Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-15
A Number Of Things.

2
croachments Of France.
The United States Naval Academy
Viii celebrate its seventy Rfth an
niversary next year, having been
founded in lS45 by George Bancroft,
who Was secretary of the navy in the
cabinet of President Polk.
England's largest land owner is the
Duke of Hamilton. It is estimated he
could give away square mile of land
every day for half year, and yet have
comfortable little estate eight miles
square to call his own.
len pounds of potatoes of good va
rIety contain approximately seven and
a half pounds of water and two and
halt pounds of food, chiefly starch.
The starch of the potato is equal as
food TO the starch which forms the
principal nutritive substance in bread.
The New Zealand authorities arc
hghting one of the most remarkable
olraS IN existence, the kea, which
threatens to kill of thousands of sheep
ana run the New Zealand sheep
farmer. The kea is a kind of parrot. n
little smaller than rock, with an
extremely strong beak and claws 70,
lis SIZE. II attacks sheep day and
night, and flock of the birds has been
known to kill no fewer than seventy
sheep in a single night The extra.
ordinary thing about the kea is that the
male cannot be distinguished from the
female and no nest has ever been
found. None is able to say where the
BIRD breeds or when, nor has any one
seen any young birds.
A blue sun has appeared once only
and will probably never be seen again
even to the end of existence. This oc-
Cured in the summer of 1888, in the
Sunda States. The cause was the
eruption of large volcano. In the
terrible shock that followed great
range OF mountains was blown com.
pletely into the air The cavity left
AFTER the explosion was 1000 fee,
deep. Billions of tons of rocks, dust
and mud were blown upwards to a
height of seventeen miles. The sun
was completely obscured. In Batavia.
ioo miles away, the street lamps had
to be lighted, although il was not vet
noon. But toward sunset came the
magnificent PHENOMENON known to as
tronomers as the blue sun. This was
observed by every one within thirty or
forty degrees of the equator.
The American Bible Society reports
that after twenty-five years of work
which has cost several hundred
Thousand dollars, translators have
completed the great Mandarin YER
sion OF the Chinese Bible. The new
version places the Bible at the disposal
OF more than four hundred million peo
pie, greater number than that reach
ed by any other translation in history.
Few people who ride in parlor cars
realize how stupendous is the system
OF which the cars are a part. II is
the equivalent of hotel with 26O OOO
beds and 1880 Office desks at which
26,OOO,OO0 guests register every wear
Ii has 5000 negro porters, owns linen
worth S2,0OO,0OO, and uses $50 OOo
worth OF soap year.
STRANGELY enough, the police appear to
be more annoyed by the countrywide
activity OF automobiles thieves than
the owners Of automobiles. Men who
would not dream Of leaving their
pocketbooks where casual passers can
PICK them up will leave Automobiles
worth thousands Of dollars entirely I'm.
projected in secluded places where
they are stolen almost with IMMUNITY
Inc police say that the owners as a
class are to blame for their losses, be-
cause they do not take proper care
OF their cars.
A Spartan trick native TO Athens
seems like a contradiction in terms
Out there is laconic directness in the
method employed by Athenian police.
men to cure motorists OF speeding
mat is worthy to rank with the heroic
rules OF Spartan conduct. The police
men who are stationed on the princi
pal streets have planks studded with
long, sharp nails, which they drop in
front OF locomotives that are approach.
ing at what appears to be excessive
speed. II the driver is not driving too
rat ne can top in time; il he is
his tires are punctured. 1t is a simple
and effective way to control traffic.
1t is the Extra Loads That Pay the
DDnEITc