The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-22


France, bringing with him fifty
horsepower Gnome engine Bleriot Of
the latest type. His first action will
be to make declaration of his inten-
ton to become a citizen of the United
states Later he purposes To crafty
his ambition to be the first man to fly
down the whole length of Broadway,
circle the statue Of Liberty in the bay
and return uptown To Van Cortland
park without a stop. This feat he will
attempt about May /.
New York City uses daily 100000
quarts of milk, which is secured from
$4,000 farms in six states. The health
commissioner says New York's milk is
now better than that Of any other city
i'm the country.
A large collection of wild animals
and birds mas been brought to New
Work from Hamburg by the steamship
President Grant. In addition to three
camels, cage of lions and three cages
of. bears, the liner carried a cage of
foxes, hundreds of cartridges. thous-
ands of smaller birds, twenty five boxes
Of serpents, eleven cages of monkeys
three cages of beasts Of prey. one box
of turtles. a case of frogs. three cages
of polar bears and one cat. The ami
mails will be shipped to dealers and
collectors.
Fine feathers will not make fine wo-
men in New York next Easter. Be-
fore that time the new "plumage bill'
passed at the earnest solicitation Of the
Audubon societies, will go into effect
The bill. if successfully enforced, will
leave milady's headgear barren OF
aigrettes and feathers. a heavy fine
/ is the penalty for violation. The inev-
| liable vogue of featherless hats in
New York is already being planned
by the milliners. II is a serious and
lperplexing question with them. This
| big milliners declare that they viii
suffer heavy loss, as the time is toe
short to dispose Of their contracts ol
cancel STANDINGS orders. incidentally
the wholesalers declare that more thar
ten thousand girls and women i'm New
York city will be thrown out of work
| by the law.
The steamer Katuna, which reached
New York from the far east brought
| 1900 tons of Chinese money TIL,
money is worn and mutilatcd and was
sold as old copper by The Chinese gov.
eminent.
Announcement of the birth of a baby
to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hopkins o
lIrvington- on Hudson has been made
in New York. The baby, which
weighs S1a pounds. Is heir to $4,000,
600 from his grandfather John Ran
dolph Hopkins. The boy will b,
named after his grandfather.
If the ambitious dreams of William
Henry Harrison, a New York inventor
are ever realized, the various patterns
vi dtIODldHtNt dllllOuku bdltAN btA ~
the experimental stage, will he rele
gated To the scrap pile for all time t
come. Harrison. who is by profession
maker of coat and trouser hangers
has invented flying contrivance
which, he believes. will completely rev
olutionize the art of navigating the air
His continuance, upon which he wal
careful enough to obtain a patent. Il
based upon an entirely new and decid
eddy original principle. 1t has M
The power to rise is impaired to tho
machine by a succession of gas explo
sions underneath IT, II is it might b.
said, blown up by gas explosions. TIL
motion in horizontal direction Il
produced, as in the present aeroplane
by propeller wheels. driven by an en-
CINE. In the machine invented by Mr.
Harrison. the engine also is driven by
the force of the gas explosions.
"In an attempt to end the practice
of binding very young children il
tight swaddling clothes" prevalent
among women in the foreign settle
ments in New York city. one of thu
prominent New York charitable or
CARNATIONS has placed nurses In var
ious parts of the east side to start
campaign of education among thu
mothers. The swaddllng clothes, q
sort of long bandage. is wrapped
tightly about the childs lower limbs
and Is often allowed to remain for siS
months at a time. The mothers be-
lieve the treatment prevents the child
from growing "bow-legged" and have
opposed attempts to check the prac-
tice. Investigations have convinced
the association that instead of pre-
venting malformation of the limbs, the
swaddling clothes increase 1t.