After quietly experimenting with long range weather forecasting all summer and meeting with success, the United States Weather Bureau announces that it is ready to enter upon a new departure by predicting weather conditions in advance for periods of several days at a time, supplementing the regular twenty-four hour bulletins of the Weather Bureau.
The Navy Department is arranging to establish coastwise stations of wireless telegraphy in the Philippines, similar to the chain of stations reaching from Portland, Me.
More than one thousand delegates, representing half of the States of the Union, were present when the National Irrigation Congress assembled for its fourteenth annual session in Boise, Idaho, Sept.
The Simplified Spelling Board has announced that two distinguished British scholars have just accepted membership to testify their sympathy with the new movement to improve English orthography,—Dr.
According to a statement issued by the chief clerks of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations, Congress at its last session appropriated for the fiscal year 1907, $879,589,185.
The recent piratical acts of Japanese sailors in poaching upon the Pribilof Islands has brought the question of pelagic sealing forward again prominently.
The total corporate expenditures of 151 cities for the fiscal year 1904, according to a recent bulletin of the Bureau of the Census, were $554,440,215, of which those of New York constituted $167,060,171, or three-tenths.
The original plans of the famous old Constitution, for the restoration of which Congress at the recent session appropriated $100,000, have been found at Salem in the East India Marine Museum.
Congress in its recent session took the position that as a navigable river and boundary Niagara comes under the control of the Nation, and thus even the privileges already granted by New York are of no effect.
In accordance with the act granting authority to the Secretary of War to regulate the water of Niagara River for the preservation of Niagara Falls, Secretary Taft has announced that temporary permits will be granted power companies to take the following amounts of water: Niagara Falls Power Company, 8,600 cubic feet a second; Niagara Power Company, 4,000 cubic feet a second; Lockport Hydraulic Company, 500 cubic feet from the Erie Canal and 333 cubic feet from the lower level of the same canal at Lockport.
The feature of the Fourth of July observance at Paris was the banquet of the American Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Quai d'Orsay, at which Ambassador McCormick discussed "Our National Housecleaning.
