The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-22
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


The reclamation service of the Unit ed States has already committed itself to irrigation projects which will in volve total cost of s9O,O00.00o
 The number of automobiles regis tered in London is nearly 35.000.
 Taking the average for the world. there is one newspaper for 82,000 in habitants.
 Traffic between the eastern and western coasts of the United States by way of isthmus railways and steamship lines amounted to s40,OOO,- 900 in value in 1908, a marked in- crease over any earlier year.
 The most illiterate country of Flu rope is Roumania Two-thirds of the population can neither read nor write.
 The recently discovered eighth sat elite of Jupiter has been successfully photographed at Greenwich observa- tory.
 At the funeral of Fred Cavalla, a London costermonger, the open hearse was drawn by six horses. One of the leading horses was ridden by a postil- ion dressed in black, while four bear CTS carrying white wands walked be- side the hearse.
 Canada, Denmark, France, Ger many, England, Russia, Sweden and the United States were, in 1908, repre- sented among the twelve expeditions which were struggling toward the pole. Eight leaders were veterans Peary and Cook of the United States, Bernier of Canada, Erichsen and Ras- mussen of Denmark Charcot of France, Shackleton of England, and Geer of Sweden.
 Mrs. A. A. Anderson, of Greenwich, Conn, has given S5,000 toward a par ish building to be devoted to the SO cial and educational purposes of the deaf and dumb. The house is to be three stories in height and to contain rooms for entertainment, handicraft and physical training. The entire cost of the building and Its equipment as uOW plduhtu VIII DC SOV'vOO, anu AhA D. Anderson has promised to double her gift If the balance Is raised during the present year.
 In the course of a report on the dis infection of school rooms w. H. Marsh, an English science teacher, asserts that tests made of samples of school room dust showed the number of mi cro-organisms therein to be from 50,- 00o.00O to SO.000.0oo an ounce. On some days as much as one and one quarter pounds of dust was swept from a room 400 square feet in area, which, on the basis of the figures quoted. would yield from 1,000,000,0 900 to 1.600,000.000 micro-organisms.
 One of the most famous bells in the world is the first great bell of Mos cow, which now stands In the middle of a square in that city and Is used as a chapel. This bell was cast in 1733, but was In the earth for over a hundred years, being raised in 1886 by the Emperor Nicholas. It is nearly twenty feet high, has a circumference of sixty feet, is two feet thick, and weighs almost 200 tons. The second Moscow bell, which is the largest bell in the world that Is actually in use, weighs 12S tons.
 A rabbit hears a man and a dog coming and goes bounding away for safety. The dog strikes the scent, smells around briefly, and then is off in the direction the rabbit has taken The wonder Is not that the dog should strike the scent, but this: Each of the several spots the rabbit touched was touched by him within a fraction of a second of one another; yet so accurate Is the sense of smell of the dog that he can tell which was touch ed last, and so get the direction of the rabbits course.-New York Press.
 Mrs. Fannie Friedman, who died the other day in New York, was said to have just passed her 112th birthday. She was born in Hungary, married be- fore she was 21 and had thirteen chil uioh' AI Iho lililo oi ueI uedlH SHe had five children. fifty-nine grandchil- dren and eighteen great-grandchildren Up to the day of her death she was active. both in body and mind and took pride in the fact that she had never had a doctor in her life. Her rule for good health was: Don't wor- ry, take things easy, sleep ten hours day and eat five meals"