The courier-index., 1917-11-23
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A Riverhead IN. W woman will
ed about $4,000 to her maid for
faithful service.
About 10000 church bells in Ger
many have been melted for NUM-
tions of war.
President Hadley, of Yale, pre-
diets series of wars if the allies
do not win the present struggle.
The German Roman Catholic Cen
trail Verin of st. Louis, has decided
to drop the word German from its
title.
In England all carts and wagons
must bear the owners name and ad-
dress before being used in public
highway.
The recent order for 100000 pairs
of army shoes at $4.65 a pair is the
largest order for shoes ever placed
by the government, and the bill will
total more than S32,500,0O0.
The programs, newspapers, lunch
wrappers, etc, picked up by the park
employees after the first two games
of the worlds series at Chicago,
weighed $500 pounds. They produc-
ed II bales and sold for $50
The four biggest firms in the
United States, doing a business on
nearly S150,e00000 a year, depend
on nickels and dimes There are
four five and ten cent stores in this
country that made sales last year of
S87000,444 from nickels and dimes
In the vault of the United States
land office at Springfield, Mo-, are
1900 undelivered patents to govern
ment lands aggregating $50, 900 acres,
and an effort is being made to find
the patentees, else the titles to the
lands involved will always be i'm.
perfect Some OF the patents are
dated prior to the civil war.
There were 5.S4S,930 forest trees
raised at the four state nurseries in
New Zealand during the fiscal year
ending March 81, 1917, and 5,419.569
trees were planted in the eight
government plantations of the 10
minion covering 2,760 acres. The
total area planted since the start of
operation in 1896 is 29,992 acres.
1t was the travelling circus" of
Baron Won Richthofen, made up of
forty or more airplanes, which sur
rounded Capt. Guynemer. the French
aviator and succeeded in killing
him. II has been the method of
these air soldiers to travel in large
parties and surround allied machines.
Circling about they prevent their
escape and finally. shoot down their
| adversary.
The principal entente belligerents
have about 10000 motor cars and
1 the central powers have 10000 en-
4 gagged in the war. The cars ain use
/ by the entente powers are engaged
as follows: England 10000 includ-
ing $4,000 for conveyance of supplies
I France $4,000, including 25000 for
carrying supplies; Russia 10000 in
/ Guiding 10000 for carrying supplies;
Italy 10000, including 5000 for car
rying supplies; Belgium 10000; Rou-
mania LOO and Serbia 125.
When the former car was asked
I to state his wishes as to the course
1 the railway, which connects Petro-
( grad and Moscow, should take, he
drew a perfectly straight line be-
tween the two capitals and the engin-
GERS proceeded accordingly, although
they had many natural difficulties
to overcome and the expense would
have been much less if they had
made some deviations. This is prob
ably the longest straight railway
line in the world
A travelling bathtub in a motor
car manned by an American doctor
and a Red Cross nurse, is on its
way through the devastated region
around Nese. France, carving medi-
cal aid and soap to 200 under
nourished unsmiling little French
children, who swarm over a group If
seven villages While the doctor
pumps water through the shower
/ the nurse scrubs AS the child
whitens the water blackens. At the
finish the rubber shower tube is sud-
denly shifted into bucket of fresh
cold water and the bath ends with
an unexpected douse accompanied
by screams and squeals.
There are about 10000 Chinese,
about $4,000 Japanese and about
5000 Hindoos in the United States.
In 1913 sugar refiners in the Unit
Il ed States exported % 900 tons of