The Washington bee., 1911-04-29
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. MaxfieId.)

President William H. P. Faunce. of
Brown University, says The men
who translated the King James Bible
300 years ago knew how to use the
English language better than any
body of scholars that could be gath
cred together in the whole world to-
day"
Former Representative Myron
Pierce, legislative counsel for the
Massachusetts Milk Consumers AS
sociation, declares more than 10000
babies under one year of age die each
year IN Massachusetts, and at least 40
per cent of these deaths are caused
by unclean milk.
Two portraits, which seem to have
been painted in 1900, the period of
Goyd's prime, have been discovered in
the collection of the Boston Museum
OF Fine Arts by Valerian Won Loga,
curator of the Berlin museum
Theodore Roosevelt will be the
principal speaker at the unveiling of
Lincoln statue in front of the court
house in Newark, Memorial Dav.
Three girls have been appointed
detectives by Mayor Denton, in Sa-
pulpa, Okla
The historic Sicard mansion in New
Rochelle, n. Y, built $50 years ago
by a HuguenOt family, and the scene
OF many festive meetings of aristo-
cratic society in colonial days, was
destroyed by fire last week
The foot of the American woman
IS growing larger every year, accord
ing to the testimony of members of
New York shoe dealers association.
They claim it is because women are
doing more walking and going into all
sorts of outdoor exercise.
Last Saturday was the first day in
three years without a request for
marriage license. Cupid was resting,
April is also a month of an illus
trious birth. According to the paro-
chial register William ShakesDear
was born April %, 1904.
Ihe tIrst railway in Japan, connect
ing Iokla and Yokohama, was opened
in 1875. Since then new lines have
been completed in many directions,
and It IS possible for the people to
travel from extreme south to the
northern boundary, a distance of over
a thousand miles.
here were LILY persons killed
and 0,o67 injured on the steam rail
roads of Pennsylvania, and I87 killed
and AII6 hurt on electric lines dur
ing the year of 1910.
1t has been suggested to name the
proposed New York to Montreal in
ternatiOnal highway in honor of Pres
ldent Taft and the late King Edward
IN recognition of their efforts in the
cause OF peace.
The first lighthouse for airships
has just been erected on the top of
railway building at Spandau, Germany.
1t consists of thirty-eight powerful
electric lamps, which give a glaring
light sllyward, the purpose Of which IS
TO guide the airships of the German
army at night.
The report which originated in DaI-
las, Texas, that Booker T. Washing
ton and number of Northern Ne
grOes would try to gain a controlling
interest IN the international and Great
Northern Railroad, was denied by his
secretary, Emmett J. Scott.
There has been placed in Illinois
State Historical Society a log found
by Mr. Morgan, bearln0 the insCrip,
ton: "A. Lincoln, March !, 1892"
Mr.. Morgan is of the opinion the log
was originally carved by Lincoln him
self.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
ordered a new postal card of cream
color, printed in red ink. The new
cards will cost approximately $4,000
more than those now in use Last
year 81, I,3I8,OoO postal cards were is
sued at cost Of S275,ooO, or $4,000
more than the previous year
The will of the late DR.. Walter
Remsey Brinckerhof, a young Har-
ward professor, whose bride of a year
died while he was studying leprosy in
"a leper colony in Hawaii, leaves his
estate to his son; if the son does not
survive, two-hfths of the property will
go to Harvard to found a memorial
for his wife. The value of the estate
is said to be large.
Prof. T. ]. ]. See, Government as
tronomer, in charge Of the naval OBJ
servatory at Mare Island, Cal, says
living beings exist where the stars
twinkle.
A New Haven railroad colonial ex-
press made a new record. 1t covered
a distance of rs miles, from Boston
to New Haven, making all four stops,
in I82 minutes
Native born American women have
fewer children than those Of any other
nationality, according to figures COM
piled by the Department of Com
merce and Labor, while the Polish
women show the most.