SPURN RHODES' GIFT
German Students Unwilling to Ac
cept Scholarships at Oxford.
rimiM llciiiK liii ill for tln» Distribution
of tlic Two Hundred Soliolnr
nlii|>M iii iJio I nited Stmt en
111141 llritiMh ( olonicM.
A commission appointed by Emperor
William, consisting of l)r. Friedrich
Schmidt, of the ministry of education
of Germany, and l'rof. Kielhorne, lias
been at Oxford making inquiries as to
the arrangements for the reception
of scholars from Germany, under the
will of the late Cecil Rhodes. There
are constantly increasing signs that it
will be difficult to find German stu
dents of the bust types who are will
ing to accept tiie scholarships. The
German hatred of the English seems
as strong among students as in other
classes. It was recently resolved at
a representative meeting of all the
German university corps or dueling
clubs, which was held at Kosen, that
the members of these corporations
should have nothing to do with the
Rhodes scholarships. Anyone with a
■ knowledge of German universities will
appreciate what this means.
Dr. George It. l'arkin, the commis
sioner who is charged with the dis
tribution of the Cecil Rhodes scholar
ships in the British colonies and the
United States, has returned to Amer
ica from England. "There are some
200 scholarships to be distributed in
the ! tates and colonies," said Dr. Park
in.
"1 have been at Oxford for several
weeks trying to get the wishes of the
Oxford authorities as to the manner
of distribution. There are 21 colleges
at Oxford, and each wants such schol
arships as are awarded it to come un
der its own peculiar rules of entrance,
and so forth. Some prefer to have
post graduate and others undergrad
uate scholarships. For the next year
1 be kept busy visiting and con
sulting with the leading educators of
the states and colonies as to the best
methods of selecting candidates for
the various scholarships. Each of
these scholarships carries with it
$1,500 a year for three years, and it is
an interesting question just what
classes of men are going to apply for
them. The first beneficiaries will go
to Oxford in the fall of 11)04, conse
quently the final awards will be made
early in that year."
WANTS MORE CRUISERS.
German Fli»et Society I'rcMciitK F1 B
"»•» Sliowiiuc Need of a
L<n rite r \ a iy.
The German Fleet society, to which
I Emperor William and nearly all the
cabinet ministers, naval officers and
others high in the government service
belong, has sent its several members,
through the society's monthly publi
cation, i\ statement of the considera
tions which make necessary the build
ing of more cruisers for service
abroad, especially in Central and
1 South American waters.
The communication deals with Ger
\ ma a trade relations there and'goes
seriously into the amounts of the pres
ent capital invested and the future pos
sibilities. Tt does not contain the least
trace of jingoism, but concludes with
a carefully phrased paragraph saying
that "Germans must make up their
mirds whether the business already
created shall be protected and extend
ed or permitted to languish. If the
former alternative is accepted the navy
must be increased by sufficient cruisers
to adequately protect trade."
WARDROBE OF NOTED POET.
Grtliri <•!!«» <l*A un n nslo Own* Severn ty-
Two Miirf* ami Other Articles
in Mqiin3 Profusion.
A Neapolitan paper publishes an in
ventory of Gabrielle d'Annunzio's
wardrobe. He had 72 shirts, 12 dozen
pairs of socks of various kinds and 21
dozen pairs of quiet tinted silk under
wear, evening suits, smoking coats and
Einoking jackets innumerable, 48 pairs
of gloves for walking and 24 pairs for
evening wear, three silk mufflers, 12
walking sticks, eight umbrellas <>f vio
let hue, ten green parasols, 20 dozen
handkerchiefs, 150 cravats of resplen
dent and varied hues, ten waistcoats,
3' pairs of walking shoes, two pairs
of slippers, "soft, silent and tremu
lous, three revolvers, a dagger, a box
of perfume, and one lapdog.
A MIAHIIIarI \\ 01111111*11 U IIIIIN,
A woman is advertising in one of
the .Missouri papers "for a borne 'n
n family where there are no chil
dren, no washing, and good wages."
She should explain, says the Chicago
Record llerald, whether she will be
satisfied with Brussels carpet in
her room, or whether she prefers
oriental rugs.
Time lit U'liki* I p.
