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t j SCIENCE t ^ j An armor-clad diver has succeeded K in reaching the sea bottom at a depth I of 230 f?et. | j The "elephant beetle" of Venezuela 1 is the largest insect in the world. A | full grown one weighs about half a pound. There are a thousand acres of submarine coal mines being worked gHaround Cape Brecon. The character the soil overlaying these diggings ^Tnables them to be worked without interference from the water from above. Tantalum, the new metal which is being extensively made use of at the present time, was discovered about two years ago by a Swedish chemist, and was so named because of the tantalizing difficulties he eiperienced in its development. 1^. The Assouan Dam cost $12,000,- ^ \ uuu. ii iook ii.uuu men lour jears to build It. The dam contains a raillion tons of granite and more than } 15,000 tons of steel. The reservior formed by it, when full, holds 215,000,000,000 of gallons. It has added 1,500,000 acres of tillable land, and c has increased the crop value more 0 than $13,000,000, thus paying for it- s . self every year. y o The idea of evolution?that is to a say, of the origin of existing species kfrom pre-existing ones as against the doctrine of the special creation of 1 - each species?is as old as the fourth century B. C., when it was advanced by the Greeks. But it was reserved for Darwin and Wallace to marshal so large an amount of evidence with *" such irresistible force that the fact of evolution is no longer seriously ques- . tioned by competent authorities. A newspaper states that Prof. Joly n has completed a geological examina I* tion of specimens of the- strata col- i " lected from the borings for the Sim- | 0 i plon tunnel. He found rich traces ^ of radium, indicating larger deposits than any hitherto discovered in Europe. He believes that the pres- j* ence of these deposits caused the ab- . normal heat experienced in building the tunnel. He predicts that con- ' - tinued research will prove the world's supply of radium is greater than was supposed. One can hardly look out of a wiu- ^ dow in contemplation of the roofs without seeing a number of metal- u hooded ventilators, which have come 0 into general use for the purpose of creating an air current in lofts or air chambers. The only disadvan- n rtage connected with their use is that in case of fire they act as a chimney * and aid materially in the spread of ^ the flames. In a recent improvement made in these ventilators, the hood w is held in an open position by a lever CI movement controlled by a fusible link. In case of fire this link is melt-! ? v ed, and the hood is allowed to fall rof its own weight, and in doing so it j closes the air passage and cuts off the j a ^ draft. 05 1 SIIORT-XOSED PEOPLE. Something That May Be Said in Their J n Favor. j o "Physiognomists tell us that the j ^ '.0 big-nosed people do the world's c ? work," said a short-nosed man the other day, "and thsy generally add a . lot of rubbish about Napoleon's big ~ \ nose and how he always selected big-nosed men to carry out daring ^ undertakings. k "'That Napoleon story was invented i someone with a nose like Cyrano ! ^ ^^^^Bergerac's, who wanted an excuse i n \ ^^his proboscis, and therefore, pre- | kj tended that his nose was but the introduction to a massive, imposing t character. It is true that a big nose 1 is sometimes indicative of firmness 1 and determination, but only when it t is associated with a strong jaw and long chin. A big nose with a retiring . chin is almost idiotic in the expres- f sion it gives to the countenance. Every cartoonist knows this. When- j ' ever you see a cartoon of a society ^ dude it shows a long nose and a small y chin. t "But there is something to be said T In favor of the short noses. The short noso shows wit, imagination, tact, ^ judgment, discretion. Socrates had a snub nose, and of the lively imaginative writers in almost any lan- t guage a considerable proportion are r short-nosed neoule. Long-nosed men may do their share of the world's j work, but the shorn noses write the g clever books and the entertaining plays. If Shakespeare had had a nose like the Duke of Wellington do you suppose that ho would e\rer have written the 'Merry Wives cf Windsor?' He might have been a successful theatre manager, but would never ? have become a literary artist."