, 1924-04-16
SOMETHING ABOUT
EVERYTHING AND
EVERYBODY

on q gram OF pOIiShed rice. Inc verse
is written by the projected and pol
ished finger nail of the writer and
the Arabic characters are so beauti-
fully traced that one Ia read them
with the naked eye. The artist, a
middle-aged man, has been doing this
kind of work for years.
The Waldes Museum in Prague is a
button museum founded by a Bohem-
ian button manufacturer. 1t is de-
voted to a collection of dress-fasten-
ing devices of all kinds and of all
periods.
Exciting motion pictures and plays
cause the temperatures of audiences
to rise and result in the throwing off
of bodily heat. Some theatres lower
the heat supply as the act approaches
the climax.
Boa constructors are the latest fash
ionable pets for women in London and
Paris. The snakes are caught on the
shores of the Amazon and placed in
perforated zinc boxes fitted with
tanks. American bull snakes are very
popular also.
The waters of the Columbia River
often rise 40 feet, reaching the maxi
mum from the fifteenth to the last of
June. The river flows about six miles
an hour on ar average.
Tons of fish we're smothered in
Glenmore Lake, Orange County, New
York, by the ice which covered the
lake two feet thick from shore to
shore. When the community found
the water supply Objectionable they
investigated and when a hole was cut
through the ice thousands of dead
fish came to the surface together
with many live fish in search of air.
The tenants at Hampton Bishop,
Herefordshire, England, pay their
rem with stakes. This is a practice
that has been followed since old feud-
al days of centuries past. Each
householder must gather each year
six horse loads of stakes from Hay
Wood. The stakes are used for pen
ming sheep at the Hereford fair.
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principle as a cream separator, takes
the dirt out of used oil, much as a
cream separator takes the cream from
milk.
Ono side of a vein of the Kelley
Mine OF Cobalt, Ontario, is plated
with a sheet Of pure silver, from a
quarter inch to an inch thick. This
sterling silver is IL feet long and is
exposed for a height of eight feet,
and may be higher. 1t is estimated
that eight hours and S25 worth of
five tons of solid silver.
Bees have hived in the head of the
Henry Clay statute in the cemetery
at Lexington, Kentucky.
DR.. Charles w. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard University, says.
"The prime object of democracy is
and ought to be increasing freedom,
independence, comfort and exemption
from fear for all sorts and conditions
of men, but this object cannot be at
tanned until the poverty due to po-
litical institutions or social customs
has been abolished"
German marks and Russian rubles
are being sold as souvenirs on the
streets of many of u larger cities.
An electric motor will soon replace
the bell ringers of Notre Dame, the
famous Paris cathedral, Because of
the high wages demanded by the ring
ers it has been decided to introduce
modern appliances. The last of a
long line of head ringers, who from
father TO son for generations carried
on the work, is now compiling a writ
ten manual for the guidance in the
future of the electrical ringing of the
belle.
Children patients ut the Mantle.
Connecticut, tuberculosis sanitarium
go practically naked the year around.
Nothing so quickly destroys the tub
ercule bacilli as the rays Of the sun.
The Canadian federal government
has purchased u large farm near
Guelph, Ontario, to put returned SOL
diers on the land.
Dean Hammond. of Cornell Uni
versity, deplores the invasion of Tut
nnkhamen's tomb. How would Ameri-
cans like it, he asks. If the S%aracens
5000 years hence broke into George
Washingtons tomb at Mount Vernon
and II the bones of Abraham Lincoln
we're carried off to Constantinople
and placed on display in n Saracen
museum!
Bentonite, commonly known as
so~npstone, is found in extensive de-
posts in Alberta. II has not been de-
veloped commercially as yet.