The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-01
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England makes telim protest
against the sweat-shop systeml "A
bill is now pending In Fparliaineni
which forbids the Imperial on into
the United Kingdom from foreign
lands OF goods made under that sys
ten.y
Sir Henry Maine Is credited with
the following political epigram The
king Of England reigns but does not
govern. The president OF the United
States governs but does not reign.
'The president of France does ne tn
err
The government records show that
| William II. Vanderbilt once owned
! $48, 100000 On United States bonds,
yielding him in interest the sum OF
1920 for every hour of the day and
night which would be at the rate of
! 1896 per minute.
-Four years ago a young man from
Georgia lave up his lower berth in
| q sleeping car to a man from Cali
| fornia. the Impulse beng one Of
courtesy or reverence for age. The
| Georgian has just been notified that
the Californian le., him legacy OF
$2 900.
Exports from the United States
this year are expected to pass the
two-billion mark, and not one man
in m lioh has any conception of
what billion means. A million sec
ends is but eleven days. How much
Is a billion seconds? 1t is about
thirty-two years.
A new ksnd of rope is upon the
market which is said to be so per
cent more durable than cotton, being
stronger, tougher and equally as flex
ible, II is made of galvanized steel
wire, which Is covered with several
layers of paper max 'ng it service
able for clotheslines and the like.
Hellum is the "sun-metap so call
ed because it was found to exif in
the sun-the Greek name for the sun
being hellos-before 1t was Know4l
to exist anywhere on the earth. 1t
has recently been discovered in min
erals cast up by The volcano of Ve-
suvias and even in the air about the
mountain.
The papers tell of an Italian count
who was rescued when he fell into
swollen stream in the mountains
by his American fiancee, who bodily
INTO the water, brought HIM
TO shore, resuscitated him by rolling
his body on the rocks and afterward |
walked several miles to bring him
further aid and comfort.
1t is saiu TO be customary in Bull |
garia for a newly married woman to |
exchange no conversation with any |
outsider during the first month fol |
lowing the wedding. She IS permit
ted to open her mouth only for the |
purpose of eating and drinking and |
Is allowed to reply to her husband
when the latter chooses to address
her,
The officials issuing marriage IL
censes in Philadelphia have kept an
accurate account during the last year
amid they find that the blondes of
me fair sex outnumber the brunette
three to one. Does this mean that
N Philadelphia and possibly the
world over blondes have tnree times
ne chance I'm matrimony that bru-
nettes have?
Inc washington monument. tower
ng 55O feet, though built of stone,
'ends perceptibly under the summer
leat A copper wire, ia feet long.
langs In the center of the shaft. and
arrier ia plummet suspended in
essel of water. This contrivance
hows the slightest DETECTION or the
hart from earth tremors, heat or
'ther causes.
a Montana girl has just completed
Journey on horseback from San
Francisco to New York, a distance
[ 4,500 miles, by public roads. She ,
eclares her purpose to ride back On ,
eaching New York she surprised
'iends in an office building by riding
er horse on to the freight elevator
nd ascending in the saddle to the
welfth story. where they were at
'ork.
Former United States Senator Will
am a. Clark asked to have the tax =
ssessment reduced on his New
ork residence. said to be furnished =
ith the most costly fittings the
orld could produce. In granting the v
squest the court held that such ex-
avagant fittings add nothing to the
sal rental value of the property
nd must be disregarded in its as i
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