Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 3, 1922, Page 11

Intentional Duplicate Exposure "PUBLIC ROAD CONSTRUCTION .'propriated by congress has heen put. . Up to’Dacember 81, $212,077,246 had 'been put to work in projects either en- ‘Abeut One-Half of All Highways Being + . Bullt Are Being Alded by the ; Government, — XYPreparsd By e United States Department of Agriculture.) ., ‘What the new federal highway ap- propriation to be gxpended under the direction of the bureau of public roads, United States Department of Agricul« ture, will mean to the country is ac- curately gauged in a synopsis prepared by the buredu: showing the use to ‘which the ,000,0000 previously ap- tirely complete or under constructios. To match that amount the states ap- propriated $285,379,812, making a total of $497,456,568. “n If ‘placed end to end the roads to be pald for by this money would. encircle the earth at the equator and extend a8 far .as. from New York to San Fran- ¢is¢o on the second lap. The total mileage of roads under construction and completed, the department's rec- ords ‘show, was aperoximately 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- pleted roads, go that the. completed Construction of a Rock Road. foad o date was more than 21,000 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 1s subject to inspection and approval of federal engineers. Dollar 'Day ‘Specials 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, $1.256 value, each One-l!a]f dozen only White and White Water Pails, extra good, $1.25 value, each........ EXTRA SPECIAL PIECE GOODS SALE! One to 10-yard - lengths — Curtain Goods, 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 colored Ribbons, 6 yards for . ‘A better assortment o: 4 yards for LADIES’ APRONS One assorted lot A'prons, values up.to $1.48 your choice, each ._.....c.ccieecienccnclonecan 1.00 HOSIERY . Ladies’ Fancy Silk Hose, drop-stitch, Cor- dovan and Black, per pair ... 1.00 Ladies’ Fibre Silk Hose—Black, Cordovan and White; good 76c grade, 2 pair for....$1.00 Ladies’ Combed Yarn Hose—Black or Brown; 5 pairs for .. Ladies’ Hose, Black only ;a goo ity, 8 pairs for Children’s Hose, sizes 6 to 10; a 15¢ special, Black only, 8 pairs for ... Children’s Hose, sizes 6 to 10; Black only a regular 25¢ quality, 6 pairs for .............. $1.00 CHINAWARE Odd lots Japanese China Cups and Saucers, Oatmeal Dishes, Creamers, Pie Plates, etc. your choice, 6 for ... A faptozy 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 Dishes, each Coupe Soups, 6 for : Many Other Bargains Will Be Offered Which Are Not Listed Above." NEW WALL PAPER ‘A big stock now on hand, and priced at the low, pop- . ular prices, per ‘double roll 15¢, 16c, 18c, 20c, 25¢, 30c, 35¢c and up to 75¢ FRESCOAT The new Wall Finish—equal to the b per 5-1b pkg................. 58¢ : 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. 'HOW SOUND IS TRANSMITTED Vibration ef the Alr Brings It to the Ear—Travels - Faster in Summer Than in Winter, Sound Is transmitted to the ear | by the . vibration' of .the air. ~When one particlé 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 sounding body. The' caleu- 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 second for ‘each degree of rise - In Fabrenheit’s thermometer. Contrary to popular bellef, sound travels faster in summer than in winter, and in warm: than in cold | climates. It ‘might be’ thought that sound would travel more slowly through a dense atmosphere, but the elasticity increases as rapidly as the density, and, therefore, the velocity of sound is not affected by varying density. The velocity 'of sound In water, when at the greatest density, is 4,707.4 feet per second. ments by which this velocity was de- termined were made by ‘M. Callaodin, In 1828, across the Take of Geneva, | from Rolle to Thonon, a distance of about -nine miles. Water, therefore, transmits sound four times as fast-as air does. 5 NO OLD AGE PROBLEM 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 who liye too long. Different . commjunities, however, have different ideis as to what limit 8| should ‘be placed o human existence. In some places the pnly duty of the executioner ‘appears 'to be to secure the presence ¢f a man at his own fu- neral in the “fitle ‘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 te 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 scientists. 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, from which modern scientists extract cocaine. Put an Idea- Across. i ‘Whether it was: mental’ telepathy-or a mere coincidence, I cannot say, but this s what happened: On a . raflway : station platform at some distance from me stood an jm- migrant family. The father carried -no bundles, but the mother was loaded like a pack mule. In'one hand she held a bundle resembling a ‘large week's wash tied up in a sheet. The other arm bore a weighty lqoking basket and & husky baby. For about 20 minutes I looked on as that woman in sort of dwmb pa- tlence stood there motionless. under that awfal load. It was’ positively nerve-wracking to watch her, and finally I yelled to her, mentally: “For heaver’s sake drop those bundles!” Ingtantly 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 reliet— Kansas City Star.. Go Back to Fiftesnth Century. It anything should astonish us about trees it is their longevity. The life of animals {s ephermeral compared to that of .our trees. The plne and great chestnut caneassuredly extend their existence to a term of 400 or 500 years. In the Island of Teneriffe are found many venerable pmes 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. g The former are:distinguished fro the others, owlng to the conquerors having in their plety decorated them neariy all with little madonnas, which are still seen suspended to thelr boughs. ‘ Man’s Marvelous ‘Memory. A man who has developed his mem- ory until he has an amazing store of Information on a wide varlety of sub- jects ‘has been discovered at Birchen- cliffe, Huddersfield. c He is John Holroyd, a builder’s: 1a- 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 Iis country, and: the wioners of all classic. races-sineg 1800. * Another of hix speclalties is cricket scores and results, He can tell you the Dbirthdays of national 