The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-30

| Invitations nave been sent out to all
Nations thru chosen delegates to par
tcipate Indications point to a large
attendance. Every one who is interest
ed in the prevention of disease in gen.
eral is invited to take some part in the
congress, either by becoming MEM
Der or by sending paper on some
subject
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, Chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. and perhaps some
one else will officially represent the
| United States. DR.. Wiley expects tol
sail from New York about Aug. %.
DR.. Wiley will present three papers.
These will be on THE Purpose and
Working of the Food and Drug Act
THE ACCESSIBILITY of Excluding Chemi-
j cal Personalities From All Food Prod
uctS and the Reasons Therefor" and
/, the third Will deal with the Importance
f of securing thru an international con-
gress uniformity in definitions of adul-
teration of foods and drugs DR.. Wiley
already has proposed and sent for the
use of the congress, as the basis of ar
i gument and discussion, the standards
of purity for foods adopted blythe De-
partment of Agriculture.
The word comes from Paris that Miss
i Flora Wilson, daughter of the Secre-I
Itary of Agriculture, who is studying voice
culture in Paris, is having an uphill
i time. She has essayed concert num-
bers on several occasions, and tho she
has voice of pleasing quality, it is said
/ to be light and will not fill large halls. |
This being physical failing that can
not be remedied, she cannot hope to
enter grand opera, which, it is said, she |
aspires- to do.
The police of Washington landed on
two cocaine sellers one day last week,
who were frequenting one of the parks |
| waiting for their customers to come |
out of one of the big Departments
which is located on the park side 1t
| is said that the two fiends went there
every day with their cocaine outfits,
and had them ready for such Govern
ment clerks as habitually indulge,
and who can no longer buy the soul
killing stuff in the drug stores. Many |
people poo-poo the idea that Govern
ment clerks are addicted to morphine,
cocaine and liquor, but it is lament
able fact, and every effort is being
made to break up the habit The laws
which prohibit the selling of morphine
and cocaine without reputable physi-
clans prescription has helped some
but there is much left to do Liquor
may be had at any time of the day and
half the night if you have the price per
pint.
With a view to studying the immigra-
ton question and increasing the num-
Der of immigrants to Cuba. Gonzala de
Quesada, Cuban Minister, has gone to
Europe. He will visit Spain, Italy, Ger
many, and probably Norway and will
be absent three months. Cuba is in
need of laborers, Senior Quesada says,
and he wants to invite the right kind.
Mrs John A. Logan has begun the
~ -sK,rx srrr
the relics OF her husband, Gen. Logan,
in the memorial hall prepared for them
in the State House at Springfield, III.
The collection consists in part of q
large number of photographs ta,EenI .
during the civil war, photographs of
Gen. Logan from boyhood up, bronzCs.
and resolutions passed BIZ organizations
all over the United States at the time
of his death, and resolutions on the !
death of his son, Maj. John A Logan, !
Jr., Sd U. S. Vols, who was killed on {
Nov. IL, 1899, while leading a charge {
against Aguinaldo's intrenched army in !
the Philippines. +
A very nice little scandalous story S
got out somehow the other day, and it :
looked for time as tho the great big l
white marble building now known as |
the "House Offices was to become a 7
storage warehouse for the household |
goods of members of Congress during {
the Summer vacation. A member of t
Congress. from Massachusetts, it is said,
did manage to get some of his house,
hold effects Into the committee room, =,
bu, they got out" again in a hurry, 7
and the canard is busted up.
Naval experts have practically adopt :
ed the new style military mast, which y
was given a practical test in Hampton =
Roads several months ago, when an !
experimental mast was erected on the1 !
stern deck of the monitor Florida, and !
at several times by the monitor Arka Il
sas at close range. Ir
The new masts will be erected; nnl
the battleships Idaho and Mississippi. /,
at the after end of the superstructure y.
The masts will be 90 feet high from the =
deck and 120 feet from the water. AT e
the base they will cover 26 square feet =
and will taper to 10 square feet at the 4
top, on which platform for the fire n
control officer of the vessel will be To- {,
Gated
These masts. it is said. will be placed r
on several additional battleships within ;,
the next few months, but no decision
has been reached as to whether theyl
Will be installed on the new 20,000-tonI
This style military mast is an innova- u u
ton in the American Navy. The mast 81
tested on the Florida was inclined at an u
angle of about 10 degrees, to simulate =
the rocking of a-ship, but those to be .
placed on the Idaho and Mississippi will d
be Upright. The new mast is composed o
Of spiral tubes, starting at the base of II
the structure and winding in both d. :.
rections toward the top. About everyI &c
10 feet from the base to the top of the II
mast a double ring of connecting rods ID
Is securely riveted, both on the inside u
and on the outside. 81
The effect of the spiral construction !,
IS to increase its resisting power when d.
L is bombarded by an enemy's projec-
tiles. At the time of the recent tests !,
n Hampton Roads several shots were =
fred at the mast, and none of them did -
my severe damage. One shell passed u
thru the opening between the tubes. -
Other shots severed various iu.,es at =,
different points, but at the end of the a.
experiment it was as strong as before u
he shooting began.
Its unusual strength comes from the
system of bracing and counternracing al
which is employed in its construction, st
and almost every tube would have to be b.
severed at the same hight before il pl
would fall. OF
Col. William p. Villas, former United u
States Senator from Wisconsin, and ST
Secretary of the Interior under Presi-
lent Cleveland, has been stricken at
mis- home in Madison with cerebral hem &c