?St. < Louis Globe-Democrat. By the Clock. Let me give you a suggestion for exercise. Rise at 6.30 a. m. Put on old clothing, easy shoes and a sweater. Time for dressing, five minutes. Walk one-fourth of a mile; time, five minutes. Then run a mile at a dog trot in eight minutes, arranging your circuit of a mile and a quarter so that you will finish at your door thirteen min- , utes after starting. At that hour you . will meet only the milkman and pa per carriers. That exercise will expand your J lungs and stimulate your heart action and land you at your doorstep at G.4S a. m., panting for breath, thoroughly exhausted and perspiring a* every pore. You are then ready foi 1 your bath and routine of the day The man of sedentary habits who patienty pursues this erercise may kiss all drugs good-bye.?New Yorli ' Times. * 1 The adjutant, or marabout, a tall bird of India, of the stork species, * will swallow a hare or a cat whole. It stands five feet high and the ex- 1 pause of wings is nearly fifteen feet. ' Why the Simple Life? By WINIFRED BLACK. Dr. Hindhede, of Denmark, says :hat he can teach the world and the nhabitants thereof how to live on .wo cents a day and be happier and lealthier and live longer than they lid when they spent anywhere from 52 to $25 for twenty-four hours' lourishment. Thanks, awfully, Dr. Hindhede. So lelighted to hear from you. Now, if you'll only teach us how 0 live without breathing and without aughing, without singing and with>ut dancing, without walking and vithout loving, we'll turn into slugs tnd be done wi-.h it. Wouldn't it be lovely to be a nice, at, comfy slug, with nothing to do >r to think or to dream or to hope >r to work for? I'd love it, wouldn't ou? Two cents a day for food! Why, vhat are all the fruits and vegetables ,nd good things made for, Dr. Hind^ iede?just to look at? I'd rather ive ten years and have some fun chile I was living than to creep round till I was a hundred and wish was dead every minute. I don't want to live on two cents , day, thank you; I wouldn't call it iving at all. 1 don't eat simply to support life. I suppose I could get along on a up of malted milk and a handful ? ?1 i nuts a aay, oui wuy uu wjcu hould I? I don't like malted milk, and the nly way to eat nuts is to sit around blazing wood fire and pick them ut of their shells while you're telling tories or singing songs or listening 3 some one read a good story. I eat because I'm hungry and beause things taste good, and I don't ant anybody to tell me what to eat, ither. I'll pick out my own diet for my wn self, thank you, and as long as 'm able to pay for it I'll eat the lings that taste good to me, and rust to luck to have them agree with le. Whenever I hear about some one ho's discovered a new diet and lived n it, I know what that some one rould like before I catch sight of im. All the diet crank3 I ever knew roclaim their fad as you can see lem by the color of their skin and le lack of lustre in their melancholy yes. Food was given us to eat, and as >ng as I have good teeth, a good anscience and a mediumly good ocketbook I'm going to eat it?and e glad to get it. A good dinner is one of the pleasres of life, just as a good laugh is, r a good song, or a pretty story, or brisk walk on a fine morning. And m not going to give up a good diner just to please some one who ants to convince me that I'd be bet;r off if I dined on a slice of dried pple and a prune. Keep right on guring, Dr. Hindhede. It's all very ell to be scientific, and we appreiate your efforts immensely. You can't do any harm, because obody will pay any attention to you ut the diet cranks, anyway?and ley might as well be following you s any one else.?New York Amerian. Chinese and Foot Binding. "Direction of the anti foot binding lovement in China has been handed ver by the Shanghai ladies' commitje to Chinese, who have already esiblished many anti foot binding soieties throughout this great empire," rrites a Shanghai contributor to a ewspaper there. "Great was the urprise and yet greater the delight t the recent annual meeting of the 'ien Tsu Hui (anti foot binding soci ly; wuea n WHS asiuuumcu liiai UUL nly a Chinese committee had been ormed, but also an executive committee with two Chinese gentlemen s secretaries, one for foreign correpondence and one for Chinese, and hat several of the gentlemen would ttend the meeting. "The more because the ladies of he Tien Tsu Hui had tried in various uarters to find successors to carry on their labors and had. as they thought ailed. So following the Chiuese nethod they decided to commit suiide. In accordance with their usage hey had advertised their meeting, >ut none of the committee that in ended to die had the iieart to invite Fitnesses. China's method succeedtd, as