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- Bits. [ Suspicion Confirmed. “It says here that surgeons' have discovered that orange blossomsd may be used as an anesthetic,” sai@ Mrs. ‘Henpeck. “I always did believe that I was unconscious when we were mmrried,” vemarked Mr. Henpeck, The - experl- | LIVE ‘THOUSANDS OF YEARS lden THat Some Tross' Are Immertal Has Been Gravely Asserted by' Many Naturalists. The idea of Immortality in trees is often met ‘with in the works of the ancients, observes a writer in the New |- York Sun. ' ‘The historian, Josephus, In his “Jewish War,” relates that in his* day' fliere: ‘was’ near the’ city “of Eibron: & turpentine, tree which, was’ as old as the days of Adam. It was reserved for. modern natural: ists to show ' that these assertions, however extraordinary they may ap- pear, are still correct, and that many of ‘our trees in some’sort indestruct- ible may have seen: the mnal scene of creation and, after braving the actiom of S0 many ages, are' still upright and living to this days It is'now over a hundred years since Adanson, by ingenfous ‘calculations, showed the learned that such ideas, though extraordinary, are yet facts of the most scrupulous exactitude. This naturalist by a happy chance found in the interior of the trunk of the haobab in one of the Cape Verde islands an duscription. which had-been traced on it by the English 300 years previously. Starting from this- point-and compar- ing the diameters .of the 'stems of mauny of ‘these bulky trees, the ¥rench savant succeeded, in proving that the most vigorous of these primitive in- habitants of .the African forests might be at least 5,000 years old. 4 TRULY WERE GOLDEN CHIMES Balls Cast in Ancient Mexican Village Composed in Large Part of Precious Metals. In the Mexican state of Sonara, at the headwaters of the Rio Mayo, is the ancient mining village 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 missiens on the Pacific coast, and from the same source came bells that were hauled by ox teams across the desert to mission settlements in Arizona and New Mex- ico. There was one such settlement at Sitka, Alaska, established by Fran- clscan” monks, which got its chime 'of bells from Tyopa. 7 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 und silver they contained. - The sweetness of their music, In fact, was due to.the circum- stance that-about.25 per. cent 'of ‘the | * crudely refined copp~: from which: they were cast' was: siiver .and gol&—Mil- waukee Sentinel. t ! Puss Puts Two and Two Together. - This account.of @ cat’s remarkable display. of reagoning was recently given |4 to.a friend. of the Companion by-a minister whose word, one correspond- | ent cremarks, is; of course not to.be questioned. When Mr. - and’ Mrs, M— were about to, move to California they left their cat with some friends who were living fn’ a suburb perhaps two miles from the eastern side of their homep 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; o: 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’ fnlssing 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 ber first home ‘in the extreme westerm part of the city. Apparently puss had reasoued 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 carried ft to the new home, where it now lives contented.— Youth’s ‘Companton. Didn’t Get the Job. A ‘get-rich-quick lump of physical energy in the form of an'out-of-work commercial traveler applied - to the manager. of a firm; explagning that, once ‘on the job, he could ‘guarantee such a flow of orders that' the staff would be unable to cope with them. The manager knew'his busimess, and said: “Well, young fellow, I'd like to see 1f you could do something. T can’t. Industry’is in a topey-turvy muddle, and you can't get order out of chuos.” i The_applicant squared his shoulders and declared 'as he looked up a tele- phone directory: “Let me do it. I haven't the pleasure of knowing Mr, Kayoss, but T'll get an order out of him somehow.” ! * He didn’t get the job, though.—Lon- ‘don Answers. « “'British Courts of Ancient Origin. “‘Among the courts of ancient origin: 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 years ago at places where large fafrs 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 Coarts 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 Bled -Poudre - became Pye Powder court. ¢ " DALY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS APPROVE HIGHWAY. PROJECTS - Acoording to ‘Announcement of - Bu- reau Every Type of Construction 'y le:Represented. ‘Ninety-three road construction proje ects in 28 states ‘were. approved for federal aid during Octoberiby the bus reau of ‘public rpads, - United - States Department of Agriculture, according. to a compilation’ just niade . public. Virtually every ‘type’of Construction is represented .in the approved Drojects, - Thie-states in which these projects Projects. approved 1’ each state' fol- Tow: - Alabama, 8; Arkubsas, 8; Call- fornla, 2; Colerado, - 1; :Florida, 1; Idaho, 1; Kansas, 8 laryland; 5; Massachusetts, 2; Minpesota, 15; Mis- sissippl, 6; Missouri, 4;. Montang, 1; Nebraska, '2; Nevada, New . Mexico, 2; North Dakota, 2; Ohio, 2} Okla- homa, 1; Pennsylvania, - 55 South Carolina, South Dakota, 1;!'Texas, 3; Utahy, 1; Virginia, 12; Washington,, 1; Wisconsin, 2, .and. Wyoming, 1. The longest single stretch of roadway approved . in one project . during the month was an earth road in Calhoun county, Misssissippi; 35.3 miles long; the shortest, 0.9 mile, was a brick road’in Stark’ county, Ohlo. L Toe Asphalt Streets in Majority. - | Virtually 61 per cent of all the mu- nicipal streets _in "the United .States have an asphalt top. As a consequence | of ‘heayy truck traffic many of these streets are beginning to show :serious vidences of..djsintegration, ‘| MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Everybody seems to be there | Good Service—Low Rates " Splendid Cafe In * . Connection Don't - let ‘the family . washing interfere with your ‘social duties. We can relieve you of all your wash-day trou- bles—just say to “‘send the wagorni——". Family Washings 10c 1b—80c minimum Bem. Steam Laundry ~Phone 195— were approved and thé ' number’ ot f! THE QUALITY. 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