The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-06-03

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Fifteen clergymen are working as
fioorwalkers in New York City de-
partment stores to exc out their
meager salaries.
You cannot poison a hen with
strychnine. Chickens and wild GALL
naceous birds are practically immune
from this poison.
The first canoe trip through the
Panama Canal was recently complet-
ed. The As miles was made In 10
hours and So minutes.
II has been found that certain
kinds of paint on the walls of audi
forums do away with Objectionable
echoes or greatly soften them.
After being rejected by the Upper
House Is times, a bill prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors to
minors was passed by the japanese
Diet recently.
Such words as wine" and beer
and the names of other intoxicating
drinks are recorded as obsolete" In
the revised edition of the Encyclo-
pedia Americana.
Italy will nave a total of 1,811,300
hydro-elctric horse power capacity
when new central stations under con-
struction are completed. This Is
double the amount five years Ago..
Nearly $3.50, 200, 900 must be ex-
pended annually to keep pace with
the increasing demand for power and
light In the United States. Last year
electric energy measuring 43,100,-
10000 kilowatt hours were con-
sumed 4.
Mayor Oles, of Youngstown, Ohio,
has purchased q motor car with which
he already has captured several speed
ers. He says he can catch any speed
violator in the city and expects to
make 500 a day for the city In his
spare time.
The 1915 subscribers of the San
Francisco Chinatown telephone ex-
change, are called by name instead of
number. The operators are Chinese
girls who were educated in the San
Francisco public schools and speak
English and Chinese fiuently.
Sacramento, California, is import
ing the notwithstanding top min
now which will be placed in ponds
in dredger pits. The minnow is be-
ing brought by the State board of
health in the campaign against ma
laria.
Three thousand French churches,
totally or partly destroyed during the
World War, are to be restored with
out waiting for German ~reparation
funds. The money is to be provided
by a zoe, 900, 900 franc church con-
struction loan which has reached a
full subscription.
Many Elks have been killed In the
Olympic peninsula OF Washington to
obtain teeth for lodges. Investiga-
tons made through Federal and State
agencies indicate that 100 were killed
in the Olympics alone to secure teeth
which are sold in eastern cities for as
high as $50 each.
Furs from the Hudson's Bay Com
pany at Cartwright. Labrador, are
being sen to the fur markets of the
world by airplane. Owing to the late
opening of navigation, the fur would
not have reached the market until
October. but the planes carried 1t to
St. Johns, Newfoundland, in a day.
The Navy Department estimates it
will cost 81, 500. 600 to Offset the dam
age done bikes, wharves and quay
walls, by the teredo. The teredo Is a
marine animal. a b~ivalve. which bores
it's way into a pile. Teredoes m
times reach four feet in length and
of the thickness of a mans thumb.
Coal is being mined under the Q
off the coast of Nova Scotia. The
mouths of the mines are on shore
and tunnels are driven through the
coal under the water. Great care
must be taken to prevent inundation
from the sea, and the mining en-
gineer takes care not to break or dis
tort the strata lying above the coal
seams.
English boys between the ages of
Is and IS are wanted in South Aus
tralia for farmer apprentices. They
are to be paid four shillings a week
pocket money. the remainder of their
earnings to be placed to each lads
credit in the State treasury ct tour
and one-half per cent interest, the
entire sum being turned over to him
at 81.
OIL burners are to be installed on
the locomotives of the State railways
of Argentina. Petroleum will be sold
to the railways for 81 pesos a ton de-
livered in Santa Fe. The present
fuel, quebracho wood, costs IL pesos
a ton and 1t is estimated that a ton OF
petroleum will equal four tons OF
quebracho, making 1t possible to con-
serve this valuable lumber tree.
The only new buggy in the State OF
Oregon, as far as leading vehicle
houses Of Portland were able to find.
has been sold at a little town In the
interior of the State. Inquiries were
sent to Pendleton, Salem, Eugene
and Medford from Portland but no
new buggies could be found. At last
one was purchased at a store in a
small town by a Portland vehicle
house.
An instrument has been devised
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