The National tribune., 1906-11-29

| for the library, examined this one of
the genial Marks most conscientiously,
and was sorrowfully shocked at the IL
lustrations. These represented our first
| mother, the extremely feminine and
fascinating Eve, in all kinds of Sum-
merry costumes skipping around thru
the bushes and reclining in graceful
! attitudes. The whole town is stirred
up over the matter. Think of our dear.
lovable old Mark being a subject for
Anthony Comstock! Is it one of his
jokes?
Voliva, present head of the Church
in Zion, has plans for the erection of
| new Zion which he says will make
the greatest religious colony in the
world. His policies, he says, will be as
different from Dowie's as can be, and
that one thing he shall positively insist
upon will be that no member of the
colony shall borrow cent. He eX-
poets to have a tract of 1000 acres,
| and to invite the homeless and friend
less of the world to join his colony. take
| 20 acres and earn an honest living.
A reconciliation between ambassador
Tower and Prof. Burgess has been ef-
| fected, and the two have been invited
to dine with the Prussian Minister of
| Education.
In the marriage settlement of Mary
Letter. who became Lady Curzon, it
| was stipulated that should she die be-
fore her husband one-third of that set
tlement, S1.750,000, should go to her
husband during his life. The details of
this arrangement We're perfected III
Chicago the other day at a secret meet
| ing, at which Joseph Letter and Lord
| CurZon were present.
Commander Robert z. Peary is real
| ly on the home stretch. His good ship
Roosevelt reached Sydney, n. s.. safely,
!
| York. Mrs. Peary has been waiting in
Sydney two weeks for her husbands
arrival Commander Peary is in the
| best of health and spirits, and tho dis
| appointed in not being able to reach
the pole, feels that he has accomplished
much.
| One of the most remarkable women
| in the world to-day is Madam Curie,
| widow of Prof. Curie, the discoverer of
that mysterious power we call radium.
A great honor has lately been conferred
upon her by that ancient seat of learn
| ing, the French Sorbonne, founded in
| the 18th century by poor priest
Robert de Sorbon, and originally in
tended as a school of theology only,
which has made Madame Curie one of
their corps of professors. 1t is needless
to say that she is the first woman pro-
fessor the Sorbonne has ever had, and
she will lecture on radioactive SUBJ
stances. Madame Curie is supposed to
have almost as much to do as her dis
tinguished husband with the discovery
of radium, having been n doctor of
science when she married Prof. Curic,
and taking part with him afterwards in
all his researches which led to the dis
covery. She is a Pole and one of the
purest types of that people, is still
young. and her countenance,. while It
shows great intellectual development, IS
marked by great sweetness of express
sion. ....-
Mrs. Hetty Green. Americas mil
lionaire woman financier who was 70
years old the other day, says she wants
no Counts in her family. AT my
bank" she said, "they call them dis
counts" She has lately refused the
offer of poor Count for the hand of
her daughter in, marriage, and is firm
in her resolve of not allowing the young
woman to marry any one not worthy
of her, and not able to support her IN
comfort. .-sr.,s
Booker Washington has been in great
luck lately. Andrew Carnegie, who has
always beent greatly interested in his
work at TusikeEee and who has given
many substantial evidences, of this in
terest, has lately granted a life pension
to the justly celebrated educator. Add
ed to this goodofortune comes the news
that Mrs. Lucretia Tilton. who died
recently in Chicago, has left Tuskegec
Institution the sum of $4,000.
Count Beni Castellane was offered 4
position in a New York restaurant the
other day with a. salary of $4,000 a
year. The offer came from the pro-
prfetor of Cafe Martin, in New York
City, who thought the much-advertised