The Washington bee., 1911-06-17
NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
ParagraphiC News.
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId0

ABOUT the Odpltal. A wireless tower
of structural steel As feet taller than
the monument is about to be erected
by the Navy Department at Airing
ton Heights. This will be the tallest
tower in the world excepting the
Eiffel tower in Paris.
The original Star Spangled Ban
ner' that inspired Key to write the
anthem, will be unfurled over the
ramparts of Fort McHenry on Sep
tember u, the anniversary Of the bat
tie of North Point.
Uncle Sam has provided the Island
of Cul1On, one of the islands of the
Philippines, where ali lepers in tks
Philippines are to be cared for There
are about 5000 persons there They
have their own government, cultivate
their own farms, and have their
amusements and outdoor sports
Dean c. Worcester. Secretary of the
Interior for the Philippines, is quite
encouraged over the recent great dis
coveries for the treatment of the dis
ease.
Harry Lipscomb received a medal
from President Taft for bravery dis
played by him on the u. S. S. North
Dakota last September
The Cadiz Informer, of Cadiz, KY.
says: With no disrespect to Louis
lana or any other State, but any State
| that can give to civilized nations SIN
| Ilynchings in one day is a State that
needs missionaries
1t IS stated over $500 has been col
leCted from cOlOred men of Raleigh,
| \. 9, in the interest of Leonard Hos
pital, at Shaw University, which is
, now in progress of erection.
The Legislature of Kansas apprO-
priated $Io5,oOo for the Western Uni
versity, which Is COlOred This IS
| l$35,ooO more than the school was
given last year Prof H. l. Kealing
| is president OF the school
By the will of Mrs. Carolina c.
Thompson, of Bridgeport, Conn,
whose estate is estimated at over
| 81, 100000, is disposed of To her
husband is given an annuity of So
600, and life interest in the New
York residence. A gift Of $1,000 IS
made for a free bed in the Bridgeport
Hospital for the exclusive use of col
ored residents of the city.
Loss by fire in the United States
for 1910 exceeded those in the pre-
vious year by S25,ooo,Ooo.
David Names, now the director
of the New York Music School for
Colored People, owes his training TO
a colored violinist by the name Of
Douglass, who. as young man, had
been taken to Europe and studied
under one of the greatest yIOlinists,
Spohr. Prejudice being against him
III this country, he had TO make his liv-
ing as a fiddler David Names has
undertaken to repay to the race what
he received from the ColOred fiddler.
The oil painting of George b. Mat
thews of Gen. Ulysses 5. Grant and
Robert L, Lee as shaking hands on
the field at AppOmattOx, has created
a great deal of excitement among the
survivors of the lost cause.
A moonlight rainbow hung over the
sea for a quarter of an hour last Fri
day night, 600 miles or more from
the Atlantic Coast The phenomenon
is one OF the rarcst Of marine specta-
cles.
The Bartlett cherry tree, at Cald-
well, n. J., which was planted during
the Revolutionary War by Josiah
Bartlett. one of the signers of the
Declaration of independence, was de
stroyed by a wind storm. The tree
was more than fifteen feet in Circum-
ference and was one of the most
noted landmarks in that section of the
country.
In Trenton, n J., a rare Indian
relic was unearthed on a farm. 1t
was a tiny head of baked clay. The
features of the face are those of an
Indian girl, and the workmanship was
characteristic. Shell ornaments, such
as were used by the Delaware Indians,
was attached to its ears. In the same
field excavatOrs have uncovered many
thousand Indian stone implements.
The American University in Mas
sachusetts Avenue, extended, has re-
ceived a munihcent gift from Nine.
Mountford a native of Jerusalem. 1t
is a rare collection of Biblical cos
tunes, which Nine MountfOrd spent
years in gathering in the Holy Land.
The collection is valued at $4,000.
A Mr. Charles H. Smiley (colored),
a Chicago caterer, left in his will
$1,000 with which 10 establish schoi-
arship at the University of Chicago.
The only restriction made in connec-
ton with the bequest was that col
ored people should be given the pref
erence.
More than a score of Poosepatuck
Indians and their families and several
friends, conducted what their statisti-
clans assert, is the o3oth annual re-
union of the tribe. The 53-acre tract
at present occupied by the tribe, was
set aside for them in 1900 by William
Smith
The I34th anniversary of the birth
Of the Stars and Stripes was observed
by the Government departments, pa
triotic societies and schools through
out the District last Wednesday.
The Bible is said to contain $780,
40 letters, 8Io,696 words, 3I,I7s
verses I,I89 chapters, and 90 books
The longest chapter IS IIoth Psalm,
the shortest is TI7th Psalm, and the
middle verse of the Bible is eighth of
the 18th Psalm.