A Philadelphia man died the other
night while suffering with night
mare. Really, says the Chicago R, . .
ord Herald, the people of Philadel
phia ought to wake up.
Unleli lime on llunit lilp.
A mile a minute is pretty fast, say.,
the < hieugo Record Her.■ )cl, but some
of the living machine inventors hnv<*
beaten even that on the way down.
Dire I'oilUhmrut for Millnit,
How would it do to punish the sul
tan of Itaeolod, ask.the ( hicajfo
Record Herald, by making hint keep
bachelor's hall awhile?
spr ) for tier tmm
Ohio in 100 years old. It will have
t'< In udmitted ».i t the ( lii< igo Rt e
ord llei ild that she .« quite "pert"
iu I one of her age.
BAN ON SECRET WEDDINGS.
The l'«»tur of (he "Little 1 linreli
Around tile Corner** Announce*
u \eiv Departure.
Romance has received a deadly blow.
"The lit t lc church a round the corner,"
in New York, has turned its back on it.
Hereafter lovers pursued by angry
papas; overnight acquaintances smit
ten heavily by Cupid'sdarts; rough and
tumble ladders of matrimony without
previous training for the ordeal; in
fact-, all unconventional persons, who
want to have the knot tied with as lit
tle ceremony as possible, will have to
hunt another Gretna Green.
Dr. George Clark Houghton, the
rector, who succeeded his uncle at the
Church of the Transfiguration, has
laid down the law. The game is too
strenuous for l)r. Houghton, and, in
the language of the stage, he "cuts it
out."
This is official, for he has published
it in the Kalendar, the monthly paper
of the church. Here is what he says:
"This autumn has brought me a great
many experiences and among them a
large number of weddings, which I have
been obliged to decline, because 1 did
not know the parties. It is necessary
that I should know the people who
come before marriage, or they must
be vouched for by persons whom I
know, and they must have acceptable
witnesses. There is a limit to the in
terpretation of charity, and 1 limit
'secret marriages' and marriages tin
supported by family recognition."
" l"Iic little church around the cor
ner has been famous for years as a
place where any person pining for
matrimony could get the knot tied
without more bother than was legally
necessary. A great many theatrical
people resorted there for that purpose
I and it came to be looked upon as the
especial church of the theatrical pro
fession.
WILL SACRIFICE DESTROYER.
Ilrltij.li Xnvy Tryl OR l» llreiak CoKtly
\\ urnhip in Two to Detect W'euk
llPMN in Construction.
Naval officials have begun experi
! merits to discover why so many British
torpedo boat destroyers are broken in
two while at sea. The destroyer Wolf,
launched in ISO", and costingsl,2so,ooo,
will be sacrificed in the experiments.
The destroyer was first balanced
across a pile of timbers, with both ends
of the vessel unsupported. It did not
break in two under this strain and was
next hung by the ends, leaving the
center unsupported. The destroyer
withstood both tests.
The experiments are expected to
prove whether a destroyer's hull is so
weak, as was suggested in the case of
the Cobra, that the back breaks when
a wave lifts the vessel amidships or a
! sea lifts it in such a manner that the
I wave Is hollow beneath the middle.
The tests will be repeated, and if the
! Wolf remains seaworthy it will be
| taken out in a rough sea for further
j experiments. Vessels will stand by in
case of accident.
WANTS KISSING STOPPED.
Virulnia liOfgiMlntor Propose* l.nvv
IteiiulriiiK I'll.' lllclil n*« Certificate
llefore o.seo ln tion IN I'eriui lited.
In the Virginia house of delegates
the other day Dr. R. B. Ware, a prac
ticing physician, introduced a bill to
! make promiscuous kissing a misde
! meanor. It is the first measure he has
; presented except by request. The act
! reads in part ns follows:
"Whereas, kissing- has been decided
|by the medical profession to be a
i medium by which contagious and in
fectious diseases are transmitted
frunt one person to another; therefore,
lie it enacted by the general assein
i lily of Virginia that it shall be unlaw
| ful for any person to kiss another un
| less he can prove by his family physi-
I cian that he hasn't any contagious or
j infectious disease."
Violators of the proposed law will
be fined not less than one dollar nor
more than five dollars for each offense.
