The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-08

flying with an aeroplane driven by
tapping wings instead Of a propeller.
The construction of what Is known
as No. jetty at Cape Town docks
has been authorized at a cost Of
100000.
Don Pedro Robbie of Columbia, has
invented a typewriter capable of writ
ing syllables instead of single letters.
One bride in ten in California Is a
Divorce. Statistics compiled by state
statistican Leslie show that the total
number of brides in 1912 was 31,276.
or this number, 1904 were Divorces.
Francis K Matthew, Oregon pioneer
of 1912, and the man whose vote saved
the Oregon country to the United
States, is seriously Ill at the home Of
his son, s. A. Matthew, in Portland,
Oregon.
Judge George Lakin of Phillips, Me-,
has the reputation that not one of his
decisions has been reversed by the SUI
preme court during the forty-two
years that he has acted as a trial
judge.
Several American cereal companies
are complaining because their product
Is classified by the German customs
house authorities as made by a spe-
cial process" and as such Is subject to
a high rate of duty.
Thirty thousand deer die in Califor-
MIA each year, the victims Of hunters
and preying animals, according to a
report issued by the state fish and
game commission. OF this number
about ten thousand are killed by hunt
ers.
When w. w. Meredith, q farmer at
Woodland, Alberta, Canada, dressed
some ducks for the local markets he
found the stomachs of several birds
filled with fake gold, seven of the
pieces measuring from sixteenth to
an eighth of an inch in diameter.
DR.. Charles Wood of Washington
urging greater missionary activity in
China, declares the republic will not
endure unless the bulk of its people
become Christians.
Only the more important moving
picture theaters of Frankfort-on-the-
Main change their programs twice q
week. Films showing typically Amer
lean subjects are popular.
To prevent the starched bosom of
dress shirt climbing out over a low
cut vest an inventor has brought out
a shirt that is combined with a pair
of short drawers.
Miss Kate Barnard will continue her
work In the interests of men in con-
Wet mines and work places, in which
she has become interested as commits
sioner of charities In Oklahoma
Kansas has $4,000 school children.
In 1911 there were 108 homocides in
st. Louis.
Fireworks were originally made and
used by the ancient Chinese.
The French grape crop is light and
the champagne output will be smaller.
Basutoland has a population Of 404,-
507, of whom 1896 are Europeans.
In the wooden trade during the last
ten years Great Britain has made
nearly five times as much progress as
Germany and fifteen times as much as
France.
DR.. II. S. Frost, Superintendent of
Boston's hospital for the insane, re-
ports great success In the use of warm
water baths in calming violent pa
tents.
An Indianapolis citizen writes an
earnest protest to a local editor: IL
wish to protest against teachers in
our public schools inviting children
under their care to engage in cantatas
to be given publicly for the benefit Of
any religious sect" One might sup
pose that parents could determine for
whether 1t was desirable
to let Presbyterian child take part
In Methodist entertainment.
To enlarge It's course in petroleum
mining the university Of Birmingham,
Is preparing to build addi-
tional laboratories. The university has
been given the course for some time,
and 1t has turned out some men who
have achieved high places in the in
dustry, as we'll as in activities de-
pendent on petroleum products. In
recognition of the value of the work
done special degree hereafter is to
be granted.
Philadelphia has increased the sal
aries of public school teachers.
The University Of Minnesota, has