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Today's Events

Henry White, former U. S. Am
bassador to France and one of The
delegates to the Peace Conference,
celebrates his 10th birthday today.
Elaborate preparations win be
completed at Colon today for the re-
ception of H. R. H. the Prince of |
Wales, whose ship is to pass tn ough |
the Panama Canal on the way to
Australia.
Public school educators of half a
dozen States are to meet in confer
ence today at Emporia, Kas., to con-
slider the shortage of teachers
wages, and the situation with regard |
to rural schools.
The New Jersey cases involving
the validity of the Prohibition amend
ment insofar as it relates to the
manufacture Of beer alleged to be
notwithstanding are docketed for ar
gument today in the Supreme Court,
of the United States.
From Here and There
In Europe no country outside Rus
STA is large gold produce.
their fingers till the joints Crack as
a form of salutation
1t is not generally known that a
hen, when sitting, turns he- eggs en-
tirely around once day.
A Turkish tn ban of the largest
size contains from ten TO twenty
yards of the best and softest muslin
The fiftieth anniversary of the
death of Robert E. Lee viii be observ
ed throughout the South, next
October.
1t is estimated that two years are
required for the Gulf Stream water
to travel from florida to the coast
of Norway.
The one great passion of the Japa
nese is hot-water bathing and no
country in the world can rival Japan
in the matter of hot springs.
Speaking generally, a mans head,
particularly If he is thinking man,
continues to increase in size until he
is forty or fifty years of age.
In both Egypt and Assyria porcelain
rings were in common use. They
we're painted with great delicacy, the
painting being often burned into the
J enamel.
The first dry goods commission
house in America was opened in
Philadelphia in 1905, for the sale of
cotton yarns and threads manufac-
tured in Rhode Island.
Mohammedans always look with
suspicion upon leather as pig-skin;
the Koran, therefore, according to the
most orthodox directions, is always
bound IN cloth.
The coffee-tree in a wild state will
grow to height of thirty feet; when
cultivated it is pruned down to FIVE
feet for convenience in gathering the
berries.
The Arabs have a superstition that
the stork has s. human heart When
one of these birds builds its nest on
, a housetop, they believe the happi-
: ness of that household is ensured fo-
: year.
The traditions which represent the
doctor and death as always hunting
in couples still survive in Spain. In
: all well-to-do families the house of
death is always deserted Immediately
after the funeral. and the bereaved
ones retire and pass eight days in
inyiolable seolusion
The belief in the luck-b inging
power of the horseshoe attained its
greatest diffusion at the end of the
18th and the beginning of the 18th
century Lord Nelson had horse
shoe nailed to the mast OF the Vic
tory; and in many towns it was not
unusual to see half of the houses
with horseshoes fastened over the
door,
Sir John Scott Ke,.ie. who cele-
brates his eightiethbirthday today, is
a worldfamous authority on geoerap-
hical and kindred subjects. He is a
a native of Dundee, Scotland. and was
: educated al Perth and at the Univer-
Il sites of st. Andrews and Edinburgh
y For many years he has been the edi-
q tor of the well-known publication
The Statesmons Year Book" and
a has written copiously on geographi-
cal and kindred subjects He has
n served as librarian of the Royal Geo
graphical Society and as president
Y of the Geographical Section of the
y British Association. Geographical
societies in dozen of the principal
A countries of the world have honored
q him with membership. In 1915 he
was awarded the Cel.um Cold Medal
q of the American Geog aphical Socie-
4 ty and the Gold Medals of Paris and
4 the Royal Scottish Geographical So
4 ciety In 1918 he was knighted by
King George.
Today's Anniversaries
A 1S20-T7%e Constitution Of 1912 was
restored in Spain.
Il 1S25-Return j. Meigs, noted Ohio
pioneer and one of the cary
governors of the State, died at
Marietta. O. Born at Middle
y inmf1 Cam Nnu LIZ 1TE1