The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-08-11
CURRENT NEWS.

CURRENT NEWS.
The Panama Canal is three-fourths
Hug.
Ii costs England more than a mil
lion dollars to crown King George.
I'm Chicago on July Il lot % feet
by 80 feet was sold for half million
dollars.
Before June 80 more than $4,000
persons had opened postal savings
accounts i'm 400 Offices.
To win wager and trip to Eu-
rope, Ernest Wenzell, of Philadelphia,
ls walking across the continent to San
Francisco
Congress il now asked to consent
to plans by which, in an emergency,
volunteer army of one million men
might be raised
A new railroad has been opened
through the central provinces OF ia
pGA 1lDM 4OyhO ~ ANd6Ogd. - - @AO
miles long, has IS tunnels, and cost
$17,000,000.
The double bottom OF the Maine
has been found 40 feet above it's nor
NAL position, which is held to prove
that there was a powerful outside
explosion.
Tho HnnorranhinaI CnainTr nf Tan
mark has cancelled it's diploma
which granted a gold medal to DR..
Cook for his alleged discovery of the
North Pole.
The Prince of Wales has entered the
royal navy as a midshipman, at about
40 cents day, with orders that he is
to be treated exactly like the other
midshipmen.
The milk-dealers OF New Haven,
Conn, are planning to eQualize the
milk supply by freezing milk, when
it is plentiful, into blocks of from $50
to 900 pounds, using the frozen milk
to exc out shortage when it occurs.
During the year 1911, is murders,
scores of Standings and more than 100
bomb explosions, 100000 collected
in blackmail and the terrorizing Of
thousands by threats il the summary
Of crimes in Chicago committed by
the Black Hand.
Ten or more deaths from cholera
in New York City have moved the
health authorities to strenuous &C
hn fn@ II rIyr-
of the disease across the sea have
been warded off our shores only by
ceaseless vigilance.
Edwin A. Bailey, who has just died
at Fordham, N. Y, attracted the at
tention of surgeons because he lived
for Twenty-Five years with broken
back. He spent more than q quarter
of a century in a wheel-chair, but be-
came an expert billiard player
"A practical joker at Atlantic City
wanted to scare the crowd with an
imitation Of a drowning man. 1t took
an hour to restore him after the scare
had become a real one. The water
is an element which does not lend
itself kindly to this peculiar form Of
humor.
Two Berkshire pigs belonging to
Fred l.. Heller, recorder of Caldwell,
N. T., are SO fond OF taking baths, 1t
il said, their owner has built them a
bathtub in the rear OF his home. Each
wants to get its bath first, and they
have a daily fight for the privilege.
The pigs are prize winners.
One of the hindrances to the arbi-
tration treaty with Great Britain is
the alliance between Japan and Great
Britain, which binds either country to
fight the enemies OF the other coun-
try in case Of war; SO that if Japan
and the United States should ever be
at war, Great Britain would be COM
PEELED to fight this country, aiding
Japan. A revision of the Anglo-Jap-
anese alliance abolishing this posi-
bility il now under discussion.
Miss Celeste Parish, who was for
years at the head of the department
OF pedagogy at the State Normal
School, director of the MuscOgee Ele-
mentary Practice School and much
sought writer for educational and
psychological journals, has sold her
brain to a Northern institution of
medical research for $4,000 for pur-
poses Of examination and analysis
after her death.
Miss Parish is noted for her re-
markable powers of mind She can
read chapter Of ordinary length in a
volume and can repeat it from mem
DRY. She is using part of the money
received for the education of the
adopted children Of her brother, who
died some time ago.