, 1924-08-13

presented to the Mexican-American
Claims Commission which is about to
meet in Washington.
Twelve branches of science will be
represented in the 1925 Asiatic Elk
petition conducted by Roy Chapman
Andrews. 1t is believed that the life
of the HISTORIAN Christians, who went
east from Persia, may be further I'M
covered.
This coming December two humid
red camels will travel with the 1925
Expedition. The camels with their
thick, shaggy winter coat, will start
in the dead winter at-forty degrees
below zero. This fact is surprising
to many who believe the camel to be
a hot desert animal unused to serve
low temperature.
That Abraham lived near the brick
tower of the Ziggurat of Ur and
other discoveries very closely re-
lated to the Bible history are claimed
in a report of C. Leonard Wooley, the
noted archeologist in charge of scien-
fist from the University of Penn
sylvania, now exploring in Babylonia.
Celtic Christianity is said to have
preceded the Roman faith in Iceland
being introduced from the British
Isles where it fingered for several
centuries after the followers of Col
umbia were vanquished at the council
of Whitby in 664.
1t is estimated that eighty per cent
of the narcotics entering the United
States come in illicitly.
Discovered by Magellan in 1921,
the Philippine Islands remained Span
ish possessions, with the exception of
breif seizures by the British, japanese
and Chinese, until their cession to the
United States in 1898.
1t is estimated that the Alaskan
forest could supply enough pulpwood
to make one-third of all the paper
products used annually in the United
States.
While Columbus is usually credited
with the dicovery of America, it is
certain that Cabot, sailing out Of
Bristol, beat him to the mainland, and
it has also been claimed that the Nor
semen sailing via Greenland, had
reached the American coast some
centuries before that.
II like to see a man proud of the
place in which he lives. l like to see
a man live in it so that his place is
proud of him."-Abraham Lincoln
The United States Patent Office
has issued its 100000 patient.
It was taken out on a submarine des-
igned to travel under ice and rise to
the surface by breaking its way
through the ice. The first patient
was issued eighty-eight years ago.
The Post Office Department has
equipt more than five thousand mail
clerks with gas masks supplied by the
army's chemical warfare service be-
cause Of the recent mail-car robberies
in which bombs of poison gas were
used to force the guards to desert
their posts
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With damaged hull and propeller
broken the old coast guard cutter,
The Bear, is wedged and stranded in
the icy foes Of Alaska. For the first
time in her half-eentury's history (she
was making her fifieth trip, the old
vessel has been forced to abandon the
annual cruise for the relief Of natives
and white settlers in the land Of the
midnight sun.
The late Mallory and Irvine of the
Mt. Everest Expedition have at least
established the worlds record in
Notwithstanding. They were with
in less than 800 feet of the summit of
Mt. Everest when last cen height
of 2s,227 feet.
Sunlight developes an antiseptic in
our blood which kills germs very
quickly B.. People who live in dark
ness do not possess this "a~ntiseptic'
blood.
In making estimates on the cost of
the air mail recently established be-
tween San Francisco and New York
it appears that on the first eastward
flight eight thousand pieces of mail