The Washington bee., 1910-08-20
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss ]. c. Mason.)

A national movement is on foot
by prominent persons in London to
| bury the remains of Florence Night
lngale, the famous CrImean war nurse,
In Westminster Abbey.
A reunion of all the Rockefellers
| has been planned for September o. at
| Newberry, n. Y, and it is expected
! that John ID. Rockefeller will be pres
| ent.
Mining practice by the Atlantic
fleet has been completed in Province
town harbOr, Mass Now the feet is
about to sail out into Cape Cod 10
| take up torpedo practice.
| Imports into and exports from the
| United States were greater last wear
than ever before except the year 1907.
when the imports for July were Sra
100000, and the exports were SI28.-
! 100000.
The National Baptist Convention
will hold Its annual meeting in New
Orleans for six days, beginning Sep
tember II. It's publishing house at
Nashville is the largest and best
equipped among our people in Amer
ica.
A movement is on foot, headed bv
Baron Wilkins, of New York. with
| other sporting men, to secure by pub
lie subscription amounting TO $4,000.
la diamond studded gold belt for
heavyweight champion John Arthur
Johnson.
After a delay of So years. the $500
estate of Timothy Caldwell, a resi-
dent OF Wilmington, Del, who died IN
1897, was divided last week. Owing
to the case being involved the estate
could not be settled before.
Charleston, s. C., plans a S25ooOo
race track to be ready next year.
A new silk mill has started in Read
ing, Pa, with Jansen & Pretzfeld, of
New York, as managers, with twenty
employees.
In London, England, wireless tele-
phOnlng from a moving train has been
accomplished with complete success
on stretch of railway line four miles
IN length between Horley and Three
Bridges, on the Brighton railway.
According to records of the Post
office Department in Missouri, ten
postmasters have made application for
the establishment of postal savings
banks in their Offices.
Carrie Nation was in Hannibal, Mo.
on the 10th of August. Saloons were
ALREADY closed on account of the pri-
mary condition, and she was relieved
of the necessity of closing them
About Is per cent. or more of the
residents of Georgia who live in the
rural districts have had the hook
worm, according to field inspectors Of
the State board of health
LiverpoO1s chief constable says that
owing to religious feuds the cost of
policing the city last year was in
creased by more than $4,000.
Fishermen, while following a stream
near Long Lake, West New York,
found several bags containing expen-
sive furs, hidden in brush piles. These
had been stolen from a railway train
en- route to point north of Montreal.
They are valued at 81, 300
The forty-third annual session of I.
0. of ST Luke, which was held in
Richmond, Va, this week. was attend
ed by large delegations from all sec
t1ons. On Wednesday the delegates
went to White City, Va, where they
had a most delightful trip.
According to the thirteenth census
Colorado Springs has a population of
10000, an increase Of 37.9 per cent.
James Leach, whose native home is
in Charleston, S. c., has been award
ed S62, 900 for an invention of improve
ment to the phonograph, by the Edi-
son company.
In Paris there are dozens of colored
women who are employed as chauf-
feurs and cab drivers.
A comet has been discovered by
Rev. Joel H. Metcalf, of Taunton,
Mass.