MARCONI HAS A NEW RIVAL.
Mi'ilini'r \rrlvea let llnlt iitiore After
lteeelvinu' MCMMJIKCM 1,000 Mile*
by Muirhend System.
The steamer Vedamore, which is
equipped with a wireless telegraph
station, has arrived at Haltitnore an.l
reported remarkable experiments
with the'Muirhead system. Messages
! were received at a distance of 1,000
I miles at sea, but owing to the re
' strieteil power of the Imtterics oper
ating the station 011 the vessel the
electrician on board was only able
I to transmit a message for a distance
jof not exceeding 300 miles. The
Morse alphabet is used in transmit
ting the messages, and the charac
ters are recorded on a paper ribbon
■ the same as a stock broker's ticker.
HABY BOY WINS FORTUNE.
Senator ( lurk** Offer of ■■ Million for
llie I'lrxt !• rn IMIMOU L.oen to
foil's Wife'* Hit by.
A son has been born to the wift
■if \\. \. Clark, Jr., winning the
! fl,noil,ooo gift whieh Senator W. A.
i lark offered to his MIIIM ami daugli
I tcrs a year ago fur the first grand
son presented to him. His youngest
I daughter, Mrs. Morris, in New Vork,
recently gave birth to a daughter,
j Senutor ( lark, who is in Paris, ha*
| been notified lis cable of the uri'ivul
of the prize winner.
tt<»ti«lM> Harmon).
According to pre»ent advices then
is .1 lurge crop of I hi-Mma* tree ,
says the 1 hicago Tribune, and a still
linger crop of thing* to hung on
ihsut.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 190 a.
I THE DAYS OF STEAM.
Not Yet Ended in Spite of the De
velopment of Electricity.
CorneliviA Vnnilerlillt lleclnreii That
j I'.leelric ICuKinex Mimt Willi a
I.OIIK Time llefore Siipplniitliijc
Mi cum l.acoinoli ve».
Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire,
society man and railroad man, whose
invent ions have revolutionized railway
locomotives, now takes his place as
one of tlie reviewers of the United
States. His initial article appears in
the North American Hevievv, dealing
with the question of the use of elec
tricity as a substitute for steam as
motive power 011 the great trunk lines
of the country, lie declares, in sub
stance, that a change from.the pres
ent system of motive power 011 the
trunk lines is remote.
"From tlie standpoint of those in
charge of the railways in this coun
try." says Mr. Vanderbilt, "there is
only one object in view when a change
is made in methods of operation. That
object is the product ion of ail increased
net revenue."
Before any change from the present
system of motive power is made, Mr.
\ underbill declares, the result "must
promise a more economical method
j of transportation, or such an increase
in the volume of traffic as will insure
an increased net revenue."
He declares the crews and motormen
of electric trains should receive as
h .gli wages as the crews and engineers
of steam trains, and that a second man
should always be in the cab with the
motorinan, owing to the danger of
accident to the latter.
Mr. \ andcrhilt declares that power
houses and substations would have to
be so placed on electric roads as to de
crease the fuel cost sufficiently to pay
interest on the excess of capital over
that required in the present svstem.
I he possibility of doing this," con
tinues Mr. Vanderbilt, "depends pri
marily 011 (lie density of the traffic
on the road. In most cases, it is an
impossibility, and the further we ex
tend the principle, and so place our
plant as to decrease the fuel cost, the
more difficult it becomes to find a rail
-1 oad having the required traffic dens
j ity."
NEW ART METHOD DECRIED.
ICiUKllxh 112 rillie Si«y« That Kafraelli'a
Invention IK I) i *<•<»u rani
to Geni IIN.
The invention of Kaffaelli, the
I' rench painter, for solidifying oil
colors into cylindrical sticks resem
bling pastels, so that painters in oil
I may henceforth dispense with the
j brush and palette, has already been
j described. There is now open a
remarkable exhibition at the Duran
druel gallery of 72 pictures by more
than 20 artists, all painted under
haffaelli s method. Among the
painters represented are: Haffaelli,
Steinlen, Albert I'.esnard and Cheret!
15aITaelli claims that Titian's longing:
Oh, that we might only paint with
the colors we hold in our hands," has
been realized.
