Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-03-15
NOTES OF INTEREST.

clipped from the editorial columns of
the Youths Companion are well worth
your time 10 read:
South Carolina has abandoned the
state dispensary system, after a long
trial of the public management OF the
liquor business.
1t was nine years ago last month
that the explosion on the battle-ship
Maine in Havana harbor blew the
United States into the very middle of
world politics. So large a part has
his country played since then that the
name of the American President is
known to more Europeans to-day than
has been the case at any time since
Lincoln was President.
A woman in a typewriting contest in
Paris recently won a victory over more
than hundred and fifty competitors
by writing sixteen thousand FIVE hun
dred words in four hours. A man
wrote seventeen thousand words, but
he made so many mistakes that he was
ruled out. An American woman has
surpassed the Frenchwoman' record,
for in the ordinary course of business
she once wrote ten thousand five hun
dred words in two and half hours, and
made three copies as she went along.
Doctor Wiley, head of the Bureau
of Chemistry of the Department Of
Agriculture, gave the House committee
on expenditures an amusing illustration
OF the exacting practices of scientific
research. In speaking Of the young
men who are undergoing experiments
in nutrition, Doctor Vile said, Moth
ing is wasted. If they trim their finger
nails or have their hair cut, they bring
the trimmings or the hair to me, and is
weighed. We keep track of the in
come and outgo just as you keep
bank-account."
The magnificent building OF the Car
negie Institute of Pittsburg, to be
dedicated within few days in the
presence of representatives of foreign
governments and men Of learning from
all over the world, is a memorial and
tribute to human aspiration.
1t is not accident, but a significant
and natural thing that this great peoples
university should rise in the heart of
the roaring Birmingham of America.
Here the great fortune of the donor
was in large part made. Here are the
men who helped him make it. Here
he, too, in his youth, worked with
head and hands, and felt that insatiate
thirst for knowledge and light which
the new institute will help to satisfy.
To this day Mr.. Carnegie holds in
grateful memory the persons who
helped by such small favors as the loan
of single book.
The Carnegie Institute embraces
five great departments: the library, with
a quarter of a million volumes; the
museum, containing one of the finest
natural history collections in the world;
the art gallery, with its annual inter
national jury and generous prizes; the
music hall, where the best work of
great composers has an adequate pre-
sentation; and the great group of tech
nical schools, for admission to which
ten thousand students have already APP
piled.
1t would be most unjust to overlook
the courage and the far-sighted gen
crosby of the city of Pittsburg in
building up the institute. Every offer
which Mr.. Carnegie has made has been
met halfway by the municipality, and
every step his philanthropy has ad-
vanced has been promptly paralleled
by the city.
Skilled workmen and the great in
dustries in which they are engaged
have made Pittsburg one of the great
American cities. The Carnegie Insti-
tute will help place it among the great
educational and artistic and musical
centers. Although its physical atmos-
phere is dark and smoky, its mental
outlook is bound to be clear, whole
some and invigorating.