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| ing army under Gen. 7. H. Bliss, whose
base of operations will be New Bedford
Gen. Pew, of Massachusetts, will COM
mand the defenders, who are made up
largely of militia, with headquarters at
Boston.
Gen. Wood is to act as the chief UNI
pire. His staff includes Col H. o. S.
Heistand, Adjutant-General; Col. Geo.
S. Anderson, Chief of Staff; Col. Hall.
Judge-Advocate; Lieut.-Col. Isaac w.
Lttel, Chief Quartermaster, and Col.
Abiel L. Smith, Chief Commissary.
The foreign attaches who will attend
the manuvers include Col. Baron de
Bode, Imperial Russian army; Maj.
Davila, Mexican army; Capt. Count de
Oavila, Mexican army, and representa-
tives of the British and French Govern
inents. These attaches will be in
charge of Capt. William S. Guignard,
of the I'd Field Artillery.
|. The transports that will carry the
invading force will be the Meade, the
Sumner, the Mcclellan, the Gen. Ord,
the Gen. Schofield and one other. After
these vessels have landed the attacking
parties at New Bedford they will go
the manuyers. Eight army lanches will
represent as many destroyers.
Ensign Whitney, of the Navy, got an
idea that a man could escape from a
submarine by way of the torpedo tubes,
and he tried the dangerous experiment
with success. By grasping the rim OF
the upper lid of the tube he was pulled
out, despite the thrush of water, and
succeeded in making his way upward
thru 20 feet of water from the sub
marine, the Porpoise. Had he lost his
grip on the upper lid he would surely
have been drowned in the tube, as there
would have been no way of discovering
him until the boat was brought to the
surface. The officers of the Navy are
inclined to reprimand the Ensign for
his foolhardy experiment, but since it
is the first achievement of the kind in
the Navy it may lead to the inventing
of some device which will enable crew
of submarine to escape in case of an
accident
It is not generally known that Uncle
Sam conducts an Intelligence Bureau
thru which many persons annually OBJ
tain employment. In the last six weeks
about 5000 persons thru this Bureau
connected with the Department of Com
merce and Labor have obtained work in
the wheat fields of the great Northwest
The Department says that not only in
the wheat field is there great demand
for labor, but that in the factories all
over the United States there is much
demand. The reports to this Depart
ment seem to indicate that the country
is on the eve of a great wave of pros
perity, stretching from the Gulf to Can
ada and from Maine to California. Sec
retary McHarg says that the prospects
for obtaining work at good wages began
to brighten perceptibly six weeks ago,
and that the conditions have been grow
ing better and better ever since, until
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many instances, to find men and women
to fill the places which are waiting for
them in different sections of the coun-
try. Information reaching Washington
is to the effect that every branch of in
dustry seems to be feeling the effects of
the good times now here. The rail-
roads. which are considered good busi-
of dollars on new equipments of various
kinds and on other vast improvements.
Three shifts of men are now at work
on the new addition to the White House
Office Building, and are working day and
night in an effort to have the building
completed when President Taft returns
in November. One of the workmen,
who is engaged in the work of excavat
ing, the other day found at depth of
about five or six inches a tennis ball
buried in the clay. He put the ball in
his pocket, and will keep it as SOU
venir. 1t was probably put there by a
strenuous stroke of Mr.. Roosevelt's.
II is rumored that President Taft has
purchased a handsome Summer home
of the late Burnham Brown at Castle
Hill, Ipswich Beach, which is about 10
miles from the Presidents Summer
home at Beverly.
The Census Bulletin, which has just
been issued by the Government shows
the remarkable growth of the telephone
over the telegraph. In 1902 the tele-
phone mileage was about four times
that of the telegraph, while in 1907 it
was eight times as great. More than
$1,000, 900 miles of wire were in use by
the telephone and telegraph systems in
the United States in 1907, and of these
the telephone system used 1900, 900.
The report also says that wireless teleg-
raphy in 1907 was operated at a small
loss.
Wherever crowds congregate there are
always careless people who are con-
tinually laying down articles and for
getting all about them. The things that
are left in the Capitol Building during
session of Congress are many and
various. From the Annual Report of
Capt. Megrew, of the Capitol Police
Force, the following are some of the
articles which the people left behind
and few afterwards claimed: A paiI
of trousers, boys sled, two life insur-
ance policies, a coat, vest, hat, type
writer, a peddler's badge. a gold watch,
four handbags, 10 pocketbooks, shawls
knives, gloves, hatpins, walls, buttons
and fur pieces valued at $785, 29 UNI
brellas and IL parasols were found, IL
cardcases, II fans, five muffs, laprobe,
and most unusual, ii would seem, was
the finding of IL bicycles which were
not all claimed.
| If you were to walk into the Treas
ury Department to-day and demand q
Lincoln cent with the three initials OF
| the designer on them you would be
turned down, because the Treasury is
| bankrupt The Mint at PHILADELPHIA
will start to-day coming the cent pieces
with just one initial (the letter b, in
sunken instead of raised letters. The
Treasury Department people make fun
| of the public, who call our smalles
coin penny There is no such thing
as a penny" that is, officially. The
laws call for the coming of cent
pieces.
Il When Wilbur Wright reaches Wash
lington to teach the officers of the Sig
nal Corps to operate his flying machin,
a practical demonstration of il will b
made. There is a theory among some
of the officers of the Signal Corps that
the machine can be used only for recon
noitering purposes, but the enthusiast IL