News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 11, 1913

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— During the football season of 1913, which practically closed November 22, fourteen players were killed, and 175 injured.

— England now possesses a full squadron of eight battle-ships of the super-dreadnaught type, the most compact and powerful fighting force in the world. Its cost is estimated at $70,000,000.

— Should all the motion-picture films manufactured in the United States during the calendar year of 1913 be placed together, they would measure 25,000 miles, enough to encircle the globe.

— On November 22, proprietors of more than 3,300 saloons in Ohio closed their places of business in accordance with the provisions of the State liquor license law, which limits the number of saloons in wet territory to one for each 500 population.

— The general public reception, which has been held at the White House every New-year’s day since the administration of Thomas Jefferson, will be omitted this year. President Wilson will spend the holidays in a quiet, restful vacation somewhere in the South.

— And now we have an egg trust. It is authoritatively stated that thousands of dozens of this now “rare luxury” are being held in cold storage in order to force prices higher. More than 700,000 members of the Housewives’ Leagues of New York and Chicago have united in a boycott on eggs until the price is reduced to at least thirty-two cents a dozen.

— Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, second daughter of the President, and Francis B. Sayre were married in the East Room of the White House, at Washington, D. C., on the afternoon of November 25. This great social event of the season was conducted with that democratic simplicity so characteristic of the administration. The gifts received are valued at more than $250,000. Mr. and Mrs. Sayre will make their home in Williamstown, Mass. They are now spending a few weeks in Europe.

— A painstaking statistician has estimated that tips of one kind and another paid daily in Paris to waiters, janitors, cabmen, and the thousand and one others whose income is largely derived from this source, amount to $42,600, or a total per annum of $64,420,000.

— Statistics which have recently been compiled show that there are now more than two and a quarter million women in commercial and professional life in America. Of these there are 239,077 stenographers; 327,635 teachers and professors; 481,159 in various trades; 770,055 engaged in agricultural pursuits; 7,355 physicians and surgeons; 7,305 women preachers; 1,037 architects, designers, and draftsmen; 1,010 lawyers; 429,497 women in various professions.