Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 69

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Facts, Which Are Reminders of Rip Van Winkle, - Taught in 40,000 Book Ger- United | rdencies | Rip | day | n. | the | rrainly | them awakened be zolle the intel- ¢ teachers. girls of | » world in which state t b old books | t x'w'un'l-m’ . New \ | \ | i, | ained een ate reason these Rip n this city cation has | new ones. | mon be “ the | on iat the House | Representat ext that mon books was The sube d because and ins approy date ot ques- | Adams' White | room en he pare those who been the book There ort are obtain new, of these of date. liis report, hies should and be been dates, but books in rade. and with 1l the gram- hborhood of | the average ational called th of the work particular vould sa ywerful k “divided and Ger- the largest | are Wa leadil a book about ierman em- with its pre adershi eMurry read *b ynarch, whose or than that France ir neh called secm 1871 tory Isace- woule from the as still German ter- teld how Germany. pean nations, | sums in preparation and that during times of German army containe ending vast war, . he MK, CERMANY, o German meret consistently |~ ions to the nearly ma As f ithheld its|ington schee or | mine from the|areas and wh it T It Jugoslay in | penden: have i forsion dependenc ¢ ¢ Englwmd, Germany is a great manufacturing nation, Much of the sugar used in Europe is made in Germany from the sugar beet. The manufacture of wool cns, cottons, silks; and linens ranks next in importance, Iron and steel and all kinds of hardware are exten “inade, especially in the west, and porcelain and en articles are also important manufactures, Commerce is very active, the foreign commerce exceed- ing that of the United States. The network of railroads s complete. . Neatly all the rivers are navigable and are | connected by canals, ~A ship canal across the isthnius of the Danish peninsula connects the Baltic Sea and North Sea. The German Empire consists of twenty-two separate states, the free towns of Lubeck, Bremen, -and Hambuwrg, and the territory of Alsace-Lorraine. Prus. sia, ‘the largest of the states, has more than half of the entire popu- lation. The King of Prussia is also the Emperor, or Ausser, of Germany. The laws are made by an imperial parliament, consisting of a Bundesrat . whose members are appointed from the various -states, and a Aezrkstag composid of representatives elccted by the : . poople. : > ¢ thousand Germans have setdled “in’ the United Staies, and. s are found in nesrly all newly settled eountries. . The of Gorpany inchula visneisn saminee fn Aévic £ Man A FEW WORDS CONCERNIN {RMANY. FROMH ONE OF THE GEOGRAPHIES IN GENERAL USE IN WASHINGTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ALL THE MAPS OF CENTRAL EUROPE IN THESE SAME BOOKS SHOW BOUNDARIES AS THEY WERE BEFORE THE WORLD WAR. NEW AND UP.TO-DATE EDITIONS OF THE BOOKS HAV ‘EN PRODUCED BY THE PUBLISHERS, BUT THE OLD ONES ARE STILL IN USE IN THE CAPITAL. 00,000 | = 1 the ¢ more." Wash- in [ ldiers, calls for many iermany’s colonies, children read of misinformation that empire now controls thou: 2 nav use in Furthermore s that wer of prohibition or when the deral are books on o the days man suffrage, amendment the F in the Island of v ea, | tion was the fifteenth both Bast and n re equaily at fault as smaller c more recent developmente, T rue in 1914, but cash for the new b yes is from r of the ous. Att ) the non-re sele here is "he omis being Educati remedy r back as October appoitned a ittee on text books for the clem is comm qu alied t “Wh rd ¢ to th “Czech It alkan and ¥ into being 1y of e volume for ish Supt lou A" and come ittee met and organi Supplemental Work. Redd chapters 15-19, * Carpenter's Geo- graphical Reader, Europe.” ’ Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. Bound Awstria-Tlungary. Name its mountain ranges. What river valley oceupies its central part? Through what