it probably always will in ?hina, and thus before the suicide '. as even accomplished in walked a lumber of distinguished Chinese genlemen who are to form the new Cliilese committee. "The foreign ladies in China can ^t east feel that public opinion has been :ufficiently aroused for them to trust he direction of the movement to Chilese. That their confidence is well >laced is assured by the fact that the ery influential committee of Chinese tnnounce their determination to car y on the work till 'the sun does not ;hine on a single bound foot in Hhina.' "?Chicago News. Japanese Military Trick. An Austrian military organ draws ittention to one of the minor details )f Japanesse musketry practice durng the late war, which seems to have ;scaped hitherto in Europe. In Eurojean armiesthequestionof a rifle rest :'or long range firing has led to many ngenious contrivances for devising ripod arrangements. The Japanese iVar Department solved the difficultj n a much simpler and effective way rhey just provided the soldier with a ? x i ? , jag 01 Stout COUOU eiglll luuuca \riut md twenty inches long, which he lould carry in his cartridge case or ;he march, and on reaching the fight ng line could in a minute stuff witt ?arth or stones. Ths device gave imazing assistance in accuracy o ifle fire.?Philadelphia Record. Riches Cause Trouble. Great riches are ever accompaniet by great anxieties, and an increasi -a E. Jc, Kilt nn inlot t( JL Ulii puiacfiajuiio 10 wu M?? .M.wv aew disquietudes.?Goldsmith. The origin of the Great Banks o Newfoundland is said to have been ii the boulders carried down by ice bergs. The bank is 600 miles 1od| ind 120 broad. \ K THE WOMAN TENNIS CI A new portrait of Miss May Satt nade of the young American, who has I :ests for first honors among the worasi ind across the water. In England Mi I ply marvelous. Home-Madc Marcel. For a long time the professional | hairdresser had a monopoly of the i marcel wave business. The fashionj able coiffure required a professional touch, which, it seems, could not be [ secured at the hands of the amateur, i Many a girl in the privacy of her I bedroom has wasted hour after hour ! tn the endeavor to "marcel" her own , hair, only to succeed in making a mass of burned or tangled tresses not to be likened, for a moment, to . the beautiful undulation of the f 1 ocean's waves, but rather to a knotted bunch of seaweed thrown up on the shore. I The inventor has come to her re! lief in the presentation of a tool by i which, so it is claimed, she can her: self give her hair a "marcel" which I will put the professional dresser to ; blush. At first glance this device I looks like something which might be I found in the doctor's kit. but its j mission is entirely harmless and it j can do no more damage than possibly j burn a lock of hair if handled too I carelessly. The teeth shown are slidI ing in a groove and after the thing ; has been heated the hair is wound ! around one of the arms of the tongs, ; and when the hair has been drawn ! tight, by pulling the teeth along the j slot, the other jaw of the tong is j closed down and its heat gives the : hair the desired curl.?Washington ' Star. The negro republic of Liberia has j twenty-two species of rubber trees. i "STRANGEST07?fRAN< i Moorish Soldiers Escorting the Renia Mauchamp, the Frenchman Murde ! Mazagan (Two Hundred Miles) i The illustration below shows a de; parture in the form of carpet st retchF ers, the invention of a California i ) ' L 1 1 ' - ' 8 nan. It comprises a handle having it one end the cla\vs by which th< m m*n r A * cnTAiT An mTTIP UTADfl lAmriUH \jr mjCi - N :on, and regarded as the best ever i defeated all opponents in the can't tennis players both in this country ss Sutton's record is regarded as simDidn't Mind the Ladder. A ladder leaned against a ston front in Nassau street, near Spruce yesterday afternoon. Its foot was sc far out that it was easier far for on< to go under it than to pass outside it. Every one knows it is considered bad luck to walk under a ladder. Die many of the crowd hurrying towarc the bridge pay deference to that su perstition? A man in a hurry paused a hall minute to see. Out of thirty who passed onlj seven avoided the supposed hoodoo ! Those seven must have done it oui ! of superstition, because it woulc | have been easier for them to go un aer U1U IdUUCi uiu uluci uivutj three did. The man who paused to see had himself, not passed under.?Ne^ York World. The Two Handles. Everything has two handles; one by which it may be borne, another bj which it can not. If your