Show jewels valued at were stolen a sew few days ago from the country home of the quiches near st louis included j in the missing valuables were an engagement ring and nam numerous erous presents from adolphus busch 3rd ard to his wife neither the police nor the family have any clew it has been announced that the yale divinity school is to be known hereafter as the yale school of 0 religion it ii understood that the change in name is to be accompanied by a broadening of the schools sphere of influence linking the study of religions theoretical side with the study of its practical side 9 dr martha hodge an american woman who is p professor of mathematics in the university ot of Ca cartagena colombia was beaten gagged and ana robbed of money jewelry and a part of her clothing in a darkened railway compartment while traveling in germany recently the robbers removed her rings from her fingers and took from her handbag mrs august sedden of persia lows iowa fell fel I 1 into a trance some time ago and her physician pronounced her dead an undertaker came and placed her bodron body on a table where she lay for 11 hours unable to move a muscle or to make any sign while she listened to arrangements being made for her funeral and heard the sobs of the members of her family at the last moment she sighed and was thus saved from being buried alive her condition is critical because of her long illness and the nervous shocks she experienced while in the trance the he d pl schools at G j ar yv rim aishi m met etire tb e bare and ad training of 01 children eight hours a day six days a week and 4 48 8 weeks in ahe year without increasing the classroom study in order to do this two schools have been put into each building and the shops auditorium and playground are used every hour in the day the idea is gaining favor among school authorities who believe that better results can thus be obtained the school plant can be made more effi efficient clent and pupils can be given a maximum of industrial experiences perien ces so that the choice of a life work will be easier and they will be bet better ter prepared for the work they choose the total number of suicides suicides aes in 1914 was almost which was over more than in 1913 and approximately 1000 more than tin m either 1912 or 1911 the number of mile male was almost twice that of females physicians head the list of professional men who destroyed themselves among the causes of suicide in the order of their importance art are despondency ill health domestic infelicity insanity disappointment in love liquor and business losses the steady increase which the figures show in the number of those who take their lives because of ill health is considered as the most significant feature of the in the past year there were 54 lynch in ings gs as compared with 48 in 1913 and 64 in n 1912 figures covering the past 30 years however show that the custom of meting out summary punishment ment for crimes real or suppose sup is gradually growing less common the highest number in this 30 year period was in 1892 and the lowest 48 in 1913 of the total number of lynch ings in 1914 50 occurred in the south and two in the north forty nine of 0 the victims were colored and five were white four of the 52 were women the crimes for which these persons were lynched were murder night rider activities rape murderous assault suspicion of murder arson theft and frightening women 0 gov west oi of oregon has appointed miss katherine dark clark of glendale to fill a vacancy in the state senate the state attorney at torn ey general declares that the governor has no authority to make such an appointment but ii if she is seated she will bs be the first woman to serve as a member of the oregon senate miss marion towne was elected a tn member em of the state house of representatives last november and will vill be the first woman to serve as a member of that branch of the legislature captain bob bartlett the intrepid artic explorer has announced his intention to return to the frozen north next year captain bartlett said that his expedition next year will be conducted entirely on his own responsibility and that he would not go under the patronage of the government any newspaper or any scientific society l 1 wild elephants elephant 3 are ard found in in most moat of the large forests of india from the foot of the Him himalayas alays to the extreme south of 0 the indian peninsula and throughout I 1 the peninsula to the east of the bay of bengal bengtila into burma and blam biam they are also found in ceylon english society women have established an institution in which nurses get three years of training in the care ot of dogs and other pets A famous german physician proves that infantile paralysis is so oten often carried from one household to another by domestic animals such as chickens ducks and cows the mover movement neat that kansas has been carrying on an for cleanliness in foods has been extended to the swine and kansas proposes to give the ilog a bath every morning and a pen as clean as a kitchen investigations by the je geological survey of the erosion of numerous drainage basins of the united states show that the surface of the country is being worn away at a rat rate e of about an inch in years the famous tapestries still made mad e in a factory owned by the french government are woven from the reverse side a workman watching the design through the web as it is reflected in a mirror minor ghee the native butter in india wh ch has been known to keep for centuries without becoming rancid Is made by boiling butter butler until all the watery particles and curds have been removed by skimming the turkey so far as records are known was introduced from the port of cadiz where ships trading with the orient were accustomed to call in nearly all countries inclusive of spain and iven even turkey itself this bird i is s called the Indi indian axt fowl if ww tn 1 the go government ern bent estimates estimate that thai hi n 7 addition to the loss of 0 in the cereal crops caused by insects the loss on vegetables is on fruit and on other crops eno enough ugh more to bring the total loss up to all in one year an american expert has been engaged by the australian state of victoria to reopen a long closed factory and revive the beet sugar industry excellent results have been obtained tn in germany by experimenting in extinguishing fires with a mixture of solutions of caustic soda and alum which forms an air excluding foam |