part of the country sloes the main European divide pass? On what waters does the onl st of the conntry border? be # it Monuntain ranges traverse Austria-Hungary, and ucifly° inclose the low, fertile plains of Hungary. The Danube enters these plains through a gap which it has cut across | such as these are in | there | written of last Constitu- | nd books of | as to the | no one about | on has ap- | e situa- 11, “com- en- zed the mountains; it leaves, the plains through anmhqf similar gap called the lron Gate. . Agriculture is the chief occupation, and grain, flax, hemp, olives, and grapes are raised. This i the only European country which has a sarplus for export of all the great food products —grain, meat, dairy products, and wine. The rearing of sitkworms in the warmer parts of the country; the cutting of lumber ju the cast; and the min- ing of iron, coal, and rock sait in the north: are important industries. The northwest is a busy manufacturing region, in which clothysteel gnods, Bohemian glass, and porce-: lain are made. Weaving and spioning by hand are also IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. PHOTOGRAPH OF A PAGE FROM ONE OF THE BOOKS IN CONSTANT USE IN A LOCAL SCHOOL. THE, BOOK WAS PRINTED, O COURSE, LONG BEFORE THIL WORLD WAR. from Eur Turkey is ab by a Sultan + 'of the Tur potamia, pe to a ut and ish Brit- pending the adopt S0 Me be ' date books. Enou fo from nally art was thecoming. The situat d to worse March books 1 June 1923 1 sum had 1 1024, priation uppl T 1§10 bee r& previous deficiency app: de, and on urged fo. t end n for n of are the ap flour 3 5,000 than the and wi ar, although in the past thr, mentioned, com- | there had been an inerease the enrollment of the situation t ile at the end of 102 %5 tated that priat £ the state preservin shipbuilding ) the last perfluous the a less 0 the school e Cmperor, or rolute monaceh, “whose will is law, purely local matters, howeyver, . the peasants have a voiee. Those of each locality meet in & 3ir . sembly, to diseuss matters of common inter- est and to elect officers from their numbe&f,/ somewhat as is done in town meetings in the Uniied Stat ¢ Many of t alone Government s 01" fie o ¢ Russiuns have Iong been dis fori of government, and have demanded that the people be piven more power, At last the Czar has allowed sabistied with this fora THIS BIT FROM ONE OF THE CEOGRAPHIES USED IN WASHING.- TON PUBLIC SCHOOLS GIVES INTERESTING BUT RATHER OUT-OF-DATE INFORMATION REGARDING RUSSIA. It reported January jon h money ! ion Mr. of ies Che 00, set in ro- in $100,000, preceding | ears in graded schools, ar S in District there were 51,855 books {demned as unfit for further use Finally, in Mr. Stuart's e estimated that it would now “rom $50,000 to $75,000 to rehabll ‘ate the present stock of text books, including, beside those on geography. those having t language, physiology, arithmetic. con- report t of other Aupplies sald to be 23 hadly nceded To bring the geographies up to date question again. the children of ught?” says Dr. ntendent of discusslon of representative “Who fa the Dist compellin ct to be bsentes governme Frank W. Ballou, supe school In a recent the problem with a of The & he said: “l know of no American city in which the system of securing echool funds in any way resembles the proc- ess required in Washington The people of the District are wiiling to pay and to pay well foi educa tion of their dren but because of the unrepresontat! character of the government under which th live that privilege is denied them.” The long and hard road over which ian)' proposed appropriation for the schools of the District must travel | was outlined Dr. Ballou, and for | the benefit or recent restdents or other unfamiliar with it s repeated hers. Attention should be called to the fact | | |8 2 at fault. He is a stickler for accuracy nd puts out new editions zs changes demand them JIRST, the Board of Education pre- pates its budget, “not