, 1924-01-16
Something About Every.
body and Every
thing

Iceland has factories for the pre-
paration of herring flour, which is
highly priced in Norway as a strength
food.
An Indian fish trap in the Charlton
river, Missouri, which has been in use
for 0 years, has just been destroyed
by the game and fish commissioner.
Many species of spiders migrate bv
"ballooning." The spider stands in
on open place, with the body elevated,
and projects from the spinnerets a
line of silk which continues to issue
until the spider feels the pull on it
by the wind. 1t then releases its
hold and clasping the line is borne
away by the wind.
Every six tons of waste pro-
duces the equivalent in pulp of an acre
of virgin timber.
There are many wild horses on the
island of Iceland. Formerly they
were shipped to England for use in
the mines, but that market is closing
since mining machinery was adopted.
Member of the Ladies' Aid Society
of Union Dale, Pennsylvania, painted
their church.
By developing electric light to an
intensity one-fourth that of the suns
rays, experimenters have been able
to make flowers bloom at pre-determ-
ined time, and to mature vegetables
in from two two three weeks less
time than normally transpires between
planting and ripening.
Teapot Dome naval oil reserve is so
called because of a great rock shaped
in the form of a teapot.
Of the 100000 school teachers in
the United States, 100000 have never
had regular public school training
above the seventh grade, saiys the
president of the University of Mimi
esota. Salaries are too low to per-
inll training.
Last July trains coming over the
mountains of Norway into Bergen and
Christiana carried a foot of snow.
The new ballroom floor of the Sa-
voy hotel in London has just been re-
laid. Balkan oak, from a village near
Sofia, after seasoning for ten years,
was brought to England where it was
baked for twelve days at a temper
nture of 100 degrees for perfect res
iliency. Nine thousand, two hundred
pieces of treated oak were laid and
for thirty six hours men pressed it
with electric irons. This Savoy floor
is made to bear $50 tons of dancers.
One thousand young buffalos will
be taken from the Wainwright, Al
berta, herd, and released in the re-
gion in which wood buffalo are found.
This is necessary because of the in
creasing size of the Wainwright herd.
The Darling Bomber at Wilbur
Wright field recently rose to an indi-
Gated distance of $500 feet carrying
a gross load of 33,57O pounds. 1t left
the earth in fifteen seconds and re-
manned aloft one hour and forty-five
minutes.
Two senate committees hearing ev-
idence on weighty public matters we're
disturbed and forced to remain idle
when a grey squirrel became en-
tangled in an electric fuse in the cap
itol at Washington. Several miles
of corridors and many inside rooms
were thrown into complete darkness
for more than half an hour.
In arrears with their rent $1,000
New York families were served with
eviction notices during the first nine
months of 1928.
a silver nugget weighing 5000
pounds and assaying seventy-fve per
cent pure ore, was found by a Cobalt
miner while doing assessment work
on his claim on the Montreal river.
The nugget is worth about 100000.
"Our laws have become so numer-
Gus that it often costs a man n hum
dred dollars to get a shilling's worth
of Justice, and misses of it at asst
William Manning, 1893.
The serving of the flesh of wild
birds protected by the migratory bird
treaty act with meals in hotels, e $
t%aurants or other places is unlawful.