The Washington bee., 1910-10-22
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss @. B. Maxheld.)

An Italian marble bust of the late
Senator Henry NJ. Rice, of Minnesota,
has been presented to that State by
his daughter, Mrs. Maurice Auer-
back. A second one IS being made
for the Hall of Fame in the Capitol
Senator Rice was Minnesota's first
representative in the United States
Senate.
One thousand, six hundred and
thirty dollars was the price paid in
New York for 63 one-cent pieces made
in 1894.
The 18th of last September Mrs.
Russell Sage was 81 years old. She
has given over ST 100000 in religious
causes, and 100000 TO educational
institutions, besides other gifts.
Mrs. Fleming, the woman astrono-
mer at the Harvard College OBJ
servatory, has discovered another new
star, making Is that nave been picked
out by the three women observers
who have been connected with the in
stltution during the past 25 years.
District Collector Rogers has sug-
gested in his annual report that all
unpaid personal taxes charged for the
years 1903 to 1908, inclusive, be can
celed because of the impossibility
of collection. The total collections
for the fiscal year just ended were
IS7,7I0,oo5.22, an increase of S2e0y6I3.2Z
over last year.
Commissioner Rudolph has recon-
mended the appointment of a commit
tee to prepare an amendment of the
present law providing for the commit
ment of the insane and a change in
| the method of payments for their
maintenance.
Bishop J. w. Smith, OF the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,
presiding over the Sixth Episcopal
| district and for several years a resi-
dent of this city, died at his home,
| 1900 R street northwest, after an ILL
ness of two weeks.
Representing the dairy interests of
Maryland, Virginia and the District,
Mr.. A. S. Trundle appeared before the
Public Health Committee of the
| Board of Trade in denunciation of the
| Health Department, and blames it for
the scarcity of milk in the District
The A. NJ E. Church of Georgia has
given $4,000 to Morris Brown Col
lege, which institution is located in
Atlanta, Ca and is under the jurisdic-
ton of the A. NJ. T. Church.
Prof. H. T. Kealing. of Nashville,
Tenn, the weli-known editor of the
A. M. z. Review, is out in a new
book called Church Problems" It
is not denominational, but treats with
questions and problems common to all
churches.
1t has been proposed that the
United States and Canada join in
erecting at Niagara in commemora-
ton of the tooth anniversary of the
Treaty of Client a magnificent Peace
Centennial Bridge"
The Catholics of this city will short
lily inaugurate a far-reaching charity
lplan. They expect to establish day
nursery, where children may be left
lin good surroundings while parents
ARE at work.
; Firwin c. Brown, colored, of
Charleston, w. Va, has invented what
he calls a food warmer, in which no.
tells and restaurants can send out
meals and be kept warm for an hour
in this food warmer, which looks
like tin box, with a handle, and a
door in front.
Another star, Bob Cole, of Cole &
johnson, is suffering from a nervous
breakdown. He was the originator of
the first stage tramp, and was writing
two plays, new production, for his
company, which proved a too strenu-
, lous undertaking.
1t is said there are IA newspapers
and 973 periodicals published in India
Prof. J. f Allen, colored, a teacher
in Kansas City, Kan, has purchased
90 acres OF land on which he expects
Ito erect an industrial school similar
Ito Tuskegee Institute.
The Crisis, monthly magazine for
the advancement of cOlored Ameri-
cans, edited by Prof. Du Bois, will
, take the place of the Horizon, which
= has suspended publication.
a The number of telephone messages
= in this country in 1907 was II 1000, ,OOO,-
t Ooo an increase of 6,oOo, ,oOO,O 900 IN five
t years.
, Oklahoma has an Indian population
Y of 1880.
: TIL foreign goods imported into the
I UNITED States during August aggre-
2 Igate $6o,o67053, free of duty, and S60,-
+ 28o827, dutiable.
5 The National Political Union, a col
ored Democratic club, organized in
/, 1876, met at 522 Eighth street and
elected Rev. L. 6. Moore, Of Missis-
sippi, president. They indorsed all
t Democratic candidates in the United
5 States
I Presidents Washington, Lincoln
D and Cleveland have been chosen as
: the subjects for the portraits that will
t appear on the new postal savings
: bonds.
Y The colored Americans of Atlanta
;, Ga, have published a business direc'
{ tory.
n John Mitchell, Jr., president of the
y Mechanics Bank of Richmond, Va, is
the only colored member of the Ma
4 tional Bankers Association oi
c America. He was admitted some years
T ago, and always takes a prominent
part in their annual conventions.
Larkin G. Mead, the American
sculptor, died in Florence, Italy, last
Iweek. Among his works in this coun
try are the National Liscoln mont
ment at Springfield, Ill; Soldiers
- Monument in Vermont, and statue o
! =.