brothei acts unjustly, do not lay hold on the affair by the handle of his injustice for by that it can not be borne; bu: rather by the opposite, that he i: your brother, that he was brough up with you, and thus yon will la: hold on it as it is to be borne. Typical Soldiers or the Korean Arm; Lately Disbanded by the Japanese Government. ?From Leslie's. JE FUNERAL CORTEGES, ins (in Casket on Muleback) of Dr. red by Moors, Prom Marakesh to Through the Moroccan Desert. ?L'Ulustration. carpet is grasped, and at the opposit end a knee cushion. Beneath th knee cushion is a metal plate to pre vent friction. In using the devic j the teeth are set in the carpet at ; requisite distance from its edge, th operator then forcing the device for ward. One of the important advan ages cf thia stretcher is the abilit !o hold it with the knee, permittin the operator to use both hands t ..'live the tacks. There is but littl likelihood of the carpet slipping bac from tho edge of the room.?Wast ington Star. Ah A niirwuit i-il Attention. Limmer's famous restaurant use to have the character of being a rer : dezvous of vivcurs; in fact, it wa averred that so many of its habitue suffered from delirium tremens tlu when some one, who was not of tin ucrsuasion, was dining there and mouse came on the table and bega . to nibble a piece of bread a symp: thetic waiter observed to him: "Don't be afraid, sir, it's a re; ; mouse."?Graphic, ' FOR I GHB FIITSBI Consolidation Witii Allegheny 0| held by Supreme Court. United Cities Will Have an Area < 38 Square Miles and a Popa lation of 350,000. Washington, D. C.?The suit ari ing out of the effort to consolidal the cities of Pittsburg and Alleghen was decided by the Supreme Court c the United States in favor of the coi solidation. the opinion of the com being delivered by Justice Mood: He went at length into the objectior to the consolidation, and showed th: the constitutional questions raisa would not justify a Federal court i interfering. Justice Moody laid down the basi proposition that "municipal corpor: tions are political subdivisions of th State, created as convenient agenci* for exercising such of the goverr mental powers of the State as ma be intrusted to them,"and proceeded "The State at its pleasure ma modify or withdraw all such poweri may take without compensation auc property, hold it itself, or vest it i other agencies, expand or contra< the territorial area, unite ths who! or a part of it with another raunic pality, repeal the charter and destro the corporation. All this may t done, conditionally or unconditioi ally, with or without the consent ( the citizens, or even against tliei proji?sc. in an mese respects iu State is supreme, and its legislate body, conforming its action to th State Constitution, may do as it wil unrestrained by any provision of th Constitution of the United State Although the inhabitants and prope: ty owners may by such changes su fer inconvenience, and their propert . may be lessened in value by the bu den of increased taxation, or for an other reason, they have no right, t ' contract or otherwise, iu the una . tered or continued existence of tt j corporation or its powers, and thei > is nothing in the Federal Cou3titi , tion which protects them from the* injurious consequences. The pow< is in the State, ana those who leg! late for the State are alone re3pons ble for any unjust or oppressive exe I cise of it." Pittsburg Enthusiastic. E Pittsburg.?The action of the Un ted States Supreme Court in decla i ing the greater Pittsburg bill const titional was received with enthi [ siasm here. The consolidation giv< the city an area of thirty-eight squa: miles, and an estimated populatic " of 550,000. It will outrank Clev land and Baltimore, giving Boston close race for fifth place in size, ai , Will have the largest tonnage of ai r i city in the world. The officials i Allegheny will at once become dep ties of those in Pittsburg until tl next general election, which will 1 held in 1909. r PAYS OUT 600,000 NICKELS, r } Omaha Street Railway Co. Distribut $30,000 Among Employes. , Omaha, Neb.?The Omaha Stre Railroad Company fairly flood! , Omaha with nickels by meeting i ' monthly payroll with 600,000 fiv |cent pieces, $30,000 in all. Ev since the money stringency the Stre (Railway has promised its employ (actual cash on pay day, and to th end has been holding the daily r ceipts of nickels. When the men lined up for the pay, it was handed to them in ne little packages of twenty nickels eac By paying out the nickels the stre I car company has made change