The Washington bee., 1910-10-29
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld.)

According to the report of H. B.
Peairs, supervisor Of Indian education,
Indians have progressed to such a
stage that it does not now require a
special course of study to fit the roam
ing bands to lEe more civilized
life
I Woodrow WILSON, who was nomi-
mated by the Democrats for govern
or of New JeSsey, resigned the presi-
dency of PGfnceton University. The
senior trusfee, John A. Stewart, is
/ temporarily acting president
| According to rumor, Jack Johnson,
| after being turned down by seven
American life insurance companies,
was notified by a London company
that it would insure his life from
any sum up to SIoo,ooo
A gift of 100000 to the campaign
fund for the Worlds Conference on
Church Unity was given by J. P.
Morgan
The Senate in Port au Prince, Hay
Il, voted for a new bank, which will
act as a treasury for the loan of SI3,-
| 100000 recently issued at Paris, the
proceeds of which will serve for the
interior debt, and the retirement of
paper money
Mrs. Francis Folsom Cleveland,
widow of the former President, has
! been named by Gov. Fort, of New
Jersey, as one of the managers of the
I Women's Reformatory Mrs. Cleve-
land has taken a deep interest in
charitable and correctional work
among women in that State.
- -
ington a city of 100000 inhabitants, a
large number of persons interested in
the upbuilding of the city have organ
lied a Washington Half-Million
Club" The prime object is to boom
the National Capital.
In their annual report to the Com
missiOners, the trustees of the Public
Library urged the citizens to contrib
ute funds, as the library is in need
of more books and better-paid staff Of
employees.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the noted
author and philanthropist, who held
advanced place in the intellectual life
and who fought slavery, died at the
age of or years. Her great and good
works will live after her
John D. Rockefeller celebrated the
opening of the new hospital attached
TO the Rockefeller Institute for Med
ical Research, in New York, with an
additional gift of $3,82o,ooo. This hos
pital is for the study by experts Of
particular diseases. There are now 70
patients
Vice President Sherman will leave
Utica for North Carolina, where he
will spend a week making speeches
in behalf of the Republican Congress
sional candidates He will visit Raj
eigh, Greensboro and other leading
cities.
Peppermint growing is a new indus
try on the reclaimed lands of Louisi-
ana.
! Canada is steadily increasing in its
sales of manufactured and industrial
articles to the United States. The
heaviest trade was in lumber and pulp
wood, aggreOating $0,828,577.
NJ. w. Stricken, president of Ham
ilton College, one of Vice President
: Sherman's closest friends, and a Re
/ publican who has always stood be-
hind the party's candidates, delivered
a rousing speech in behalf of John A.
Dix, the Democratic candidate
! According to official statements of
the Forest Bureau, the losses in the
| Western forest fires in August
amounted TO $I5,oOo,oOo. There were
5000, 100000 feet of timber burned.
! The National Museum has received
J life-sized painting of George Wash
ington On the back of the frame is
! written in pencil Gen. George Wash
/ ington, first President of the United
| States, 1903, for LOrenz Lewis"
! So rarely is tuberculosis found in
+ horses that upwards of 100 pounds
| of horse meat is eaten raw by deli
cate patients at hospitals in Paris, as
the meat is not indigestible, asserts
an authority on the Board of Health
there.
The most notable speech of the
Ohio campaign was delivered in
Marysville, Ohio, by former Senator
Foraker, in which a plea for harmony
in State and Nation was made.
]. NJ Munyon, of Philadelphia, for
whom DR.. Crippen worked both there
and in London, has cabled to London
that he will give 100000 of his for
tune to prevent the death of DR.. Grip
pen on the scaffOld.
Andrew Carnegie, his wife and
daughter Margaret have arrived in
this country. He IS much feebler in
health. He will remain here until
May. when he will return with his
family to Skibo Castle.
The State of Virginia should have
sent a statue of Thomas Jefferson rath-
er than Robert E Lee for place in
Statrarv Hall. said Auditor William
F. Andrews, Of the Treasury, who adj
dressed a rally of Connecticut voters
in that State.
The Department of Jusice will
shortly begin a complete investigation
of the white slave traffic in this coun-
try A large force Of special agents
will be sent out shortly with instruc-
tions to cover every important city
in the country for persons who are
engaged in the trade of women