padding 1t | in the expectatlon of a cut,” to quote Dr. Ballou, t comprising soned estimate of the needs of the schools for the ensuing year.” This estir zoes frst to the Commis- sioners, then to the bureau of the budget, then to the House of Repre- sentatives, where it is referred to the tubcommittee on the District of | Cclumbia of the appropriations com- | mittee. Thence it s reterred back to the House, where changes may be and frequently are made. Having come thus far safely, the appropriation has somewhat smaoth- sailing, encountering only the mild head winds of senatorial criti- cism, which, as a rule, is more fa- vorable to the cause of education in District than that of the House. Then, after having over to the tender mercies of appropriations committee and acted upon by the whole Senate, the appropriation, if, as usually hap- pens, it bas been altered from the House estimates, goes to a conference ommittee of both houses. The co ference report is then adepted | house. and the bill in its form goes to the President | That is wow the schools of the Di | trict get their money—a rather com- plicated process as compared with the average American city, where the board of education estimates are acted on only by the common founcil or simflar executive body and then presented to the mayor. In some the process is even more direct. the board of education being responstble for its own expend- itures, which are not subject to re- view by any other branch of the go ernment, and the money being ralsed by a separate tas levy, the board he- ing directly responsibie to the people In Washington the Board of Educa- tion is responsible to the Commis- sioners, the Bureau of the Budget, Congress. and to the voters of every part of the countr District of Columbia. “It is the system that rather than individuals,” said Dr. Ballou. “The individual members of all the bodies having to do with our | appropriation as a rule wish well to the cause of education in the District and would like to help it, but they are influenced by forces which are too strong for them. The business of the Bureau of the Budget is to keep appropriations as low as possible, and the House appropriations committee doesn’t want to be outdone. When the budget system began, under the able ection of Gen Dawes, there eeemed to be a strong desire on the part of the House com- mittee to out-Dawes Dawes, and ap- propriations and items which the vigilant Budget Bureau had passed were cut down by the House commit- tec, the members of which evidently aid’ not wish the administration to overloolk their zeal for cconomy. “Yct some Congressmen are affected by conditions here. For instance, 1 know of one member who took his child out of our schools and sent him to a private school, because he said ‘he was tired of ng him on half time.’ the been delivered Senate beo by each is wrong GWTHE remeds? repeated Dr. Bal- lou to the question as to what he thought was the way out. “Bs- sentially some form of popular repre- sentation in the government. Two ways suggest themselves. One, com- plete local self-government, the same as any other city; the other, locally clected representatives in Congress, but with the form of the District gov- | ernment unchanged. |~ “Many objections may be brought up against complete local self-gov ernment, and since the Federal Gov- crnment existed before the city and made it, T am favorable to the belief that the Federal Government should be in contral. but I strongly believe | that the people of the District should have both a voice agnd a vote in the government under which they live. Under the present system, the only way the people can influence the Gov- | ernment is by indirect methods, and | these, if not demoralizing, are, at the least, humiliating.” To get back to the Rip Van Winkle school books, there is a ray of hope that the next appropriation will see enough money set acide for the bring- ing of education up to date, at least in