'I he discovery does not meet with
universal acceptance in London. Wil
j liam Quiller Orehardson, I{. A., de-
I ciares that this new. royal road to art
i leads anywhere except to art.
"It appears," lie says,"to be pastel
painting in oil, and is practically oil
; crayon, but it won't do. It is a se
lection and mixing of colors that
makes the difference between the
painter of genius and the duffer, and
no artist of individuality is likely to
adopt it."
AND THE CAT CAME BACK.
I'lli * Anliiinl Travelled KIO Milcx to
Live I'p to the Tradition of
It* S'pevieN.
Walter P. Post, an insurance agent
of ( tica, .V. V., moved to that city
I from Slaterville Springs, near Ithaca,
! recently, and among the family po«-
j sessions brought to Utica was a cat.
j The feline did not take kindly to her
j new surroundings, and ten days ago
I disappeared. Kvery possible means
j was adopted in an effort to recover
the pet, but without result. The other
day a letter was received by Mr.
Post from former neighbors at
Slaterville Springs announcing th?
'safe arrival of the cat at their home
,111 that place in an emaciated condi
tion. The distance from I tica to
j the place where the eat returned is
over 100 miles by rail, and the man
; ner iu which it made the journey is
! a mystery.
BRIDE FULL OF LIQUOR.
The Nov el Sin ucu l inn Device Jiite
cra»fully Employed on the
lie Iu in 11 Frontier,
French customs officials at Aveti
| ties, 011 the Belgian frontier, stopped
! a wedding party n few days ago for
j the customary inspection. The bride's
silence and rigid attitude aroused sus
; piciou, and on raising her veil the
..ilicer was surprised that the young
! woman showed no sign of resistance.
' lie was about to pursue hit inquiry
when the driver of the earl whipped
up mid their party \va,s soon beyond
the official's jurisdiction. It W44
! learned afterward that the "bride"
nn made of /iiic aid Was tilled will)
contraband honor.
\•• s I 111 i 1144 lit tlnlrr.
\ gun tliut will throw a pr>.j. -tile
I weighing -•, .(> pounds a distance of
j M milts is being mounted down mi
j the New Jersey coast. Now 1 \clailiii
I the Chicago Hccuril Herald, for uu
jSlUi«.|- tL.it 11 Mill not p,cixe.
HOME BRINGS BIG PROFIT.
L.ady 4 lieyleNiuore'H I'l lie Country
limine iu llertvick In <.really
In Demand.
Lord and Cheylesmore are now
living in Lady Cheylesfnore's own pret
ty house at North Berwick, after hav
ing let it.for the whole season to
American Ambassador and Mrs.
Choate. Many people at London had a
notion that Lady Cheylesmore had no
money when, as Miss Klizabeth French,
of New York, she married the present
baron, but with her own money she
built Cheylesmore lodge, deeming that
the best investment and the one likely
to bring the biggest profit in the long
run. Her judgment has been vindi
cated, for the house has been much in
demand for the North Berwick sea
son, and could easily have been rented
the whole year round.
Stocked with priceless old furniture
of every known style, it contains much
magnificent silver with historic asso
ciations more suited to a museum than
1 to a private house. These, us well as
the great collection of old pictures,
rare engravings, prints and wood cuts
which cover the tapestried walls, were
all left by the late Lord Cheylesmore,
who was one of the greatest connois
seurs of his day. llis princely bequest
j to the nat ion will be recognized as the
most valuable of recent years, but, un
fortunately, the national treasure
; houses of Kngland are already so over
crowded that no room can at present
i lie found for them 011 the walls of the
galleries, so they are stored away in
| special chambers and are only to be
Been by applying to the curators.
BRITAIN MAY AID MARCONI.
if I'reaent Kxperimevits Succeed, tlie
Company Will tii't Crovern
iiien till l'on era.
It is expected that British govern-
I mental powers will shortly be grant
| ed to the Marconi Wireless company
| which will enable that concern to work
I independently. At the present time
the official regulations prevent any
commercial wireless operations within
three miles of English shores. The
signaling station at the Lizard, which,
it is said, was acquired through Lloyd's
at an annual rental of £5,000, will be
used merely for experimental pur
poses. Before the success of Marconi
in sending messages and signals from
the Italian cruiser Carlo Alberto, a few
| months ago, the English authorities
were chary about recognizing the
commercial utility of the system.
