, 1924-06-18
SOMETHING ABOUT
EVERYTHING AND
EVERYBODY

A collector of colonial ~Silverware
in New York City paid $4,000 at auc-
ton for the silver bowl made by Paul
Revere and presented to General Will
liam Shepherd by the Springfield,
Massachusetts,, militia for suppress
sing the Shays Rebellion in 1887.
Station KFKB, the Brinkley Jones
Hospital of Milford, Kansas, is broad
casting an agricultural extension
course by direct wire from Kansas
State Agricultural College, Manhat-
tan, Kansas. Full college credits will
be given upon satisfactory completion
of the course and passing of a writ
ten examination.
The Oldest dwelling in Germany,
possibly the oldest in Europe, is
located in the little hamlet of
Winkel, in the valley of the Rhine,
and is 1900 years old.
Nonresident aliens coming to
America to lecture and write articles
would be required to file a sworn
statement of the purpose and inten-
ton of a bill to be introduced soon.
Its sponsor, Representative TiHkham,
ofMassachusetts, says, "Vast sums of
money have been spent to affect col
or, shape or even suffocate the nor
NAL and spontaneous expression of
public opinion in the country on pro-
found political issues, economic pol
icies, institutional principles and So
cial problems"
An aerial survey of the land locat-
ed near the present tower of I-Chow,
60 miles southwest of Pekin, indicates
that the site at one time contained
a city of considerable Importance
antedating written history.
One child in every twelve between
the age of ten and fifteen in the
United States has to work, according
to an investigator.
The rites of fire-walking in Tahita
as practiced by the priests is explain
ed as follows: The stones used are
basalt, of volcanic porous and non
conductive. A stone heated red-hot
at one end remains comparatively cool
at the other. Because of this fact the
native priest and their acolytes may
with impunity walk over the surface
of the glowing rocks.
An animals cenotaph" will short
ly be built near Hyde Park corner,
London, in memory of the birds,
beasts, and fishes that died in the
service of the British Empire during
the war.
The most northern part of the
United States proper is 100 square
miles in Beltrami County, Minnesota,
on the northern shore of the Lake of
the Woods. This tract is completely
separated from the state of Minnesota
by the lake and connot be reached by
land without travelling over Canadian
territory, 1t came into the possession
of the United States through a geo
graphical error in the Treaty of Paris
signed in 1888, the original surveyors
believing that this territory was south
of the 10th parallel instead of north
of it.
The Hittites were an agriculture
people and famous raisers of bees.
A law of 1870, &C, provided that any
one guilty of stealing bees should be
punished by being stung TO death.
Naval Reserve No. 1, which the
government leased to E. l.. Doheny's
Pan-American Oil Company, lies in
the Elk Hills region of Kern county,
California, about twenty-five miles
west of Bakersfield, oil center of the
San Joaquin Valley in California.
The land is semi-arid with tempera-
lures frequently up to 100 degrees.
Beneath this forbidding desert lie
great pools of oil.
Four large furnaces located at
Poontung, across the Mhanpoo River
from Shanghai, China are used solely
for the purpose of destroying drugs
which have been seized by customs
officials. Many thousands of dollars,
worth of opium and its derivatives are
burned annually.
The old saying that IMAM works
from sun to sun but a woman's work
is never done" is belied by the figures
of the National Bureau of Economic
Research which shows that the hired
girl on the farm working by theweek
nuts in from n to five hours less per