, 1925-01-21

York recently.
American artists are incensed at
what appears to be discrimination on
the part of the French who have rel
egated to a small Paris museum
Whistlers famous painting, car
rangement in Gray and Black" a por-
trait of his mother. According to
established custom, a decade after the
death of the artist his best paintings
are moved to the Louvre. Whistler
has been dead for two decades.
Only one railroad accident involved
loss of life in England during 1928.
The years 1901 and 1908 were without
a single fatal accident to passengers.
In the 90 years of the present CEN
fury the number of railroad deaths
totals but 70.
The last Is years have seen 26,297
railroad collisions in the United
States: Deaths, 1926; Injured. co.
682.
Dollar bootleggers in Paris offer to
buy dollars at prices ranging from so
confines to 1 franc above the previ-
Gus nights official closing quotation.
Plainclothes policemen watch for
these dealers who are foreigners, from
somewhere in Central Europe.
The United States Army bakes its
bread for two cents a loaf; superior
to that sold the public for nine and
eleven cents.
Radio fans must pay to listen in in
Australia. Every purchaser of'a re-
ceiving set must present a license
showing that he has subscribed and
paid for the service of the station
operating on the wave length which
the instrument being purchased is ad-
justed. For every broadcasting sta
ton he wishes to use he pays separ-
; ately. The sets are sealed and the
government inspectors investigate and
check up the subscriber to see that
seals have not been tempered with.
A lion gnawed the wood away from
two iron bars in his cage and roamed
free in two connecting express cars
on a Santa Fe passenger train near
Kansas City, Mo. He was captured
by the superintendent of a park zoo
at Kansas City who lassoed the ami
NAL and pulled it into a waiting cage.
The Petrograd mint has resumed
the coinage of gold silver, and copper
currency. it is reported.
With yards braced sharply to star
board an old-time barkentine lay in
the harbor of Baltimore, while her
skipper secured the waterfront for
old-time seamen capable of handling
a ship of her type. The seamen of
the younger generation car handle a
schooner, but a barkentine is differ
ent.
The transportation problem in Tok-
10 is acute. Hundreds of street cars
were burned during the recent quake.
The children of Japan are taught to
reverence the emperor as a semi-de-
vine being. The present Prince Re-
gent, having travelled extensively in
European countries, favors more DEM
ocratic practices with regard to the
imperial Japanese family.
The Malays for centuries have do
INVESTIGATED monkeys and have trained
them to climb cocoanut trees and pick
the nuts.
A young French archeologist, who
swan into the recesses of a partially
submerged cave. near St. Martory,
France, found valuable secrets. Keep
ing his matches and candles dry by
means of a special continuance he
swan nearly a mile resting on rocks
%enroute, when he reached a dry gall
lery about 200 yards long, the walls
of which were covered with inscrip-
tons and age-old drawings, together
with statues of animals that disap-
peared from the earth thousands of
years ago.