The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-09-30
BRIEF MENTION

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eigners owning property In thatcoun-
try from one to one-half per cent OF
the value of the property.
The ice bill of the people Of the
United States is about s1,000.000 q
day, the northern lakes furnishing
~one-fourth of the total production OF
the country.
The editor of the Boston News Blu
reau writes OF "the failure of u
public school system to give proper
education as to money and the func-
tons OF money"
Fully two-thirds of the AZ, 900 900
inhabitants of Bengal have hook
worm and more than one-half of the
SOC. 1000, 600 inhabitants Of India are
victims of the disease.
Members of the British Expedition
to Mount Everest managed to reach
a record height Of $1,000 feet, more
than half a mile higher than mar
eve scaled mountain heights before.
The Savannah river is carrying 1876
| carloads of Georgia farm land into
the ocean daily, because the wanton
destruction OF forests has given the
heavy rainfall a better chance to do
its work.
A young German engineering stud
ent experimenting with motorless air
planes rose to a height of 500 feet,
remained in the air more than two
hours and sailed for six miles in a
straight line.
During the 10 years life Of the
trooty Co. tka limitation IF ornno-
ments, the United States. the British
Empire and Japan will realize saw
ings of from $500. 900 900 to $780,
100000 a year.
Latvia has decided to give her
printing presses a rest retire her pa
per rubles, and establish a new unit
of currency with a gold basis-to
have the same value as the franc and
to be known as the lat.
Only 16 Out of 142 institutions in
the United States formerly known as
drink cures" are now conducting a
business similar to that which they
pursued before the advent Of national
prohibition of the liquor traffic.
The interest rate in Russia is
IL per cent a month or ~ per cent a
| year. The Soviet government pays
SO per cent a year on foreign funds.
These facts have a bearing on the
| propaganda of money for Russia.
Agriculture constitutes the chief
| source of the power and wealth Of
| the Japanese people in spite of the
rapid strides made recently in the
manufacturing and mining indus
&.&o. Ct-&, oanf 80 tho nAntrla-
ton of japan is rural.
The full amount of the national
debt is approximately $4,000. 00O,-
600. The annual fixed charges against
the United States Treasury on ac-
count of the public debt are $780,
| 900 900 and not al 1900. 600, 600 as
has been stated.
Negroes own and direct 113 news
papers and IA magazines in the Unit
| ed States. Nearly 1900 employees. of
whom 81 are white workers. manage
SO secular, % religious and eight
fraternal papers.
The Cape Peninsular Road en-
circles the whole peninsula of South
Africa, skirting the entire rock-bound
coast for 1875 miles. 1t is believed to
be the finest marine drive in the
world, even SURPRISING the famous
Corniche Road in Southern France.
A project is on foot to rebuild the
Bank of England because the old
buildings are hopelessly inadequate
now needs and which is scattered
about the city OF London. The pro-
ject is meeting with much opposition
from sentimentalists who view the
move as sacrilegious.
There will one day spring from
the brain. of science a machine or
force so terrible in its potentialities.
SO absolutely terrifying, that even
man, the fighter. who will dare tor
ture and death in order to infiict 1t.
will be appalled,. and SO will abandon
war forever" said Thomas A. Edison
in a recent interview.
Work has begun on the first Of a
chain of 20 hotels for motorists. ex-
tending from Vancouver. British Col
umbia, through Washington, Oregon,
California and Nevada. These hotels
will be one days automobile run
apart and will be constructed on the
unit plan. They will provide the
motorist with comfortable quarters
and food supplies. auto equipment
and repair shops.
Unsightly black patches, which
mar the appearance of concrete
roads after repair work has been
done. will be avoided by the use of a
material for the purpose developed
by the Department Of Agriculture. 1t
has the same color as concrete and
consists of IL parts rosin and one
part crude rubber, with sufficient
barium sulphate to give the desired
color.
A colossal statue of q Franciscan
father which would eclipse the Statue
of Liberty in New York Harbor is to
be erected on Yerba Buena Island.
facing the Golden Gate, IL the propos-
| al of the San Francisco Chamber of