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A YOUNG DESIGNER LIVING, AT GREEN
wich, Conn;, is disturbed by 'dreams and as
a result of his ldtest dream the young man hag
become the champion of a plan for the purchase
of Palestine and the transformation of that land
into a Christian republic. The Greenwich corre
spondent of the New York Tribune says that Ar-
thur Smedley Greene, that being the name of tho
young .dreamer, recently had a vision in which
ho saw the land of Palestine stretched out before
him, lilce a scroll., .Suddenly- the scene changed,,,
and he behejd Peter the Hermit leading troops of
crusaders. Mr. ,Gre.ene adds .that as the vision,
vanished he heard a voice calling upon him Jo :re7
deem tho land; frcjn the Turks. The young de
signer, then made a flag, which he says is ,ari ex-vj
act reproduction, of one he saw in his dream and
with this banner he proposes to -go from city to,
'city asking for contributions. He is now paganiz
ing a society, which, is to havecharge of the funds
he expects to raise. Letters are being Bent $o the ,
heads of the different governments of the world
asking for 'their co-operation. Mr. Greene will
make a special effQrt to obtain an, interview with ,
President Roosevelt Tiie-flag of tjie Palestine re
public, of which this artist dreams, is of Nazarene
blue, with a cross, a crown and two stars.
AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF Sci
ence, art, and industry will be opened at
Athens, Greece, March 25, 1903. The enterprise
is undor the patronage of the Crown Princess
Sophia. The Greek consul in Chicago says that
this will be the first international exhibition or
ganized in Athens or in fact in any city of the
Oriental
world.
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT OP THE ORGANIZA;.,
tion of a novel .trust comes from New "York'.
TM story is related by the NewYbrk corjespo'n
dent of the Chicago Tribune in this way: "A
'tenants' trust' is the latest thing up-town, and
landlords who cannot or will not keep their apart
ment houses warm are feeling uneasy lest the
movement spread. .In a large apartment house oh
the west side, not far from Columbus avenue, the
tenants, have been complaining of a lack of heat,
but the landlord turned a deaf ear. to their plead-'
ings, vowed that he could not get coal, and
laughed ."when the price of $10 a toil was quoted to
him in numerous letters. Patience at last" ceased
to be a Tirtue, and yesterday a meeting, of the
tenants was called and it was decided to purchase t
' three tons of coal and deduct the price1 qf the
same pro rata from the rents. A committee was
appointed, and today three tons c coal at '$10, a
,' ton were purchad and delivered to the apart-
fv ment house. As tho janitor has been, freezing "to
v' -"death in the. basement, and his wife is ill from
cold, ho willingly undertook to feed the 'furnace.
Tho landlord will receive checks for the current
month's rentminus the amount contributed Uy
. each tenant." ' ; '
INTERESTING STATISTICS RELATING TO.,
the carelessness on the part of many per
sons who patronize tho United States mail have
been presented by tho postofllce department. Ac-,
cording to this statement 19,954,437 articles of
mail were handled lr.st year, all of which articles
were incorrectly or imperfectly addressed. Ten
millions of these articles were either returned to
the sender or forwarded after the addresses had
been corrected. The money found in letters that
, were sent to the dead letter office and the 'money
received from the, auction sale of unclaimed ar
ticles in the mail amounted last year to $18,458.83,
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N EXCEPTIONALLY INTERESTING BUL-
letin was recently issued by .the Chicago
health department. In that bullbtin the depart
ment declared that diphtheria is prevalent in
Chicago, adding: "While the Thanksgiving din
ner of turkey and trimmings was being prepared
for tho seventy fortunate inmates of tho Chicago
home for friendless dogs and cats last Thursday
an unfortunate fatherCharles F. Malonoy of
559 South State street was trudging through the
south division carryimr his dinMhflrln.-Rtrtnlrpn
two-year-old daughter in his arms in ae&rnh nf
tfiome asylum, homo or -place where she could bo
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taken in and cared for. Refused admission at
hospital and dispensary, one after another, he
finally reached a rolico station, when he was
directed to, the health department, but the child
died before ' he arrived at the commissioner's
office. Tho two occurrences are not cited td
gether with iy intent of disparaging the work
of tho home for friendless dogs and cats, but are
there not in all this great city enough of those
who will emulate tho founders of the home for
friendless dogs and cats by providing hospital'
accommodations and a house fpr friendless in
fants and children stricken with contagious dis
ease? No such provision exists today for any'
diphtheria case, save in tho overcrowded wards
of tho county hospital ten to twelve miles from
the. city limits in one direction and sixteen to
eighteen' miles in tie other. No more "effectual
means for the spread of contagion, among rich
and poor alike; could ;be. devised than are thus af
forded throughputs lack of proper hospital ac
commodations for these diseases. .
