The National tribune., 1909-01-07

The Agricultural Department is at
again. This time il is a wonderful ma
chine which will record the pulse beat:
and show the respirati tion of the humal
body. 1t is being constructed by chem
lists at the Department of Agriculture
and it is said that it will determine tn
quality and nature of food necessary t
maintain strength for various forms %
labor. The thing is called a ''respira
ton calorimeter"
As soon as the machine is completed
several of the DEPARTMENTS expert phys
biological chemists Will conduct a serie!
of interesting experiments in this city.
These experiments, which comprise
the confininS of men and women in al
ingeniously eontriyed box or cabinet fol
days or weeks at a time, will register. tc
degree not only the human pulse beat
respiration and temperature, but alst
the forms of energy that are active
within the body, whether the subject be
awake or asleep. The amount of energy
furnished the human system by pound
of beefsteak, an omelet or vegetable
soup can be determined to an absolute
figure by the machine.
Mrs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS came
mighty near being trampled under the
feet of a pair of carriage horses the
other day. She wanted to enter the
theater in a hurry, being late. and dart
ed from her own auto between an anto
in front of her and the carriage wnicn
was on the other side. The horses went
straight up in the air, and would have
landed on Mrs. Longworth had police
man not grabbed the b-utes by the
brides and thrown them hack onto the
carriage. 1t really was not the fault of
the driver, but Mrs Longworth took a
big risk in her hurry to meet he hus-
band, who stood in the theater lobby
waiting for her. having preceded her
there by several minutes. She told Mr..
Iongworth of the almost catastrophe,
and he dashed down and thanked the
policeman, substantially as well as cor
daily. and dashed back into the thea
ter. 1t all happened in about two min
utes.
Just go down in your jeans and see
how many counterfeit s5 bills you are
carrying around. Chief Wilkie, of the
Secret Service, has sent out a warning
letter describing q new and danger
Gus counterfeit SIS silver certificate. -
These are Chief Wilkes notes of it:
Act of Aug. 4, 1885; series. 1899:
check letter, A. face-plate number 652:
back-piate number, 493; J. w. Lyons,
Register of the Treasury; Ellis II. Rob-
erts, Treasurer; portrait of Indian chief
The sample. under examination,
bears serial number A-41S23133, and is
a deceptive photo-mechanical produc-
tion on two pieces of paper, with silk
fiber between them, in imitation of the
genuine. The seal and serial number
are lighter than the genuine color. The
printed face of the note is nearly an
eighth of an inch short, and the back
the genuine.
The word Treasurer under the sig
nature of Roberts is badly printed.
THE word five on the back of the
note Immediately tc the right of the
panel containing the words United
States of America is imperfectly repro
duced."
An order issued by the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor transferred to the
Bureau of Fish and Fisheries absolute
Jurisdiction of the seal industry. Here
tofore the licensing of the killing of
seals in the Pribilof Islands has been
vested in a semi-independent office of
the Department of Commerce and La
bor, and under the authority conferred
upon it the North American Commercial
Company was given the exclusive right
for 90 years to kill seals within a cer-i
tain area. The contract will expire
within year or two.
General supervision of the work was
placed in the hands of Walter I. bIlemb-
key, Special Agent. Under the new ar
assistants will be transferred to the
Bureau of Fish and Fisheries. which
henceforth will deal with all questions
bearing on the subject
The Chinese envoy who is here on a
special mission from his Emperor took
a party TO Mount Vernon on New Years
Day. and tho the party consisted of 100
slant-eyed sons of Confucius, and all
are college men, the college yells they
gave on the boat trip to Mount Vernon
were Harvard. Yale and Cornell yells,
and they have just as good lungs, il you
want to know. as any American boy
who ever tried to split his throat howl
ing for his alma mater.
The = Special Envoy TO the United
States, Tang Shao vi, who. with his
suite and the Legation staff, acted as
hosts. looked on indulgently. Maybe
the points of the campus joke were
lost on ears trained to Confucian class
les. but the officials helped the mirth
sicag. Every one aboard the Charles
8.acalester wanted to talk to the Chi
nese party. DR. WI speedily estab-
lszhed himself as the prime favorite
ailith all the American tourists. and was
kept busy writing his autograph for
feminine sightseers.
As for the girl excursionists. the ease
with which the Chinese lads scraped up
an acquaintance with them proved them
adopts in the Irritation game. They
We're kept busy dealing out visiting
cards to girls, who wanted them for
souvenirs, and trying to teach fair re-
cipients how to pronounce the difficult
Chinese names One slant-eyed masher
succeeded in extracting promise from
a girl to make him a Cornell pillow.
Five young Chinese women. students
ct Eastern schools, queened ii among
the boys. and their modist finery and
airs of independence conflicted with all
preconceived ideas of the subserviency
os chipese women. The girls We're Miss
Hsa.from the Woman's College at Bal
timore; Miss Sze, Damrosch Conserya-
tory of Music; Miss Tsao. Woman's Med
zeal College, Philadelphia, and Miss Soon
and Miss Tsung. from Newark. n. ].
Arrived at Mount Vernon. the party
formed a procession 10 the tomb of
Washington Two handsome wreatts, to
American statesman by the Special En-
voy and by Dr. wu. were proudly borne
by Daniel NJ Chung. of the De Lancey
school of Philadelphia, and by c. T..
Chung, recently arrived from the Anglo
Chinese School of Tsintsin. There were
no formal ceremonies at the tomb, Dut
the reverent air worn by the young stu
dents from across the seas was in itself
a tribute to the memory of the greatest
American.