OCR Text |
Show WBWi9fMWHiWBR!ffiiWAMWMMMsBWBwHBW I , rEiisb:iALs in rAssiNa. T , n- CJtorjre P. Dowermann. nw librarian of th Dliirtst or .Columbia, Is a newspaper news-paper in Ati, A. W. IV, u. of Bangor. Me.. 13 r: wilted with being the oldest practie-lr..j practie-lr..j attornf? In the United' 8tales. MIm Hobhouse, cf New Vork, In- lenits to take tome Venetian lace- i ) ' . mal.crs to South Africa and have them teach their art to the JJotr women. Mine. Loubet, wnj cf the French Drasldent, Is to he the nrt .recipient ot a new decoration bestowed In Kranco on thoso who have dfstln-euleheil dfstln-euleheil themselves in the cause ot charity. ' " A newspaper clipping bureau In Manhattan has collected 8,714 nowspa- per sturlts about the late Senator Hanna since his death. On an order '" ' from Elmer Dover, Mr. Burelte, the , proprietor, has arranged these cup- ' -i . . Plugs In an album, conslstlnc of 3,312 , V'- pages. It. will consist of eight vol- " umos, and It will contain matter equal '. to 1C.321.S36 words. Admiral Makaroff, precisely ten . . . . J'oara before ho went down with thu T ,j t',' I'etropavlovsk, delivered a lecture on t 'i VV.' SL Petersburg on tho submerslblllty tv h '" of warships. Tho Victoria catastropho j v In the Drltlsh navy was used as an j! "f j ' ' Illustration, and ho had a model which ' . yt he sank repeatedly to show the au? "'" dlunco how rapidly an Injured vessel .-5., - " ot lnat C'U8S Roes down. .'- "' ' In n attic room of his costly Flfta '.', ' .it , a'venue palace Col. John Jacob Astor, ' :'" tho posoessor of between $75,000,000 and $100,000,000, spends much of his ', ; time etudying and experimenting In 1 '- cUct'ital science. A practical and , ' ;,. watchful man of business, he neglects uo part of 'his duty In the management. ' v of his vast properties, but his mind- : ''&' --' has a scientific bent, and It is recroa- I fw':.", tlon for him to solvo complex prob- kjiiJ, lems. '"" &'&'!"'' ' Jo,,n ""'P Sousa. the conductor, has 3 '53P ' ' ' ' received notice of his promotion from 1 A ffijatt '' OHlcor de l'Acadomle Francalso to '-" ''Wm;''': "Olllcler do l'lnstriictlon Publlque" of ft Y$fl 'i ' .' France. The now distinction gives Mr. j $$&$, . Sousa the golden palms and rosette of ,'T V,: the French academy. He Is the only J 4 .'",;''", American who has received this dec- ." :',K , ' o.anon. Ho Is also a member of . , .(.' "t''.Z: the Hoyal Victorian Order of England. ' " ;V' ' f having been decorated by King Ed- f , " ''4,L - war1 Vl1- three years ago. |