Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-07-07
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Doctors and lawyers of Japan adver-
tise extensively and it is not consider
ed a violation Of professional etiquette
for them to do SO.
The Daily Berlin American, a. new
English language paper, began publica-
ton in Berlin in March. This is the
first daily in English language ever
printed in that city. It is five marks a
copy, about eight times more than that
Of the German dailies.
Germany launched / more shipping
during 1921 than in any previous year
of her history.
Ice cream was first made in Japan
and reported by travellers to that coun-
try as early as the thirteenth century.
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While the district attorney was max
ing an imprisoned appeal to the jury
in The Dalles, Oregon, recently, Gin
dian Spencer in. from the Warm
Springs reservation, stepped to the
Judge IS rostrum, and, in tones audible
in all parts Of the'efdwded courtroom
| asked the judge, an old friend for the
| loan of so cents. The district attorney
! paused, stammered, and joined in the
laughter. The Indian got his so cents
and departed, the judges gavel pound
ed and the trial was resumed.
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Fifteen per cent Of all cloth manu-
featured in Germany is made of sweep
ings, rags, clippings and cotton waste
. . .
The latest method Of sinking concret<
piles was recently demonstrated II
Omaha, when four piles were sunk, the
first, 40 feet long, in 80 seconds. One
pile, weighing more than six tons, ano
As feet in length, was sunk to bedrock
at depth Of "a feet. Each pile car
ried water pipe set in the reinforced
| concrete. Water is forced at a high
pressure through this pipe, digging 8
hole as the pipe sinks by its OWL
| weight.
A journalist in. France, lOl years old
contributes an article every week to q
French provincial newspaper.
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Railroad crossings have killed an
average Of $4,000 persons annually fol
| the past three years, according to the
general safety agent Of the New York
Central Lines.
Mount Kenia, in Africa, is nearly
three and one-half miles high and
straddles the equator. The summit is
always covered with snow and in climb
ing to the top one passes through all
the climates known from the tropics to
the arctic.
A forest ranger in Northern Mime
sofa, seeking authentic information
of the approximate number of fires that
will kindle from cigarets, walked one
mile throwing lighted cigarets along
the rail. Twenty cigarets were used
in this manner and upon his return he
found that 10 of them had started
small fires. This experiment was
tried in the dry peat country. When
peat is dry it kindles very easily.
Of the $4,000 criminals examined
by the superintendent Of New York
l-State's reformatories, only four were
| college graduates. Seven per cent in a
group Of 1000 prisoners had high
school education, Is per cent had fl
nished grammar school, and Ga per cent
had attended only 2 primary grades.
A community cow, rented out at 81
a week to families in the congregation
who have children, is the property Of
the ChurchJby-the-S Side of the-Road il
Greensboro, North Carolina. The pro
ceeds realized FROM this rental arr
being saved to buy other cows ant
eventually there will be a community
herd to supply milk in large quantitie.
for all the children in the congregation
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A new stump-burning method EN-
ployed in Washington consists. of plac
ing an apparatus, against the stuml
with fue and blowpipe in position
IA draft created by the bloWpipe turn
the inside Of the stump into mass o.
Goals, the fire eats down into the roots
and the entire stump is consumed a
half the cost of former methods.
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The average pay Of 10000 clergy
men in this country is 1854 a week.
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/ SCIENCES
Duluth News Tribune: finnesot,
will he glad to- have Charles 4. Gilman
Of saint Cloud dictete his reminiscen