News and Notes by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 29.

News and Notes

By Editor

Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute are terms which have come to be almost synonymous with negro education. Nearly two thousand students attend this school each year from all parts of the United States, the West Indies, and even from Africa. The students pay the institution about $25,000 in cash and over $100,000 in labor a year. At the June commencement, eighty-eight received diplomas from the Normal Department, and eighty-seven received certificates for the completion of some trade.

Many Koreans are said to have left the Pacific Coast and the Hawaiian Islands for their own land the past two months. All go armed, and it is thought they go to strike a blow for Korea's freedom from Japan. Chinese favor the movement, and are supposed by some to be assisting the home-going Koreans.

Smoking in the dining salon and the music room of a Pacific Steamer may seem perfectly proper to titled ladies from Austria and other lands—our own land as well—but it is not allowed on the "Mongolia," of the Pacific Mail Company's line. These "ladies" think it strange that such privileges are not granted; we think it strange that self-respecting women would think of doing such things at all.

Four hundred fifty thousand dollars has just come into the hands of the trustees of Yale, the legacy of an Englishman, Archibald Henry Blout, an eccentric miser who has stinted and saved for years that this sum might be given to the American university. No reason for the gift is known by his friends and relatives.

The American Piano Company, with an authorized capital of $12,000,000, was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., June 10. The purpose of the trust is to consolidate the Knabe Piano Company, of Baltimore; Chickering & Co., of Boston; and the Foster-Armstrong Piano Company, of Rochester, N. Y.

A new air-ship made by Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, of Germany, made a successful trip of several miles over Lake Constance, June 20. The inventor was able to manage the craft easily. The speed attained was estimated to be thirty-one miles an hour.

The fastest battle-ship of the United States navy is the "Georgia," which reached and maintained for four hours a speed of 19.5 knots an hour on a recent trial trip from the Bremerton Navy Yards, Wash., to San Francisco. The entire trip was made in three days.

The entire Maryland-Delaware-Virginia peninsula is now "dry," the last county having recently voted out the liquor traffic.

June 14 was the one hundred thirty-first anniversary of the adoption of the flag of the United States.

East Orange, N. J., has enacted a stringent Sunday-law ordinance, and is enforcing it vigorously.

The estate of the late Mr. Dowie, of religious fame, footed up, it is said, only twelve hundred dollars.