the matter of geography. This ray of hope was shed by Charles Russell Davis of Minnesota. of the subcommittee on the District of Celumbia of the approp: ons com | mittee of the House of Kepresenta- . AMr. Davis scemed a bit sur- pr d when told of what the chil- idren of the District were being taught about the world in which they lived, and although inclined to be reticent appropriations, le said: | "I think the children in the schools hould have up-to-date test books, particularly in geography. |things, such as arithmetic, don't | change much from one generation to another, and text books in those sub- | jeets may be useful a long time, but ! | the World War certainly changed the | geography of the world, and the aschool children should be famillar vith those changes. Whea the ap- propriation Lill for the uschools of the District comes before my mittee 1 chall favor the exponditure of enough money to provide new cographles whercever needed.” And that’s how the matter stand: Davis, whose home lIs in i Peter, Minn, a thousand miles from | Washingten, is quite willing the hildren of the District should be vroperly taugit, but the people of Washinzton heve nothing dirceldy to say about it take | the situation | that the publisher of text booka is not | rea- | the | final | except the | about the general situation of school | Some | com- | D JANUARY 4 1925—PAR/] ‘Further Research Among‘ Recorded Lot Owners 4 ING facts for the Im- | t sketeh of William Metzerott which you may = read last Sunday, th Rambler jotted down some hing called data concer: lot owners ‘and dwallers in the square in which Mr. Metzerott property and lived a long Iis first home in that syuare No. 307 F »r, and the e jtrance to and part of the Metzerott Bullding on that His othe and last home in the squure was §17 Twelfih st the of which | covered by the Columbla Theater. | Need I tell you that this square iv bounded by~ Eleventh, Twelth, I and I° streets? ¢ Rambler feels that he must tell vou something of the history of the square. He feels that becaue h has collected scraps tory, and only use them is to pass them on In writing v most historians and Capt. John ainbitious historians Cfolumbus and earl with Washingtc tent to beg with the s * Ja stown end St. Marya Clty, Th per students who would cer Washington back to vikings and son oriats ure zeul for struction that they would give vou 2 sleeping potion in the form of & iiscussion as to whether the site of Washington is of the eocene or mio- | ne age in geology. Washington Iiving, inepired by Diedrich Knicker- bocker. traced the history of Man- wattan Island from the beginning of the world The Rambler ill not on you in the case of square 324 He has received some compliments which put him on his guard. One of a pack of title-hound with whom or which he holds merry erse at the recorder of deeds’ office said: “The rambles about old squares are just the kind of reading I need. My doc-| tor warns me against anything excit-| | ing and urges plenty of sleep. When {1 get half-way round one of these old squares ith you my wife shakes me and saya: L snore loud." " The Rambler feels that if these stories about squares have a sedative or a dormitive effect on men who live with deeds they can contain no| nepenthes (see the Odyssey), but | must be loaded with a soporific 1 However, if re a Washingto- nian with & touch of silver in the| hair yon may find among the names| that follow one of an old acquaint-| ance In 1844, site. and try to hoo! Spanish explore They are be so rough ! s0 | th and| side of E tof ars were Peter | vis, Eliza- | H. Stew- art's heirs and G, Davis: north on! Twelfth to F_the owners were E.| Thompson, L. Edwards’ heirs, Charles| B. King and fona Seaver: east to Eleventh, John Willis heirs, of Washington, George Miller, Callahan and Jacob Dixo south on Eleventh to E, V |James Kennedy. F. Lydock’s ames Fitzpatrick and Bernard Me-| vern's heire Follow the same route in 1864 and {the owners were Joseph L. Savage,| Frederick z. Joseph T. Crowell.