The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-04-22
BRIEF

s ~~'N' Rot Scat Va AuhtEdl-
las population is OF pure British de-
scent
A maid in a New York hotel ldied
recently leaving an estate of s15,5O0
earned by her W hands. Her pay
was SIS a week.
An Illinois physician, 81 years of
age, diagnosed his own ailment and
wrote his own death certificate, which
was signed by another doctor after
his death.
Nearly one fourth of the land In
Scotland has changed hands since
the armistice, due to the changes in
the owners financial position brought
about by the war.
The last units of the Imperial
Guard of Germany recently marched
out from Potsdam where, for centur-
les. they had served as the bodyguard
of the Hohenzollerns.
Gold badges for New York legisla-
tors, with the States coat-of-arms
and the names of the legislators in
scribed on them, are sought In a bill
introduced in the legislature recently.
The contract for regarding six
miles of State highway between Las
Vegas and st. Thomas. in Clark
County, was let to Wasatch Grading
Company OF Provo, Utah, on a Low
bid of ~S33,194.O6.
Cattle feed, absolutely fast dyes,
motion picture films and many other
things can be made from the 12O,-
600, 000 tons of corncobs and stalks
now going to waste annually in the
United States, according to chemical
experts.
Measles are now being cured by a
vaccine taken from the blood OF
measles convalescants. In Germany,
experiments in about Z, 200 cases have
shown that the vaccine, when used In
the first few days after infection. pre-
vents exposed children becoming Ill
from the disease already in their sys-
TENS in about 81 per cen of the cases
The petition of Lady Rhondda to
sit in the House of Lords has been
granted by the committee on privil-
eyes of the House OF Lords. She is a
member Of the d~irectorates of SO
companies and chairman of several
of the boards and will be the first
woman to sit in the Upper House OF
the British Parliament.
Makers of photograph records in
London say the demand for private
discs is increasing. Persons are hav-
ing records of their own accomplish
ments made and are sending them to
their friends instead of sending let
tiers or gifts. The prattle and talk of
children Ut various ages is being filed
away with their baby clothes.
For the benefit of famine sufferers,
the All-Russian Central Committee
has decided to use the v~aluables in
churches OF all creeds in Russia. The
valuables consist of gold and silver
candlesticks, chalices, gold-covered
and bejeweled icons and various &C.
clesiastical accessories worth about
$1,000. 600. 00O. according to reports.
Bandit wild bees invade the tame
hives near Grays Harbor, Washing
ton, and steal and carry away the
honey to their hives in the forest.
More than one-third of the domestic
honey gathered in this district has
been stolen by the robber bees. The
wild bees make their homes in hol-
low trunks OF cedar trees, where sew
eral arm work on a community
basis.
Slaye-raiding and trading have in
creased in Abyssinia during recent
years. Abyssinia is in Northeastern
Africa and is almost as large as Ger
many and France combined. In its
capital. Ads Abeba, 1t is declared,
there are more slaves than free men.
IT is claimed that gangs of slaves.
chained together in rows, with wo-
men and children dragging them
selves along beside the main body,
can be seen by any traveller in South
ern Abyssinia to-day.
Eight widows in the town of Aux
ere, France, are to celebrate the
500th anniversary of an act of King
Charles VII. ~decreeing that eight wi
dows in that particular village shall
always have rent free. A member
of Charles suite, who>was wounded
at the battle of Cravant, was nursed
and cured by widows. and he provid-
ed for his nurses in his mansion in
Auxerre. Later, Charles added the
provision that the house should for
be the refuge OF eight widows.