, 1923-08-01
SOMETHING ABOUT
EVERYTHING AND
EVERYBODY

returned to the pre-war state. The
largest vessel launched in the world
last year took the water at the free
port of Danzig. A 20,000-ton steamer
was built at Hamburg.
The onrush of water from a tor
rental downpour awakened a Negro
farm hand near Durant, Mississippi.
Leaping from his bed he found a sec
ton of the Illinois Central track wash
ed out. He procured a lantern and
speeding down the track he tagged
the New Orleans-Memphis-C Chicago
fast passenger train, probably saving
the lives of many passengers, as the
train was rushing through the night
at the rate of so miles an hour. Eff
forts are being made to obtain a
Carnegie hero medal for the Negro.
An artist of New York uses only
the many-colored petals of flowers
instead of oil paints and thereby ach-
ieves most satisfactory and e~xtraor-
binary results.
Peter B. Kayne, famous short-story
writer, told a Los Angeles b~esiness
organization that he could "see no
future for the motion picture industry
until it gets down to brass tacks and
establishes a code of ethics. The
drama of today, as represented in the
motion pictures, is for the most part
mere hokum. Those who control the
pictures do not want good, clean,
wholesome stories. The people are
tired of hokum. What they want is
pictures which appeal to the heart
with here and there a vagrant tear
and a laugh. The pictures now being
shown are built on the theory OF
shocking the system, rather
than by appeal to the heart"
The average length of life in the
United States is Sc years. This is
is years more than it was in 1870.
Article "a, section 2, of the Dutch
labor law says that "a workman in a
factory or shop shall not do any
work between 6 p. m. and z a. m.
The password of the Tower of Lon
don is known to only three persons.
They are the king, the lord mayor
and the constable. His majesty sends
the password to the lord mayor
quarterly. This is merely a survival
VI oie VI Vic HuIlcTOuS Olu CuStOIlS
in London.
One of the strangest considerations
ever written in a deed is contained in
a document recently recorded in La
porte, Indiana, by Stella Cizewski and
Adam Jankowski. For a considera-
ton of 81 and "a promise of mar
riage" Mrs. Cizewski has transferred
u town lot to her finance.
An invention by means of which
rubber is impregnated with nitrogen
gas, thereby filling it with innumer-
able cells, may revolutionize the MAX
ing of rubber. Onazpte is the name of
the new product. A ball of it was
subjected to a pressure of $4,000 lbs.
In "a hours it reasserted itself suf-
~ficiently to hit the ceiling when
bounced from the ground. 1t is more
buoyant than cork in water.
Speeders in Akron, Ohio, are fined
81 for each mile beyond the 20-mile
speed limit, their machines being
timed by arresting officers. When
arrested within n school district, the
~speeder's fine is doubled.
The Long Island Railroad has adop-
ted a policy which will appeal to
travellers. When for any reason n
block occurs, the reason will be ex-
planned to passengers by announce
mcnts in each car. The common
practice of all employees on all roads
is to stimulate Ignorance. This at
titude is encouraged by the railroad
officials. Now whether the trouble
is due to hot box, broken brake beam,
defective signals or what not, the de-
lay will be explained in the belief that
the public will readily excuse the de-
lay when IL knows the cause.
Human slaves are sold on the block
in Abyssinia. according to information
reaching the League of Nations.
Humans are caught in the open, chain
ed, grouped and sold into slavery for
rich slave holders living in the inter-
Tor of Asia Minor. The latest 1923
quotations are as follows: Able-bodied
male slaves, SO to s24, according to
age. strength and productive ability.
Female slaves, demand slight, Sc
down. Child slaves, absolute drug on
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