"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Nathan Straus, philanthropist, Zionist, last half of Abraham & Straus (famed Brooklyn department store), became 80 years old, in Mamaroneck, N. Y. He gave another $100,000 for reconstruction work in Palestine (making a total of $1,500,000). His wife lit a candle on a monster birthday cake and kissed him. Letters of congratulation showered upon him from the clergy, from financiers, from almost all State governors, from the Cabinet, from President Coolidge, who remarked how well beloved is Nathan Straus and said: "Such a reward is beyond price." Mr. Straus repeated his motto: "Give while you live."

Mrs. Rufus T. Bush, mother of Irving T. Bush, owner of the famed Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, last week sent his yacht a present. The boat, building in Germany, will have no filthy foreign wine over her bows at christening. A California vintage, 40 years old, was despatched to Dresden to help entitle her Coronet.

Marion Nevada Talley, youngest man or woman in Who's Who, makes more money than most of that distinguished company. Just old enough to vote, she has earned $334,892 in the last two years in addition to her Metropolitan Opera salary. Buxom sweet singer from the middle west, she is sought for concerts the country over. The figure was divulged last week by concert manager Francis C. Coppicus with whom Miss Talley is about to part on none too friendly terms.

James Gilliland Simpson, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, visiting the U. S., attended the dinner of the Church Club, in Manhattan. After the banquet was over, he rose to his feet, looked fixedly toward the ceiling and delivered a short oration on U. S. customs and eccentricities. Said he: "... I have not yet summoned up courage enough to enthrone myself like Buddha in one of your shoeshine parlors."

Thomas Alva Edison, pseudo-atavistic, grows expert with cocoanuts. At the South Florida fair blue ribbons were tacked to his cocoanuts. He had the best; also the largest cluster. Luther Burbank started him in the cocoanut game. Recently Mr. Edison extended his Florida agricultural activities to experiments for rubber vines.

George Eastman, going through Africa with gun and camera, came upon a white rhinoceros. The rare brute looked at him loweringly; he looked at the brute steadily along rifle sights; shot it dead.