| Elizabeth MeNally, Harriott Donohoo | and Sarah G. Stewart; north on Twelfth, James L. Edwards, Henry | Grossmaver, Charles Kloman, John B. Clagett. Andrew J. Joyce, William G. Metzerott_and John Seaver:east on F. Noble Young and others (Med!- cal Coliege), Conrad Finkman, John | T. Walker, M. W. Galt. Mary Calla- han and Jacob Dison: south on | Eleventn, M. W. Galt, John T. Wal-| ker, Willard Drake, John A. Blake, Su- wan E. Ayer, Jamea Fitzpatrick, Ber- nard McGowan (McGovern?), Joseph | F. Crowell and J. L. Savage. | In 1869 the owners were Frederick | tutz, Gustavus Sohon, Ferdinand | Butler, Thomas McGill, Sarah G. Stew- | art, Elizabeth Nalley and Harriet| Donohoo; on Twelfth, James L. | Edwards, Daniel Pierce. Michael C.| Willlan, Willlam G. Metzerott, John | B. Clagett and Conrad Finkman; east on F. ths Medical College, Jo-| seph M. Tencr, William G. Metzerott, Dr. Tobias Purrington Rives, M. W. Galt and J baugh. in trust for J. Dixon's heirs: { outh on Eleventh, M. W. Galt, Joseph F. Kelly, Tobias Purrington, Amanda Barney, Francis Miller, in trust for Julia Blake; Susan L. Ayer, James Fitzpatrick. H. O. Hood, Ferdinand Butler and George Savage. wow %o NCE more, for 1870. Eleventh to Twelfth, Frederick Stutz, Gustavus Sohon, Mitta stadt, Thomas McGill, James Pi Caroline Davis, Sarah G. Stewart; Tiwelfth, Elizabeth E. Wallace, John H. Cassell, Rebecca E. Cryer, Charlotte Morton, Mary A. Willls, Michasl Wil- Han, William G. Metzerott (four lote), John B. Clagett and Conrad Finkman east on ¥, Medical College, Josephine M. Toner, Dr. Tobias Purrington and Robert C: Fox; south on Eleventh, Joseph F. Kelly, George W. Utermehle (Uttermuhle), ~Josephine De Neale, James Fitzpatrick, George C. Walker and James C. Pilling. Looking for these names the directory of 1879, the Rambler finds George C. Stutz, grocer, Eleventh and E; Gustavus Sohon, 504 Eleventh: A H. Eichstadt, fancy goods, 943 Penn- | sylvania avenue, house 506 Eleventh; Thomas McGill & Co. (H. L. McQueen), printers, 1107 E; Caroline Davis, widow of John, 418 Twelfth: John H. Cassell, 645 Maryland avenue southwest; Michael Willian, millinery, 907 Penn- hegining tpassing the north Twelfth, the lot Lenex’s heir beth N, A Franklin | eph Har- On E from { hne'mix { notable Ame: {and F, [ | oldest beer saloon sylvania avenue, house the same; Wil- lam G. Metzerott (Metzerott & Co.) ~— | NORTHEAST SOUTHEAST CORNER | In Ancient City Square Made by Rambler for Metzerott-Droop Story TWELFTH AND F STREETS, (Bdward F. a F 318 Twelfth cian, 1108 F; Fox & Cutler) avenue: Joseph 306 Efghth: Geor Second southeast, and C ker, confectioner, 1218 F. The Rambler has received notes from August Bruehl, who was one of the Rambler’s collaborators in The Star composing room for many years. Gu retired, though only 67 years and he spends his leisure and from Californja and elsewh ar trip to the Pacific stopped some ti t Hollywood looked over the motion picture He says that if he were not identified with Washington he might settle down at Hollywood. He met Ben (Rodney St T, the notorious shi Billy Bevan, Fazenda and other Droop), : Wil kman, of Conrad, Tobias Purrington, phys Robert C. Fitch (Fiteh 1409 Massachusett K real estate, Utermehle, 510 corge C. Wal- calony street Gus was born at 504 and the notes he gives me rea Eieventh street, Stutz’'s grocery Eleventh (in the 70s d Soho! father: 508, He kept o worsted store the building at and Tenth About L] Hood's father. He store on The Star site ©0ld marble-front structur Star bought: about 530 lived Rob Doyle, the father of J. Hadley Do and Lieut. Jacob Doxle of the N; on Moses' corner ved Mrs. the next house o street was occu- pied by Dr. Bulki Barry Bulkley's ther. Next door lived Dr. Marmi eve gpecialist (Dr. Marmion had taken the house occupled by Dr. Purring ton). A little west lived the Met- zerotts. At the corner of Twelfth William Dietz, still living, kept