The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-04-29
BRIEF MENTION

Senators and Congressman were
assigned experts by the Treasury De-
partment to help them with their in
come tax returns.
There are now more than 100000
radio receiving outfits in the United
States. Nine months ago there were
fewer than $4,000.
Girls In the Fargo, North Dakota,
high school have been instructed to
wear graduation dresses at least four
inches below the knee this year.
Fifteen thousand persons paid a
shilling each for the privilege of
viewing Princess Mary's wedding
presents. The proceeds will go to
charity.
A ton and a half OF stone taken
from Culebra Cut of the Panama Can
al is to- be erected as a monument
over Theodore Roosevelt's grave at
Oyster Bay.
Twenty-one members of the League
of Nations have failed to pay their
subscriptions for 1921, according to
an announcement in the English
House of Commons.
Defective sight among 100000 per-
sons in the United States could have
been prevented in half the cases, &C
cording to the field secretary OF the
National Committee for Prevention
of Blindness.
1anr4a In Unnl CftlI in
bales, can be killed by an electric
ray which produces a W. capable
OF destroying tetanus germs in 60
seconds, cholera germs in Is seconds
and bacillus coli instantaneously.
A nine-passenger airplane Is to be
used by Captain Road Amundsen,
discoverer of the South Pole, in his
attempt to drift past the North Pole
with the Arctic ice pack. The plane
will be used in scientific expeditions,
while on the trip.
Lloyd George warned against *
cessive ambition when he said, the
mountain OF fame has great RESPONSE
bility, the higher you climb, the cold
err and lonelier; you are exposed to
every attack of the elements, also 1t
is necessary to deny Yourself the
comforts of peaceful home life."
Huskies, the half-wolf. half-dog
animals used as sled dogs in the Fan
North, are now selling at 500 each
and up, in Northern Canada, and
first-class animals are hard to get at
n price. Good breeding stock is
at a premium and a single n costs
80 ~ 49,
as a good horse in the States.
An new machine digs a ditch IL
feet wide on top and seven feet deep,
while crawling steadily ahead like a
prehistoric monster. A revolving
wheel scopes out the earth and a
conveyor belt carries il 20 feet to the
side to deposit. With a crew of fl We
men the machine can drive a ditch
ahead a quarter of a mile each work
ing day.
Birds that build their nests on the
arms of telegraph poles of the all
American cables on the land section
between Valparaiso and Buenos Air
es are causing short circuits, fire.
quentE delaying messages. Mud and
discarded telegraph and fence wire
are built into the nests of the larger
species OF birds, causing disaster to
communications.
Canada has settled $1,000 Cana
dian ex-soldiers on farm land and has
slent $S5,000.000 TO these men. The
full purchase price of the land and
up to $4,000 for buildings, equip
ment and stock has been advanced to
each. Only seven per cent OF the
men thus aided have abandoned their
property and last years crops from
soldier lands were valued at Vs.
100000.
A company has been incorporated
to provide rigid airship service with
in America and later to link America
with the rest OF the world by aerial
routes. The first d~irgibles will be
built in Germany. 1t is expected thai
service between New York and Chi.
cago will be established before the
end of 1928 with two ships, each de.
signed to carry 100 passengers and
30 tons of express and mail matter
Helium gas and a substitute for gaso.
line will be used.
Burning anything under water
doesn't sound a simple task. Burn
ing cast iron anywhere seems doubt
full. But east iron was burned under
water recently. when Staten Islands
water pipe supply was cut OF by Q
damaged pipe. For n solid mont
divers worked in two hours shifts
burning inch by inch through botf
ends of a damaged pipe. They burned
about 46 inches an hour, although
they were upsetting one of the &C
cepted principles of engineering II
doing 1t at all. 1t was the first time
on record that it had been done ane
II was done with an American electric
torch. whose flame, unlike hat of the