The Washington times., 1911-08-06

noticeably in fight in the other direc-
tion.
That millionth patent came off &C
cording to schedule. and if the new rub
Der tire isn't rapidly adopted, it will not
be because it has not been well adver-
tised.
A Gettysburg citizen who called at the
White House yesterday wanted to ex-
plain that he had discovered perpetual
motion Glen Echo desires to enter q
caveat.
Judge De Lacy is as happy over the
prospect of a new juvenile court build
ing as if he had learned that one of his
probationers had become a good and
useful citizen!
The unusual attendance of ladies at
the night sessions Of Congress may ac-
count in part for the Willingness of
members to put in a little more than
the union scale of hours.
Speaking Of hostages to fortune"
the baby show to be held in Convention
Hall next fall should bring together
bunch of dimpled darlings of which any
community might we'll be proud.
A local Japanese describes Admiral
Togo as speaking q country rather
than a city dialect. Among the most
famous of the American fighters. how
ever, were the "embattled farmers
A recent visitor to Washington. when
he got back to his home in Maryland,
discovered that he had traded horses
in a trance Even David Harum would
have had a hard time holding his own
If he had taken too many pony brandies.
Congress Heights citizens have been
demanding a steam fire engine, and will
probably get 1t. The Commissioners
look with favor on the request, as the
apparatus will be an additional safe
guard to the Government Hospital for
the Insane.
DR.. John S. Fulton is a busy man
these days. AS secretary of the In
ternational Congress on Hygiene and
DemOgrap1y, he is preparing for It's
meeting here in September, when a
nota BILE body of scientists will be in
the Capital.
OF course, 1t is nothing new that life
Is a great deal better worth living in
Washington than elsewhere. but now it
becomes apparent that 1t costs less to
build home here than in other cities
OF equal size, and a whole lot of people
are finding it out.
Everything is now in readiness, and
on Tuesday the Joaquin Miller log cabin
will be moved from Meridian Hill to its
new site in Rock Creek Park. There it
will remain as a lasting memorial of
the residence in Washington of one of
the most gifted of American poets.
A number of Washington veterans.
Union and Confederate, attended the
big reunion yesterday at Fishers Hill,
the scene of a bloody conflict fifty
years ago The ceremony of burying
the bloody shirt was omitted by reason
of the fact that there was none to
bury
The boom of John Lewis Smith, Of
Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, for COM
mander-in-chief of the United Spanish
War Veterans, received additional i'm
petus at the veterans outing yester-
dorsement Of most of the camps in the
District.
Rev. Francis J. Lukens has been
engaged for another year as superin-
tendent of the Central Union Mission
The directors are pleased with his
work, and the announcement comes
just as Mr.. Lukens is to begin a no
table mission enterprise-establ blishing a
farm for reclaIming inebriates
Washington will have a supply of
thrills always on hand, now that one
of her own sons has developed into the
most daring aviator of them all. Paul
Peck's flight from College Park to
Washington, with gyrations around the
dome and Monument, left but little to
be desired in the matter of excitement
And all this when he has been in the
game only two weeks
The death of William Fletcher, one of
the leading lawyers of the District. re-