Alaska sentinel., 1908-11-12
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


There are silver ingots in the Bank of England which have lain there for more than 200 years.
 lewis societies in London are agi- tating the problem of restoring the pure Hebrew of antiquity to use as the Jew ish national language.
 Large quantities of machinery are being ordered by Japan from Great Britain. Among the latest orders Is an immense heating plant, for a group or manufactories, and a complete outfit for new sugar making industry. Every night while the British Parlia- ment Is in session letter Is dispatched from the House of Commons to King Edward. giving a summary of the pro ceedings during the sitting. At present the letter is written by Herbert Glad stone.
 l Of the 60O,OOO miles of railway In the world, only about 10 per cent are found in strictly tropical territory. and no more than 15 per cent within what would be termed tropical and subtrop- ical areas. Tracks abound In the tenn l perate zone.
 ''The Nu Spelin Leag of Amurrika l has" the says the Glasgow Herald, lust added seyenty-fve more wurds to the langwage. 'Tisis' and 'tung' are two of the wurst. It wood giy us six feelin about the diafram to eat an eg spelt with wun g.. We get numness thru all our lims at the site of such loren wurds as 'agast' and gard lam and Indetted' There are about sixty more, but these are more than enuf for wun parragraf."
 4 driver on the Avontuur railway, South Africa, while staying at the Gam toos, caught a large cobra de capello alive. The cool way in which he did the trick (says a local paper) sent cold shiver through every one who saw it. He simply caught hold of the joint of it's tall. gave It a sudden jerk toward him and caught 1t by the back of the head He then placed 1t In a biscuit tin. The snake was three inches in diameter and about four feet long.
 We hear that a Partisan metallurgi. cal engineer claims to have perfected process of welding copper to steel wire so as to make noncorrosiye coat ing. Many advantages, It is said, will result from the use of this new wire, such as high tensile strength and elas- ticity, combined with smaller surface exposed to wind and sleet than would be the case with iron wire of the same conductiyity. This wire Is especially useful over long spans, as pole intervals may be much greater when 1t Is used. Engineer.
 The inhabitants of Groden. in the Tyrol, recently celebrated the advance ment of their town to the grade of market place" The streets were elab- orately decorated, and In place of stat uary, says q correspondent in the Welt Spiegel, great images were made of snow, of which there was great quan- tity. A gigantic statue of St. Ulrich and busts of heroic size, on artistic pedestals, of former burgermeisters and of the Emperor Francis were produced, and the unique street decorations show ed that the little place contained much artistic talent.
 Another hot spring was recently added to the nineteen which Carlsbad had for years enjoyed. Workmen who were engaged in clearing out the chan nels of the "Muhlbrunn" suddenly broke into a new spring of hot mineral water twenty-two feet below the sur face of the ground. The water gushed up and, oyerflowing the promenade, ran into the river Tepl. The appearance of the new spring was not altogether well come to the citizens, because they fear that Its flow may diminish that of the Sprudel fountain. which is Carlsbad s most valuable asset as a health resort.
 An Austrian engineer has discovered that trunks of trees retain the salt of sea water that has filtered through in the direction of the fiber. He has con- structed an apparatus designed to util- lZe this discovery in obtaining drinkablc water for ships crews ar quickly as the process of filtration Is accomplished This apparatus consists of pump which sucks up the sea water into a reservoir and then forces It into the filter formed by the tree trunk. AS soon as a certain pressure is reached the water Is seen at the end In from one to three minutes according to the kind of wood used It makes Its exit from r the other extremity of the trunk al first in drops and then In fine streams 6 the water thus filtered being drinkable J. freed, In fact, from every particle of . the salty taste.
 :. AS long ago as the thirteenth centur, !. a Chinese named Ye-jln-yang, discov :. cred a method of inducing the forma : ton of pearls In the Chinese river mus s sells. The mussels were gently opened and small pellets, usually of clay, In