Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-11-11
News From Foreign Capitals

London, Nov. 11.--The heavy rains
which have broken the exceptional
drought which mas prevailed this year
in England may have done more dam
age than good, according to reports
made ly numerous landlords.
They assert tcat the big drought
has played the part Of a long sus-
tanned earthquake with the heavy
rains acting as the final shake. So
severe has been the action on many
buildings that the repair bills will
equal the rental for the next two
years.
The shrinkage of the clay and other
subsoils has been so great that in
some places whole streets or houses
have developed threatening cracks
drainage systems have been disorga-
ing the busiest times of their careers.
been a wholesale subsistence in mum.
Der of Herdfordshire villages, and
some of the fineist old homes in the
clay districts of theclay districts of
the Midlands are threatened with de-
struction. Architects and builders at
tribute the disturbances solely to the
shrinkage of the suDsoil, which is
much worse on the clay soils which
normally ho'l tie most water.
General regret is felt that DR. Har-
vey w. Wiley, chief CT the Bures IF
Chemistry If tie United States De-
NJ 1f
able to accept the invitation of the
Council of the Pure Food and Health
Society of Great Britain to preside at
their National Congress to be held
here next March. DR.. Wilev is we'll
known in England both for his advo-
cacy of pure food laws at home and
for his attendance here at numerous
congresses :.eld in come :ticr with
applied chemistry and food adultcra-
tion.
1t is hoped, at the coming congress,
to formulate practical proposals for
the standardizing of food stuffs, for the
definition of what are legitimate ard
manufacturing processes.
for the proper distribution of food for
sale for the codific alton of existing
laws. and for the Capitalization Of the
work of inspection IN the Local Gov
eminent Eoard. ,
The Societ@ Will endeavor to pre-
sent a strong ;es'' :.ative program 10
the government, e 'hef feature IT
which will seek 10 c,)rrest the abuses !
alleged to have grown up on account |
of the food ant drug inspectors work. J
ing only under local authority. So lax !
have some of the local authorities be-
come that is said the law is dead !
letter in several places.
residence at the college or university
from which they register may soon be
the rule which will regulate the ell
gibility of Rhodes scholars for Oxford
athletic teams.
At present the rule is that no ath-
lete is qualified to gain the coveted
half or full Blue by representing OK
ford on the playing field, after he has
four years residence. Some
Rhodes scholars have already comp]et
ed two or three years at some foreign
)r colonial university before reaching
Oxford and through them inter-Vars-
ty play tends to develop into a case
If men versus boys. In considering
his evil the authorities at first
hought of ruling that in the future
at which the scholars were
he four-year rule should apply to any
n attendance, so a Rhodes man, who
lad been in college three years be-
ore reaching Oxford would only be
Eligible for one years play there. Ow-
ng to the difficulty of determining
What constitutes a school of universi-
Y standing this solution has been
ropped. The plan now most favored
) the substitution of an age limit and
t is believed that before long a rule
will be adopted that no man more
han twenty-five years of age may rep
esent either Oxford or Cambridge.
his ruling would still give the
.hodes scholars an advantage of two