, 1924-07-16
SOMETHING ABOUT
EVERYTHING and
EVERYBODY


extinguished a fire in a theater ad-
joining the cafe in which they were
working in Paris.
The use of the fez is abolished by
inhabitants of Mesopotamia.
Twenty-Five per cent of the $780,
600 public school pupils of the country
are taking business subjects, accord
ing to authorities connected with the
United States Bureau of Education.
A new process of manufacturing
marble has been devised in which the
marble is made by a wet method in
place of fire method. The products
has the same high luster as marble.
Oregon's compulsory school law,
which requires, with certain except
ions all children between eight and
sixteen years of age to attend school,
has been declared unconstitutional by
the Federal District Court, sitting in
Portland.
Rangoon, Burma, is often describ-
ed as a Glasgow suburb" most of the
great business houses being managed
by Scotchmen.
Jacques Sadoul and Henri Gull
beaux, under sentence for treason, are
candidates for election to the French
Chamber of Deputies on a Communist
ticket. If elected they expect to re-
ceive unconditional pardon.
When wolves threaten a herd of
musk OK, the attacked animals form a
circle of deadly dow%n-drooping horns
which proves impregnable. A bull
may rush out in an effort to pierce a
wolf, but he never lured too far and
soon returns to the circle, backs into
place and resumes his defensive attit-
ude. ..
Hundrers of thousands of sea gulls
of a new specie and coloring are flock
ing to Southern California, brought
there, it is said, by ships coming
from the Orient.
A pictorial encyclopedia of the Holy
Land is being prepared by a yong
English photographer who, during the
past three years, has collected twenty
two thousand photographs of Biblical
scenes. He proposes to illustrate the
entire Bible from photographs made
chiefly by himself on the spot.
"In dealing with the English lang
uage one is often reminded of the
characteristic English handwriting /:
just as an English lady will write in
a that in any other country
would be found only in a mans hand,
in the same the language is
more manly than any other language
l know."-Professor Jespersen, I'm
~Iversity of Copenhagen.
The American flag is the second
oldest flag in use on earth today.
A new petrified forest has been
found in the Mojave Desert in
California.
A message by cable from London
girdled the earth in eight seconds.
1t was sent direct by telegraph from
London, by cable to Halifax, then
over telegraph line to Bamfield Creek,
British Columbia. From there it was
cabled to Sydney, Australia, relayed
across that continent by hand wires,
and sent to Dublin, whence it was
relayed to Capetown, which in turn
sent it back to London England, via
the Azores.
There are but sixty European bison
left in the forest of Europe. Efforts
are being made to preserve for Europe
this intedesting animal in the same
ann that the American bison have
been saved from extinction.
More Negroes migrated North
from Florida during 1928 than any.
other southern state.
A new substitute for camphor has
been invented by a German chemist.
William Rittenhouse. the first Mem
onite preacher in America, in associat-
ion with others, manufactured in 1890
the first paper made in America. His
mill was originally built on the branch
of the Wissahickon Creek. Penn
~sylvania. Samples of the Rittcnhouse
paper are yet in existence.
By the 1920 census, 1,060,S5S boys
and girls between ten and fifteen
years of age are tabulated as Child