Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-18
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST,

A dispatch to LIE Journal, Partisan news
paper, from Berlin, says that the German
government will hand to the allies in May
a memorandum insisting on the necessity of
granting to Germany loan of $4,000 ,OOO,-
600 marks. The memorandum will demand
modification of the rules governing the allied
occupation, the dispatch adds.
A bay horse with cloven foot is exciting
much interest at the worlds fair in London,
Eng. The horse is the offspring of shire
stallion and Welsh mare, and it is suggested
that his two toes indicate reversion to his
prehistoric ancestors. Prehistoric horses had
three or more toes on each foot. One of the
earliest members Of the horse family, Phena-
codus, is said to have had five each foot.
The manufacture Of hats in China is ex-
pected to become an important industry.
With the cutting of the queue, foreign hats
displaced the native styles More than 1000
rush hats are exported each year from Ningpo
to the United States hat Of good quality
is being made in Ezechwan Of palm leaf
fiber. The extensive manufacture of straw
braid in Shantung will lead to the manu-
facture of straw hats in that section.
Air routes from England to Egypt and Can
ada Egypt to India Cairo to the Cape and
India to Australia have been proposed by
Major General Sir r. H. Sykes, of London,
controller general of civil aviation. Another
route to be developed would be between Eng
land and the West Indies, with the Azores
a stepping stone. From some central point
in the West Indies a connecting service of
flying boats could be usefully employed for
the distribution of mails.
In Franklin county, Maine, during the
month of January, ten trappers earned $4,000
from trapping beavers alone. The ten took
$50 of these animals, the average value of
which was $40 per pelt. AL Wing, of Flag
staff, was the 1uckiest, getting thirty-five,
which gave him $1,000 for his months
work Leslie Sylvester, Of Dead River got
twenty one, worth $840, while Ralph Wing,
also Flagstaff man, got eighteen, giving him
$720. The smallest catch was made by G. H.
Henderson, of Dead River, who took only
eight, but those netted him $500.
In addition to the beaver, all these men
got some muskrats, worth 81 pelt, ana
also mink, fox and other fur-bearing AMI
mails.
A good many years ago resident in
Bridgewater, Mass, decided to try his hand
at influencing tree growth. Accordingly, he
planted four sapling elms in the form or a
square at the entrance gate to his home ana
bounded them closely togethe" about twelve
feet from the ground. At the time his neigh
bOrs considered it huge joke, but five or
six years later they were forced to admit
that the scheme was not a fruitless one after
all, because by this time the four trees had
had grown together and formed a unique en-
trance to his home. The trees now have all
the appearance of a single tree on stills.
Locally it is known as the wishing tree" and
small boys and girls believe that by making
wish while walking in and out between the
trees, the wish will come true.
According to report from Berlin, the new
German coat of arms adopted by the national
assembly consists of a one-headed eagle on
yellow gold shield, and without the Old-tlme
crown. The eagle will be displayed in sim
pie heraldic form, without any accessories.
The Hohenzollern coat of arms and the
chain of the order of the silver eagle, all parts
Of the old Prussian coat Of arms, have been
omitted. The bill of the eagle, the tongue
and the talons are in red. Servants of the
government are to wear the device without
forms.
Some of the Pan-German papers ridicule
it. saving, the skinny, homely eagle with
extended tongue" violates the rules OF good
taste
A report from London, Eng, in contra
dieting a statement in the English press that
young women are being persuaded by agents
of the Church of the Latter Day Saints MOT
monsl to leave their home and go to Otan,
T. G. Mckay, London, president OF the
church. has offered $1,000 for proof or
single case in which such means nave neen