A Little of Everything
Canada has 30,000 students enrolled
In colleges and universities.
Spain has fewer daily newspapers
than any other European country.
Hongkong has a slave colony where
girls are sold as low as $5 a head.
Paris has an excess of 500,000 women
over the men, according to latest cen- j
sus figures.
At one point in London busses pass
at an average of 040 an hour at the
busiest time.
Australia, with more territory than
the United States, has only 5.000.000
inhabitants,
Most of the cars ioLiberia are of a
bright red tint, and they are very con
spicuous in the moonlight
Football is very popular in Burma,
the players wearing. no. footgear and
kicking the ball with their bare feet.
Bangkok, the capital of Siam, is a
floating city, containing 70,000 houses,
each of which floats on a raft of bam
boo.
Of every hundred ehildaen wheenter
public schools, only fifteen get through
high school, and not three finish col
lege.
San Paulo, the second eit7 of Brasil,
has one of the finest municipal theaters
in the world, costing several million
dollars.
The United States, as a whole, is
spending $40 for each city child’s edu
cation. For each country child- it is
expending $2.4. -•
Venice has enjoyed almost a monop
oly of the manufacture-of' glass beads
ever since th® fourteenth century.
About a thousond Venetian artisans
devote their time to this industry.
George, a new town on the Columbia
river, in Washington,* wrll be In a class
by itself, for when coupled with tbs
name of the State it regards itself’ as
the most patriotic place i» the United
States. ©
A woman of Lebanon,*Kits*, wants -to
divorce her husband' because during
their 12 years of married life he has in
sisted on moving S3 t4mes..tbeir longest
occupancy oi any home being four
months.
In Berlin the shops-are opened on
each of the three * Sundays before
Christmas, known as the copper, silver
a nd gold Sundays, aDd customers flock
to them in thousands to buy their
Christmas presents. -
The commission for the erection of a
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Furs Bought and
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Miners’, Prospectors’
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Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
RiverJJ
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Fairview, Innoko River
monument in the Argonne region of
France lr. memory of the Missouri
heroes who gave their lives in the
world war has been awarded to Mrs.
Nancy G. Hahn, of St. Louis.
The Panama canal zone women’s
walking championship is held by a 12
year-old girl—Alma Mann—who walked
through the canal zone from ocean to
ocean, a distance of approximately 50
miles, in 10 hours and 20 minutes.
New York has a man engaged in
what he says is a gainful occupation,
who appears in the city directory as a
tattooer of dogs. Inquiry reveals the
fact that muny owners and fanciers of
dogs have their names tattooed on the
dog’s skua.
The famous Venice museum, known
as the Academy, which was closed six
years ago when Italy entered the war,
is again open to the public. Its most
famous painting, Titian’s “Ascension.”
has been removed and is hung in the
Prari church.
The Swiss watchmaking industry is
in the doldrums, and has despairingly
appealed to the government for a sub
sidy. Tbirtv-two thousand watch
makers are idle in spite of the fact that
watches are being offered at practically
ly cost price. The reason is that the
United States is making better and
cheaper watches,
A considerable share of labor on Ser
bian farms is performed by the Serbian
women, who also weave the homely
material for their clothes. The women
are valued highly for their services, so
much so-that parents not infrequently
are unwilling to see their daughters
marry. Hence, in Serbia, wives are
often older than their husbands.
In Libya, smoking, drinking and
dancing are forbidden by the Senussi
law. The great difference between
the Senussi towns and any other desert
city isv therefore, the entire absence in
the former of the cafes which- usually
form the center of life and movement.
The whole life of an Arab town goes on
within the high, impenetrable walls.
Mineral Application No. 0551.
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska
April 28th, 1922.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Flume Dredge Company, a cor
poration, organized and existing un
der the laws of the State of Calif
ornia, whose postoffice address is
Mills Building, San Francisco, Calif
ornia, has made application, through
James M. Streoten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, before the United
States Land Office of Nome, Alaska,
for a United States Patent for the
consolidated placer mining claim
known as, THREE STAR ASSOCIA
TION, No. SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY ON YANKEE CREEK,
and No. SIX BELOW DISCOVERY
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the In
noko Mining and Recording District,
Territory of Alaska, and designated
by the United States Surveyor Gen
eral of said territory as Mineral
Survey No. 1274; the exterior
boundaries of said placer claim, ac
cording to the plat and field notes
of said survey, now on file in said
land office (with a magnetic varia
tion of 20 deg. 12 min. E.), being
as follows:
THREE STAR ASSOCIATION—
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a hewn
spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.,
set 2 ft. in ground, in earth mound,
seribed 1-1274-38., whence U. S. L.
M. No. 1274 bears S. 52 deg. 38
min. E., 148.5 ft.; thence S. 46 deg.
39 min. W., 3034.2 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 28 deg. 48 min. W.,
646.15 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
34 deg. 28 min. W., 662.65 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 47 deg. 06
min. E., 2769.1 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence S. 43 deg. 26 min. E., 1259.1
ft. to Cor: No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
84 12 acres.
NUMBER SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 3, Three
Star Association Placer, this survey,
a hewn spruce post. 4 ft. lone.. 4
ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 3-1274-3S., and
1-1274-.; whence U. S. L. M. No.
1274 bears N. 61 deg. 34 min. E.,
2996.95 ft.; thence S. 41 deg. 09
min. E., 705.65 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 35 deg. 24 min. W. 898.9
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 60 deg.
34 min. E. 700.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 34 deg. 28 min. E., 662.65
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
12.389 acres.
NUMBER SIX BELOW DISCOV
ERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 2, No. Seven
Below on Yankee Creek Placer, this
survey, a hew spruce post, 4 ft. long
4 ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 2-1274-7B.,
and 1-1274-6B.; wihence U. S. L. M.
No. 1274 bears N. 57 deg. 43 min.
32 sec. E., 3666.52 ft.; thence S. 36
deg. 57 min. W., 909.30 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg. 48 min. W.
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
36 deg. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 35 deg. 24
min., E., 898.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 19.998 acres.
Expressly excepting and excluding
from this application the Three Star
Association placer of this same survey,
total area applied for 32.387 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on the
N. E., No. Ten Fraction, unsurvey
ed; on the S. E., claims unknown
and unsurveyed; on the S. W., No.
5 Below on Yankee Creek Placer,
unsurveyed, and on the N. W.,
claims unknown and unsurveyed.
U. S. L. M. No. 1274 is a hewn
spruce post, 8 ins. sq., 8 ft. long,
3 ft. in ground, situated on sloping
hillside in prominent place about 40
ft. in elevation above the bed of
Yankee Creek, Latitude - 63 deg.
03 min. N. Longitude - 156 deg. 19
min. W.
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