The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-08
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~ paynf iht female testhtss ttt|
Same ~ male teachers In New No3k
Cliy En- additional ouiiay ~ A 900 900
annually h incurred.
The ohio hfs mafshai'a department
has. during iho past year, effected the
demolition Of 1905 hfe.hfeolinf build
inas IN the congcflcd districts In the
elk larger cities Of tao State.
What che police declhre TO be one Of
the boldest and most carefully planned
rubbefies In recent years was commit.
ted In Philadelphia by twcnty.one.
year.oid girl, who, imporsonatinq an
inspector In the John Wanamhker store
collected 5000 In cash from Eve cash.
iers. That the girl did not succeed In
getting away with several thousand
dollars was due to the young woman
cashier In the suit and cloak depart.
ment, who refused 60 turn over the
days proceeds TO the "inspector. -
The American life insurance compa.
mics paid out last year tleO,0O0,OO0 in
death claims Professor Fisher, Of
Yale University, estimates that forty
one per cent Of the deaths in the Uni
ted States are preventable. Since 1880
the mortality rate has been reduced
nearly twenty-five per cent.
The mayor of indianapolis, Indiana,
having tried the business of selling pc.
tatoes to the public at great saving,
is going to enter the meat business
along the same line.
Cardinal Gibbons was presented with
fifty $1,000 bills by Baltimore donor
who refused to make the gift in check
form for fear his identity would be
learned
A. F. Vice, of st. Louis, was blown
to death when about completing an in
vention to generate heat.
Thackeray's "Flore ct zephyru was
sold at auction in London for $1130.
This was the great novelist IS first book
1t was published In 1886 and purport-
1 ed to be by Theophile Wagstaff. It
contains nine comic plates from the
author Is own drawings. 1t is now a
great photographed rarity.
A. R. Turnbull, Democrat, who tied
with Il. S. Schilling, Socialist, for may.
or of Canton, Ohio, was chosen mayor
by the tossing of coin.
Virgil holland, star left guard on the
varsity eleven and a popular student
at the University of Oregon, was acct
ldentally electrocuted in the bathroom
at the Sigma .Nu fraternity house. No
land was experimenting with an cleo
trio bathrObe as cure for rheumatism.
The current became too strong and the
young mans body was black when dis
covered.
pbxys;o;o,,, e,.o,,, 4, n ,,o,-4- - Az. -,
try gathered in Philadelphia and open
ed the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of
North America. The convention con-
tInued ten days.
Elmer Ellsworth Brown, former fed
eral commissioner of education, was in
stalled as chancellor of New York Uni
versity.
A sensation was caused in London
by the official announcement in the Ga
zette that King George had dismissed
his domestic chaplain, Rev. Frederick
Pereival Farrar, who also was honorary
chaplain to Queen Alexandra. No Off
cial explanation is given.
The Rev. DR.. Alfred W. Arundel,
rector of Trinity Church, the richest in
Pittsburg, and one of the most promi-
nent Episcopalian priests in America,
will henceforth preach the doctrine of
Christian Socialism. After twenty
years of association with Trinity Par
ish Doctor Arundel has decided to
leave, despite overtures to have him
, remain. A year ago he clearly en1n-
ciated his socialistic beliefs in series
of sermons for laboring men. Since
that time his views have become known
, broadcast and Doctor Arundel now is
considering proposition from a great
body of New York laymen of the
church to become socialistic evan
gelist He will go to New York to con
fer with leaders in the movement.
The first poor mothers to be benefit
, ed under the new Illinois pension law
/ received payments. The law enables
/ mothers to keep their children at hom(
t instead of having them committed tt
{ institutions. Mrs Frances Byrnes wal
the first woman to receive a pension
2 She received a payment of $50 for the
support of four children for foul
q months
I John w. Garrett Of Baltimore, nov
, American Minister to Venezuela, hai
> been appointed Minister to Argentina
: succeeding John r. Carter of Mary
n land, who resigned recently from TIL
r diplomatic service rather than go t.
+ Buenos Ayres. The transfer of Mr.
s Garrett from Caracas to Buenos Ayre
t was announced by Secrecy of Stat
s Knox after the, cabinet meeting. MI
: Garrett has been in the diplomats
service since 1901 and was formerl,
: secretary of the embassy at Rome.
! What is probably the oldest whea
!. stack in the world may be seen in
|. farm yard at Aisby, South Lincoln
J. shire, England. 1t was harvested thin
IS ty-two years ago and the owner mad
II VOW that he would not sell the graf
e until he got a certain priee which h
3 the straw and heads of the grain ar
e the stack is black with age, but insid
II as bright as any wheat. A test recent
!. ly made shows the grain to be in fin
\ condition and good for an indehnit
4 period.
s. Augustus Seaver, who attempted t