The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-05-19
CURRENT NEWS

CUNNG&4 NEWS
prize OF $4,000 is offered by w.
Hearst for an aeroplane flight a.
cross the continent, at any time Be
fore october.
some European railroad companies
% building cars especially for wo-
men The cars will be luxuriously
furnished.
The progress of aeronautics is ev-
idanced by the fact that the last Ok
ford Cambridge boat-race was watched
from several aeroplanes poised above
the course.
The National Insurance Company
recently organized In Texas will be
nniaue in this country inasmuch as
II will insure the total abstainer at
lower premium than the man who
takes even an occasional drink Of in
toxicants.
There have been a number Of forest
fires in New England, recently, as
result of the dry weather Some of
them have done serious damage.
According to the United States Geo
logical Surveys report 495 ,209,0 73
short tons Of coal were produced in
the United States in the year 1909,
Of which S3,O00,O00 short tons were
anthracite coal from Pennsylvania.
A party OF Canadian government
biologists, shipwrecked on the west
coast of Hudson Bay last September,
have only lately found their way back
to civilization They suffered terrible
hardship.
The new Minister of Agriculture, in
Italy, proposes to give public instruc-
ton in English, for the benefit Of
Italians intending to emigrate to
America. The lessons are not to be
in English but in 'colloquial
English'-the kind Of English that is
spoken on the streets.
Prof. Ernest Sellin, the Austrian
Egyptologist, has discovered the an
Gent palace Of Herod the Great on
the plain Of the lower Jordan near the
road from Jerusalem to Jericho, and
the remains are said to be in a fine
state of preservation.
BY way Of reply to the fourteen-inch
guns which have been adopted by
some navies, the British navy is build
ing a fifteen-inch monster. Twenty
years ago the biggest gun ever made
was in possession OF the Italian navy.
1t was OF seventeen-inch caliber, but
was not a success.
The late British King, Edward VII,
has now been dead one year, and the
official period OF mourning - at an
end. In court society gay gowns ap-
peared last Sunday for the first time.
A period of gaiety now begins, and will
reach its climax next month at the
coronation OF George the Fifth.
On April 2S 4mass-meeting was
held in London under the presidency
of Bishop Weldon, calling upon the
government to take steps to stop the
activities of Mormon missionaries in
England. Tt was announced at the
meeting that the Mormons have eigh-
ty-two churches in England, with So
900 members, and 800 missionaries.
The Postoffice Department has de
cided to establish thirty-six more
postal savings banks. This makes 129
established since January l. The new
sys. en- is working well, and Postmass
ter-General Hitchcock hopes to extend
it until every money-order postoffice
in the United States Is a savings bank.
a mail carrier at Hanover, N. H.,
has finished a thirty days fast, which
he undertook in the belief that it
would cure him Of nervous dyspepsia.
He says he feels like a new man, and
believes the fast has added fifteen
years to his life. During the thirty
days he drank large quantities OF
water but took no food or other
drink.
They are planning in Germany a
monster air-ship with capacity Of
100000 cubic yards, eight times larg-
er than Court Zeppelin's largest Tt
will be IT'S feet long, 100 feet wide,
and will be capable OF carrying 200
passengers. II Is expected to cross
the Atlantic, and the fare will be 5000.
Our government recently took the
first step for negotiating treaty with
Japan, Russia and Great Britain for
the purpose Of saving the seals, sea
otter and other mammals in the North
Pacific Ocean. These animals are In
danger of being exterminated Jap
anese "seal pirates" are especially
troublesome; they ruthlessly slaught-
er young and old male or female seals.
Though our government keeps cruis-
ers searching for these pirates it is
hard to capture them.
A new method Of wireless telephony
makes it possible to send and receive
messages to or from telephones that
are in moving vehicles. Trains, au-
tocars, wagons, or ships equipped with
these phones may communicate with
each other or with any stationary
telephone. This is IT. Won Kramer's
"railophone," which has been tested
successfully in England.
In New York an inventor has lately
talked with his home, when miles
away, by means of a wireless ap-
paratus carried in his hat He
grounds" the current by simply
standing on street car rail, or on
the iron cover OF a sewer manhole.
The r. Hoe auction sale OF rare
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