The Washington bee., 1911-09-09
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxfieId.)

The first issue of paper money bear
ling the signature of J. {. Napier, the
Register of the Treasury, has been
put in circulation by the Secretary
of the Treasury.
A petrihed forest covering an area
of one hundred square miles has eX-
listed for centuries in Arizona. It IS
said thousands and thousands of pet
Irifed logs strew the ground and rep
Iresent beautiful shades OF pink, purple,
red, fray, blue and yellow.
September was the anniversary of
the assembling of the first Continen-
ltal Congress at Carpenters Hall, I77k,
Iheld at Philadelphia, Pa.
The Elliot Memorial Hospital, a
gift to the University of Minnesota
from DR.. and Mrs. A. P, Elliot, OF
Minneapolis, was dedicated last week.
Reports have been received by the
American mission at Wuhu, that Ioc,
loco persons have been drowned by the
floods at Tankow, China, and o5 per
cent of the crops have been destroyed.
| Roland G. Barros, the French avia-
Itor, broke the worlds record tor alti-
Itude in an aeroplane. He descended
l425o motors, or I3,943 feet.
Twenty-one thousand dollars worth
of towels were lost by the Southern
Pacific Railroad last year, and for that
reason people who ride on Its trains
and boats will be compelled to turn-
ish their own towels,
In London, the Secretary of State
for War has received an offer OF $780,
900 as a gift to the nation for the
purchase of a rifle range near one OF
the thickly populated districts OF Eng
land
In Boston, Mass, there is an Ami
Imal Rescue League, and conducts a
free clinic for aniamls. During the
month Of August 5000 animals were
treated.
The largest annual tonnage tax on
foreign vessels since 1884 was collect
ed during the year ending June 80
last, according to the bureau of statis
tics of the Department of Commerce
, and Labor The amount collected
. was $I,o83.522
Female BARRIERS are numerous IN
lprominent cities of Sweden, and many
Iof them run the shops in which they
display their tonSorial skill.
Typewriters are now made for use
in nearly a hundred different languag-
es, and are sold all over the world,
, Ibut there is one nation which has no
, tvpewriters that can write its tongue
+ and that nation is China The Chi
) lnese language has no alphabet, but is
represented by sign characters, OF
which there are about $4,000.
= For the first time in its history,
= Howard University will be able to
offer this session, four year college
courses in civil, mechanical and cleo
, trical engineering. These courses are
: made possible by the completion OF
the new building for Manual Arts and
: applied Sciences.
: Elias Burwell, aged IOI, the Inven-
, tor Of the calendar clock, died last
week from old age.
) Up to August 25 there had been a
total production of I2,oI8,2oo bales OF
cotton yield this year,
The Emperor OF Japan presented to
, n. w. Denison, the American adviser
to the Japanese foreign office with
silver bowl as an expression OF graft
tude for Mr. DenIsOn's service IN con-
nection with the treaty revision.
The boyhood home of Mark Twain
in Hannibal Mo, which was built by
his father in 1880, has been purchased
- by George A Mahan and presented
= to the city of Hannibal III order that
= it may be preserved.
: Gov. Hoke Smith will resign as
Governor of Georgia between Novem-
ber and Is. and be ready to assume
Z his duties as United States Senator
when Congress convenes.
t + B. Emory, who received the Re
l publican nomination for treasurer OF
t Garrett County, Md, at the primary
F. last week is blind.
, In Spokane, Washington, women
: are to serve on juries. They will try
cases covering nearly every Offense IN
= State code
In order TO save the American In
s dams from rapid extinction by disease
= which now threatens them, the United
2 States officials will begin a campaign
r of health education by using moving
lpictures showing right and wrong
v ways of living The present death
:. rate among the Indians IS two and
: one-half per cent higher than among
= whites.
!. The Joint maneuvers Of the regular
army and the organized militia next
(: year will cost ST 100000, according to
estimates prepared by the war De-
c partment.
Evanston, ILL.,, theater draws color
line. A colored gentleman, Joshua
Guy. was refused admission on the
ground floor of the theater. Il is said
he will bring suit against the man
agement.
70 There is a protest against the loca-
e ton of a State industrial school for
s Icolored girls in Douglass County
J, citizens 1t was in April, 1906, that
/ a race war lasted ten days, and re-
g suited IN the lynching of three colored
Americans at Springfield, Mo.
Mrs. Harriet Hunter has returned
n to this city after spending several
} months in Norfolk, Va, with her son
Rev. E. H. Hunter, and family.
! Miss Maude E. Young IS now visit
!. ling her father, Col. James H Young,
a4 b;o home ~ pafeiUh N &