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Seven of the members of the national waterways commission, a commission authorized by Congress to investigate the waterways of Europe and Canada as well as those of the United States, for the purpose of making recommendations for the improvement of the rivers, harbors, and canals of our own country, have sailed from New York on a ten-week investigation and examination of the waterways of Europe.

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The third largest reflecting telescope in the United States is on its way from Cambridge, Mass.

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Representative Austin of Tennessee has proposed a plan for the retirement of superannuated clerks in the classified service which is attracting attention among the civil service reformers in Washington.

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The first electric train of steel cars which whizzed 'through the new "McAdoo tube" from the Church street terminal in New York to Jersey City last week, made the trip in two minutes and forty seconds.

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Lack of practical and commercial unity in the entire inland water system of the United States is the text of part one of the reports on transportation by water submitted to the President by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labor.

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The headings in the great Gunnison tunnel, in south western Colorado, which is to carry the waters of the Gunnison river through the Vernal Mesa into the Uncompahgre valley on the other side, where they will be used for irrigation purposes, have met.

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A permanent international court of arbitral justice and the limitation of armaments, two subjects left undisposed of by the second Hague conference, are to be taken up by two commissions, if a concurrent resolution, introduced by Representative Bartholdt of Missouri, is enacted into law.

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Arthur Hooker, secretary of the board of control of the national irrigation congress, will present a resolution for approval by that organization at its seventeenth session in Spokane Aug.

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Six prominent men in widely different walks of life recently entered President Taft's private office in the White House, according to Chairman Ralph M.

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A frenzied demonstration of welcome by the men in gray for the son of the man who defeated them, marked the final scene of the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans at Memphis, Tenn.

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Ten years ago, when Porto Rico passed under the sovereignty of the United States, it had 551 schools with 21,000 pupils, and rot a single building constructed for public instruction; now it has 2,400 schools, with 87,000 pubils, with 160 specially built school Luildings; $35,000 was the annual appropriation for public education; today it is a million dollars.

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Fortifications to cost approximately seven million dollars are to be built to defend the Panama Canal.