Foreign Language Press Service

Fritz Wirth, varnisher foreman with T. M. Brunswick, is urgently requested by several of his friends, not to give his son the name Alexander von Humboldt, but to call him rather Napolium or Christoph - Columbus, because the name A. von Humboldt appears to them just a bit extravagant.

In the last edition prior to the Chicago fire, the Illinois Staats Zeitung carries an article on "Forest Fires," from which we quote: The persevering drought has made creeks and rivers disappear in the fir region of Northeast Wisconsin, and has so dried up the soil that it has becom

Report of the Committee on Place of Worship stating that a certain Jno. H. Ross had rented Standard Hall, but the Board of Directors of the hall reserved the right for the use of the Sinai Congregation. Moved and carried, that the committee shall take further charge of the matter an

Moved and carried that the committee on procuring a place of worship, try to secure Olivet Presbyterian church, for next Sabbath and get terms for the future.....Moved and carried that invitation be sent the Zion Congregation to participate in the service and inaugural sermon of Dr. Kohler, a

It was moved and seconded and carried that the minimum prices of pews be as follows: Nos. 1, 2, and 3, 87, 89, 138, and 136 to be fifty dollars ($50), No. 4, and all long side seats forty dollars ($40), and all short side seats, thirty dollars ($30).

Resignation of Leon Mandel and H. Rosenblatt were presented and the Secretary, on motion, requested to inform these gentlemen that their respective resignations cannot be entertained before the amount of their respective subscriptions toward the Building Fund is liquidated.

Some days ago a question was raised who was the first office holder of the Jewish race in Chicago? It was stated to be David Kohn, Esq., who was appointed City Clerk by the Honor John Wenthworth when Mayor of Chicago. It would be interesting to have a brief chapter from the pen of "Long John"

Regarding the eclipse the reporter found a vast variety of opinions among the Chinamen he interviewed. One man, a clever merchant, said that the cause of the dark space on the Sun was because the Moon was behind it. He tried hard to make the reporter comprehend this theory for some time, and

The Chinese residents for the time being sated with the festivities of the New-Year which have been occupying their attention for the past few days, have settled down to business, but live joyously in the anticipation of the pleasures which are to be enjoyed next Sunday. The earlier

Hebrew Almanac for 5641 Price - 25¢ Address: German News Co. 45 La Salle St. Chicago, Illinois.

Anshia Emeth (Men of Truth) Congregation was chartered two years ago last May. The congregation leased the second floor of 262 Division Street, West Clark which has a seating capacity of 300, and where they now worship. The room is handsomely fitted up in oak and contains all the paraphernali

St.Ansgarius Swedish-American Episcopal Church, is located at Sedgwick St. near Chicago Ave. The rector is the Rev. John Hedman. The church of Sweden is Episcopal-Lutheran. Services are held every Sunday at 10:30 A.M., and 7:30 P.M. Sunday school, under the direct supervision of the

In company with our friend Mr. Israel Cowen, a rising legal luminary of this city, we attended the dedication of the Beth Hakneseth Israel, new temple, corner Clinton and Judd street, which occurred last Sunday. We had a brief confab with Mr. Leon Zolotkoff who publishes a jargon (Yiddish) ne

First Hungarian Congregation, 309 Maxwell Street, was dedicated last Sunday. There was some fine singing and a great deal of commotion.

Professor K. Tatsumo of the Tokio University is here at the present to study American architecture for a possible application on the building of the Imperial bank in Tokio. If the professor should find anybody in the United States who is able to tell him what American architecture is, he must

The Chinese New-Year celebration began last night about dusk. At 3 A.M. it had reached the stage of joyous riot, when a Chinaman begins to have fun. Clark Street south of Van Buren was crowded with happy Chinamen, and more happy Chinamen were bobbing in front of the pictures of the Joss in th

HOW THE CHINESE OF CHICAGO ARE MADE UP SUNDAY INSIDE OF A "TONSORIAL FLAYED" ON CLARK STREET ONE MAN DOES ALL THE WORK HIS RAZOR RESEMBLES A MEAT AX THE CUSTOMER STRETCHED AND FLAYED AS A PART OF THE PROCESS THE CELESTIAL SHAMPOO THE

Fourteen carriages containing four Chinamen each rolled into the entrance of Rosehill Cemetery at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and a little later three street car loads of former residents of the Celestial Empire arrived and joined their countrymen. At first the cemetery officials wondered

Incense was burned, wine was drunk, and peans were sung in honor of the great Chinese Joss by hundreds of his Chicago worshippers yesterday. It was their New Year's day, the anniversary of the ascension to the throne of the present ruler of the Chinese Empire, and every one of the hundreds of

The newspaper known as Reforma has already appeared under a new editorship. The editor of this weekly paper, as is known, is Mr. Kazimierz Neuman, former editor of the Milwaukee Kuryer Polski, who also presents his program in his introductory article of today's Reforma. In another a