The Washington bee., 1911-11-04
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId.)

The late Bishop Handy leaves an
estate valued at $4,000. of which
Bishop J. Albert Johnson is to be
executor
1t is said OF the thirteen daily news
papers N New York only three are in
full sympathy and are supporting
President Taft's administration
The Mound Bayou Demonstration
says: "A book upon manners and
morals would not be out of place in
the course of study iii the public
schools" Good suggestion.
Former friends and admirers from
all over the United States attended
the unveiling of statute in honor
of Robert @. Ingersol, in Peoria, Ill.
The statue is of bronze, and stands
seven feet in height on a granite ped
estal.
Simon Wolf. one of the best known
| lawyers of this city, philanthrOp1st,
sociologist, statesman and author,
celebrated his seventy-ffth birthday
October 2S He is one of the most
widely known Hebrews in the world
Washington's public schools will
| be not only the best in this country,
but the best in the world, if the pur-
pose OF DR.. w. NJ. Davidson, super
Iintendent of schools, expressed at a
reception rendered him by the Ne
Ibraska State Society, are carried out.
The finest collection of old manu-
scripts in Paris was bought by J.
Pierpont Morgan last week. The
manuscripts are of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. Many are in
iLatin and some in French. The price
ipaid was 100000.
The famous Rembrandt painting
l"Knight of the Cross" which had
/ cen missing for fifty years, has been
found, in the royal castle of Fredens-
berg.
1 Mrs. Katherine S Macquoid, the
novelist, who is eightv-seven years OF
D. lage. has written a new book. Mrs.
- Macquoid has been writing for htty
: wears. Her first story was published
5 lin 1880. Her latest novel, entitled
I"Suzanne," has just been completed.
I According TO The Clarion" the
/ lcolored children in Augusta, Ga, are
t to receive hereafter only industrial
? training in the eighth grade. This IS
lcarrying industrialism too far.
II The segregation law was given a
5 lizard blow in Norfolk, Va, by the
!. liudge there, when Ocie Johnson, col
e lored, was arrested for violating the
r SEGREGATION ordinance The decision
t Twas: The ordinance in my opinion
. lbeing unconstitutional. | dismiss the
lease" We still have some white
t friends. The case, it is said, may
5 finally go to the Supreme Court for
70 settlement.
Il
e | Tuly 1880 worth two cents on the
5 dollar. and it took a wagon load OF
currency to buy wagon load Of pro
d IvisIOns.
u The entire student body of the
d lState Agricultural and Mechanica
o College offered open rebellion to
E faculty rule requiring more pract1ca
II land less theoretical work. Pres1den
IS Dudley was forced to call upon the
: Ipolice to enforcee his ultlmatum.
,tl At the North Carolina State con
C vention of the United Daughters o
G the Confederacy, held at Winston
n IS75oooo was contributed toward th'
; Ierection of the Lee monument, t
+ be erected in Arlington Cemetery.
i Christ Church, in Boston Mass
r. from the steeple of which lights wer
c lhung which sent Paul Revere on III
T. Iride through Middlesex, will be close'
1t for year, while Improvements ar
? being made.
d Liberia is soon to become in pos
IS session of $65,85o from the Amerl
Il can Colonization Society, OF this city
le for educational purposes, which IS
part Of the Donavan Fund. Abou
thirty years ago this fund was leit b,
/. h well-wisher of Liberia. who directed
that the money be used for transport
10 t.ng coIored people to Liberia and IL
s. the interest OF education.
Miss Bessie Bruingt0n has been ap
pointed teacher in the city school
r. lin Los Angeles. Cal She will be tin
e.. first colored teacher in the loca
r schools there. Her salary will be So
" Iper month.