The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-07-08
BRIEF MENTION

year OF her history.
Fifteen per cent of all cloth manu-
featured in Germany is made OF
sweepings. rags. clippings and cotton
waste.
Six hundred letters written by
Charles Dickens to the late Baroness
Burdett-C outts. sold recently in Lon
don for $3.50.
At the time Of the Civil War only
three per cent Of the population OF
the United States lived in cities. while
to-day more than one-half r city
jewellers.
All University Of Arizona students
must sleep In the open air. AS the
climate is dry, mild and equable, It
is possible to provide open-air sleep
ing quarters during the entire college
year.
The brewery that made Milwaukee
famous is now turning out chocolates
by the ton and helping the candy in
dustry to maintain its position of
fifth place In the industries benefited
by prohibition.
A paper tape measure is being
| rolled into German bolts Of cloth.
This permits the statesmen to tell at
a glance the masure of cloth remain
ing in the bolt, thus economizing la
Dor and time The tape is marked
off In yards and meters.
"Armored" aluminium, used In the
name of reinforced concrete, is now
obtained by embedding in the alum
mum mass thin steel portions which
transmit tensile stresses, the sur
rounding aluminium being relied
upon to take care of compressive
stresses.
President Harding has a copy of
the Marion Star, his own paper, de-
livered at his executive desk every
morning and he reads 1t before he
does anything else. Throughout the
day 1t is neatly folded away OF the
left hand corner of the desk for ready
reference.
Asbestos suits are made for per-
sons engaged in work that requires
fireproof clothing. Asbestos a be
spun SO fine that 100 yards of the
ilament will weigh only one ounce
| and cloth can be made from this
weighing only a few ounces to the
square yard.
Becky Thatcher" the little school
girl in the Mark Twain book on the
adventures of Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn, is a real person
living to-day in Hannibal, Missouri,
the old home Of Mark Twain. She
is So years of age and is matron of
the Home of the Friendless there.
A radio telephone at each Of the
20 tables of a San Francisco hotel en-
ables the diners to listen to one of.
several concerts that are broadcast
daily. Diners now eat while listen
ing and the hotels of the city are
making preparations to have wireless
phones installed in their guest rooms
The first sawmill within the Arctic
Circle will soon be established at
Herschel Island, at the mouth of the
Mackenzie River. The engine ac-
companying the mill is of the two
cycle kind. without carburetor or ig-
milton. and a be run on fish oil or
crude petroleum from the Fort Nor
man wells.
A new stump-burning method I'm
ployed in Washington consists of
placing an apparatus against the
stump with a fue and blowpipe in
position. A draft created by the blow
pipe turns the inside of the stump
into a mass Of Goals, the fire eats
| down into the roots and the entire
stump is consumed at half the cost
of former methods.
The Chinese prefer a paper Of
softer quality for their correspond
ence than that made for the use of
Americans. This is because the Chin
ese write entirely with brushes and
ink. Wrapping paper of a soft, thin
variety, light cream in color. is usual
ly found in the better stationery
shops, while the native shops sell a
cheap brown paper.
Flashing across the skies of Vir-
ginia, a meteor struck in a grove of
oak trees in the south central por-
ton of the State. making a depres-
sion in the earth which measured
more than 500 square feet in area.
The meteor was composed of a me-
tallic substance and severaltrees were
buried beneath the falling body.
Homes in nearby towns were rocked
by the conclusion.
A substitute for cardboard and
wood in boxes is a chemical compo-
sition of sawdust and ashes. The
finished boxes are light, washable,
sanitary and non-poisonous. They
are waterproof and as f~reproof as
asbestos and can be made in any de-