THE STORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AND
' his hatchet has reached into the recesses
ot Bavaria. According to a Munich cablegram to
the Chicago Chronicle, a dealer in pigs in Weiden,
Bavaria, was testifying' in court to the honesty '"Jf
his son, who was ho defendant in the suit, and
swore he never told a lie. MHo reminds mb,'- -the'
judge remarked, "of George Washington1 The
witness, "detecting something ironical, as he
thought, in the judge's tone, flared up and said he
knew nothing of George Washington and iis law-1
yer demanded that the judgexplain. Then ;th6'
judge told the anecdote, which the peasants of
Weiden heard for the first time.
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PATHETIC STATEMENT RELATING TO
the former president of-the. South African
republic comes from Mentone, France. In a ca
blegram to the Chicago Chronicle it is said that
"Mr. Kruger's health has slightly improved since
he came here, but it is plain to anyone that the
old man's worst ailment is not physical. He looks
the picture of misery. When one meets him-driv:-:
ing with his daughter and grandchildren he ap-
pears to be oblivious to everything around- 'him. '
He never smiles, but looks -lost in bitter recollec--tion
of, the evils which have befallen him and his
country. He again expressed a few days ago a
strong desire to be -permitted to return to the -Transvaal
to end i-is days near Pretoria. Some
sympathizers undertook to plead his cause with
British Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. Two
wealthy friends even ou.ered to go baU for $50,000
each as a guaranty for Kruger's good behavior
in South Africa, But the colonial offlce.'is afraid
to assent, owlrig to the state of feeling in the';
Transvaal, where all classes and races' are discon-'
tented under the new' regime' ' '
INFORMATION FROM ROME IS TO THE EF
fect that the government of Italy will estab
lish wireless telegraphy between Genoa and Bue
nos Ayres. According to the Rome, correspondpnt j
of the Chicago Chronicle the line will be a nov.elty
in wireless operation, as it will cross .both land
otid sea. The straight line connecting Genoa and
the Argentine capital along with the wireless mes
sages, will pass crosses the Mediterranean, Algeria,
the, Sahara desert and the Atlantic ocean and
partly skirts and partly crosses the coast of Bra
zil southward from Cape St Roque, Rio do Janei
ro and Montevideo are almost on the line. Should
it be decided to establish intermediate relay sta
tions the cdnsent and co-operation of at least three
other nations, France, Brazil and Paraguay, would
be necessary.
MORRISTOWN, N. J., IS CREDITED WKTH
only 12.000 inhabitants and yet it is said that
mt little city live sixty-two millionaires. Ev-
ory one of these Is credited with .at Jqast '$1,000,000
while others are said to be possessed, of fortunes
ranging from $5,000,000 to $30,000,000.
DR. GEORGE R. ! PARKIN, UPON WHOM
will devolve the duty of distributing the
Cecil Rhodes scholarships in Canada and tho
United .States, recently returned from England.
Dr. Parkin will have 200 scholarships to give out
He visited Oxford, consulting tho authorities as
to the best method of distribution. The doctor
says: 'There are twenty-one colleges-at Oxford,
and each wants such scholarships as are award
ed it to come .under its own peculiar rules of en
. trance and so forth. Some prefer to have post
graduate and others under-graduate scholarships.