pleni i ful around town. Most of the nicke [ went right back into circulate ; through the shops during the afte noon and evening. PRINCE DE BOURBON DEAD. He Was Father of 21 Children ai Possessor of $40,000,000. Rome, Italy. ? Prince Robe Charles Louis Marie de Bourbon, I fant of Spain and Duke of Parm died from hearc failure near Regg; He was born in 1S4S. He was d prived of his succession to the thro of the Duchy of Parma in 1S60, the age of twelve years, when t v duchy was incorporated with t I kingdom of Italy. The Prince twice married, fii ! Mavin Pin Prinr.pss of Bourbon-Si ly, and second Maria Antonia, Infa ita of Portugal. He was the father ,twenty-one children and leaves a f( tune estimated at $40,000,000. T last child, a son, was born June ] 1905. WON'T PAY MRS. GOULD S niLI Howard Gould Publishes an Adv< tisenient to That E/Tecf. New York City.?Howard Gou whose wife, Katherine Clemrno Gould, is suing him for a senaratii allegiug cruelty and inhuman tre; meat, has served notice through t newspapers that he will not bo ) sponsible for Mrs. Gould's debts, i advertisement reads: "All persons are hereby notifi that Mrs. Gould and myself are livi separate and apart; that Mrs. Gnu is furnished by me with funds si I ficieut for necessary aud leasonal requirements, and that I wiil nci responsible for any purchases ma or debts contracted by Mrs. Hoiva Gould or any person acting for her. 03 JAPANESE MURDERED. 6 e Victims of Chinese Troops in F< e mosa, Who Revolted. a London.?In a dispatch from To? e the correspondent of the Times ha - that the revolt of a company of Ci - liese troops in Formosa i '.lilted y the. murder of sixty-three Japane ? policemen and civilians. ^ The incident has caused uaeasinc In Tokio, the corresponden; decian 0 as the loyalty of the Chinese merce k aries had hitherto been unquesdons i To Curb Stock Speculation, rnneressma.i Hecburn, chairm of the House Committee ou Intersts (j and Foreign Commerce, in an int< lm "iew at Clarinda, Iowa, predicted t>i ~ action looking to tho curbing oi sto speculation would be taken at t 58 coming session, it ^ Estimates For Fortification. a General Alexander Mackenzie, ch n of engineers o? the army, gave out Washington, D. C., estimates of z propriation9 aggregating $23,46 U 911 for fortification VQrk during t fiscal year 1909 ???i^?mrr i mm?a?m?g G A "BEHL" D. *. B. PBiD M74" 3- Mrs. Ann Eliza Wilbur Prlntiss Expires at Pittsfieid, Mass. i Daughter of Joseph Wilbur, Who | Served Five Different Enlistments in Army of the Revolution. s" Pitfsfleld, Mass.?Berkshire Coun-e ty's only real Daughter of the Amer- I iy lean Revolution, Mrs. Ann Eliza Wil- t bur PrinC'iss, died at her home in this city a few daya ago. Her father, Joseph Wilbur, was born at Ancram, ? N. Y., on December 23, 1751, and was 13 eighty-two years old when she was born, on July 2, 1833. He had a record of fire enlistments In the Revolun tionary War, and saw service in fortyone engagements and skirmishes. He 'c was an orderly under General Washl" ington, and was a color sergeant at 0 the Battle of Saratoga. !S Mrs. PrlntisB had a memorandum 1_ of her father's enlistments, showing 7 that he served two months in 1776 under Colonel Asa Waterman, two y months In 1777 under Captain John Smith, one month that year under " Captain Vor.burg, three months under ? ? Colonel H. W. Livingston and Cap- g * tain Elisha Gilbert, and fifteen days ( in 1778 under Colonel Whiting. Mr. l" Wilbur lived to be ninety-one. Mrs. y Printiss was one of six children by ie his second marriage. Her grandfather, George KIttridge, ' . while serving in the Colonial wars, ! I ll" was captured by Indians and held a . * prisoner fourteen years. He was car- e '? ried into Canada and became a medl- ; cine man of the tribe. An Indian girl ( ? ' helped him to escape. \ ( ? George Printiss, a brother of Mrs. j < ' Printiss, while in the navy aiea at < / sea. Another brother, Eleazer Prin- J ( ' tiss, who 7/as in the Twenty-seventh t Massachusetts Regiment, died of st3r- I 1 ' vation in Andersonville prison. (y Mrs. Printiss was a charter mem- f j. ber of Peace Party Chapter, ^augh- j r ters of the Americah Revolution, of t Pittsfieid. She was also a member j ? of William W. Rockwell Relief Corps. ! 3Q Fifty-four years ago Mrs. Printiss ! ^ ;r was married to Horace Printiss, who 5. died in 1900. She leaves three , j. daughters?Mrs. B. R. Powell, Mrs. r. Ernest E. Cleveland and Miss Grace A. Printiss, all of Pittsfieid. HE MADE THEM SIT DOWN. 3 ( ? Governor-General Quieted Earth- 1 ;i- quake Panic in Manila Theatre. ( a" Manila.?Four sharp earthquake ! 