Miscellaneous Mentions

Apostle Reed Smoot of the Mormon Church was passed by. Recently, First Counsellor Charles W. Penrose of the Church died. The place was filled by

Bishop Charles W. Nibley, multimillionaire, the wealthiest Mormon in the world. It had been anticipated that Rudger Clawson, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, might be made Counsellor. In that event, Reed Smoot, ranking Apostle, would have been made President of the Quorum, would thus have been in direct line to the succession as President of the Mormon Church. But the spiritual duties of being President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles would have required Apostle Smoot to give up the time which he now devotes to being senior U. S. Senator from Utah.

The number of visitors to Bethlehem Chapel in the National Cathedral at Washington, which contains the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, was 189,425* for the last year (Easter to Easter).

The will of Henry Cabot Lodge, probated at Salem, Mass., showed assets totaling $1,249,825.

Shoemaker James Lucey, famed friend of the President, traveled to Syracuse, N. Y., to make in public, at the Syracuse Centennial Exposition, a pair of shoes for Mr. Calvin Coolidge.

The National Democrat announced that the Democratic National Committee was out of debt, that Chairman Clem L. Shaver had induced wealthy Democrats to underwrite the $280,000 deficit left over from last year's campaign.

Charles G. Dawes stepped off a train and into his birthplace, Marietta, Ohio. It was reported that 5,000 citizens be- gan to cheer. He went to reunite with his classmates of Marietta College.

Charles E. Hughes, returned from vacation in Bermuda, was made an honorary member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society,/- and said: "It is extraordinary what privileges await one who has had the good fortune to hold office and survive it."

Announcement was made, last week, that Texas--with exports worth $731593,000--had shipped more merchandise abroad last year than any other state. Statisticians enumerated other Texas glories: is largest state in the Union; has more miles of railway than any other state; has farm products of greater value than any other state; has 5,000,000 and more citizens--more than President George Washington ruled-- reigned over by a woman.

The Ohio Society of New York planned a golf tournament on Long Island, decided it would be appropriate to the occasion to plant four buckeye chestnut trees on the links. So they asked Congressman Martin L. Davey of Ohio to get them. Congressman Davey ought to know, because he is Davey the tree surgeon. Mr. Davey replied that he had seen three or four buckeye trees in his life, did not know of any in Ohio, the Buckeye State. There was one, he said, on the Mall in Washington.

When the body of Thomas R. Marshall, onetine Vice President, was being laid away in a vault at Indianapolis, friends of his in Washington told a story which he probably would have told in his lifetime if it had not been so pathetic.

Following the famous occasion when a Senator was making a long-winded speech in the Senate on the Woes of the Nation and Mr. Marshall leaned over to the clerk and said in a stage whisper: "What the country needs most is a good five-cent cigar," Mr. Marshall was deluged with five-cent cigars from cigar makers. But he would have none of them. He gave them all to Tom Neil, a Negro employe in his office. Mr. Neil smoked them all, died.

* Comparable figures: Number of visitors in the last calendar year to

The Washington Monument 350,000

Mount Vernon 300,000

Corcoran Art Gallery 177,240

/- Other honorary members: Elihu Root, Chauncey M. Depew, Jean Jules Jusserand, Arthur James Balfour.