The Washington bee., 1910-12-31
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. Max6eld.)

wish you happy and prosperous
New Year
One of the largest payrolls ever
signed in the Pittsburg district was
signed December "a, and $1,000, 900
was distributed to men who work in
the industrial plants.
| According to consular reports, in
few years Germany ia all likelihood
will consume nothing but imported
meats. There is an immense de-
crease noted IN the number of animals
for slaughter, according to last count,
made October 10, 1910.
Jack Johnson sent Christmas greet
ing kilograms to James ]. Jeffries and
| Tommy Burns, both of whom he
| came out victorious when in battle
A series of incubation experiments
which may mark an epoch in the his
tory of abdominal surgery, will
shortly be made the basis of a new
preventive treatment for peritonitis at
| bne of the great London hospitals.
Admiral George Dewey, the hero
of Manila, celebrated his seventy
third birthday anniversary last Mon
day. Many prominent diplomats and
Al my anu nav Ol1CldlS CdtlSu OH ELG
admiral to congratulate him.
John Gray, the inventor, a promi-
nent member of the British AssOcia-
ton, has just concluded a long series
| of experiments in what he calls new
phrenology. 1t is done by having
colored light flashes thrown into the
eye.
The Wright Company will settle
an annuity of approximately $1,000
upon the widow and children of
Ralph Johnstone, the aviator killed in
a Wright biplane at Denver, Colo.
John D. Rockefeller sent all the
school teachers at the Pocantico Hills
and Sleepy Hollow schools a $40
gold piece.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould gave a tur-
key and cranberries to every employe
on her estate. She also gave S. and
$40 gold pieces to the telephone girls
at Tarrytown and Irvington ex-
charges, and to the express and
freight agents.
The Christmas gift of 537 acres of
land at Mount Braddock, near Union
town, Pa, to be used as a site for
charitable and correctional institu-
tions, has been announced. The tract
is valued at 100000
A colored baseball league, taking
in at least five cities, will be formed
in Chicago at a meeting held at 1924
State street, at the call of Beauregard
f. MOsely, president of the Leland
Giants.
Prof. T. Fukushima, a noted Jap
anese educator, died quite suddenly
in Roanoke, Va. He is survived by
a wife and one child
After being confined several years
together in jail, the whites and blacks
will be separated in the county Jail
in Georgetown, Del. Jim Crow jaill
Just think of it.
Hereafter no white person may
move into a block in Baltimore where
the majority of the residents are col
Ored, nor may a colored person move
into a block where the majority of
residents are white. It is expected
that this act will be taken to the
courts to test its constitunonality.
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the American Negro Academy will be
held Friday evening at Presbyterian
Church. The session will be devoted
to exercises commemorative of the
one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Charles Sumner.
Steven Bundy, a colored porter on
the New York Central lines, after
twenty-seven years of continuous SER
vice, has been retired 1t is said dur
ing his service in the company he has
accumulated property that is worth
$4,000.
1t IS stated the receivers of the Saw
ings Bank, Grand United Order of
True Reformers, are ready to report
to the chancery court of the city of
Richmond Where is was expected
that the assets would amount to from
two to three hundred thousand dol
lars, the actual proceeds will not
reach one hundred thousand dollars.
1t IS claimed by some that Shakes
peare was a Frenchman, a native of
the old province of Burgundy, and his
name was originally Jacques Pierre,
which the English turned into Shakes
peare.
Samuel and William Mucie, the f.
nous Christmas twins" of Babylon,
L. l., celebrated their ninety-ffth
birthday anniversary with their chill
dren, grandchildren and great grand
children. Both believe they owe their
life to the fact that neither has never
smoked or tasted intoxicants.
Gen. Pierre NJ F. Frederique, one
OF the leading spirits Of the progress
sive party in Haiti, who for years was
identified with Gen. Firmin, is dead
at his home in this city. He was
forty-four years old.
The population Of the Government
Hospital for the Insane here June 30.
1910, was 1910, an increase over the
previous year of o. patients, accord
ing to the annual report Of the su-
perintendent of that institution.
The Negro Masons of Oklahoma
have arranged to build a $4,000 build
ing at Boley.
Statistics indicate that less than
Of the population of Portugal
can read and write.
Harry w. Bass, Of the Seventh
ward of Philadelphia, will be the first
Negro member Of the Pennsylvania
Legislature. He was elected to the
Assembly from the Sixth district. The
Seventh ward has a large Negro reg
stration.
A Normal and Industrial School for
NEGRO yor1fhs ic 70 La a-+,LI;-LI -.