63 shocks were felt In Manila and sur- j ra rounding provinces on the night of ' , ,n November 16 and the morning of No- 1 , e* vember 17. There was no damage, j , The first shock was felt at 11.25 in ; ^ the evening, while Governor-General! M Smith and party were attending a per- j formacce of the "Mikado." A panic ; , In the theatre was averted by the . presence of mind of the Governor- j ' General, who rose in his box and com-; manded the people, who had already . 1 arisen, to sit down. The orchestra j stopped playing, but the actors con-1 tinued, being undisturbed, and the 1 es audience quickly calmed down. . "I KILLED THE WRONG MAN." j el "tj Lacey, at Webb City, Mo., Say3 He , e- Intended to Shoot Another Man. j et Webb City, Mo.?"I killed the, e' wrong man," Henry Lacey, a foreman I es of the American Beauty Mine, told lis the Coroner's jury which held him e" for the murder of W. W. Parker, a young miner, who boarded with M73. Lacey. "I thought that I was shoots'' ing at another man, and I intended j to kill both him and my wife." e* Parker was killed at Lacey's homati* the night before. After dusk Lacey* who is suffering from tuberculosis, 5n passed a miner smoking at his gate. ir* "I'm going into the house and raise a little smoke," he said. Then he j opened the front door and fired, and Parker fell dead. ad WIFE BURNED HIS MONEY. Husband, Distrusting Hanks, Had Hid Savings in Shoes. ia, Springfield, Ohio.?John Riggs, a j io, brick mason, being afraid that somele thing might happen to one of the ne locai banks, drew out his savings, ; al amounting to $260. When he wer. I ho hnms hft decided to hide the money in he one of his children's shoes in an old ( closet. 'st Mr. Riggs said nothing to his wife ci- about hiding the savings. Next day i- she cleaned out the closet and put the , oi shoes with some other things in the >i*- stove and burned them. When Riggs J he came home and was told by his wife 7, J that she had been cleaning house and i bad burned the stuff in the closet he almost iainted. jS. HUNTING PRESERVE TRAGEDY.: j James D. Carrier, of Asheville, Killed on Grounds of Catawba ^iub. j Id I jjj Asheville, N. C.?James D. Carrier 1 . - ...^11 Unnn-n cnnpkmfJTI H T1 f 1 Clllb )T^ ti VVC1I AllUnil Oliunwm.? member of Asheville, was accidentally \i$ killed while hunting at Newton, N. | re". C., on the big private preserves of the ?js Catawba Club, owned by New York, j Philadelphia and Asheville sportssod men. n? Mr. Carrier wan missed from the clubhouse and when at a late hour ( j-. he did not return a search was inji'-j stituted for him. His body was not j!y found until next day. He had been j ! shot through the head. He had been ! pj j hunting alone. The Coroner's ver- ; .. | diet was that Mr. Carrier's death rej suited from "accidental shooting." | COALING STATION IN MEXICO, j Concession For Three Jfears at Slag- j (lalena Bay is Granted. Mexico City.?Mexico will permit 1 " the United States Navy to use Mc.gda- j ' lena Bay, Lower California, for a j coaling station for three years. This* is thought to be the tirst fruit of tbe voppnf visit of Secretary Root to M$x- ! " ' ico. The United States will be yer- ' ;H" mitted to maintain tv;o. coaling uiips i ' ' In the hay. i " Sifting". iv'. Japan now has a sugar trust. tat Nelson Morris left $20.COO,000. ! Hall Caine is a successful farmer, i a A physical director in Cleveland [ says cigarettes are harmless. Sugar lands are a. drug in the Phil* j ippines owing to the United States j l0t tariff. The Nashville (Tenn.) City CounlP" eil, by a vote of 23 to 0, passed an ordinance over the veto of Mayor MorU? fis inoreasing the piiy of the city la- ; borers trom 51.75 to 12 a day. ?r ti' i; sj? ?if. ' ??4 Brief News BY WIRE - i WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt was the chief speaker at the installation of the llev. W. P. Thirkield as president of Howard University. The board of trustees of the Catholic? University voted adhesion to the dope's recent encyclical against "modjralsm." More Federal aid in fighting the jlagHe* was asked by the San Fran:isco municipal authorities. Delegates to the conference apilauded Secretary Root, who spoke n favor of a plan to enforce peace in Central America. The American Federation of Labor vas asked to* lay before President itoosevelt request of Porto Ricans or citizenship,, an eight-hour day and >ther reforms. It was announced that Secretary, ["aft fn his annual report to Congress vould recommend- $5v525,920 for the :oast artillery service. James A. Cobb, a negro, has been ippointed special' Assistant United Jtates Attorney for. the District cff /Oiumuia. