Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY


4hC dlStdSto lO AiA1D AhN sAAh VI VI III Is liable number 100.
 Living in London is 40 per cent cheaper than in the large cities of the United States.
 Out of every million letters that pass through the post office 1t Is cal culated that only one goes astray.
 The COW tree of Venezuela is a nat ural dairy. Its sap Is very similar to milk and Is used as such by the na- tiyeA
 The transient hotel population of New York is figured at 25O,000 people a day. The hotel properties are valued at over ss0,oO0,OOO.
 There Is a great demand in China for lead. It Is used in several Chinese manufactures, but chiefly for lining tea chests for export.
 Caleb Watts, of Lily Pad, Pa, who raises frogs for the market, gets the best results by feeding them on liver, corn meal and flies.
 Great Britain imports over S35,000,- GOO worth of eggs year from Russia, Denmark. Germany, Belgium, Canada and the United States.
 Mrs. A. B. Enright. of East Concord. Vt, is county supervisor of schools and the State. Besides her school work she performs all the duties that fall to the lot of the wife of a Methodist pastor of two large parishes.
 Professor Jowetts comments on the young men of Balliol, Oxford, often took the form of crushing sarcasms. "The college. Mir. N. thinks highly of you" he once said: perhaps too high ly; but not half so highly, am sure, as you think of yourself"
 China is buying lumber from British Columbia It is largely needed for railway construction. American lumber Is shipped to Shanghai. On one day of his recent visit four full cargoes of Oregon pine arrived there. says the tduduldu lTdue COLIlllllSSlolItE dl 1Ohu- hama.
 Miss Selma Lagerlof, besides being the most popular writer in Sweden, has just received an honorary degree from the University of Upsala. She is the first woman in Sweden to receive th.5 distinction. and 1t Is said to be only a nf iroa u-ban Sha yril1 @ Nobel prize.
 Mrs. Emma Barry, of San Francisco, has just returned from a trip to the Arctic Circle, during which. 1t is assert ed she went farther north than any other white woman. She accompanied her husband prospecting for gold. and after she lays in certain supplies she will rejoin him In Alaska.
 Mrs. G. Meyer Is responsible for the monument that has just been erected at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to the memory of the horses that died during the Boer war. It cost upward of f5,00O. and Is In the shape of stone water ing trough, on the top of which Is the figure of bronze cayalryman giving a drink to his horse.
 The State of North Carolina Is one of the most notable In the Union for the production of gems, particularly diamonds, emeralds, rubies, aquamar- Ines, beryls hiddenite, rhodolite, ameth. ysts and remarkable rock crystals. These gems have been found mainly in the course of mining operations, al- though a few systematic searches for them have been made and two com panies are now engaged exclusively in such work.
 A British lieutenant in the Second Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, who was lately called Leo Quintus Tolle. mache- -Tollemache de Orellana Planta. genet Tollemache-T Tollemache," gave mo- tice a short time ago by means of ad. vertisement that he has renounced the names of Quintus Tollemache-Toll mache Plantagenet Tollemache, and in. tends henceforth upon all occasions and at all times 10 slSn dnu use and De called and known by the name of Leo de Orellana Tollemache only.
 Count yon Zeppelin, the aeronaut was born in 1888, and devoted what are for most men the best years of life to military service. Retiring in 1880 with the rank of general, he turned with a boyish enthusiasm to the pur. suit of his hobby, aerial navigation To the solution of the problem which had baffled the investigators of two cen. turies he sacrificed his fortune, with little apparent progress toward the goal. Poverty spurred him to greater exertion. In 1892 he made a success ful balloon journey from Berne to Lu. cerne, but his work was lightly esteem. ed until 1900, when the surprising sue. cess of the first dirigible caused a gen. uine sensation. Since that time his nrOpress has been easier