, 1925-04-15
SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY

Wine sold for three cents a quart in
the early Roman Empire days.
The distance around the boundry of
the United States is 1856 miles.
Arabs cast trees into their bitter
inland seas as Moses babe his people
do. The salt crystallizes about the
boughs and the bitterness of the wa
tiers grows less.
The six marshals of France at the
present time are Joffre, Foch, Petain,
Lyantey, Franchet d'Esperey, and
Fayolle.
Conrad had the choice of at least
three languages for his novels-Pol-
ish, French, and English. He chose
English, and though he wrote letters
in French, he left the French tran
Station of his works to others.
Miners in the Tahoe National For
est working a gold mine, 5000 feet
below the lava cap of the Sierra peaks
came across an old flood deposit in
which were the tangled logs of a
group of sequoas in a perfect state
of preservation.
A portrait of President Harding "a
dorns the new one-half-cent stamp de-
signed for use on third-class mail mat
ter under the new postage rates. A
one-half-cent stamp carrying a pro-
file of Nathan Hale will be sold to
take care of those who have on hand
a supply of the old one-cent stamps.
Haydn, the musical composer, to
present proof of his eligibility to Ok
ford University, submitted a musical
crossword puzzle, a composition
which reads backward or forward, up
of down, from its beginning or end,
was always a melody with an ac-
compartment.
Forty-two youngsters, three, four,
five years old, sleep, play, and eat I'M
der expert are in a day nursery
maintained in connection with the I'm
iversity of Chicago, their parents go
on with classroom courses or re-
search work.
Ten per cent of the people in the
country buy for cash; 80 per cent on
credit, and 60 per cent make their
purchase upon installment plan.
With a roar heard five miles away,
an oil well came in near Beaumont,
Texas, drenching the owner of the
land, a poor Negro, and eleven child
ren, some of whom played gleely in
the dark, heavy fluid, which takes
them to wealth at the rate of $4,000
daily.
A slaughtered camel with a stom-
ach opened in the Sahara indicates
that the Saharan has killed his camel
to get a little green water to keep
him alive; and unless the act was re-
cent the body of the man will be
found not far away.
! An American woman, divorced from
an alien husband has the right to have
her American citizenship restored, ac-
cording to a ruling of Judge Morton
in the Federal Court in Boston.
Left Ericson's "Vinland" was Vir-
ginia, according to a new method of
interpreting astronomical observa-
tons made by Ericsson.
Pedestrians have the right-of-way
over motorists outside the central
traffic zone in Los Angeles. One a
foot desiring to cross a street at any
intersection not under police control
signals his desire by holding up his
hand to approaching motorists.
Two fighting planes collided a mile
in the air at Kelly Field San Antonio,
Texas. The pilots leaped their para
chutes and floated down side by side
to safety, while the two ships hit the
earth with laundering crashes and
burst into flames.
Jewelry robbers in 1924 increased
80 per cent over 1928.
A luxuriant floating hoetl is to be
made of the Itsukushina, the japanese
battleship which gained glory at the
siege of Port Arthur.
The speed limit of the snail is half