a fine restaurant. He sold to Henry Alshwee. “The first building south on Twelfth as the Emergency Hospital for some time. Back from the building Un was the house w h Mr. Met zerott rebuilt Grant occupied the house for a short time for office purposes after the Dr. Okie lived next door, south ext to him lived Will Upperman, expert telegrapher. Then Charlie King (living) built the house now owned and occupied by Sheetz. At 505 Twelfth Wil llam Shoemaker of Shoemaker & Herzog fame. At 503, the Waters, a: old family of printe lived About 880 Atzel opened = ‘stovepipe’ house at the northeast corner of Twe!fth and E, selling ‘stovepipes’ at 5 c and good hot lunches at 10 cents Shec! or Sheckels, made keys and sold shotguns and fishing tackle in the center of the b k on E. “Next came what was said to be in town—continu- ous license. Charley x was the firast owner I remember. He sold 1o John Gentner. Next came MeGill & Witherow's big printshop, now oc- cupied by my old friend, Ernest ¢ ener, sheet metal expert. The et back to Stutz's grocery store.’ sventh store 50s) Eich d novelty Avenue Eddie elry 505 a Henry stadt, th lived had his and built which The ¥ B street we HIE progress of the story calls the Rambler to leave the streets and visit a place of calm and silence The graves of William G. Metzerott and Edward F. Droop are in Oak Hill Cemetery. In_ June, 1881, Mr. Metzerott bought from the Hooe family part of the burial lot which R. A. Hooe bought in May, 1878, and in the Metzerott lot have been made the following interments: Theodore Stelnway Metzerott, 10 vears old, June 22, 1881; Marie Metzerott, 61 cears old, June 10, 1884; William G etgzerott, 52 years old, June 10 1884; Henriette Metzerott, S0 year old, March 19, 1918; Frank B. Metzerott, 59, December 12, 1921; John H. Metzerott, 57, January 5, 1 Frank sleeps beside his kindred in | Myers: | nts | of the 184 Th old by bought § for rest lot of H transferr Rambler A at el the n May in August, Ker In one 1 Ed 1868 187 J of The by there ments August Droop rd and March are [ re bk Mr 1876 t ashes of miber | "tn an shown Ev Mr. Metzerott death. The part of the Star publis the tim | excerpt is from | 28, 1908, and “After stor Hooe 1868 by M died October lot rest remal and bought in October, Marsto |3 sumes was the W, [3 e phis 1d § 1876 1 roop oo s, The Robert €1 Ad 1886 Rie Ramble follows fliness ext the past six weeks, founder and | Edwara F. Dro: | ness men of died vesterday at his ho ther D | know after | first Juse |that ti | Eleventn avenue | office po: buildin pres. and wh in Ap o that the part of alker fam Metzer Wa Walk son and Adc was D iried Cluss th int Cluss, rd ¢ » & Sons Co. citize 5 Harvar he witl Metze { Droop’s personalit of in his his | energy | friends a took in the young m partnership At Mr. ises were tier of o pastor of eran Church bearers were John Jo DieGraw CGiordon of B and _th b you cess came rapi his a close person A in t Droop's fu by Luther T Edson, “oncor Th T hard Sylvester, Berliner, John A. Jo: Leswis H. D. Alde Young, C. way of N of New York, New York. A York, B. H tive Leroy T. Glove Henry A, v 1 Mark ¥ W Benjan k 1 ¥ Didden, John R Henry x, Thausen. THREE or four were about Star of July 24, of the most promis Adolph Cluss 1905 succes at and th on the site of the The g emplo; m B. on M H ris ouis am B n W W I 3 Bretzfelder of Bmil Gabler of New Jansen of pallbearers vere Xan Bou und ed a in fut charm Yor William was thi ns 2 anding in this country, and was the my tt, which Pennsylva present p ntir nanhe He W a nd J mo: Lu P Woif, P. arix, Willi tian Golds. W erzer. Ries, illiam .. Hempst W. Kueh Luc War Ye he H WL and der ch A few The Even architects the | ich ril, a lot | ly e er 1sic at r ia yost Mr. the ex rial zel h- v ius ren in- ead of New % and itz am | Dr facts ing “One in this city, Adolph Cluss, who designed the Department of Agriculture build- the new and ing. Office vernm was associated ent Print in pl