The Washington bee., 1910-08-13
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss ]. c. Mason.)

| An effort on the part of citizens in
| New Orleans, La, because of race
prejudice, to remove the Southern
! University, the only large colored
high school, was defeated in the Sem
ate by fourteen votes The univer-
sity is TO remain.
After September I, when the Ag-
new-Perkins directors liability laws
go into effect, jockey club tracks will
be barred of racing in New York.
| Miss Bessie Gibson, one of the best
soprano singers in this city, is having
quite a success at ASbury Park, N. J.,
singing the latest songs.
According to official report, there
has been a great advance in iron ore
production in the Mesada range in
! Minnesota shipments, increase being
from I3,3oo,Ooo tons in 1902 to 2S,ooo,-
600 tons in 1909.
| In ChadrOn, Nebr., fifteen engines.
belonging to the Chicago and North
western Railway, were burned The
| loss was estimated at about 100000.
Miss Ivy Z. Woodward has been
admitted to full membership in the
Royal College of Physicians of Lon
don. This is the first time that the
| coveted NJ. r. c. P. has been CON
ferred upon a woman.
A capital idea produced bv William
Wheeler HIppen, justice Of the peace,
of Pluryn, Cal, IS the establishment
OF library in trees near his place for
wanderers. Books, magazines and
daily newspapers are supplied, also
comfortable seats and a table.
More AtrO-Americans have gone to
l. y1- |, Z L Z
missions OF pleasure, business and
professions.
1t is said that once a year rich
Spanlards have a real hower-strewn
path prepared for them. This is dur
ing the Corpus Christi festival, when
beautiful flower carpets are laid in
the streets of Villa Orlava, Tenerif
In India it IS literally d case of be-
ing a vegetarian or starving, for the
Hindus of Hindustan, taking them al
most as a whole, are so enjoined to
their religion to abstain from eating
meat
Six thousand cars have been fur
nlshed in Atlanta, Ga, to carry fruit
to market. Peaches are plentiful
there, and the crop this season is
three times as large as that of last
year.
The sea trout of the Pacific coast
is the greatest member of the family
afoat, according to Richard l. Po-
cocks opinion. Getting tired of
catching small fish, he tried his luck
in a river near by, and this large fish
was caught.
An order for sixty-fve locomotives
Of the largest type, each engine
to weigh 100000 pounds, was given to
the American Locomotive Works in
Pittsburg by the Pennsylvania Rail
road
The Chickamauga Steel and Iron
Company, whose capital is S5,ooo,ooo,
has been incorporated in Trenton,
n. ]. The main office Of the com
pany is to be Jersey City
The BeartOoth national forest in
Montana shall hereafter have a graz
ing of 1900 additional head of sheep.
The original limit was $4,000. This
gives a total of 4I,ooo.
{. A. Taylor marketed the first
sack of new crop rice, ground in Not
taway, Texas, Eagle Lake, Texas,
this year. Taylor has always carried
the new crop of rice to market until
last year
Mile. Franks aeroplane, in Sunder-
land, England, while making a fight
at the Boleden race course, over
turned and fell into a crowd of look
ers on, killing boy
London city police are salaried
from $3.50 TO $IO.33 per week, being
allowed an extra sum for coal in win
ter, and getting their uniforms free.
Nine. Mathelda Frank, the French
wife of a British journalist, who has
done serious work in aviation, has
indicated her intention of coming to
this country soon to try to win
prize offered for race from Chicago
to New York.
Because of the disappearance OF
General Vincent Mimet, of Santiago
de Cuba, an insurrection is feared
among the people.
A monument to ex-slaves of the
South is proposed by veterans in New
Orleans. The appeal was issued from
the headquarters by Gen. George w.
Gordon, cOmmander-in-chief of the
veterans.
By big water spout developing
into sand spout, striking the beach
in Charleston, sc, Sullivan's Island
was swept down, doing no greater
damage than raining sand upon cot
tages.
By measurement the combined
length and capacity of its five spans
Queensboro bridge, across East
River, from Fifty-ninth street, New
York, TO RavenswOod, Queens, is the
greatest bridge in the world Includ-
ing approaches, its total length IS
600 feet, width 90 feet, and greatest
height above water, 800 feet
The Durham Textile Mills, the
only colored hosiery mills in North
Carolina, has been very successful
1t has doubled its capital and shall
add a number of new machines to its
factory soon.
c. L. S. Baker, of Chicago, a COL
ored American, is the inventor of d
friction heater. His heater heats rail
road and street cars, and in so doing
will save the car companies about
S4.2o per day. Mr. Baker has a con-
tract for heating 1900 Chicago cars,
beginning November I.
More than $4,000 was deposited
in one day into the treasury of Ten
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