Putnam patriot., 1912-10-18
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The Toy Risen Kaisha Steamship company has introduced q new feature in the direction Of providing for the safety Of it's passengers. To each tick ct sold is attached a coupon represent ing certain seat in a lifeboat with a printed request to the purchaser To ac- quaint himself immediately on going aboard with the location of the paftie- uiar boat to which he is allotted. 5uf- fieient lifeboats are provided to accom- modate all the passengers.
 Never before have the great cereal crops of the United states been so bounufu as those of this year. isec- ofds Of production for almost every ee- real have been surpassed, in some in- stances by millions of bushels. The october crop report Of the department of agriculture shows spring wheat, ,oa E, harley, rye, and hay, all have exceed ed the best record productions, while the crops of corn and potatoes from present indications also will be the greatest ever yet harvested.
 Consular Assistant Tredwell seems much impressed by a life-saving deek chair he saw at London exhibition. "rhe seat and baek," he writes, "are made of double piece of waterproof canvas filled with grannlated cork or other weight-sustainlng material. As they work on the principle of roller towel, il Is always possible 10 have il dry chair The chairs vary in weight from l4to IT pounds according 10 the material used. ?
 The Golonel's platform and Taft $; Once upon time there was preach CT who copied other mems sermons out Of books and preached them as his own. When caught at il and con fronted with the proof of his offerings he explained, He had read that fine precept, "Seize on the truth where'er 'tis found. He had gone and seized accordingly, and what was there to make fuss aooHl2
 The proposal has often been made as
 
 mate of North America by digging a new outlet for the gulf stream. IL was plausibly presented many years ago in the Atlantic Monthly by the late Prof. Shaler of Harvard. But it Is now brought forward in apparent serious ness by the New York engineer, Car. roll Livingstone Riker, who says that for less than the cost of the Panama canal the Arctic can be thawed out, an end made of the iceberg menace, and the earth shifted triiie on It's pole with consequences to climatic condi- tions not easily calculable.
 A. C. Gould. an Alaska mining man, who arrived on the steamer Spoka ane, told of the finding of valuable piece of ambergris by Dr. Elliott and George Bowes near Seward few weeks ago. Elliott and Bowes were on the launch in Seward Hafbor, when their way was barred by large whale. They stopped the launch and watched the animal until il swam away, leaving on the surface Of the ehurned water lump Of ambergris weighing fifty~two pounds. The find was taken to Sew ard, where it was valued al $40 an ounce, or S33 900.
 President Taft's effort to interest the American people in the establishment on large scale Of agricultural coop efative credit societies, or banks, for the benefit of the farmers of the coun- try, and also for the benefit of the con sumers of agricultural produce, eul- inmates in his formal invitation to the governors Of the several states to confer with him on the question in Washing lon next December.
 Several cases of damage done to a ship by collision with a whale have been reported during the past year, but the most serious was that of the steam whaler Tyee, Jr., of Sitka bay, Alas ka, which was reported last week when the vessel returned to Seattle. A whale, the length of which was esti- mated al 90 feet, had been harpooned, and instead Of sounding came \ square al the ship, striking her amid ships al full speed. The blow broke two steel rils and put the dynamo and engsae out of commission. To add 10 the misfortune, the whale, valued at $500, escaped. But the success of the ship in bsgging ol whales in six months indicates that the whale fish cry is by no means exhausted yet.