Since the recent triumphs, however,
negotiations have been carried on in
London between 11. Cuthlitrt Hall,
the manager of the wireless company,
and certain post office officials, and it is
thought that these will be successful.
Messages have already been sent
across the Atlantic, and the officials of
the company are now merely waiting
for Marconi's promised telegram from
'ape Rreton before announcing the
immediate commencement of commer
cial operations.
HORSE-MEAT FEAST PLANNED.
Only Assed, Hheuniatlc Animals Are
to lie Cooked for Dinner
ul lierlin.
Distinguished members of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals of Berlin have been invited to
a horse-meat dinner by the Fleischer
Zeitung, a national organ of the Ger
man butchers, whieh says it desires to
measure the sincerity of the society in
issuing its recent appeal to the public
to eat more horse meat, so its to be
merciful to animals unfit for work,
which will be relieved of their suffer
ings if the consumption of horse meat
is made more popular. The Fleischer
Zeitung lias not yet received any ac
ceptances to the invitation. The pa
per promises to put up as good a horse
intai feast as an accomplished cook can
produce, but the only material must be
an aged, rheumatic beast, such as the
society desires to emancipate. No
young colts will do.
BERNHARDT EATS OLIVES.
Tlie French \ctreNM Said to Indulge
ilel ween \c!m 10 Improve
Her \ nice.
The secret of Mine. Sarah Bern
harrtt's golden voice has been finally
discovered. A Paris Figaro reporter
met an olive vender at a Mont Marte
cafe, who claimed to be the divine
Sarah's regular purveyor. Taunted
as a liar, In: produced an autograph
letter, reading thus:
Theater Sarah Beri.turdt.— :
: Permit M l*oliveseiler to trier :
: theater every ever.li.K
: SARAH.
The itinerant vender volunteered
the information that Mine. Kern
linrdt buys unsalted olives nightly
for her dressing-room and eats them
between the acts.
1i» If n I i I n \ !
An excited Halifax paper has in
formation of n plot 011 the part of
t'nele Sam to annex Canada, and calls
for an army of snn.ooti to repel the
Yankee invaders. If you doubt this,
says the Chicago Tribune, \mi can
goto Halifax and nsk the editor,
i tar Should Tube l're<-a ul ion «.
The sultan of Turkey has sent- an
letter to the e/iir asking
the latter tn visit h i 111 in (install
tinople. If Nick ies, say* the Chi
cago Record Herald, he will consult
his own inlere in by having a uiniir.
pocket put iu his undershirt.
To Tread Untitle t.round.
It l« !'• he pre*,ll,„ ,>.n the <hi
cago Tribune. thai Vlr. I iiainliei la 11
stnrtrd foi South Africa with the
full |ICI nil ion of the life II Ul In
ecitiipuuic *». 1
FOOD TEST IS BEGUN.
Government Using Clerks as Diet
Subjects to Get Results.
UrcnU'al Cora I'akrii to Secure AP
euriltr liifurninliim in l(<-Kiiril (o
i;n,cl of I'noil Adulterant*
ami Preservative*.
I)r. W. H. Wiley, chief chemical ex
pert nf the department of agriculture,
has begun the series of experiments
into the effects of adulterated foods,
with 12 clerks as subjects. A kitchen
and a dining-room have been fitted
up hi the basement of the chemistry
building for carrying on the experi
ments. At noon the other day each of
the subjects was weighed, and then all
ate their first government meal. For
two weeks they will be served with
plain, substantial food. At the end of
that period the six who have shown
the most proficiency in keeping their
personal records of the experiment will
be formed into the first table, at which
preservatives will be fed.
After each man was weighed he was
given a thermometer and told that he
would be expected to take his tem
perature three times a day. After the
lirst table has been served with food
containing preservatives and adulter
ants for two weeks, the men will go
back to honest food, and the other six
will take their turn at the preserva
tives. The experiments will be con
tinued until results are evident.
