The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-30
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The White House up to date has cost
about S3,0O0,000, of which nearly one
third has been paid for furniture and
interior decoration. Originally the
State of Virginia gave 100000 to build
it, Maryland adding $4,000. To main
tain the White House costs from $50
600 to $4,000 a year, the appropriation
for this purpose varying considerably.
But every now and then there is some
thing extra to be paid for and Congress
is called upon to. give an extra $4,000
or $4,000. The biggest pull of this
kind ever made was for So5O,00O, which
was spent a couple of years ago in a
partial reconstruction of the interior
and in the addition of winglike ter
races and an office building. Every
now and then q new set of china has
TO be provided, and usually that costs
about 25,000-rather a big sur from
the everyday housewives point of
view. Repairs run up to a large
amount annually, white paint being an
important item.
All of the letter boxes, the mail
package boxes and the posts support
ing both classes of boxes in the coun-
try will be painted green. The paint
will be shipped in bulk from Wash
ington and applied by painters select
ed by the postmaster. This is part
of a general scheme of the postotiice
department to change the color of
mail boxes all over the country from
aluminium to green as fast as they
need r%epainting. The aluminium paint
has been very unsatisfactory. 1t was
selected on the theory that it would
prevent the boxes from rusting, but it
appointed to select a new paint. AT
ter going into the subject very thor
oughly and consulting officers of the
navy as to the best paint in use on
transports and war vessels, the COM
mittee unanimously selected green.
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One of the greatest difficulties the
government weather observers have is
to find out exactly how fast the wind
is blowing. Theoretically, it can be
told from the rate of the rotation of
thermometers, but it has never been
proved positively hat the result indi-
Gated is right. In extreme gales, when
100 miles an hour is approached or
passed, the instruments are almost
worthless. To provide something bet
ter, the weather men are preparing to
make a few gales of their own, regll-
late them past an thermometer at a set
speed, and note the result. A wind
tunnel' is to be set up on Mount
Weather, various thermometers put in
it, and a choice collection Of breezes
drawn in from the world at large will
be sent through at speeds ranging from
a mile an hOur up to a hurricane. The
scales on the thermometers will then
be marked to correspond as definitely
as is that of a thermometer.
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According to q well-known bureau
chief, who for obvious reasons does
not care to be quoted, the days of the
woman clerk in the departments are
numbered. His reasons for this asser-
ton, briefly stated, are that better
work can be accomplished for the gov
eminent at less cost without them and
that the frequent recurrence of the
woman in the CASE whenever there
is Il scandal in one of the departments.
is rapidly bringing men high in the de-
rartn1nnty tn tho On n nnnnl,,ginn No
also asserted that members of the
Civil Service Commission felt much
the same way and, while under the
law the commission is prohibited from
open discrimination, no favors are now
being given woman clerks as in the
past.
If a census Of the population by sea-
sons of the year could be taken. it
would be found that there is a con-
siderable movement northward, and
toward hig' .er ATTITUDES, during the
warm mouths. New Hampshire is con
siderabl, more populous in August
than in January, whereas the reverse
is doubtless true of Florida and south
ern California. Such movements are
more extensive now than they were
formerly, but they are not of recent
origin. Jefferson, during his presiden-
cy, wrote on the unhealthfulness of
living during the warm months at
Underwater as he described the cap
ital city. He wanted the highlands Of
central Virginia.