ing an- ning the National Museum, and whose structures Include man: other p ub | lic buildings in this and other citles, died yesterday at the home of his a bit of earth which had been part |daughter, Mrs. William H. Daw, 2301 canvme ~g TWELFTH AND E , bes ks 5 o 58 e e e AP AT T b e D W AT LT ety pcconb et 7 . STREETS. t the age of & | 1 w Heilbron civil _er architecture in G United Statss 4, and filled technical positio: Coast Surver and the Nav Treasury Departments. During the Civil V he served u iral John A. Dahlgren at ti: n navy yard 1872 Grant made him & member Board of Public Works of the In associetion with Pau he designed the National M: Bullding in 1877. From 1890 he was inspector of public bulld- ngs. He was survived by three daugh ters, Mrs. William H. Daw, Mrs. E Lathrep and Anita Cluss. The bearers at b al were Glent Brown, Snc Ashford, W. 1L Poin Didden, James G Hill »onn, architects all 1 intérments in the Cit the Rambler saw the Leache, aged 47, De He feared that this f Anita Cluss. In the ander was playing Carl Rake and Anto: Was Pr District ingt sident Mise ster, SDigop 1ot “Anita ( 1917 ' Henry dark-cved girl I remember two af was _playing happine romising vo Cluss, | looked he: bools, 4nd ther ncluded that she bad left the eit quiry at the ceme- t= in the Droop lot the Cluss e burled In the of ground. Coming C. Leache in th place gave me the shadow of gricf The Rambler hopes deduct!o: wrong, and that little Anita is playing her harp among those living for married o in making i y for interme found that and Droop fa same little £q the 1 Anj Then ter members of Double Apple Crop. \ FREAK of <Y ered in M Springfield, crops this year. op Was g ered in Ju! s later the tree appeared in full bloom and on Armis tice day the second crop was picked The apples are of the yellow tran:- parent variety. sature has been disc k's apple tree at has harvested . Barber Chair Phones. "[ELEPHONE-EQUIFPED _ ba chairs are the latest innovatio |in Atlanta, Ga. A barber shop that city has equipped each of its {12 chairs with individual telephones for the use of patrons while the barber clips and shaves. Connection from cach of the chairs run to = miniature switchboard operated the cashier. The Bugong Moth. | "HE Bugong moth or butte delicacy which epicures certain aboriginal peoples of Au | tralia will travel long distances obtain. The butterfiies gather ever ar on the slopes of the Bugous lllnunluln- in New South Wales | where they are caught by being su focated by the smoke of wood | lighted under the trees | among Oil vs. Wheat. H ITH the biggest oil gusher Kansas on his farm and pourin | out 75 barrels of oil an hour, W. G Carson refuses to cross a wheat fisld from his barnyard to see it. T well will probably make him a mil lionaire, but he displays little ir terest in it. He expresses the fea that the oil many ruin his whea Canary Concerts. { {"T'WO concerts given by car were arranged by the Minneapo Pedigreed Roller Canary Clud for the | afternoon and evening of Decembe |16. The birds, in addition to offerins olo numbers, sang in duets and juartets. Between 50 and 75 b participated. Carriage Houses. on the outskirts settlement of DOO! in discarded railway these coaches is what remains of the luxurious private car of the late Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who was mur- dered in Geneva in 1898 . Freak Deer. SSE HASSINGER, game protecto: in the region of Sunbury, Pa. found a freak deer near Bar Mead- The little animal was in' a dying condition, but Hassinger hopes to save it. It is not much larger than a jack rabbit and is said to be | full grown. Its size is thought to.be the result of inbreeding. ' IERE g Prague a | familles living coaches. Among s Renting Hats. is, & hat shop just off Filih uvenue, New York. that Goes u thriving business in the renting of fushionable hats. Woman visitors in tuwn for a few days pay a small suy to wear & hat from this shop to *he theater or a dinner.