The preservatives and adulterated
foods that have been stored in the
larder of the experimental building
have all been carefully analyzed and
weighed. Strict account will be taken
of the amount of food taken by each
subject daily. Dr. Wiley says it is
doubtful if the results of the experi
ment will be obtained in time for sub
mission to congress at this session in
the interest of a pure-food law.
Manufacturers of adulterated food
stuffs and makers of preservatives as
well as the general public are taking
great interest in the experiment, for
it is the first time that such an official
inquiry has been undertaken on a thor
oughly scientific basis. The meat
packers who use borax as a preserva
tive are especially interested.
UNION OF EUROPE FAVORED.
Prominent SlutCMinen of Frnnce Siiy
Timt It IN Needed to Jt(»«iMt the
Ad va nee ii 112 A morion.
Ex-Minister liourgeois and Baron
D'Kstournelles, Frenchmen, are rep-
J resented to be recent converts to the
! idea of organizing a United States
j of Europe as a means to enabling
i the old world to resist the industrial
j competition of America. M. liour
; geois is quoted as saying that JJu
! rope, disunited, is spending 50 per
cent, of its income on its armies, and
| cannot hope to withstand the indus
trial rivalry of the United States,
| which spends comparatively little for
this purpose, in a lecture, Baron
D'Estournelles said that Europe no
longer ruled the destinies of the
world, and that, linked with the im
portance of the United States as a
formidable rival, was the fact that
Europe had been spurring the yellow
races to rivalry, and their competi
tion must lie reckoned with. Europe
must henceforth seek strength in
union. Her peoples must learn to
settle their differences amicably. A
federated Europe was in no wise
Utopian. A United States of Europe
was the urgent necessity of the day.
A COSTLY PIANO.
Rnxt>nr>' (Hani.) f'nctor.v I M II II ilili II K
hii Instrument Which In to
Ccitst SIO,OOO.
On the order of a Philadelphia
store for a customer, believed to be
Charles M. Schwab, the steel mag
nate, a Roxbury (Mass.) factory is
building what will be probably the
most elaborate and expensive piani
constructed in this country in the
last .10 years.
The price will be SIO,OOO. The in
strument is a marvelous middle-sized
grand, of Louis XVI. design. The
case i- gilded and decorated ornately
with foliage after tin? Watteau pat
tern.
Just when the piano will be ready!
for delivery is not known, but it is
understood that when Mr. Schwab
returns from his health-seeking trjp j
abroad il will be reposing in the par- I
lors of the wonderful new mansion
lie is having erected in New York
cH y-
INDIANS USE BREAKFAST FOOD
>lr-inh«*rM of the li In ninth Trlho I til
ice Seriln of n Specie* of
\\ nter Illy.
Breakfast footl unknown in the
modern markets, but which litis been
in use by the Klamath Indians since
aboriginal times, has been discov- j
ered by Frederick V. Cohille, liotan- '
ist of the department of agriculture,
who says it is more palatable and
more nutritious than many of the;
patent foods now in common use.
I 11•• food consists of the prepared
sc 'ds of the "woeus," a large yellow !
water lily, which grows in the Khi - I
mailt marsh on tin- Indian reserva- |
thin of the same name in southern
Oregon.
% Terrible »■*«•.
The llritoiis whipped the liners, but
the latter are ifcttiiii; a terrible re-!
vruge, nits the < hietigii Kecord llei
aid. They're nil writing books and
► elluitf tlieiu to thri Kn^lish.
It !«•••• lli- I »«•••• ii Un »112,
Al the stale fair in Syi.n u-c there
was a rate bet*ecu two (lot k« of
g« i„» dritto by v> uUieU.
SUBMARINE BOAT TESTED.
\rw llritifth llont I'rovcm In II«• n Mar*
vel, anil Away A lie ml of the Hoi
i ivll <I Tj |»e of Roa*it.
Submarine boat Al, th# joint in
vention of Viekers Sons Maxim
and the English admiralty, lias been
tested in deep-sea experiments in tlie
Irish sea. After several days' speed
trials at Harrow docks, the vessel \va»
towed out before daylight to about
five miles from VValny island. Large
casks with (lags were laid down for
a long course and soundings we ra
ta ken for several miles in the vicinity.
A heavy sea was running and tliera
was a thick mist.
