The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-11-24
CURRENT NEWS.

MIR. Pulitzer left by will $4,000, 900
Tor the establishing or school OF
Journalism In Columbia University.
Luther Burbank announced or No
yember 2 that after ten years work
he has produced a blackberry bush
that has no thorns.
Colonel w. +. Cody Buffalo BID
retired on November / from his long
life AZ a picturesque exhibitor or
Western and Indian scenes.
Thirty thousand school children in
Utah bought solid silver service for
the new battleship named for that
State, and it was presented last week.
By the annexation OF Hyde Park
Boston will have total population OF
more than 100000 and will displace
ct. Louis as the fourth city in the
United States.
Professor Montgomery Of Santa
Clara College, who invented n aero
plane glider, was killed while expert
menting on October 81, making the
fifth death in glider experiments. The
total aviation fatalities are now 112.
The New Orleans, duplicate OF
the first steamboat to navigate west
ern waters, set Off on November 2
from Pittsburgh on a voyage to the
Gulf of Mexico as part Of the cen
tennial of steam navigation In west
ern rivers.
The French government has decfd-
Cd to give a medal 70 each Of 100000
veterans who served in the war OF
1870 against Germany. The famous
Partisan editor, Henri Rochefort, says
It'll ID the first time that a nation has
thus celebrated a defeat.
"A School for the Study Of Public
Business" il, to be founded by Mrs.
E. H. Hartman, assisted by John D.
Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and
other rich people. Mrs. Hartman
gives $4,000 for a star, and promises
$4,000 a year for five years.
The strange new island which ap-
peared lately between the island Of
Trinidad and the coast of Venezuela
appears to BE- sinking again. 1T il
not as high above sea level as it was.
Closer examination shows it to be the
top of vocano having two craters.
Soap, towels, nail-brushes and wa
ter basins have been introduced into
the public schools in German cities.
Two reasons are given: First, to re
duce the danger Of disease which al
ways turks where there is, dirt; and
second, to teach the children habits
Of cleanliness.
Within the past ten years the num-
Der of clubs for women, with expen-
siVe club houses, that have come into
existence in the principal cities of
England, including London, is one of
the features of women's work i'm that
country. A few of them are on re-
ligious lines, but far more are on So
cial.
One hundred and fifteen persons
have been killed this year, and 81
badly hurt, while climbing the Alps.
In all but two cases the victims were
those who tried to ascend the perilous
rocks, without employing guides. A
party of girls who wore hObble skirts
and high-heeled shoes all lost their
lives.
Zinc il becoming an important pro
duct of Montana. Until lately 1t was
a vexation to miners when it was
found mixed with other ore That
was because it was hard to separate
New processes have recently made the
separation easy and now some mines
are working mainly for the zinc that
was once worse than useless.
Great Britain moves steadily on to-
wards Republican government in fact
IL not in name. 1T is now announced
that the Premier, Mr.. Asquith, will
ask Parliament for manhood suff-
rage" every man to have vote as i'm
this country. Hitherto, in order to
vote in Great Britain man has had
to own property or else pay a small
rent.
Defeated in all recent elections the
Conservative or Unionist party in
Great Britain suffers the loss OF it's
ablest leader for 20 years. Arthur
James Balfour resigned the leader
ship in the House OF Commons be
cause many members OF his party
blamed him for the defeats. He is a
nephew Of Lord Salisbury, who was
Prime Minister years ago, and 1t is
expected that the Liberal government
will generously give its old opponent
q peerage.
Motor barges are now used In
canals in England, and some have
been shipped to Canada. They are
driven by gas engines like those used
In automobiles. 1t is expected that
these boats will replace the old
horse-drawn or mule-drawn canal
boats. To operate canal boat with
motor costs but half as much as
where horses are used. Gas engines
are beginning to be used, too, in
ocean freight vessels. One advant-
age Is that a motor boat can carry 20
per cent. more freight.
Twenty questions will be submitted
to the Governors of different States
ITO the effort to interest them i'm the
See America First" movement.
These questions bear on every phase
Or the matter, including the charac-
ter OF exhibits that may b. expected
NC the General "See America First"
Convention, proposed to be held in
Baltimore next May. One of the
most important OF the questions
deals with transportation facilities fri
the various cities and States.