The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-06-06
BRIEF MENTION

is a "luxury" in Germany anu
heavy taxes are imposed under
new schedule.
A baby man-eating shark, hungry
and vicious, was found as Stow
away in the bilge of ship put IN
drvdock in New York for repairs
Thousands of dollars are extracted
by beggars each night from the view
York City theatre crowds. Earnings
I'D to $50 an hour have been
reported.
Truck patches are being worked
by many of the $4,000 idle anthra-
cite workers of the Wilkes-barre'
Pennsylvania. Cabbeges and pota-
toes 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 trademark.
Identifying cows by the prints
of their noses, in the same manner
as the police system of identification
by fingerprints, is new method
employed by the University OF
Minnesota to prevent INSCRIPTIONS
dealers taking advantage Of pedi-
greed stock.
Penrhyn Ceduraeth, Wales, pays
no taxes. A movie promoter rents
the town hall on shares and when
the balance sheet was presented
recently it was discovered that the
municipal movie had done away
with the necessity Of levying any
taxes for the coming year.
A black-headed albatross followed
a steamship across the North Pacific
for 5000 miles without once furling
it's wings. 1t started from a small
island near Japan and when the
ship was 1900 miles from the
nearest Alaskan port, it turned
abruptly and few toward the west.
Travlers report that the price Of
q room in frst-class hotel in
Vienna is anywhere from 5000 to
10000 crowns a day. Forty per
cent of this goes to the municipality
A similar tax is imposed on the
charge for heating rooms and there
is a tax of ten per cent on the cost
of meals.
Swimming from Colonia, Uru-
quay, to Buenos Aires, recently, and
Argentine student made new
record. The distance was 81 miles.
The swimmer was in the water "a
hours, 30h minutes beating the
previous record by 80 minutes. This
is believed to be the worlds record
for endurance swimming.
Three hundred thousand francs
was paid for a one-cent British
Guiana stamp, issue of 1856, black
or carmine, sold recently at an
auction sale of a famous Baron
Ferrari collection in Paris. The
state tax of seventeen and one-half
per cent added to the cost price
made it the highest price ever paid
for a stamp in France.
The Secretary of the Navy has
announced the closing of naval
radio stations to puplic use fol-
broadcasting speeches, lectures OF
any form of non-official communities
ton, excepting musical programs
to be picked up by radio telephone
This issuance of the order followed
the use of the naval radio ser.
vice 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
established 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 better product The residue
left after pressing the copra for
oil is called "poonac" and com.
mands high price in Europe, a.
livestock food.
| Sacramento, California, is i'm.
porting the notwithstanding tor
minnow which will be placed in
ponds in dredger pits. The minnow
is being bought by the state board
of health in the campaign against