The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-07-22
BRIEF MENTION

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Eighty-one thousand six hundred
and ffty-One tourists visited the yell
lowstone National Park during 1921.
A battery-driven clock without
handspring and needing no winding,
has been invented. 1t will run a year
without attention.
Tailings recovered from lead and
zinc mines are being used in Wis
consin for fertilizer. Four to five
tons to the acre benefit clover and al
falfa crops.
There are now more than 1.500,-
600 radio receiving sets in the Uni
ted States and the radio manufac-
turers in New York report more than
s3O,OOO,O 900 in untitled orders.
Aluminium films have been invent
ed by a German. They will wear
longer than the transparent cellulose
film. They have the added advan-
tage of being 40 per cent cheaper.
A 5OO-foot bridge across the Will
lamette River at Oregon City, Ore
gon, was built in thirteen hours. Ev-
cry part was built to the exact size
and laid u on the river bank be-
fore any assembling was attempted.
A piano tuner at Wabash, Indiana,
tuned a piano at South Bend. In
diana, SIS miles away, by telephone.
The Customer was told by the tuner
how to change the tension as each
note was sounded into the telephone.
A ship 900 miles off the coast of
Washington recently picked up a
number of grasshoppers more than
three inches long. Hundreds fell on
the deck and the sea was dotted with
them. 1t is presumed that they came
from an island in the Pacific Ocean.
A humane bullfght without blood
shed was recently witnessed in Los
Angeles. Instead of sharp-pointed
blades, blunt prods with a gluecoated
base were used by the picadors. The
adhesive base held the lances against
the hide. giving the appearance of
reality without hurting the animals
in the least.
A Delaware man has invented a
trousers of such efficiency
that the customer can have the OPP
Grafton performed without taking
the trouble to divest himself of his
trousers. A modification of the de-
vice creases the arms of a coat. max
ink 1t possible for a man to have his
entire suit pressed on him.
For IL years a Florida farmer has
raised watermelons on 1000 acres.
In all that time he has never shipped
a melon, but let them spoil in the
fields except those he and his neigh
bors eat. The melons are grown ex-
clusively for their seed. which are
sold to planters of Florida, Georgia
and other southern States.
A footpad arrested in Buenos Aires
must travel over a Via Dolorosa" of
46 stations. This is done to give the
police of all sections an opportunity
of making the mans acquaintance.
The prisoner is photographed, finger
printed and a careful biographical
sketch made in addition to being
placed ION view" at each station IL
hours.
Caterpillars interrupted the opera
lions on the Hetch Hetchy Railroad
in California recently. The insects
crawled along the rails, covering
them for a mile and making them SO
slippery that the engines could not
get traction up the grades. 1t was
necessary for the crews to cut the
engine from the trains and run over
the caterpillar-covered rails and coat
the rails with sand before the train
could be moved.
Booth Harrington again won the
Pulitzer Prize of $1,000 for the
American novel best presenting 1.-The
wholesome atmosphere of American
life and the highest standards of
American manhood" according to an
announcement of Columbia Univer-
sity. The novel winning the prize
was Alice Adams" Edwin Airing
ton Robinson's COLLECTED Poems"
won the $1,000 prize for the best
volume of verse published during the
year. Kirke L.. Simpson was award
ed the $1,000 prize for the best ex-
ample of a reporters work during