Putnam patriot., 1910-05-20
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 attend the Worlds sunday school Con. efess, which .ill elese next faesdax the 24ih. More than fiffy nations viii be officially represented tn tlie son delegates who .ill gather aI the eai taI for the next six days. The regular sessions of the convention aiii nnni- Der IFS, with speakers to the number of aDe. including President Iaft, Am= basaad0r Bryce, John Nauamakef. pr. ]. Wilbur Chapman, Charles NJ Alex andcf, and many Bishops and other distinguished men and women from America and abroad. Rev. r. B. Mey CT, Of London, President If the Worlds Sunday School Association, will pre- side.
 z Trade of the United States with the Philippines during the first months of the new tariff law which permits interchange of practically all articles free of duty, shows q marked improve ment-grestly benefting the Philip pines without detriment To this coun try. k inc portents are become numerous. | A meteor, which appeared to be more | than half the size of the moon, passed through the sky at Galveston, Texas. last tFriday night. 1t looked like \ ball of white fire, and left wide trail of light. IL was seen throughout the State, and frightened the negro popu. lntion, who believed tt to be the comet. They gathered In many places in pray. CT meetings, expecting it would smite the earth.
 A sharp earthquake shock was felt al Georgetown, West Indies, the capital of British Guiana, last Saturday even Ing. There were also slight shocks on the Island of Trinidad, There k no doubt of:a subierrsneous connection be- tween the recent shocks in South Anne rica and those of the West fndies--ihe internal fires being the medium.
 The high prices of food products has set men to thinking out new suhstan- ces for food. Cotton seed which was in recent years tfeatedaas waste bl.
 
 properties, which have been made into perfect substitute for olive oil, is now being manufactured into a flour that can be used as human food.
 The burial ceremonies of King Ed ward of England, which are shortly tc take place, are to exceed In grandeur anything of the kind ever witnessed in that kingdom. All nations will be re presented by delegations Of their most eminent men. Theodore Roosevelt will head the delegation from the United States.
 A great many queer things, connect. cd with the comet, have been printed. The people Of Moutiers, felt serious eorthqake shock last Saturday, and thousands of thcm fled from their homes To the streets and began praying in the streets, thinking the comet had struck the earth. Ata city In Hsyii cunning negro voodoo doctor took ads vantage of the ignorance and superstl- ton of the colored population and got out comet pill To ward of danger from the comet. The rush for the pills was 50 great that he is growing rich.
 The Norwegian government has now granted full municipal suffrage 10 wo. men after a three years suffrage with property qualification. In sweeping away this limitation, the Norwegian Parliament now places woman muni- cipal suffrage on . truly democratic bAsis.
 Says the x. Y. Tribune; .rhcrc are are in nearly all of the papers, Fast and Wet, several tinaes . week. Of course Mayos Gsynor is one. The other ts the sccialiss Mayor sridcl of Milwaukee. The whole country secms inserssted In both" Hut the people put full confi- dsoce In Mayor setdel and his brand of socialism.
 The Italian commission which has been studying peilassa--the dread dts. ease that has recently afflicted the 6outh-has discovered that the cause of the disease Is not Indian corn, but . parasite conSeyed of species oi ntt- ing gnat. IL Is good news for regions afflicted with peilsgrs.
 The cost of the insane in the State ot New York Is very impressive. The to- tsl receipts of the State for the ten years ending ocsohef, ista, amouuted Co Ssta, ,0a5. .sAS. and more than one sew enth of this revenue. or s5i,ols,ai |, was spent in maintaining the hospitals for the Insane.
 The report recently sent out from Cuba of the organization oi s wide spread conspiracy among the negro Dc pnlstion to seixe the government from the whites and make Il black man : Republic, proves 10 be altogether an- founded.