The Washington bee., 1910-12-03
PARACRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. Maxfeld.)

cussing quietly in his mind what to
say.
The Howard Park Citizens Asso-
citation will take up the Normal School
site
The friends of DR.. Lewis Moore
will urge him as the successor of Mr..
R. C. Bruce
There are at least five members of
the Board of Education who favor
change in the office of colored as
slstant superintendent of schools.
There are at least two colored mem
bers of the Board included in the
five
The judges of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia look
very dIgnihed in their gowns.
The President settled the boiler
makers strike on the canal.
Parents believe that they have
right to criticise the conduct in
school room, as we'll as a teacher.
IT is doubtful whether William ].
Bryan will attend the Democratic
Peace Conference
The grandfather clause adopted by
the Democrats OF Maryland has been
declared unconstitutional.
The friends of DIR. S. L. Corrothers
say that he will be elected bishop to
succeed the late Bishop Smith.
I A plot was discovered to dynamite
the works of the Federal Steel Con-
struction Company, a part of the
American Bridge Company of Chi
cago, last week.
The body of DR.. Brown, of Cecil
County, Md, aged IS years, was found
I2 miles below Wilmington, Del.
The Department Of Justice will take
steps to dissolve the sugar trust. This
trust is restraining trade.
John Blgelow, aged %, will celebrate
his birthday. He is a leading gen
| tleman in New York.
One of the proposed revisions of the
public schools in this city is the elm
lnatlon of foreign languages, except
Latin and Greek, when the pupil pro-
poses to pursue college course.
President Cox, President of the
Board of Education, is in favor of
using the rod on the children now and
| then
After being missing for 100 years.
an< equestrian portrait of Philip w
OF Spain, painted III 1923, has been
| discovered at the residence of the
Duke of Parma, at SChwanzau. It is
reported that the painting has been
sold to an English firm of art dealers
for $500.
Former United States Senator Jas.
Smith, of New Jersey, has announced
his intention of bringing a suit for
| libel against Julian A. Gregory, May
Or-eleCt of East Orange.
A skeleton, believed to be that of an
Indian chief, was unearthed in Dor
chester, Mass. Near the bones were
| found a tOmahawk, two spears and a
jar of beads
! Jesse Bluestone, a former member
of the Pennsylvania Legislature, was
found guilty of completely in the white
slave trade in Pittsburg, Pa.
Rev. Charles G. Lewis, native of
Darby, Pa, but who has been engaged
in missionary work in China since
, 1906, died quite suddenly while home
, ward bound.
Robert T. Graham is about to end
his 1000 mile walk from Oregon to
New York. He IS sixty-hve years of
age, and ascribes his endurance to
teetotalism.
The preliminary plans of the Rus
sell Sage foundation, to be establish
ed by Mrs. Sage as a memorial to her
husband, are well under way. She
plans to establish a model suburban
city, providing healthy and beautiful
homes for persons of moderate means.
| The Rev. Dr. William E. Barton,
of Chicago, IS offering a prize for the
words of hymn that will extol the
virtues of Father" He claims relig-
ious hymnals are filled with songs to
mother, military hymns, such as "On-
ward, Christian Soldiers" but none to
| Father"
On the 25th of November the resi-
dents of the South Side of Chicago
we're attracted by strange lights in the
southeastern skies at night, reSem
bling the tail of a comet, about half
way to the zenith.
| The Improvement Association of
Colored Children gave dinner to 90
little tots at their rooms, 1887 Sew
,enth street. The Association has en-
tered upon its nth year, during which
time 5000 children have been recip-
tents of clothing, food and instruction
IN industry and good citizenship.
For the purpose of renewing old ac-
quaintances and placing his children
/ in American schools, LANG Tun Yen,
formerly President of the Foreign
Office at Pekin, China, and diplomat
of many years experience, arrived in
New York recently to place his two
sons in school.
William Sprague, the aged war Gov
ernor of Rhode Island, is reported Sc
riously i'll in Paris. The Governor
passed his 8oth birthday about two
weeks ago.
The Scioto Gazette, the oldest
American newspaper without change
of name, has celebrated its 10th an
niversary with a handsomely IL
lustrated historical edition. This vet
eran Ohio paper was first printed on
an old hand press in 1900.
Associate Justice Charles f. Hughes
will be appointed Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court HIS name will be
sent to the Senate for confirmation
la few days after Congress convenes.
I Cardinal Gibbons, in a talk before
the students of St. Catherine Nor
NAL Institute, of Baltimore, said to
avoid following those who desire