The Washington bee., 1910-07-23
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
By Miss G. B. Maxfeld

according to a statement given out
the health of 100000 people are at
stake in Chicago, as the milk they
drink is the dirtiest in the world. 1t
is being investigated by milk COM
mission recently appointed by Mayor
Busse.
The youngest person to take a
Masters degree at the University of
Michigan, and possibly at any uni
versity in the United States, is Miss
Dorothea Jones, seventeen years of
age, who recently passed the exami-
nation for Master of Arts.
Receipts of the Washington post
Office for June, 1910, show $I6,z7s.So,
or 1920 per cent. increase over those
OF June, 1000.
The Navy Department will erect
four wireless towers between 400 and
500 feet at the Soldiers Home. 1t
is believed that communication can be
established with ships 1900 to 5000
miles away.
1t has been announced by DR. S. G.
Dixon, Philadelphia, State Commits
sIOner of Health, that he has discov-
cred a cure for tuberculosis. An in
stitution where the discovery can be
/ applied has been asked for.
Bishop Tanner admitted that he was
one of those who prayed for Jack
Johnson. He said he was opposed TO
pride fighting, but since it had been
| brought to a race issue by the whites
he wanted Johnson to win.
General Porforio Diaz, who will be
80 years old next September, has
been reelected as President of Mex
lcO for a term of six years, this being
the seventh time he has been chosen
| by the people as the head Of their
national government.
More than S5,OO0,OOO damage has
been done to the tobacco, wheat and
corn crops in Kentucky by the recent
storms and floods.
DIR. G. Stanley Hall, President of
Clark University, says The American
children are not spanked enough
/ Americans protect their children too
much, and it makes them precocious
and disrespectful." Good doctrine.
George c. Wright, said to be the
oldest coffee importer in the United
States, died a few Gays ago. He had
been a coffee importer since I84o.
|
| School of Forestry, in St. Paul, Mimi,
died quite suddenly of apoplexy. He
had been a professor of forestry for
!twnty-twO years.
! Norristown, Pa, opposes a Car
negie library, as they think $1,000 a
year too expensive for its mainte-
nance.
The private carriage of former Pres
ident James Buchanan was recently
sold at auction, and was bought by
! Andrew GOchaneurs
The authorized capital stock of
{ Negro banks in the United States is
| I$2,ooo,Ooo. In Alabama there are Z;
Florida, 4; Georgia, 9; Illino 5, /;
Maryland, I; Mississippi, II; North
Carolina. g; Oklahoma, 3; Pennsylva-
MIA, I; Tennessee, 4; Texas, 4; Vir-
| ginia, T3, and South Carolina, I.
Mr.. J. ]. Grove, an ex-slave, known
as the Potato King" is said to be
very rich. He owns 523 acres of land
each acre valued at $I5O. He has re-
! fused recently 100000 for one I2o-acre
tract. not including houses.
There are 22I students receiving
! training in the agricultural depart
Illchl VI 1uohSSce Institute uuIlllS
the present Summer.
Great preparations are being made
/ for the n. NJ. A, which will meet here
! in August.
The agricultural department of
Tuskegee Institute shipped a car load
/ of vegetables to Montgomery for cold
| storage, last week
! Prof L. B. Moore, dean of Teach
I ers' College, Howard University, de-
J livered a lecture in Springfield, No,
subject, The Self-uplift Of the Ne
gro"