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Cubans approve the- Government's )lan to lend $5,000,0W to the banks,, i misunderstanding, regarding interrst charges having been removed. Objection may be offered in the 5enate of the United' States to the :onfirmation of the appointment of Jovernor Post to Porto Rico. The Hawaiian Realty Maturity, Company, an alleged "get-rfch-qulck" :oncern, has been declared Insolvent. The liabilities are placed'at $100,000. "Arrangements are said' to have )een made for getting brief weather eports from Hawaii and. Guam by; :able at San Francisco. At Manila Secretary Taffi? carriage yas dragged through the streets by snthusiastic crowds of students. DOMESTIC. Clara Barrow, an eighteen-year-old legress, was arrested on the- charge )f having murdered Mrs. Bessie Car:er in New Orleans. Blowing open the safe in tlie postjffice at Seneca, S. C., robbers secured J800 in stamps and $200 in currency. William Jennings Bryan said ha would accept the Democratic Presiiential nomination nest year,.but not seek for or ask it. Henry Watterson said he had tj^d to persuade W. J. Bryan not to be a candidate, but^that if Roosevelt were renominated Bryan couia carry i\ew England on the third-term issue. The Louisville street car strike has suspended suburban service. Governor Hughes at Albany appointed November 28 aa a day of general thanksgiving. It was announced at Boston that at the next meeting of the trustees of the Peabody fund a grant of $1,000,* 000 would be made for the establishment of a teachers' college at. Nashville. Booker T. Washington, Jr., son ol Booker T. Washington, is now a ctu? dent of Pisk University, Nashville. Henry C. Wilder, aged ninety-five years, and Esther Crawford, ninety years old, were married at Lowelli Mass. They had known each othei only two weekss Ex-Senator Spooner argued' E. H. Harriman's case in his fight against the Government's suit to compel him to answer certai questions in thfi Interstate Commerce Commission's investigation* Thomas Ford, the last full-blooded Mohican Indian, has become an inmate of the Plannville town farm near Weterbury, Conn. Mrs. Caroline A. Phillips, of Cleveland, accused of killing her husband, was discharged. Former Justice morgan j. u ducu thinks there are enough conservative voters to elect President a man of the Cleveland type by beating both Bryan and Roosevelt. The Tax Association of North America adjourned at Columbus, Ohio, after electing Allen R. Ripley president. Stuyvesant Fish referred to E. H< Harriman and his faction in the II' linois Central as "the looters of the Chicago and Alton." Leo Stevens, in a balloon, took moving pictures in a flight of 175 miles over mountains in Vermont and New Hampshire. FOREIGX. ^ Rear-Admiral Siegel, the German naval attache at Paris, has been recalled. United States Ambassador White left Paris for England, on. a threeweeks' shooting trip. Prince Francis Joseph Arnolpke, fourth sou of Leopold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, died at Venice. John William _Reid? of St. Louis, was arrested in .pans on me cuurgo of swindling in London. Oxford conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on Emperor William. It was presented by Lord Curzon. The shortage of eoal at Cape Breton is so acute that 26,000 tons have been engaged for import from Amer* ica. At a meeting: in London of the gov- ' ernors of the Peabody fund, at which Ambassador Reld presided, contracts were awarded for sixty-four cottages on the Hern& Hill estate. Spain's navy reform commission recommended the expenditure of almost $40,000,000 for additions to the navy. Russian officials report a Japanese raid on the seal rookeries on Copper. Island, the invaders using three-inch guns, driving off the guards and taking away several thousand skins. Tho Kaiser's visit to England is aa indication of his desire for peace. David Jayne Hill as the American Ambassador to Germany, to succeed Charlemagne Tower, was indorsed by iho Kaiser. An attempt was made to stop the train which was carrying the Russian Emperor from Pcterhof to TsarskoeSelo; railway guards exchanged shots with the outlaws. ine city auuiorities 1x1 ot. x-eiejoburg decided to deduct fines aggregating $425,000 for the non-com pleUod of the electric street railroads. An unusual friendly demonstration was made in London when Emperor William passed through the streets ^ *o his way to the Guildhall. * *