Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

comes from the third CyanOgen Dand- Another mlystery solved to the satis- faction of everyone.
 l Someone turned several hundred ca | recently to make sensation. A pair of good fat turkeys would have made
 a much larger one.
 000, ,000 a year for electricity. and yet not one of them can tell what 1t is, where it comes from or where it goes
 when they get through using it. The Chicago Record-Herald says, with some show o6 truth. that many a man who would hunt all day in vain for the family Bible could put his hand I on the family corlEscrew in the dark The west is far more strenuous than the east. and there is no use in try ing to get around it. San Francisco public playgrounds who teaches the
 boys how to play football
 William Waldorf Astor has left Rome and gone back to help his son in his English political campaign Imagine l the effect the support of W. W. Astor would have on the chances of a polid- cal candidate in this country.
 l A man out in Washington tried to count 100000 grains of wheat recent l 1y. They've got him now where a lot
 more people are busy on equally im- portant tasks, and are never disturbed | in their work by the keepers.
 The oldest active sailing vessel in the world is thought to be the Censtanz. which sails the Baltic and North seas. | She Is used as a. freighter, and can carry a two-ton cargo. She was built | in 1723, and has never had any exten- sive repairs made on her. Her owner | ffaof na fa har third century unless she is stipwrecked. The University of Pennsylvania was | the first academic institution in Amer Even from the earliest days of the col lege the institution had a professor of modern languages which included German, and this professorship was
 himself of Gerrnaip descent Tn 17so a closer connection was formed between i the University of Pennsylvania and the Germans by establishing the Ger l man institute.
 The announcement that the Royal Geographical society of Copenhagen Is | fitting out aE expedition to explore s'the countries around the Persian gulf will surprise many who imag- | inc that there is little of the earth | outside of the polar regions which | now needs exploring. As a matter of | fact. the interior of the great Arabian peninsula is still waiting to be dis | covered, and not even the poles offer such almost insurmountable obstacles to those who seek them as the un- i known land lying around the Persian gulf. Some portions are, doubtless, void of human beings as the frozen apexes Of the earth, and will probably always remain SO for the heat experi- enced there is fatal to almost all life. -Westminster Gazette.
 | Alaska contains the only first class bituminous and anthracite coal on the Pacific coast; from the Boring river district railroads can be built to the sea, not more than 110 miles long, over a perfectly level country; and according to a published statement by Alfred H. Brooks. head of the gov ernment's geological survey work in ! Alaska, there are six billion tons of I it in both fields-more than 1-2 | times all the coal that has been ever taken out of Pennsylvania. Two thirds of this has been filed upon by claimants-that is. as much coal as has so far come from the mines of PennsyvanIa Mir. Brooks estimates to be worth S1 a ton as it lies: that s | he estimates the coal in the two fields at six million doliarz--sMcClureis.