The Washington bee., 1910-07-30
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
By Miss G. B. Max6eld
Paragraphic News.

PaTagTdphlc News.
Miss Mae Irwin, of Chicago, has
been appointed Assistant Superintend-
ent of Nurses at Freedman's Hospital
as result of a civil service examina-
ton
Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis has
just published Book Of Recitations."
The book Is from the press of the
Miles Printing Company of Pittsburg.
1t Is said to contain choice collec-
tion of dramatic and humorous read
ings.
Mrs. Martha Generals, an aged col
Ored woman, of Wllkesbarre, Pa, has
been granted a bronze medal and a
pension of $50 a month by the Car
negie Hero Commission for saving the
life of fOur-year-old child.
During the year OF 1000, there were
20 lynchings, II whites and 81 coIored.
This IS said ID be the highest record
since 1904
The Haym Solomon National Mon
ument Association has been organized
in San Francisco, the purpose of
which Is to build a monument in this
city to the fnanCier who contributed
100000 to the Colonists' Treasury
during the Revolution
Baltimore is to have one of the larg-
est manufacturing firms in the South.
All of the operatives will be COlOTed.
1t will commence very soon.
Mr. c. S. L. Baker, of Chicago, col
ored, who invented the Friction
Heater, will, no doubt, accumulate a
fortune The Friction Heater heats
railroad and street cars, saving the
companies $4.2o per day.
Miss Caroline Hazard, for eleven
years president of Wellesley College,
and one of the best known women
educators in the country, has resigned.
! The resignation is due to poor health.
Rumor has it that Prof. Kelly Mil
Ter, of Howard University, IS being
considered for the presidency of
Western University, located at Quin-
darO, Kan
There is quite a stir in Elizabeth, n
| J., over the appointment of Miss
Rachel Falson, a colored graduate, to
teach school in the residential section
of the city, attended exclusively al
most by white children.
| 1t is said Jason Brown, son of John
| Brown, the hero of Harpers Ferry, is
living the life of a hermit in Ohio,
devOting his time to perfecting Z flying
machine which he has invented.
| Mr.. Benjamin F. Thomas, propri-
etor of the Hotel MaCeO, New York
| City, has been appointed a State ex-
aminer of automobile chauffeurs, at a
salary Of 81 500 a year
Cardinal Gibbons celebrated his
10Th birthday July %. He received
many messages of congratulation and
greeting.
Maryland, it is said, is to have a
NEGRO insane hospital which will cost
100000.
At the meeting Of the Interdenomi-
national Bible College held in Shiloh
Baptist Church, it was said The sa-
loon influence is the greatest him
drance to civic betterment in this
city"
Secretary Wilson's meat inspectors
twill continue to inspect lard sub
stitute, and not a pound of that article
can go into interstate or foreign COM
merCe unless it bears the mark u.
! S. Inspected and passed"
! 1t is said III new banks with a
capital of $2,6I2, 900 completed organ
ization in the South during the month
of June.
In the last year 70 cities in the
South, through their Chambers oi
Commerce, or through some organi-
zations of the merchants or business
men, have taken practical steps tc
induce farmers to build telephone lines
and connect with their towns.
A famous painting by Jean Fran
els Millet, valued at $4,000, The
Shepherd and Flock" has been stOler
from the Art Museum in San Fran
cisco
Miss Irene Payne, of Baltimore
who has spent two pleasant weeks
with Bishop and Mrs J. w. Smith
and Miss Nellie Z. Johnson, has re.
turned home
Bishop and Mrs. J. w. Smith and
Miss Nellie E Johnson, 1900 r street
northwest, left the city last Sabbath
to spend two weeks at the Como
lcocheague camp meeting, near Cham
Ibersburg, Pa, and then two weeks
more in Maryland and Pennsylvania
visiting friends.