THE S1XDAY ORKHOXtANV PORTLAND. -NOVEMBER 191.".
CAMERA MEN READY AS NEWS " BREAKS "IN 2 CONTINENTS
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alll Quet.ii of Bulgaria, wnvEe abil
ity as a nurse nas been manifest
ed time and time again since she
established in Sofia one of the finest
And bost-cquipped hospitals, has agair
taken actively to the work which she
loves so dearly. The alleviation of the
sufferings of her subjects has always
been the thins nearest her heart and
i-o, while the soldiers of her kingdom
are marching to the war. she is devot
ing her time and attention to nursing
the sick orphans in tile orphanages of
her country.
Queen Wilhelmina attended the open,
ins session of the lower house of the
Maaten General, the legislative branch
of Netherlands, corresponding? to our
House of Itepresentatives. The Queen
gave an address to the members.
The Swiss army, mobilized to prevent
invasion by the warrins nations on her
border, is eriKufied m constant prac
tice. It was reported recently that
tne Germans had dropped bombs on a
wis8 town, but this is not confirmed
jfticiully. None of the oorlerinu
The Nevada came from Boston to the
Brooklyn Navy-yard recently to go into
drydock preparatory to her speed
trials, which occur in a few days She
is of the dreadnought class, displacing
27.500 tons, and. with the Oklahoma,
is the largest United States battleship
afloat.
There has Just been placed on view
at the American Museum of Natural
History in New 'York a dodo restora
tion. It w.W presented by Walter
inans. a wealthy American who has
lived in KnglaVd for many years. The
skull and legs mre cast from an actual
specimen of this giant pigeon and the
feathers are froAa various birds of like
color. The dodc was supposed at on
time to have beenlthe product of fancy,
but authentic re prds now show that
it existed until 160.
The citizens oil. Brownsville, Tex ,
are breathing a biq easier now that the'
Twenty-sixth United States Infantry
has arrived to guard and protect the
lives and property of the Americans I The Twenty-sixth Infantry is the same I years ago and the men were the laat
from the daring raids of the Mexicans. I regiment which was here about 10 1 white soldiers in Brownsville before
the "shooting up", of the town by the
famous . colored troops. The Mexicans
in Matamoras continue to distribute
handbillls in favor of the "revolution
in Texas." as they call it. The Carran
zistas d'.sclaim all knowledge of the
oriein of these handbills-
On the day that Carranza was recog
nized an 1'resident of Mexico by the
United States and the Latin-American
republics Mexican bandits derailed a
train rear Brownsville, Tex., and
robbed the passsengers, murdering sev
eral who resisted. Among the dead
and wounded were United (states sol
diers. Professor Lee I)e Korest has gone to
London to offer the British government
and !ater the French government his
newly invented apparatus for detect
ing disi&ni sounas. He calls it the
audion amplifier and it is an adapta
tion of the incandescent electric light.
With it he thinks the British can de
tect in good -time the approach of
enemy airchraft- Mr. De Forest is
the inventor of many other electrical
appliances, including a system of wire
less telephony.
The One o Blanir.
Kansas City Journal.
"I have an engagement to meet .ry
husband and Ira an hour late. It has
got me all flustered. It is annoying
to be late."
"It is so. I'd lecture him good for It.'
Definition of an Optimist. '
Baltimore American.
"What's an optimist?" "A man who
tells other people not to worry when
things are coming his way."