, 1924-06-11
SOMETHING ABOUT
EVERYTHING AND
EVERYBODY

merclal profits interest him less than
the public benefit.
The New York Public Library re-
ports 3s5,633 fewer volumes issued in
1923 than in 1922, though 1922 was
far below the record of 1921. What
is the answer-Radio?
81 am convinced from experience
that it is generally far esasier to
straighten a boy out and give him a
right start outside an institution of
correction, and before he has branded
by a commitment, than after he has
been committed."-Victor P. Arnold,
Judge of the Juvenile Court of Cook
County, Illinois.
Seventy-nine counties in Iowa have
more cars than families.
The real reason for planting view
trees in church yards is indicated in
an excerpt from Liber Festivals,
printed by Caxton, 1888, which reads
as follows: "But for reason that we
have no olive that bears green leaf,
we take yew instead of palm and
olive and carry it in procession; and
so is this day called palm Sunday"
If early spring and summer weather
conditions are favorable the tobacco
crop for 1924 in Essex County, On
tario, will in all probability total TO-
100000 pounds.
The Japanese bar natives of Korea,
China Mongolia, Siam and Java from
settling in Japan.
Hopkinton, New Hampshire, plans
to raise on Hopkinton farms all the
food the town will need in the ensuing
year.
are taught to slip into the United
States via the Canadian frontier.
Shipping companies advertise Canada
to Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade,
Warsaw, Danzig, Athens and other
big irrigation centers, assuring en-
igrants they will have no difficulty
crossing the unguarded frontier.
While hunting rabbits, John Huck-
ably, fourteen year old, of Colgate,
Oklahoma uncovered an old skunk
hide wrapped around $4,000 in cur
rency.
Mary Garden has applied for citizen
ship papers. She was born February
20, 1877, at Aberdeen, Scotland, en-
igrating to this country from Glasgow
in 1888.
A deep crack has appeared in the
neck of the Sphinx, according to the
Egyptian Antiquities Service. 1t
will be repaired.
Paris-green dust scattered in a
malarial mosquito swamp near Mound
Louisiana, proved very successful.
Airplanes flew over swamps otherwise
inaccessible and scattered the dust
heavily diluted with Trpoli earth.
The Mexican state of Colima de-
clares its willingness to accept 10000
Japanese agriculturist immigrants.
Harvard College has been presented
with thirteen volumes of theology
which Cotton Mather purchased from
the college in 1882.
The movement to revise English
spelling initiated in 1907 and in
terrupted by the World War, is again
in full swing. About 400 universities,
colleges and normal schools use the
simplified spelling method in pub
LEGATIONS and Correspondence.
Frans Halls, the famous Dutch pain
ter, died at the age of eighty-six, a
public charge for the last two years
of his life.
No one can land in Greenland with
out the permission of the Danish
Government.
The tide reaches its highest point in
the Bay of Fund between Nova Scotia
and Maine. At the head of the bay
the tide has been known to reach
more than sixty feet Plans are now
under way to harness the tide here for
water power.
Queen Mary has taken a great lik-
ing to Ishbel Macdonald, the twenty
one-yenr-old daughter of the Labor
Prime Minister.
Italian voters received the follow
a. -.