Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 3, 1922, Page 10

st { K —————— e | e e rear 'PUBLIC ROAD GONSTRUCTION "Abeut One-Half of All Highways Being ' Bullt Are Being Alded by the 4 q.v.mmnng Yrroparsd 3y me mma States Dopastment of Agriculture.) ‘What the new teder-l Wghway ap- * propriation to be gxpended under the direction of the bureau of public roads, United States Department of Agriculs ture, will mean to the country is ac- curately gauged in a synopsis prepared by the buredu:: showing the use to which the $275,000,0000 previously ap- ‘propriated by congress has been put. . Up to'December 81, $212,077,246 had “'been put to work in projects either en- tirely completa or under constructlon. ‘To match that amount the states ap- PWDHIIC‘ $285,379,812, making & total of $497,456,558. 1f ‘placed ‘end to end the roads to be paid for by this money would encircle the earth at the equator and extend as far .a8. from New York to San Fran- ¢15¢o0 on the second lap., The total mileage of roads under construction and completed, the department's rec- ords ‘show, was aporoximately 27,000 miles. Of this milage 9,555 miles was in projects entirely completed. The balance of 17,445 miles was in projects which were” still under construction but reported 69 per-cent complete Oc- tober 31. In those projects there was the equivalent of 12,000 miles of com- vleted roads, go that the completed foad fo date was more than miles, or nearly enough to encircle the globe. Prior to five years ago the federal government took no active part in the road ‘construction of the country. To- day about one-half of all roads under construction are being aided financial- 1y by the federal government, and the construction is subject to inspection and approval of federal engineers. Dollar Day ‘Specials 30 large bars Lenox Laundry Soap for. 20 bars P, & G. White Naptha'Soap for. 12 bars extra large Toilet Soap for ENAMEL WARE 1 dozen Blue and White Dish Pans, extra good, $1.25 value, each $ 1 dozen Blue and White Water Pails, extra good, $1.25 value, each ... 1 dozen White and White Dish Pans, extra good, $1.25 value, each ... One-half dozen only White and White Water Pails, extra good, $1.25 value, each EXTRA SPECIAL PIECE GOODS SALE! lengths — Curtain Goods, One to 10-yard - Chambrays, Ginghams, Percales, Crash, Shirtings, etc., about 1,000 yards in lot (no piece less than 10 yards cut) 10 yards for .$1.00 ' PERCALES", One lot 36-inch wide Percales, assorted col- ors, 6 yards for HAIR RIBBONS ‘A" good assortment ' of 6 yards for colored Ribbons, ‘A better assortment of colors and wider, 4 yards for LADIES’ APRONS One assorted lot Aprons, values up.to $1.48 your choice, each ....$1.00 HOSIERY . Ladies’ Fancy Silk Hose, drop-stitch, Cor- dovan and Black, per pair Ladies’ Fibre Silk Hose—Black, Cordovan P and White; good 75c grade, 2 pair for....$1.00 Ladies’ Combed Yarn Brown; 5 pairs for . Ladies’ Hose, Black only ity, 8 pairs for ... Hose—Black or ;a good 15¢ qual- Children’s Hose, sizes 6 to 10; a 15¢ specml Black only, 8 pairs for ... Children’s Hose, sizes 6 to 10; Black only; a regular 25c¢ quality, 6 pairs for .............. $1.00 CHINAWARE 0dd lots Japanese China Cups and Saucers, Oatmeal Dishes, Creamers, Pie Plates, etc. your choice, 6 for A faptory shipment of odd lots Gold Coin Finish Decorated Chinaware (Worth double the price) Cups only, 8 for .. 5-inch Plates, 8 for . 6-inch Plates, 7 for .... 7-inch Plates, 6 for OatMeal Dishes, 6 for Large, fancy Covered Dlshes, each Coupe Soups, 6 for .... M il NEW WALL PAPER A big stock now on hand, and priced at the low, pop- ular prices, per ‘double roll 15c, 16c, 18c, 20c, 25::. 30c 351: and up to 75¢ FRESCOAT The new Wall Finish—equal to th beat, per 6-1b pkg . WINDOW SHADES Full 6-foot by 36,42 and 48 inches, always in stock— at the lowest market prices, Wilson's Fair Store The Red Front Variety Store on Third:St. Vibration ef Ear—Travels - Faster in Summer Than in Winter, Sound Is transmitted to the ear | by’ the -vibration’ of .the air. When one particle of gir is made to vibrate it sets the adjacent particles to vi- brating, and so a sound wave, if not obstructed, passes in all directions from ‘the soundipg body. The' calcu- lated . velocity of sound in'the air vhen' the “teiperature Is at freezing |. ‘point is '915.69 feet;per second. When the temperature increases, sound travels faster, and ‘the rate has been calculated at a liftle more than one foot per sécond for ‘each degree of rise ~ in Fabrenheit's thermometer. Contrary to popular belief, sound travels faster in. summer than in winter, and in warm- than in cold climates. sound would trayel < more slowly through a dense atmosphere, but the elasticity increases as rapidly as the density, and, therefore, the velocity of sound 1s not affected by varylng density. The velocity of sound In water, when at the greatest density, is 4,707.4 feet per second. The experi- ments by which this velocity was de- termined were made by M. Callaodin, in 1826, across the Lake of Geneva, | from Rolle to Thonon, a distance of about-nine riles. Water, therefore, transmits