Items of Intetrest March 19, 1904 Issue

Items of Interest

Between seven and eight hundred delegates to the World's Fourth Sunday School Convention to be held at Jerusalem, April 18, 19, and 20, sailed from the North German Lloyd pier at Hoboken at 3 P.M. March 7 on the specially chartered steamer Grosser Kurfürst, for a seventy-one days' cruise of the Mediterranean. They represent nearly every State, Territory, and province on the North American continent. A similar contingent sailing from England will meet the American party in the Mediterranean, and in all between twelve and fourteen hundred delegates will attend the convention.

Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who recently resigned as minister from Panama to the United States, sailed for Havre last week on the steamship La Loraine. He is reported to have said, "My mission is accomplished, and the success of the canal is now assured. I have worked for ten years with only one end in view—the connecting of the two oceans by a great waterway." It will take about seven years, he thought, to complete the canal. With the United States pushing it he believed that the work would go on rapidly, and that there would be no dearth of labor.

The House Committee on Appropriations last week received a proposition to equip the Government Printing Office with typesetting machines. The specific proposition was for the committee to place in the sundry civil appropriation bill, now being prepared, an item of $154,000, which, it is asserted, will pay the purchase price and supplies for forty machines. It is estimated that it will take two hundred machines to equip the office, and the plan proposed is for the purchase of from forty to fifty machines each year until this number has been secured.

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