The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
PARACRAPH|C NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId.)

The State Superintendent of Bank
ing in Mobile, Ala, has closed the
Safety Banking and Reality Co., oper-
ated by colored people there on ac-
count OF lack of patronage on their
part.
Mrs. w. F. Truslow of Clarkburg,
w. Va, has IN her possession an old
New York newspaper, published in
1877. This is probably of consider
able value to collector of antiquities
and at any rate is of interest to any
one who can read.
Col. John R. Marshall's statement
in the New York Age relative to the
colored regiment in New York being
top heavy, Adjutant Jaxon replies
saying: The charge that the regi-
ment is top heavy with officers is
false, figures are given showing $40
men are enlisted and as yet only
22 commissioned officers are named
AT the meeting of the trustees of
Fisk University, held in New York
IN November, it was reported by the
treasurer that $I22,oo had been sub
scrlbed to the 100000 fund for i'm
provements and endowment purposes.
The General Education Board has
promised 100000.
A bronze tablet in memory of John
Marshall, first Chief Justice of the
| Supreme Court of the United States
was unveiled in the United States
| Circuit Court of Appeals last Satur-
! day. The tablet was erected by the
Pennsylvania Bar Association.
| According to the Oriental Review.
| japanese men of wealth at home and
abroad, number only I,oI8 who
| possess $25O,oOO or more. But some
are rapidly getting rich, for ten years
ago there were only AL in the $780,
600 or more class"
| A course of matrimOny has been
included in the curriculum of the
| Gardens Agricultural High School in
Los Angeles, Cal. The subjects
| taught are advantage of instruction
IN cOurtship, matrimony, the care of
babies, mothercraft and domestic
science.
Recent statistics show there are
332 centenarians at present alive in
Bulgaria, of whom IS8 are women
Ten peasants are over I25; SO be
tween I2O and I25 and 234 more than
10 years old
Miles Grennon, friend of Abra-
ham Lincoln and a pallbearer at his
funeral died III Marengo, H., He was
II years of age.
| The New York Press says: six
million persons make their living
under ground working in mines and
quarries. These six million workers
dig $4,000, 100000 of wealth a year
out of the bowels of the earth.
! 1t is said in South Carolina Negro
Ischool children outnumber the whites
the cost of the respective school
. IsyStem is however, as follows whites,
. | SI,68+o76; Negroes, S368,8o2.
| The people of this country used
more whiskey, more beer, more ia
bacco than in any former year. The
production of distilled spirits was
lI75,4o2,3o5 gallons, an increase OF
nearly 100000 gallons over the pre-
| Vlous year.
Fl The Literary Digest contains a pic
ture OF Cole L. Blease, under which
e. are these words: South Carolina's
) Governor, who publicly asserted that
, rather than use the power of his of
t ilce to stop the lynching of a Negro
he would have resigned his office and
come to Honea Path and led the
! mob"
The report of the Census Bureau
of the cotton ginned to date, shows
, II, ,269o $50 bales. Last year but $780,
, 433 bales had been ginned and the
total crop was II,56S,334
t Hans Ellger, a representative Of the
German Government has been to this
country to study reformatory meth
DDS, He spent several days at the
Juvenile Court
p A writer to the Times Mail Bag OF
5 the Washington Times, and who
signs his name "SOutherner" thinks
ItOo much has been made over the
: | Negro Race. He says further Their
T place is in some distant island i'm the
Pacific and not among the civilized
. | races of the world, and it IS I'D ia
. Congress to allot an island for their
habitation."
Ihirty-fve years ago, Japan had
only one newspaper. Now it has
three thousand
i The Commissioners decided to Der
nit in the District motion pictures
depicting the alleged kidnapping OF
| tiAC " ~ dilldld d III OliiCi >. i lie Zen
trail Labor Union is desirous of in
Producing the pictures for the pur-
pose of increasing fund for the de-
Tense of the alleged dynamiters, who
are on trial in Los Angeles.
TRANSMISSION of blood for prolongine
life commenced to be practiced in
1888.
i The largest organ in the world is
| in Convention Hall, Kansas City, No
} It was built by the Murray NJ. Harris
/ Company of Los Angeles, Cal for the
| St. Louis exposition. The contract
= price was $4,000.
. In Texas alone, the Negro Baptist
have raised for their educational in.
. stitution $4,000, during the last year