The boat was quickly submerged
and traveled several miles without
returning to the surface for soma
hours. A depth of from ten to 15
feet was obtained. Maneuvers in
and out, the flag marks were made,
the vessel answering her rudder with
I great rapidity in whichever direction
j it was desired to go. She was brong.u
promptly to the surface on several
occasions and was submerged wit It
equal rapidity.
The surface trials were then run,
and the speed showed considerable
improvement over boats of the Hol
land type. The naval authorities
I maintain the utmost reticence, nialc
j ing it impossible to obtain accurate
I details, but at large the Al is con-
I sidered a great improvement over the
! Holland type. It is believed that tl'-j
i A 2, A3 and A 4, which are now build
] ing. will be more formidable than
j any with which trials have been made
| by foreign powers.
The Al returned to Harrow after
j dark. It is believed she will be fit
ted with a new petrol engine for the
j purpose of charging her electric liat
! teries and propelling her to the sur-
J face with greater speed than has
i hitherto been obtained.
THEY SHUN KISSING.
Society of Men ami Women Wlio Arc
fMellneil Not to Kiss
A o y IMMI j .
Some American ladies and gentle
men have conceived so strong a dis
taste for kissing that they have hand
ed themselves into an association with
the pleasing title of the Anti-Oscilla
tion society, says Cassel's Journal.
The members are pledged not to kiss
anybody. The lady members (they
are mostly ladies) must not kiss each
other, or even their nearest relatives.
People who are or have been much
given to kissing are preferred as mem
bers—so that they can be "reformed.'*
} One of the members—a middle-aged
man —claims that he has never in uU
I his life given or received a kiss. He
j is naturally the pride and glory of the
I strange society.
j It is worthy of note that the lady
j members are not taking precautions
against nonexistent dangers; that is
to say, some of them are both young
and charming, it is, indeed, a question
whether the fact of their being pledged
against kissing would not offer a new
and irresistible temptation to un
scrupulous young men. One is remind
ed of the story of the old toper who
donned the blue ribbon in order thai
he might he tempted with offers oS
drink. Certainly a cynic might sug
gest that some idea of this sort is at
the root of the nnti-kissing movement
so far as girls are concerned.
AMERICAN STUDENTS ABROAD.
All it It P German VnlveritiHcM Are
Thronged with You IIK Men from
the lii I toil .Stated.
American students are beginning
to invade the smaller universities of
Germany. It is not only in IJerliu
and Leipsic and Munich that they
are. at work. Latterly the small
town of Wurzburg in Bavaria has re
ceived a considerable consignment of
students from the states, where they
are engaged in studying chemistry
and various branches of philosophy,
chiefly mental. Marburg is another
small university near the IJhine.
Here it is not philosophy, but the
ology. which attracts American stu
dents. They work in Marburg before
coming along to Berlin to hear tlt»*
great liberal theologian, I'rof. Adolf
lfnrnack. Another university which
was not visited by Americans in any
number until this year is (ile*seo»
near Frankfort. As in Marburg, so
there, the students go for theology.
The number attending classes in H«-c
-lin and Leipsic increases from yea*"
to year. In Kerlin American Mti
dents are in all departments, but
chiefly in philosophy, theology iiixi
philology.
WEDS IN BLAZE OF GEMS.
I.onilon llriile lit n I'll* ll 10111 l li Ie Wwf—
UiiiM IIIIM a lllamniiil-Stiaililed
Drrmi.
Weddings nowadays are not wluit
they were a few yearn « hen (hit
bride seldom wore anything in the
way of jewels. At a fashionable wee
ding in London the other day
bride's dress was entirely veiled with
rare old lace, and as she walked tip
the long pathway to the tlour the
dim afternoon light turned the front,
of her dress into a perfect blaze «>f
diamonds.
11l the luce at her neck will ivt
enormous diamond spray. Her neck
hue and the pendants ami brooehe*
on her corsage were of unusual bril
liance, while her chaplet of uruutrv*
flower* was fastened with u diamond
and ruby brooch.
llliroirr) of IH A in*• nif *•>
A diamond di-cmery who h is pti.li
• hly the most important »in«'i that
at Kimhcrlcy has been made nt Kl
aunfiHitein. S< Neu diamond*
found there in three •bullovv hole*.
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