Raleigh, N.C.— Raleigh claims to have, in the person of Louis Silver, old, in the seventh grade, twelve years of school, one of the fastest readers for his age in the country. The boy is a few days ago read 12 books of the average number of pages a single day, and declares he could read several more "If I could have gotten them."
In a test given him by his teacher, Florence Fitzgerald. Silver read 624 words in a minute and answered when she took the lead.
TAKE MONKEY FINGER PRINTS
Paris.—X-rays pass through brick walls and have injured persons in buildings adjoining laboratories, members of the Academy of Sciences have just been told by Prof. Contremoulin, a radiograph expert.
He advised that X-ray laboratories be completely enclosed in lead sheeting a quarter of an inch thick.
It has been found, Dr. Contremoulin said, that rays sufficiently powerful to be useful in treating cancer, have affected persons in rooms on other side of thick walls and in apartments above all below the radiograph room.
In question correctly every puzzled him on what he had read.
Quadruplets Born.
New Haven, Conn.—Three boys and one girl were added to the family of Michael and Josla Solso. No. 0 Oliver street, the other day.
Make eleven children born in their nine years of married life.
The quartet to the A monkey from the Washington zoo being fingerprinted at police headquarters by a detective from the bureau of   Identification. The bureau is making an experiment in comparing the fingerprints of monkeys with those of human beings. His Own Stepfather. 