sound four times as fast as air does. # NO OLD AGE anosLE'M HERE Indians of the Andes Mountains Kill Those of Race Who Reach Fateful Limit. High in the fastnesses of the Andes mountains of ‘Peru there lives a race which’ sets an age limit ‘and kills all of its people who reach the fateful mark. In_each village an official is appointed to terminate, the careers of persons w)m liye too long. Different . communities, however, have different’ ldgl\ to what limit should ‘be placed on' human: existence. In some places the ’nly duty of the executioner a) to be to secure the presence ¢f a man at his own fuo- neral in the “title ‘role.” If a person becomes so ill that his funeral becomes a certainty in the near future, a date is fixed for the same, and if the lead- ing figure shows a disposition to be un- punctual, the village executioner takes the matter in hand. The Andes natives are of Indian descent, possibly from the -Quichau | Indians, according to sclentists. They live in adobe hovels and are said never | to remove their clothing. They are very shy and have no diversions aside from' chewing coca leaves, fromt Which modern scientists extract cocaine. Put an Idea Across. ‘Whether it was' mental telepathy- or & mere coincidence, I cannot say, but. ®| this is what happened: On a rallway station platform at some distancé from ‘me stood an Im- migrant family. The father carried.-no bundles, but the mother was loaded like @ pack mule. In'one hand she held a bundle resembilng a large week’s wash tied up in a sheet. ‘The other arm bore a weighty looking basket and & husky baby. For about 20 minutes I looked on as that woman In sort of dumb pa- tience stood there motionless- under that awful load. It was’ positively nerve-wracking to watch her, and finally I yelled to her, mentally: “For heaven's sake drop those bundles!” Instantly the woman let go of the bundle, handed the baby to her hus- band, placed the basket on top of the big bundle, folded her hands over her stomach and heaved a sigh of relief.— Kansas City Star. Go Back Fifteenth Century. If anything should astonish us about trees it is their longevity. The life of animals is ephermeral compared to that of .our trees. The pine and great chestnut caneassuredly extend their existence to & term of 400 or 500 years. In the Island of Teneriffe are found many venerable pimes and enor- mous chestnut trees which in all prob- ability were planted there by the con- quistadores_at the commencement of the ' Fifteenth' century, the epoch of the invasion of the island. The former are:distinguished from the others, owlng to the conquerors having in their piety decorated them nearly all with little madonnas, which are still seen suspended to their boughs. ‘ oI A R LS Man’s Marvelous ‘Memory. A man who has developed his mem- ory until he has an amazing store of information on a wide variety of sub- jects has been discovered at Birchen- cliffe, Huddersfield. He is John Holroyd, a builder's la- borer, and he Is self-taught. ‘Holroyd: has 31,000 facts stored away In his braln. He can name ev- ery mad who has played football for lis country, ‘and: the winners of all classic races-sinee 18060. * Another of his specialties is cricket | scores and results, He can tell you the Dbirthdays of nationpl amd local celebrities.. Once he hears a date he never forgets it, and he has more than once set parents right as to the birth- days of their children.—London Tit- Suspicion Confirmed. “It says here that surgeons; have discovered that orange blossond may be used as an anesthetic,” sai@ Mrs. Henpeck. I always did believe that 1 was unconscious when we were mjaried,” vemarked Mr. Henpeck, It ‘might be thought that | ldn That Some Trees Are Immertal Has Besn Gravely Asserted by’ Many ‘Naturalists. The idea of immortality in trees is often met ‘with .In the works of the ancients, oberves a writer in the New |/ York. Sun. ' ‘The historian, Josephus, In his “Jewish War,” relates that in hisday there: 'was’ near the”city “of Eibron; & _turpentine, tree which: was as ald as the days of Adam, *~ It was: reserved for. modern natural- ists to show ' that these assertions, however extraordinary they may ap- pear; are stijl correct, and that many of our trees in some'sort indestruct- ible may have seen: the nnal scene-of creatlon and, after braving the action of S0 many ages, are' still upright and living to this days It is'now over a hundred years since Adanson, by ingenious ‘calculations, showed ' the learned that such ideas, though extraordinary, are yet facts of the most serupulous exactitude. | This naturalist by a_happy chance found in the interior of the trunk of the baobab in one of the Cape Verde islands an Jnscription which had“been traced on it by the English 300 years previonsly. Starting from. this- point-and .compar- ing the diameters of the stems ~of many of ‘these bulky trees, the French savant succeeded in proving that the most vigorous of these primitive ‘in- habitants of the African forests.might be nt least-5,000 years old. TRULY WERE GOLDEN CHIMES Bplis Cast in Ancient Mexican Village