The Washington bee., 1911-02-25
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. MaxneId.)

Announcement has been made by
John II. and Thomas A FORSYTH.
wealthy business men of Boston.
Mass, that they will erect an iustitu-
ton known as The Forsyth Dental
lntirmary for Children" as a memo
rial to their brothers, and provide a
maintenance fund of SI,OOOOoo.
The Mark Twain library built bv
the late Mark Twain as a memorial
to his daughter, is open to the public
after formal dedication February Is.
The library was founded in 1908.
An affecting scene occurred in the
I. 5. Senate when Senator Tillman.
the famous South Carolinian, so over
come with tears, sank to his seat sob
bing, while delivering the eulogy on
Senators Deliver and Clay.
1t IS said $50 young men from every
State in the Union are to enter West
Point Among the prominent names
are: Robert L. Lee, the first cadet of
this famous name to enter in eighty
years, and Thomas ]. Jackson Chris
tian, grandson of Gen. StOnewall Jack
SON
The Protestant denominations gave
to foreign missions last year S3z.oOO,-
600.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, in an
swering Senator Root, uncovered the
hypocrisy of the North. When thieves
fall out honest men get justice.
According to reports the colOred
Americans of New York City are
elated over the prospect of the for
nation OF a militia regiment. Gov.
Hughes. was opposed to the project,
but the Democratic Governor gave
his consent
The colored Americans of this city
are resenting Judge Daniel Thew
Wright's utterances when sentencing
a cOlOred criminal His impeachment
is asked.
The anniversary of the birth of
George Washington was celebrated
with appropriate patriotic exercises in
all of the public schools in the Dis
, tTiCt.
| Tennessee's population is composed
of I,7II,55o white people, 472,987 col
ored people, 200 Indians, 43 Chinese,
| 8 Japanese, and I Korean
According to the annual report of
| the Humane Society in this ciUy, there
were 1881 arrests for cruelty to ami
mails during the year of 1910, against
537 in 1900.
The German war office has ordered
another dirigible balloon for the
army. The specifications provide that
the air ship have motors developing
$50 horsepower, which will assure a
speed of thirty six miles an hour.
1t IS hoped that the teachers re-
tirement bill will pass during this ses-
sion of Congress. Senator Galllnger,
who made a special call to consider
the measure, gives a ray of hope
: There are many proposed memo
! TlalS to the great war President,
Abraham Lincoln. Of all, the plan
of the Park Commission has won the
most widespread approval.
The semi-centennial of the forma-
ton of the Confederacy and inaugu-
ration of Jefferson Davis was Cele-
brated last Saturday in Montgomery,
, Ala.
President Taft praises the Amer
'ican physicians He said: IF moth
ing else justified the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, the discoveries OF the Amer
IiCan physicians since that time in the
tropics were lmDle to justify the ex-
pense of the war
The postmaster is praised not only
by the carriers, but by the people,
for his proposed Sunday holiday for
the carriers.
A national reunion of the survivors
of the enlistment of OF will be ceIe-
brated in this city April TO- it being
the hft1eth anniversary of the first
call of troops in the civil war.
A bridge rs feet high, to be con-
structed across the Panama Canal at
Empire, is the latest plan of the en-
| gineer board.
The charity organization society of
the city of New York distributed
! $320,4I8 for the relief of the poor and
needy in 1910, and paid out for such
distribution, $46I,4I7.
! Race feeling caused a clash in the
Salvation Army plans, as there was a
protest against working among the
colored people by the Southern dele
CATION. Is this a Christ-Iike spirit?
| Don't fa1 70 Con-ult McCIure's
magazine before starting on your
spIug clothes.
A seven-story hospital is to be
erected in New York, exclusively for
the treatment Of measles. 1t VIII be
| built this summer at a cost Of S275,-
900. It will accommodate 325 pa
tients.
Over $4,000 was raised in Pitts
burg, Pa, during the three day ju-
bllee Of the Woman's Foreign Mis-
slonary Society.
The street cars of Germany are
only permitted to carry a certain num-
Der OF passengers. When the stated
number IS on the car no other pas
sengers are permitted to enter.
Miss Burroughs in West Virginia.
Harpers Ferry, w Va, Feb. 20.
Miss Mamie II. Burroughs arrived
here Sunday afternoon, and was es-
corted to the dOrmltOTy where she was
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