, 1924-02-20
SOMETHING ABOUT
Everything AND
EVERYBODY

The worlds fastest freight train
,,ill carry summer vacationists' auto
m,obiles between Albany and Chicago
nn n 42-hour schedule by the New
Work Central Railroad. 1t is expected
a similar service will be inaugurated
between Chicago and Denver soon.
Blowing red-hot rivets through a
hose of metal is replacing the old
,,rivet ~tosser'' and the boy with the
"~catching-can" as a means of trans
nortation. The new apparatus is
Known as the "Penflex Rivet Gun"
and consists of a galvanized metal
tank with a connection welded to the
side for the air-supply line. The dis
charge valve is opened by a movement
of a steel rod attached to the treadle.
A metal received with a buffer block
is at the discharge end of the convey
or tube. This prevents the plastic
riyet from being deformed when sud-
denly arrested upon reaching the end
of its run .
The proprietor of a number of
hotels in New York and other cities
announces hat he will have chapels
for meditation and prayer constructed
in all his h~ostelries. From time to
time special services will be held in
the chapels, but the principal purpose
is to provide a place where the guests
may go for quiet worship at any hour.
A Hamburg capitalist lent 10000
marks to a baker on a mortgage sev
eral years ago. Recently the baker
paid off the loan with a seven-cent
cake.
Vegetable oils can be converted in
to gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons
by subjecting the former to catalytic
processes. This forms a good motor
fuel with a very agreeable odor.
The master of the salt water steam
ship Agga, from Bergen, Norway, re-
fused to accept the aid of tugs to pull
his vessel off a sandbar in the harbor
y of Superior, Wisconsin, where she had
y rounded. He preferred to wait for
the tide and was surprised when it
did not come in.
Northwestern University has deter
mined that class rushes in the future
shall not be held among the student
body.
In Brittany the family COW actually
"commutes" across canals in flat
bottomed boats, morning and night, to
and from the most favorable of graz
ing grounds.
The Zero milestone" stands just
south of the White House, in Wash
ington, on the ellipse of Potomac
Park. From this milestone is meas
ured the distance along the national
highways of the United States. The
stone is of white marble, and on top
is a bronze sundial.
The Paris catacombs are again be-
coming one of the show-places of the
city. The great labyrinth corridors
cut from stone hold the skeletons of
more than 5000, 900 persons who have
died in Paris during several centuries.
Along Little Sulphur Creek, near
Healdsburg, California, north of San
francisco, the ground is pock-marked
fpr 10 miles with geyser holes. A
b company has dug two wells each 22O
ieet deep. Deeper than this their
drills refused to 60. An eight-inch
casing was sunk in each hole to bring
up the steam generated, and this was
forced through "a inch pipe into a
steam turbine. The pressure of the
steam on the A-inch pipe aggregates
10 pounds to the square inch. With
ao-lnch vent, the pressure aggregates
oo pounds. The turbine through
winch the steam from the two wells
Is forced generates 1000 kilowatts.
An extensive power development
project is being planned.
High wages offered in industry is
PRINCIPALLY assigned for the steadily
increasing percentage of desertions
RON the United States Navy. 1t is
.iu that 40 members of the u. S. S.
maryiand were missing when she left
brooklyn for her last Southern cruise.
twenty of the crew of the cruiser
penver failed to show up when she
recently cleared from Boston to New
Orleans.
one divorce is granted in the Unit
tu states every four minutes. In the
as. ten years the divorce rate for
america has nearly doubled.
~,
ine old Slave Tree in Cape Town,
south Africa, is a most historic land
~ iN, as 1t was there before the days
~ ,ah van Riebeek. In the old days
ehls tree slaves were brought, and
FACED on tables for exhibition and
nv Slavery was abolished in 1888.
Inc tree has been cut down and n