The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-09-10
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence.)

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schools. one for white and the othe
for colored pupils. The plan here
tofore has been successfully tried only
In Boston.
Government to Print Postals.-Th,
contract for supplying 3,4S7 ,O00, ,O0(
postal cards to the Postoffice Depart
ment during the four years beginning
Jan. /, 1910, has been awarded by
Postmaster-General Hitchcock to the
government printing Office, which sub
mitted the lowest bid, s934,717.95
| 1nere were two other bidders, one
being the Oxford Paper Company oi
Rumford Falls, Me-, which has fur
nished postal cards TO the govern
ment for the past four years. 1t i,
reported that this will cause the
Maine plant to close its doors.
Decrease in Defcit.--There was a
deficit of s7411,72S in the ordinary
receipts and disbursements OF the
treasury department for the month OF
/ August, as compared with a deficit
of $l3, ,103,949 for July. AS most of
the general appropriations become
available for use of the various
branches of the government during
July, the first month of the fiscal year,
the reduction in the deficit In Aug
ust is largely accounted for. From
the customs the treasury department
received $2S,5S9,625 for August, while
the receipts from the same source in
July were s29,963,161. The public
debt, less the cash balance in the
treasury at the beginning of business
todoy was $1,047,527,211.
Lottery Tickets Barred.-An agree
.ment has been reached by American
and Cuban postal officials by which the
sending Of lottery tickets from Cuba
to the United States through the mails
will be prevented absolutely. Sen
or Orencio NodarZe, director gen.
eral OF postoffices and telegraphs of
Cuba, and the assistant director Chas.
j. Barnet, had a talk recently with
the acting postmaster general, Chas
the postoffice department respecting
the suppression Of the sale of Cuban
lottery tickets in this country. Di-
rector Nodarbe assured the Ameri-
can officials that he would lend them
all the assistance in his power to pre-
vent the use OF the American mails
for the transmission of lottery tick.
cts.
Church Figures.-That the church
members in the United States num-
bered nearly $4,000 900 in 1906: that
there were billion and a quarter
dollars invested in church edifces;
that every day eight new churches
sent their spires skyward; that men
formed considerably less than half the
total church membership; that in 16
states the majority of the total church
membership were Roman Catholic;
but that OF the grand total of church
States 61.6 percent were Protestants.
and 36.7 percent Roman Catholics:
these are the salient facts appearing
In the proof sheets of United States
census bureau bulletin, prepared by
William G. Hunt, chief statistician of
the division of population of the Unit
ed States Census Bureau. The bulle-
tin is in the nature OF an abstract of the
comprehensive report, now in press,
giving the results of the fifth census
of religious bodies in the United
States. 1t is stated that United States
census statistics of church member
ship by sex were collected for the first
time in 1906. OF the total number OF
members reported by the various re-
ligious bodies and classified by sex,
43.1 percent were males, and 500 per.
cent females.
Sleeping Sickness.-Does the sleep
ing sickness, most dreaded plague OF
modern times. threaten Washington?
1t is possible that germs Of this ter
rible malady, which has devasted the
dark continent, claiming it's hundreds
of thousands of victims annually. have
been imported into the national capi-
tai in the collection Of Roosevelt tro-
phies now being unpacked at the
Smithsonian institution. Every pre-
caution is being taken against this
contingency, but the skins themselves
hold the possibility Of such an out
break. Employees and officials OF the
institution were startled beyond meas.
ure when. in unpacking the cases, Il
was found that some of the skins were
of the species of African rabbit that
harbors the tsetse fly in the most dan.
gerous stage of its development. It
would have been possible TO disinfect
the skins at once, but scientific inter-
est prevailed over fear of consequence.
es. and IL is probable that some Of the
eggs Of the fly, which are harbored
in the skins, in countless numbers,
will be hatched and the insects used
for experimental purposes. II is not
denied that this is risky and danger
Gus business. The experimentors