Putnam patriot., 1911-09-22


 Japan's two new imperial universi' ties will be able to house and teach thousand students.
 For more than year now Tientsin has been shipping English walnuts- grown in North China and Manchusia to the United states.
 An aviator on his way from New York to San Francisco got lost III New Jersey. Some guide posts are needed in the atmospheric alanes.
 The first woman to enter the diplo- matte service of any country in the world k Miss Clotilde Luisi, who has been appointed by the President of Grupuay~an attache of the legation at Brussels.
 The socialist party in New London has made nominations for the city election, which comes at the same date as the "little town elections next month.
 The progressive school board at Se- attle, w ash., has decided to place pa per towels in three of the largest pub lie schools in the city. The board be- lieve that these will be much more san itary than the old cloth affairs as well AS cheaper, They are used but once.
 The resignation of Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture, and probably the best-known pure food ex' pert in the government service, will not be asked for by President Taft, de- spite recommendations that 1t be re quested, made by the personnel board Of the department and indorsed by At torney. General Wickersham. The "condign punishment for Dr. Wiley which Mir. Wickersham held so neces- sary will not be meted out by the chief executive.
 The Russian premier, NJ. Stolypin, was attacked while attending a gala performance at the opera Thursday night 'Ie was wounded twice by his assailanl. One bullet entered his hand, while the other penetrated the body, grazing the liver and lodging in the spine. The assassin WIS captured. Peritonitis set in and the premier died Tuesday
 Friday was President Taft's 54th birthday. After spending the day with his family al Beverly and play ing golf the President left in the even ing to begin his 18,000 mile "sSing around the circle.n He will cover 4C states Tn 45 days and is scheduled tc make over 100 speeches.
 The New Haven road is testing en- zines to determine their efficiency; at the same time the endurance of the curves is being tried. Engine PIT be tween Midway and Harlem Is being tested just now in drawing given amount of tonnage.
 While water froze in New England, Kansas was celebrating her semicen- tennial with the temperature at lOO This country never ceases to be inter esting, whatever one may honestly think about 1t.
 William J. Calhoun, United States minister to China, speaking before the ways and means committee of the Chi- cago association of commerce, urged American merchants to interest them selves in establishing trade relations with China, "a great, resourceful coun- try that needs development.
 Among the laws relating to the pub lie health enacted by the Legislature of 1911 were the following: An Act al- lowing the State Board of Health to make regulations regarding the use of the common drinking cup; aholishing the roller towel in hotels; concerning the sanitary condition of tenement and lodging houses in cities and hoToughs extending the powers of the Food and Dairy Commissioner to enable him to abate unsanitary conditions found on farms and in dairies; providing for the inspection of cattle imported into the State, and an appropriation for ruber- culosis Homes in New London and Middlesex counties. A law was also passed empowering the State Board Of Health 10 procure antitoNins and vac cine lymph for the free use of the peo- pie of the state, but the Act will be in effective, as 1t carried no appropriation with which to make the purchase.
 The river of lava from Mount Etna is still advancing, sweeping all before it. Thousands of people have been driven from their homes. Hoping 10 arrest the advance of the flaming lava, the peasants erect before their vine yards and humble homes cross of sticks and place on top pictures Of the Madonna and the saints, but these bar riers of faith have in no wise tended 10 check the flow from the mountain.