The Washington bee., 1912-02-24
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld)

Fifty-one years ago Sunday Jeffer-
son Davis was inaugurated president
of the Confederate States of Amer
lea, at Montgomery, Ala.
Patriotic exercises commemorative
of Washington's birthday was observ-
ed in all of the public schools in the
city Wednesday. Patriotic addresses
were delivered during the exercises.
Under the direction of the wOman's
InterdenOminatiOnal Union, 45O un-
converted Cinnamon are taught the
Bible by Rio de Slew, the new mis-
sionary evangelist of their own race.
An effort to increase interest in
bands of mercy in the graded schools
is being made by Miss Mary Harold
of the Humane Society, In January
there were 36,735 children members of
/ the band. The organization aims to
/ teach the children to treat dumb crea-
lures with kindness.
| There are now FIVE separate expedi-
tions on trips of discovery en- route to
the South Pole. A message of VIC
! tory may fash over cables and tele-
graph wires any time.
Excavation work on the foundation
of the new Bureau of Engraving and
Printing at the foot of I4th Street
Southwest, IS progressing rapidly
now; the heavy ice prevented the
work during January.
The band of forty Australian boys
sent TO this country by the Austria
lian government to learn at .itst hand
about Americans and American insti-
tutions, were met 1T the Union Sta
ton by a committee from the Cham
Der of Commerce.
Chentinz T Wang. who is expected
to be appointed Minister to tha Uni
, ted States, to represent China, the
newest of the worlds republics, Is
, we'll known here, both in diplomatic
and educational circles
' Preparations are being made for a
national exhibition in connection with
the fifteenth International congress on
! hygiene and democracy which Will be
= held here during the last three weeks
j in September
The PhiliIppOteauN painting. depict
ing the far-famed "Pickett's Charge"
Is now III this city, and through the
= | courtesy Of Secretary Fisher, it IS
= now on exhibition at the Patent Office.
D 1t is said the picture Is the most real
% istiC portrayal of the battle of Gettys-
: burg ever made.
Il The Rev. Abraham Lazarus has
- written municipal Judge SABBATH, OF
= Chicago, advocating selection OF
=" Judges who can speak at least seven
,. Ity languages, and thus do away with
i unreliable interpreters.
An official report has been received
OF 4 severe fight between the revolu
tiOnary forces and the government
troops at Cape Haitien, Haiti.
~ Prof Albert Hertel, the noted
-o painter of landscape and still life dieC
~ last week in his sixty-ninth year.
II The Charities and Corrections Com
- mittee embodied recommendation
:, irving their approval to the continu
n ance of government aid for the Co
~ lumbia and Emergency hospitals, anC
l. also urging the appropriation Of 5000,
r. 600 for the construction OF a muniCi
In pal hospital
p A novel feature of the celebration
o. of Washington's birthday Dime
i, given in New York at the Waldorf
IN was, several women were among thu
speakers
A delegation OF 1000 Chimes
American residents, called On Presi
S' dent Taft to urge the immediate rec
X. ognition OF the republic of China b,
- the United States.
0~ More than three thousand person
begun saving for Christmas at tn,
IIT Merchants and Mechanics Savins
III Bank in this city.
;, Confederate veterans are 20 have
III prominent part in the celebration o
~ the fftieth anniversary of the bat
IN tie Of Gettysburg.