Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-05


same trick on the some man for the
second time.
:Iesothorium, it appears from a re.
port from Essen, runs radium a close
race for value. The city council there
has appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
chase of oRe-tenth of one grain for the
municipal hospital. 1t is to be used
in experimental treatment of cancer
Private subscribers have given a fur
Their $1,000 for another tenth of
grain.
That the emperor and his guests on
the Hohenzollern during the yearly
cruises of his majesty to Norwegian
waters, were in the habit of abandon
! ing themselves to a spirit of boyish
fun, is evident from some extracts
from the dairy of the late Baron Won
/ Kiderlen- Waechter that are now being
| printed.
The dairy of the Baron, who kas at
one time secretary of state for foreign
affairs, gives among other things the
! statutes of the Northland Travelling
| Company" drawn up for one of the
trips of about twenty years ago. The
statutes declare that the company
lives partly on recollection and part
| ly on preserves" At the head of the
company stands the Most 1lustrious
Master Traveller, Kaiser Wilhelm the
! Second; the other members are class
flied as Superior Journeymen Sailors"
and ''Vice Journeymen Sailors" The
statutes have chiefly to do with the
evening assemblies on board the i'm
perial yacht. They provide. for in
stance, that DR.. Gussfeldt, one of the
members of the company, shall each
evening, but not before IL o'clock,
mount the rostrum to treat the COM
pany with his recollections, the lati-
tude and longitude of which are to be
determined beforehand by the navigat-
ting officer"
Another paragraph stipulates that
''the famous firm of Hulsen, kessel
kiderlen e Company, dealers in Irish
bulls, shall be responsible for having
the stale jokes replaced with new ones
once a month" Various penalties OF
an amusing character are provided
for; but 'if a journeyman sailor, sen
fenced to a~just punishment, tries by
means of persistent drinking to gel
himself into a state of alleviating cir
, cumstances," such action shall entail
an increase of the sentence.
, The emperor, who is we'll known tC
be very abstemious in all things
things that German university stu
dents drink too much. A Sentence
proving this was used by him while
receiving the students homage during
his jubilee week. His majesty on the
occasion said: 81 expect you to re
duce your consumption of alcohol to {
marked degree"
The emperor issued a similar warn
ing to the naval cadets of the empire
in speech which he made at Murwicl
times declared that more athletics anC
less beer would improve the SUDDEN
physique. Showing, however, how es
tablished beer drinking is as an Incl
dent of every student celebration, th'
fact may be mentioned that fiv'
glasses of beer for each student wer,
paid for from the funds of the UniveI
sity of Berlin on the occasion of tn,
jubilee "kommers."
Mex York, Aug. 5.-Although the in
tercollegiate football season is still
two months away the shadow of tn
gridiron game is already edging int
the realms of sport. The schedule
makers have completed their task
and the coaches are issuing calls TO
t the gathering of candidates. The frs
= week of September will witness initia
: practice at number of eastern an
8 western colleges and before October j
reached games will have been wo
and lost on many a varsity footba
field. Judged from present indie;
. cations, the coming season should pre-
. duce football in both quality and qual
=. tity such as no previous autumn ha
: Witnessed. Few changes have bee