Composed in Large Part' of Precious Metals. In the Mulcan_xtm of Sonadra; at the headwaters of the Rio Mayo, is the ancient mlnlng \lllage of Tyopa, which in" early days was famous for the sweet-toned. bells cast there from cop- per ‘procured in the neighborhood. ' It was from Tyopa that chimes of bells were obtained for maay imissiens on the Pacific coast, and from the same source came bells that were hauled by ox teams across the’ desert to mlul.n sememenu in Arizona and New llex- ico. ‘There was one such settlement at Sitka, Alaska, established by Fran- clscan’ monks, which got its chime ‘of bells from Tyopa. Some of these bells are still in ex- istence, their tones as sweet as ever. Many of them have been melted in lat- ter days for the gold and silver they contained. ' The sweetness of. their musie¢, in fact, was due to.the drcum- . Aeurdlnn to | Announcement of lu- reau Every Type of Construction ‘Ninety-three road construction projs ects: in 28 states were. approved for 'federal aid during October:by the bus rean “of ‘public rpads, - United S Department of Agrxcu.ltum, to a compilation “just miade publie. Virtually every type’of Construction is represented in the approved projects, “The-states in which these projects were approved and fllé number’ ot} projects uppro\ed in’ each: stats’ fol- low: " Alabama, 3; Arkausas, 3; Call- fornia, 2; Colorado, 1 T Idaho, 1; Kansas, ‘8 Maryland; 5 Massachusetts, 2; mnnmm, 153 mn' sissippl, Nebraska, 2; North Dakota, Ohio, 2 Okla- homa, ‘1;° Pennsylvania, 5; South Carolina, South Dukotl, 1;: Texas, 3; Utah, 1; Virginia, 12 1; \Vlsconsln, 2, .and. \Vyomlnx, 1. The longest single stretch of roadway approved in one project during the month was an earth road in Calhoun county, Misssissippi; 35.8 miles long; the -shortest,” 0.9 mile, was a brick road im Stark county, pmo. Asphalt Streets in Majority. * Virtually 61 per cent of all the mu- nicipal streets in “the United .States have an, auplmlt ‘top. As a consequence | of ‘heavy truck traffic many of these sireets are Deginning to show- serious evidences of..djsintegration, mumrous MINN. ‘Ev.rybo_dy seems to be than Goad Service—Low Rates Splendid Cafe In Connection stance that-about 25 ‘per. cent 'of:the | " crudely refined copp~= from which they were cast' was: silver .and ma——mx- wmkee Sentinel. PIII Puh _th and Two Togeth This account.of a cat’s remarkable display. of reasoning:.was recently given || t friend. of the Companion by-a minister whose word,: one correspond- ent cremarks, Is. of icourse not’ to, be questioned. When Mr. and’ Mrs. M—— were about to. move to California they left their cat with some. friends. who were lving in a_suburb perhaps two miles from the eastern side ‘of their home cify. - After an absence of 18 months they returned and spent’two ‘weeks with their friends. Though'the cat’ remembered them, it appeared to be content with its owners; so: when Mr. and Mrs, M—— went to live'in 4 new house In the northeastern part of the city they left the cat behind. A few days. later it was fnissing from its home in the suburb for the first time since it had gone there to live; and three days later friends notified Mrs. M—— that her cat was at her first home In the extreme westerm part of the city. Apparently puss had reasoned that its. former owners had returned. to their old home; so it hastened there, traveling either through' or round a busy city a distance of fully three miles. Mrs. M—— went and got the cat at once and carrfed %t to the new home, where it now lives contented.— Youth’s ‘Companion. Didn't Get the Jiob. 'A ' get-rich-quick lump 'of physical energy in the form of an ‘out-of-work commercial traveler applipd ‘ to the manager of & firm, eml-hln. that, once ‘on the job, he could 'guarantee such a flow of orders thatthe staft would be unable to cope witiz them. The manager knew'his busimess, and sald: “Well, young fellow, I'd like to see 1t you could do something. I can’t. Industry'is in a topsy-turvy muddle, and you can’t get order out of chaos.” The.. nppllclnt squared his xbnnlders and declared as he looked up a tele- phone ' directory: “Let me do dt. I haven't the pleasure of knowimg Mr, Kayoss, but I'll' get an order out of hlm somehow.” 7 He didn’t get the Job, though.—Lon- ‘don Answers. ———— + “ British Courts of Ancient Orloin. *"Among the courts of in Great Britain,” a most interesting’ one still exists at Bristol; the last one remaining of the Pled Poudre courts which were established more than 700 Jears ago at places where Iurge falrs were held, and attended by foreigners; The courts were provided, especially it the fair was at a seaport town, to deal with differences of opinfon which were likely to arise between people who could not understand each other’s speech. They were called Courts of Pled Poudre or Dusty Feet, from the dusty feet of the traveling bagmen ang peddlers whom it was intended.to help. In time the PBied-Poudre :became Pye Powder court. : nmmmwmmmmm ? fent origin' Don’t - let tha family . washing interfere with your social duties. 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