The new $1,000,000 post office site
in Syracuse, N. Y„ is to be sold for
unpaid faxes amounting to $31.21, if
advertisements published In newspa
pers by the city treasurer are the
gospel truth.
The guardian of the city's finances
inserts this paragraph in the annual
tax sales advertisement:
"United States Government, Clinton,
Genesee and Franklin streets, block 87,
lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, 64 by 397 by
281.5 feet. Vacant. Tax $31.21."
Investigation shows that this sprink
ling assessment on the property
amounts to $26.46 and that the gov
ernment has failed to pay. Uncle Sara
never has paid taxes of that character
and is not going to begin now. But
the charge remains on the books. The
city treasurer says the error is that of
the assessors and the assessors fix
blame for the blunder upon the treas
urer.
Rib to Patch Broken Skull.
Carrying part of one of his ribs in
his forehead, David Benthan, a Gan
anoque man, has returned to Brock
ville from Toronto, where he had this
operation performed, as a result of in
iuries received in operating a machine
in a Gannnoque factory. One of the
ower ribs was removed and a piece of
t inserted in bis forehead to replace
that part of it broken in the accident.
LITERACY HIGH
IN VIRGIN ISLES
Average Attendance at Public
Schools Last Year Fraction
Less Than 99 Per Cent
CHILDREN ANXIOUS TO LEARN
When Sickness Is Reported as Cause
of Absence Investigation Is Made
by Trained Nurses—"Playing
Hookey" Unknown.
Charlotte Amelle, St. Thomas, V. I.—
The Virgin islands have the nearest
to 100 per cent attendance in the pub
lic schools of any state, territory or
possession of the United States, ac
cording to comparative statistics from
Washington.
