The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-05-20
BRIEF MENTION

SN0s NASAN ASAN
Grape growers of Southern Califor-
mia have named a new town volstead.
Ownership OF two or more dogs is
a luxury in Germany and heavy
taxes are imposed under a new SEIZED.
ule.
A baby man-eating shark, hungry
and vicious, was found as a stow
away In the bilge of a ship put in
drydock in New York for repairs.
London University, with an enroll
ment OF 10000 students, makes the
claim of the largest attendance of any
institution of learning in the world.
Thousands of dollars are extracted
by beggars each night from the New
York City theatre crowds. Earning
up to $50 an hour have been reported
Truck patches are being worked by
many OF the $4,000 idle anthracite
workers Of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl-
vania. Cabbages and potatoes are the
~favorite crops.
A canary bird wholesaler In Omaha
has the trademark, Living Music
Box" stamped under the left wing
Of each bird with indelible ink. He
places a high value on this trade
mark.
Identifying cows by the prints of
their noses, In the same manner as
the police system of Identification by
fingerprints. is a new method employ
ed by the University of Minnesota TO
prevent INSCRIPTIONS dealers taking
advantage of pedigreed live stock.
Penrhyn Ceduraeth. Wales. pays no
taxes. A movie promoter rents the
town hall on shares and when the
balance sheet was presented recently
1t was discovered that the municipal
movie had done away with the neces-
sity of levying any taxes for the COM
ing year.
A black-headed albatross followed
a steamship across the North Pacific
for 5000 miles without once furling
its wings. 1t started from a small
island near Japan and when the ship
was 10000 miles from the nearest
Alaskan port. 1t turned abruptly and
few toward the west.
Travellers report that the price of a
room in a first-class hotel in Vienna
is anywhere from 5000 Il 5000
crowns a day. Forty per cent of this
goes to the municipality. A similar
tax Is imposed on the charge for heat
ing rooms and there is a tax of 10
per e n on the cost of meals.
Swimming from Colonia, Uruguay,
to Buenos Aires. recently, an Argen-
tine student made a new record. The
distance was 81 miles. The swim
mer was in the water "a hours, 80 II
minutes. beating the previous record
by 80 minutes. This is believed to
be the worlds record for endurance
swimming.
A helium-filled dirigible is easier to
handle in the air. According to Gov
eminent experts. who have been ex-
perimenting, the heiium-filled ship is
steadier and moves with greater mo-
mentum than an airship filled with
hydrogen. Helium gas is twice as
heavy as hydrogen and has go per
cent of its lifting power.
Three hundred thousand francs was
paid for a one-cent British Guiana
stamp. issue of 1856. black or car-
mine, sold recently at an auction sale
of o famous Baron Ferrari collection
in Paris. The State tax of seventeen
and one-half per cent added to the
cost price made 1t the highest price
aver paid fer a stamp in France.
The Secretary of the Navy has an
nounced the closing of naval radio
stations to public use for broadcast
ing speeches. lectures or any form of
non-oficial communication, excepting
musical programs to be picked up by
radio telephone. The issuance of the
order followed the use of the naval
radio service by members of Congress
in addressing their constituents on
political subjects.
More than $4,000. 900 900 is in
vested In the cocoanut industry.
Many crushing mills have been estab-
lished In the Dutch East Indies, the
Philippines. Australia and French
Oceania. BY crushing the oil from
the nut where the nuts are grown
freight is saved and the fresh copra
yields a better product. The residue
left after pressing the copra for oil
is called ''poonac" and commands a
high price in Europe. as live stock
food.