The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-05-06
BRIEF MENTION

Paper pulp and strawboard are now
made from oat bulls.
Nitric acid al be made by the oxi-
dation Of ammonia with the aid of
ozonized air.
II costs more than 100000 a
day to run the Government of the
United States.
The calendar year 1921 eclipsed
any preceding year In volume of
building operations in China.
The United States consumed TO-
54S,451, 900 pounds of sugar in 1921.
This represents 2s.4 per tent of world
production.
Forty-six Germans were killed and
100 wounded during every hour the
World Val was raging, according to
German statistics.
To relieve the housing shortage in
Paris it is proposed to build a large
feet of houseboats and moor them
along the Seine.
Boston University is going to turn
out head walters and bell hops" in
a six weeks course of the vocational
department of the College of Bust
ness.
The English explorer claims to
have discovered extensive, workable
mineral deposits In the Antartic. He
also claims to have found the secret
migrating places of whales.
The First Methodist Church, of Ell
Paso, will operate a large skating
rink in the basement of the church
to Offset the dancing craze. 1t is to
be a community proposition and no
charge will be made.
Mayor Oles. of Youngstown, Ohio,
has donated his salary to the Com
munity Corporation to be used in pur-
chasing food for the needy. Each
salary check has been turned over to
the poor as soon as he could endorse
1t.
Although the increase in attend
ance since 1917, in 20 leading col
leges in the United States, was 113
per cent, there has not been a CORE
spending increase In appropriations,
equipment, endowment and teaching
staff.
Frogs are used as barometers in
many European countries. The green
tree frog is placed in tall glass bot
ties with little wooden ladders, to the
top of which they climb in fine wealth
or. descending at the approach of
bad weather.
Fifty per cent more money was
spent by the people of the United
States for perfumes. face powder and
cosmetics In 1920, than the total en-
dowment of all the private colleges
and universities in the country, ac-
cording to Treasury Department sta
tistics.
The first daily newspaper in the
United States to publish the Bible in
serial form is the Topeka State Jour
nal. The four gospels are to be pub
lished in weekly installments OF APP
proximately 5000 words. The Wey-
mouth text of the New Testament
will be used throughout.
A German aeronautical expert
menter, on a motorless soaring ma
chine with hawk-like wings, rose
from an absolute standstill to an alti-
tude OF 200 feet without assistance,
and few for 81 minutes and 81 sec
OuuSs Il lanAC a a PCAiN a. ~
feet lower than his starting point.
St~enographers in the service of the
United States Government lose So
0O0, 900 worth OF the Governments
time each year roughing their cheeks
and lips, according to efficiency ex-
perts of the Treasury Department.
This Is figured on a basis of 10000
girls on the Government payroll as
stenographers and typists receiving
$1,000 a year and upward.
From the summit of a mountain
in Glacier National Park, n can
toss a pebble into waters which flow
into Hudson Bay to the north, the
Pacific Ocean to the west and the
Gulf of Mexico to the south. The
United States Geographical Board
has christened the three small creeks
originating at that point, Pacific, At
lantic and Hudson Bay creeks.