The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-11-05
GOSSIP AT THE
NATIONS CAPITAL
Especial to the Silver State.)

WAoHiNGION, NOV. 5.-The bu
reau of manufactures recently com
piled some statistics on the world 4
coal production, from which it appears
that the United States consumes more
than twice as much coal as any other
country, and almost as much as the
United Kingdom, Germany, France
and Belgium. The United States also
produces much more coal for each
miner, and to prove it the bureau of
manufactures cites British reports
showing the production in the United
States in 1908, by the 690,43S persons
employed in mining, to have been
126,562, 900 tons Of coal more than
was produced by the 966,264 persons
similarly employed in the United King
dom. The production per person en-
ployed in this country amounted, there
fore, to 538 tons, while in the United
Kingdom it amounted to 271 tons per
person employed The value per ton
at the pit IS mouth was $1.48 in this
country to $1.98 in the United King
DOM Whether the difference in pro-
duction is accounted Ior in part by
the employment of larger number
of women and children in the British
mines. is not stated. The total annual
consumption of coal in the different
countries is stated to be 8S2,093,000
TONS This does not include Ignite,
the production of which is consider
ably over 110,000,000 tons annually.
The Presidents Homecoming.
1t is no small task to make ready
for the president Is Homecoming. All
the work in the interior of the White
house, the cleaning, refurnishing and
stocking up of pantries and larders
the public sees nothing of, but it goes
on just the same, and when the fam
lily reach Washington they find every
thing in apple-pie order. Outwardly,
there are more indications that some
thing impends. The spacious lawns
are clipped and raked; the drives and
paths are made even neater than
usual; the gardeners and painters and
other help put everything in the best
possible condition. An always inter
esting operation for the tourists is the
transfer to the grounds of the potted
ornamental trees and plants which or
nament the spaces above the east and
west one-story wings. These are
transferred on trucks and are wheeled
across temporary stagings to their
resting places.
Washington is always glad when
the president returns. 1t knows that
this is a signal for resumption of
social and business activities. The
boarding houses and hotels begin to
fill their vacant rooms, the streets take
on a greater activity, and the capital
throbs with new life. Even though
the president makes an occasional
journey after reopening the White
tivity takes the place of the summer
stagnation.
At the Brazilian Embassy.
A diplomatic baby is the latest per-
sonage to interest the gossips of the
social world. While the charge
'affaires of Brazil, and his beautiful
young wife, who is of Mexican and
American blood and who was married
in London, were sojourning on the
picturesque North Shore of Massachu-
setts, they were visited by the stork,
who left a very interesting little sub
iect of Brazil behind him. The Brazil
ian legation was no more excited or
interested over the event than society
generally, and congratulations poured
in on the happy mother and the proud
father.
Blueberry Culture.
At last the advocates of blueberry
pie are to have an inning. The de-
partment of agriculture, having given
the culture of this fruit earnest study,
has worked out system of pit culture
under which the blueberry attain a
development beyond all previous ex-
pectations. Bulletin 1913 of the bu-
reau of plant industry tells all about
it. The blueberry does well in acid
soils, found over wide areas in the
eastern part Of the United States.
Healthful Alaska.
Tn his annual report the surgeon
general of the army declares that
+" Alaska still maintains its position as
by far the healthiest region where the
army is stationed
There were but two deaths among
the 1,064 troops in Alaska last year,
both from drowning Infectious fevers
were noticeably absent, no case being
reported of typhoid fever, smallpox,
measles, scarlet fever or diphtheria.
This record is so remarkable that 1t
is bound to attract attention and cause