, 1924-04-09
from France and other nations.

from France and other nations.
The Roosevelt Newsboys' Associa-
ton of Boston has started a move
ment to have every newsboy in the
country contribute one cent to a COL
lection of pennies to be melted down
and made into a miniature reproduc-
ton of Laddie Boy, former President
Harding's famous dog. The statuete
is to be presented to Mrs. Harding.
The faithful in Turkey are now per-
mitted to wear gold teeth, according
to a decree published by the Angora
Minister of Religious Affairs. The
law of Mohammed forbids the carry
ing of any luxurious ornament ex-
cept a silver ring, the value of which
must not exceed that of a winding
sheet. At the time of Mohammed
the prices of these two articles were
practically identical.
Each year Americans drink 4,000,-
600 bottles of soft drinks, exclusive
of such beverages as near-beers made
of cereals.
A competition among deye-makers
is to be held in an effort to produce
khaki cloth that will not fade. The
dyes will be applied to khaki cloth,
the cloth made into uniforms, and
the uniforms worn two months in
the trophies. The dye that best
holds its olive drab will be used X
clusively by the army in the future.
The largest artificial lake in Europe
is located on the island of Sardinia.
A hydroelectric development has re-
Gently been completed on the Tirso
River, near Oristano, in which 420,-
000, 900 cubic meters of water have
been impounded; and this is but the
first of a series of sever artificial
reservoirs included in this project.
The water will be used for irrigation
and power and will give permanent
employment to more than 200, 900
people.
Chicago is only twenty-eight per
cent american" in the strictest sense
of the word. The statistics collected
by the Chicago association of COM
merce show that seventy-two per cent
of tthe population, or 1%,947,376 per-
sons, are of foreign birth or parent
age. The Federal census classes all
persons born in this country as
Americans, but the association of
commerce made a finer distinction.
Less than twenty-five per cent of
the white population of Chicago are
Americans" as classed by the as
ISOLATION of commerce.
An acre burial plot neal Lancaster,
Ohio, was ~bequeathed by Nathaniel
Wilson 100 years ago to President
Andrew Jackson as a burial place and
to his successors in the Presidency.
No Chief Executive has ever awaited
himself of the privilege, however
The donor died in 1885, Locust trees
are within the Enclosure and it is sur
rounded by a high, octagonal stone
wall. The place is known locally as
the PRESIDENTS Acre"
France is developing cotton produc-
ton under her own flag. Several new
plantations have been opened this
year in Algiers and a net profit of
$500 francs a hectare is reported
from this crop. In the French Sudan,
cotton equal to the best Egyptian has
already been raised.
A special waterproof deck of cards
is used by bathers in the North and
Baltic seaside resorts, who play on
floating tables while in the water. So
obsessed with the gambling fever are
they that they play roulette, baccarat,
seven-up and other games of chance
at all times with the bets running
into millions of marks.
A race of Lilliputians, sarcely four
and a half feet tall, live on the Ada
man Islands in the Bay Of Bengal. In
fishing they do not use hook and line
but shoot the fish, the bowman bal
ancing the arrow after the fish is
struck. The canoes are hewn with
stone tools from single logs and are
very thin.
"If you had to pay the farm wife a
salary based on her actual worth, she
could command at least $500 a year,
rs seamstress, laundress, cook, nurse,
assistant hired man, general manager
and several other tasks" declares
Professor Ruby Green Smith of Cor
nell.
The late President Harding's tomb
n all--9oeCd-lwilb Gig VT e tison fla
will be guarded by n detachment of
regular army troops for six months,
as required by law, and perhaps long
err. Regular troops were on duty
about the tomb of President McKin-
ley for nearly two years to prevent
souvenir hunters and other vandals
from disturbing the sleep of the dead.