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"A collision OF an unknown dark
planet with the sun will terminate life
Dn the EARTH" said Prof. Percival
Lowell, director of the Lowell observa-
tory at Flagstaff, Ariz., in recent lee
ture before the students of Massachu-
Fetts Institute of Technology and 9TH
ers. THE event will be prophesied II
Years before the catastrophe occurs"
continued the professor, "and chaotic
sonfusion will reign in the world dur
ng the days preceding the calamity"
The chances of the catastrophe hap
pening soon were declared 10 be very
light by Professor Lowell, however
In some of the present laws 1t would
seem that there was straining at gnat
and swallowing a camel. man In
quick lunch" place one Sunday even
ing recently brought in a milk bottle
and desired TO have 1t filled with coffee
The clerk informed him that he was
forbidden by law TO use milk bottles
for such purposes The would-be GUS
toner looked surprised, but remarked,
I'll take an apple pie" Sorry
again, sir, but the law forbids us to
sell whole pies on Sunday" replied the
man behind the counter. I'VE can sell
you as many pieces of pie as you want,
but not a pie before Ii is cut And
the man began 10 do some thinking,
as did those who witnessed the cpl
sode.
The observance OF Washington's
birthday was general among the ship
ping in the harbor, although with one
exception, not a British steamer was
decorated The exception was the
steamer Boston of the ID. A. II. line,
moored at the end of Long Wharf. She
was a lmass Of colors from stem to
stern and her handsome appearance
was commented upon.
The Danish steamer Kentucky, was
way with international code flags and
Danish colors, with the Stars and
Stripes conspicuous aloft.
Nearly every coastwise vessel in port
was handsomely adorned with flags
and bunting from sunrise to sunset.
Among the steamers particularly no.
ticeable were the Persian and Howard,
Chatahoochee, Maiden and Melrose,
James S. Whitney, Bunker Hill and
the steamer Gov. Dingley.
Schooners, tugs, barges and the
lerryboats carried flags in honor OF the
day, and some of the sailing vessels
we're as elaborately decorated as were
The steamers.
For the simple reason that the task
would be an arduous one, Charlemagne
Tower, former ambassador from the
United States TO Germany and Har-
vard man himself, believes President
eliot would not accept the ambassa-
1orship to the Court of st. James.
This opinion Mr. Tower voiced in his
apartments in local hotel the other
day.
There isn't the slightest question"
ne said, that President Eliot would
be an ideal man for the place. 1t hard
ly seems possible TO me, however, that
he would accept the appointment. The
duties of the ambassador representing
this country at the Court of st. James
are particularly arduous There Is
20 question that President Eliot pos
sesses to a. high degree the necessary
qualifications, but, as | understand 1t,
he has resigned his present position in
order that he may rest"
That was all Mr.. Tower cared to say
about the report that President Eliot
may be named ambassador to the Court
of st. James by President-elect Taft.
Like General Gage OF the ante-revo-
lutionary days in this city a little
French boy who recently arrived in
Dorchester from his native land has
had the inherent American dislike OF
tyranny impressed most forcibly on
him since he came to this country.
For some reason or other the boy who
Is about IL years Old had up to few
days ago been throwing snowballs and
otherwise annoying three little girls
about his own age who live near him.
The little girls, who ordinarily are eX-
tremely quiet and unassuming, first re-
ported the matter to the boys parents.
When the annoyances continued and
grew correspondingly more aggravat-
ing. they resolved to mete out summary
punishment to the offender. After wait
ing for days until they got a favorable
opportunity they coraled the object
of their wrath while he was returning
from a store with his hands filed with
eggs.
Although probably, neither Of the
girls had ever raised a hand to another
human being before all three of them
pounded the boy until he had
received n thrashing that he won't
soon forget. He finally managed to
break away from them and fed The
boy has now ceased to annoy the girls
Mhn are said to be wondering how