The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-08-19
BRIEF EMIT

4.61 persons per motor vehicle.
Records at Genoa and the diary of
Columbus indicate that the entire
cost OF discovering America was only
s7.25O.
A machine has recently been in
vented that automatically cuts and
dips Ice cream bars. The machine
has a capacity OF nearly 10000 bars
in eight hours.
An edict %forbidding the reading of
all Anatole Frances works by adher-
ents of the Catholic church has been
issued by the congregation OF the
Holy Office of Rome.
"Speckboom" Is an African plant
with large, s%ucculent leaves which
has beer transplanted with success
to the waste lands of California to
provide pastures for cattle and sheep.
The coolest spot in the world is in
Washington, ID. c., where Sis de-
grees below zero was registered in
the laboratory of the Bureau Of Mines
where scientists are trying to liquify
helium a.
Every foreign tourist putting up
for "a hours in Munich, Germany, is
taxed $50 marks. A weeks stay
costs 1850 marks and the tax for a
month is 1000 marks.
A London newspaper states that
analyses of the prohibition violations
in New York City showed rs per cen
of the violators to be foreign-born.
Native-born and Anglo-Saxons were
found to be law-abiding.
Boy Scouts in the United States
now number nearly a half million,
and during the past year more than
$4,000 new members have been add
ed. Nearly 900 boys have become
Eagle Scouts" the high rank of
scoutdom.
Larkspur Is a poisonous plant Of
ten causing sudden death to cattle,
but horses eat 1t with M resultant
illness. The wne of grazing herds
In the National Forest Reserves of
Washington must take this into con-
sideration when accepting allotments
for the years grazing.
Ysleta, Texas, is the Oldest town
in the United States, according to
tradition. 1t is believed the town was
founded in 1910 by Don Francisco
vasquez Coronado, a Spanish explor-
er. This would make 1t 25 years
older than st. Augustine, Florida,
the Oldest town of authentic record.
Hollywood, California, has a COM
munity chorus. More than 1900 per-
sons gather weekly for group singing
and to hear in short programs the
great artists and musicians of the
country. Hollywood has a philhar-
monte orchestra playing six nights
out of the seven in the Bowl, a nat
ural amphitheater in the hills.
The new gold rush to Oatman, Ar
izona. discloses the fact that the old
time prospector and his burro have
disappeared to be replaced by miners
in automobiles bringing their fami-
lies with them. They stake their
claims, harness the engine of the
auto up to a diamond drill and pre-
ceed to prove up the property.
In 1877, Thomas A. Edison spoke
into the first model photograph
speaking mouthpiece: Mary had a
little lamb" Upon examination
he found indentations On the tinfoil
record. He replaced the record.
turned the crank and back from the
cylinder came a thin voice but with
out a word of the recitation missing.
Thus was born the photograph.
A musical burglar has been looting
the homes of exclusive Chicago resi-
dences of thousands of dollars worth
of jewels and money, after first lull-
ing the suspicious of neighbors by
his rare piano playing. A score from
"Rigoletto" at one place. and pleas
ing portions from La Traviata" and
III Trovatore," marked the thefts.
The hurdy-gurdy grinders Of New
York City rent their pianos by the
day. These pianos are stored in a
warehouse and the people who ent
them are up at dawn, for the first to
arrive are the first to be permitted to
get the best instruments, and the lat
est tunes. They rarely make more
than SO a day and must pay 50 a
day rental for the instrument.
Snake-bite is now treated with a
serum similar to the anti-tetanus
serum. A snake farm in operation
in Brazil furnishes the poison or
venom which is diluted with sugar
of milk and injected into mules and
other animals. The vaccine obtained
from the treated animal is said to be
an absolute antidote against the pois-
on of the particular snake from which
the venom was drawn.
After printing a weekly serial from
the Bible for three months, the To-
peka State Journal finds this to be
the most successful feature the pa
per has aver published. Inquiries
and comment concerning 1t have
come to the editors from every State
in the Union, and from numerous
foreign countries. Following the lead
OF the Journal, several other Kansas
papers are also publishing the
Bible. Publication of the Bible by
the Journal was undertaken at the
suggestion of DR.. Charles M. Shell
don, author of in His Steps," Each
installment consists of about 5000
words, the Weymouth tex of thesNew
Testament being used.
Deepest Mine Bottoms at 6,426 Feet