w. Hig-
gins had all occupied public posts before
they were nominated for governor.
According to scientific paper of
Europe, chickens are now plucked in a
wholesale manner by the use of pneu-
matte machinery There is a receptacle
in which the fowl is placed after being
killed, and into this are turned several
cross currents of air from electrical fans
revolving at the rate of 5000 turns a
minute In the twinkling of an eye the
bird is stripped of its feathers, even to
, the thinest particles or down, and the
machine is ready for another
After an elaborate review of the work
of the French artillery during the re-
cent army maneuvers, the military cor
respondent of the London Times reaches
the conclusion: Everything taken to-
gether. there can be no doubt that the
French field artillery is the best in the
world, and that 1t is so thoroughly pre-
pared for war by the practical science of
its officers, the skill of its men and the
excellence of its material that 1t must
long retain the position of pre-eminence
to which it is justly entitled
AS If the millions OF evils from which
the Brahmn community is suffering are
not sufficient a new evil of a very for
III. o1anr ofaf% in
the form of varadakshana bridegroom 8
price,, has appeared among u.s. the
rich and the poor who have the good for
tune of having sons have been shame
lessly extorting money and concession
from the parents of the brides, irrespee-
tive of the means and circumstances of
the latter taking unduly mean advan-'
tage of the Shastraic Injunction that
girls should be married before they at
tain puberty.