The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-08-19

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New Jersey spends s2,oo0.O00 a
year keeping down Its mosquitoes.
Orange groves in California are
protected from the frosts by operat-
ing large fans on 20-foot overs.
A new anti-bandit gun weighs nine
and one-half pounds. II fires 1000
shells a minute and has an accurate
range of 1900 feet.
Special delivery stamps In use In
the United States are to be made In
a new design which will substitute a
motor cycle for the bicycle at pres
ent in the design.
The cast-off horns of deer, elk and
moose which annually fall off are
gathered in the forests of the North
west and manufactured into napkin
rings, umbrella and knife handles.
A new airplane muller has been
perfected in Europe which does not
reduce the efficiency of the motor.
Silent flying has now become a fact
after Is years of effort by engineers.
The director OF the mint has been
authorized to coin one hundred
thousand 5O-cent pieces in commem-
Grafton of the Tooth anniversary Of
the birth of President Rutherford b.
Hayes.
New York City has formed a
welcome Stranger Committee" to
assist visitors in seeing the city and
to dispel the rumor that the metrop-
oils is reserved and cold toward new
corners.
The alleged sale of titles and hon
ors is being discussed by the British
House of Commons. For a long time
Lloyd George has been charged with
exchanging titles for large contribu-
tons to party funds.
What Is believed to be the thick
est seam of black Goa discovered in
the world is being exploited near
Queensland, Australia. The seam Is
entirely tree from clay bands and is
SO feet thick in places. The mine Is
ESQ miles from the nearest seaport.
One of the largest men alive re-
Gently left Hungary for his father
farm work. He is "a years of age,
nine feet three inches tall and weighs
ass pounds. He consumes more than
four times as much food as the av-
erage person.
Plastic wood is a collodion prepar-
alton made with very fine wood meal
and of the consistency of putty. 1t
is claimed to be waterproof, will set
hard and can be turned with a lathe.
Nails can be driven into the dried
material without cracking 1t.
Ladybugs congregate after the
first frost in the Rocky Mountains,
entering rocky where they
become dormant. The bugs are then
gathered and put into boxes until
early Spring, when they are sold to
orchardists to prey upon aphis and
other plant life.
Boston has the largest pier in the
world devoted exclusively to the fish
business. 1t is 1900 feet long, 500
feet wide, and is paved with brick
and concrete in such a manner that
1t can be cleaned easily by flushing
with water. 1t cost $3,0O0.000 and
80 vessels can discharge their car
goes at once.
Savannah, Georgia, lays claim to
the youngest woman-or girl-law-
yer in the United States. She has
just passed her seventeenth birthday
and but recently passed the State bar
examination and was admitted to
practice. Under the laws of Georgia
there is no age limit for persons ad'
mitted to the practice of law.
Several cities in Norway own and
operate their film theaters and de-
vote the profits to cultural enter
prises for the peoples enjoyment and
benefit. Christiana's profit from this
source for 1921 was $350.000 and
this sum has been allotted to a stu
dio building, a peoples theater,
concert hall, a music pavilion and to
the advancement of natural sciences
In so years Negroes in the United
States have acquired 22,000,000 &C
res of land, as working farmers. and
not as spectators. They own 600,-
900 homes and $4,000 churches and
operate IS banks, 100 insurance
companies, besides 10000 business
enterprises of various kinds, with a
capital of $3.50, 900. Illiteracy
has been reduced to 26 per cent, due
to the fact that there r more than
400 normal schools and colleges for
| Negro teachers.