Alaska sentinel., 1908-10-01
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs.
 It Is expected that the Australian old age pensions project will cost fl 800, 900 yearly.
 Twenty-Five high school principals in Kansas are women. They are said to do their work 30 well that no one has ever suggested putting men in their places 1 Thsre is never a part of the year when Pike's Peak is entirely without snow. In the hottest July and August weather snow Is to be found even at a considerable distance from the top of the mountain.
 Twenty-Five men interested in the navigation of the air, have formed the Aero Club of California at Los Ange- les The purpose of the club Is to. ob- tain suitable grounds for experimental ascents and maintain repair and con- struction shops.
 required to qualify an alien for natur- alizatlon. No matter how long a man may have been In the United States, two years must elapse between the date of his declaration of intention and his admittance to full citizenship.
 To meet the deficit in the budget the | French Minister of Finance suggests the doubling of the licensing fees of vendors of absinthe. This taxing of the green peril" will, 1t is thought, be popular; the minister anticipates that 1t will bring him in s2,0O0.0OO. Adeline Genee Is Danish girl, who made her debut as dancer at Copen- hagen when she was r years of age. | She then went to Berlin to dance at the Grand Opera House, and after ward to Munich. She is considered to be one of the most graceful and accom- plished dancers In the world. In the manufacture of alcohol from peat. Danish company, with one ex perimental plant in Denmark and one In France, has found the cost to be | about one-fourth of that made from po- tatoes. In the process of manufacture, the cellulose or fiber of the peat is con. verted by sulphuric acid Into soluble carbohydrate and this Is fermented by a special yeast.
 In 1907 Philndelphia's export and Import trade increased $25 5.OOO,OO0 in value over the figures for the previous year. The total value of the city ex- ternal trade for that year was over S15O,0OO.0O0. These figures account ia part for the opening of the new steam ship service between Genoa, Italy and the City of Brotherly Love. The Ital- ians want some of the business.
 India's government has recently au- thorized the employment of women telegraph operators. The candidates must be between IS and 30 years of age, md they must be unmarried or widows. They must undergo training of twelve months in the telegraph train ing classes. during which time they will receive SO.65 a month, the same allow ance that is drawn by male learners. In connection with the death of Grover Cleveland, 1t Is interesting to note that only twice before In the his tory of the nation has the United States been without a living ex-Presi- | dent. George Washington died in 1799, | when John Adams, the second Presi- | dent, was in office. Andrew Johnson, at the time the only surviving e1-Chief Executive, passed away in 1875, two years before General Grant retired to private life.
 The Dutch government has granted concession to the Amsterdam and North Holland Electric Tramway Company to build and operate an electric railway system in Holland. The route will be nearly fifty kiloms, running from Am sterdam north through Zaandam to Kromeminie, from Zaandyk to Wyk- aan-Zee and Wormerveer to Purmer- end. The Holland Development Con- pany of Amsterdam will build the en- tire system.
 The Arabian Nights" is an extensive collection of tales forming part of the | Arabic literature, and the exact title of which Is 'The Book of the Thousand and One Nights" They were first made known to Europe by Antoine Galland, between 17O4 and 1717. He was a French Orientalist, who succeeded, after much effort, in obtaining a manu- script, which he supplemented by gath ering tales from professional story-tell- CTS, whom he met during his travels in the East.
 1 As an instance of the Great Eastern Railways elaborate precautions for the safety of travellers on It's system, the Railway News says that at Broxbourne, for the purpose of advising the station signalman when a train has passed his down or up advanced starting signal, q rail contact is placed about 300 yards ahead of the respective advanced start ing signals, and on the engine reaching the rail contact a bell is rung in the