For the next year I shall bo kept busy visiting
and consulting jvith the leading educators of the
states and colonies as to" the best methods of se
lecting candidates for the various scholarships
which are allotted to their several districts. Each
of these scholarships carries with tt $1,500 a year
for three years, and it is an interesting question
just what class of men are going to apply for
them. Tho first beneficiaries will go to Oxford
in tho fall of 1904, consequently the final awards
will bo made early Jn that year"."
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ONE OF THE MOST ABSURD IN THE LONG
list of rilliculous election wagers was en
tered into by two citizens of New York. One was
an enthusiastic champion of Coler and the other
a firm believei,in Odell, rival candidates, for gov
ernor.' jAccprd)ng to tho terms" of the wager, the
one . whose1 prediction was shown to Te faulty
agrded-that lie wpuld roll a peanut a mile with a
crowbar. TheCblerman lost and as a result in
the presence, of an interested throng he spent
' just two hours and a half in the absurd effort to
- roll 'for .one niile a peanut, weighing one-fourteenth
of an. ounce, with a-, 40-pound crowbar.
A citizen of Wichita,' kas., james w.
Moffat, recently received a commission
. signed by President. Andrew Johnson and dated
, June 12, 1866. 1 This commission gaye to Mr.
Moffat the rank of , brevet major of volunteers.
The interesting story is tojd by the Wichita Ea
gle in this way; YThe first question any one
would naturally ask 4s how the commission came
to be so, long on the way.. At the time it was
served it was sent, to the governor of Ohio, at Co
lumbus. The .enyplopo showed the contents and
the .governor, had stricken out Columbus and writ
ten under CanaJ Dover, at which place Major Mof
fat Jived" at the 'time. At that time a man who
was , not Mr. Moffat s friend, was postmaster at
Canal Dover, and Mr. Moffat accused him of hav
ing held up his commission, all of which he de
nied. This man died of heart disease a short time
ago and the envelope and contents, just as 41 had
been sent, were found among his papers, except
that it had been opened. A brother-in-law of this
postmaster, who is now in the government service
, at "vynshihgtdn, found the document among tho
juead Brian's papers and sent it to Major Moffat.
"Majqr Moffat sayd he and the postmaster were not
. on very friendly terms, and all the explanation ho
can fix" up in his own mind is that the postmaster
opened the envelope and was afraid to either give
it tb' 'him or destroy it. The government of tho
United ' States had 'undertaken to carry that en
velope 'and its contents to Major Moffat and it
finally did it, if it did take thirty-sik years to
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UNCliE SAM IS1 NOT ALWAYS A SUCCESS
ful litigant in his proceedings againsV trusts
and yet according to figures recently made public
. by the department of justice it would appear that
he is! (not altogether a failure in his proceedings
against individuals. During the year 1901 judg
ments -in civil suits Were rendered in favor of the
. United' States government aggregating the sum of
$864,144;62. During that period tho government
actually collected the sum of $20,879.03. ,
AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY, WAS RE
' contly made by', workmen "who engaged in
demolishing a-' frame building in Richland, Mich.
' The building' was the property of A. B. Barnes,
vho had occupiod it for forty years. In the cellar
, the workmen- found a nail keg coated with grime
, and dust and filled with what at first appeared to
be branT new copper pennies, but closer' investiga
' tion showed -that they were commercial pennies
such as were used during the war and were fur
nished' by private mints to banks to be used as
'' change; i The Detroit Free Press says: "One of
the pennies bears a picture of George Washington
on one side, surrounded by thirteen stars, and be
tineath. the profile the date 1862. On the other
' side is the inscription, 'Union Forever,' surround-
ed by a, wreath. The other penny has on one sido
. a flagi liberty1 cap, thirteen stars, the inscription,
'The 'flag of our union and tho date 1863. On
the reverse side is the historic utterance of Gen
oral Dix: 'If anybqdy attempts to tear it down,
shoot him on the spot -There were about 50.000
pennies in the lot, and they had evidently lain
where" they vere found for fully twoscore yars.
Neither-,Mr, Barnes nor any one now residing in
Richland has any idea how these coins came to '
.. be stowed away in thexbullding
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iy geon, viBited the United States for the spe
cial purpQse of operating upon, the crippled
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