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NICE HASAJBAGON
Strange Sea Monster Causes
Panic in Italian City.
Residents of La Turtle Are Badly
Frightened and No One Dares to
Venture on Highways With
out an Armed Escort.
Nice. —They say it is about two
metres long and at least thirty-five
centimeters broad, with enormous
jaws well furnished with dentistry,
but what kind of an animal it is no
one knows. For the past several days
the residents of La Turbie have been
living in deadly terror of it. A search
was organized, but as yet only two per
sons have met the “thing" face to
face.
About 11 o’clock in the morning re
cently a boy was passing through the
quarter known as “Les Routes." car
rying dejeuner to his father, who is
employed in a quarry. Suddenly an
animal, stranger than any he had ever
seen, appeared in his path.
The boy ran, but so did the animal.
Just as he was about to be caught the
boy climbed on to a block of stone.
The animal managed to get on its hind
feet and was about to grasp the boy
in its terrible jaws when the automo
bile which runs between La Turbie
station and the Mont-Agel golf course
approached.
Frightened at the noise, the "wild
beast" took fright and fled. The boy
shows marks on his breast which he
says were made by the animal when it
was reaching for him. He also de
clares the animal was covered with
huge scales.
MAY RAISE SUGAR
England Plans to Plant Beets on
Large Scale.
Encouraging Results From Experi
ments Made by British Farmers—
Will Give Industry Thorough
Trial This Year.
London. —A serious attempt is now
in progress to make England a sugar
producing country. When the ques
tion of home grown sugar beets was
first brought up seriously some 14
years ago the sugar bounties were un
doubtedly one of the chief reasons
that discouraged the idea. The
British farmer, moreover, is very con
servative, and in late years financiers
have been more wary than before of
home industries, especially if of an ex
perimental nature.
f But now both farmers and finan
ciers have decided to give the indus
try a thorough trial. This year about
■3,500 acres between Yarmouth and
Norwich have been planted with su
gar beets. A factory for the manu
facture of sugar is being erected near
Cantley station, Norfolk, in the middle
of the district, and preliminary en
gagements have been made for the
building of two other factories.
Experiments in sugar beet growing
were carried out last year under the
auspices of the board of agriculture
in seven centers in England. The
board’s report has now been issued,
and is decidedly encouraging for those
concerned in the experiment in East
Anglia mentioned above. The conclu
sion of the board of agriculture says
definitely:
“There is no question that beets
with high sugar content can be grown
in this country and give yields equal
ing, if not exceeding, those obtained
on the continent.”
The report points out that “in no
case did the crops receive more atten
tion than would be given to growing
OPAL SEARCH TO START SOON
Portland, Ore., Folk to Rake Over
Material Dredge Discharges
for Valuable Stones.
Portland, Ore. —When the big
dredge Columbia, of the port of Port
land fleet, said to be the largest single
suction digger of her type in the
world, began operations In the harbor
In pumping material that Is to be used
in the fill at the side of the Southern
Pacific east side freight depot, there
were many curious ones attracted to
the outfall of the 30-lnch pipe line on
shore to watch stuff drawn from the
river bed.
Years agp a fill was made on the
east side with a dredge, and opals,
agates and other stones were pumped
ashore. It is expected searchers will
soon be raking over the gravel on the
new fill with the hope of finding valu
able stones.
No Morgan Art for Brooklyn.
New York.—Brooklyn will not ex
hibit any of the art treasures J. Pier
pont Morgan is shipping to this coun
try from Europe. This was made
known in a letter received by Borough
President Steers.
He had suggested to Mr. Morgan
that if the Metropolitan museum could
not display the art works adequately
they could be taken care of by the
Institution museum. Mr. Morgan re
plied from Rome:
“I have already arranged with the
Metropolitan museum to store my col
lection and I can not, therefore, take
up the same question with anyone
else so long as they continue to con
form to their part of the contract.” '
BATTLESHIP TEXAS STRIKING THE WATER
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This photograph shows the Texas, latest and largest of all battleships,
just as she struck the water at Newport News.
A posse was organized Immediately
and started in pursuit, but not even a
trace of the animal was seen. Yes
terday a laborer at the quarry says
he found the strange thing stretched
across the Mont-Agel road. The man
was on his way to work, and upon see
ing the animal he ran all the way
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mangolds or swedes by a farmer of
ordinary skill. In no case was sub
soiling carried out, a practice which
on the Continent is regarded as indis
pensable. It is therefore significant
to learn that the average yield of su
gar beets in Prussia did not exceed
six tons an acre, a figure only slightly
in excess of the yields obtained at the
Devon or Essex stations, -which have
been characterized as failures in view
of the better results obtained at the
other stations.”
The venture of course has still to
be regarded as experimental. It has
been proved beyond question that su
gar beets will grow in England as well
as on the continent. It may be taken
as beyond controversy that the crop
is generally suitable to English soli.
More than soil, however, has. to be
considered, and great field experi
ments on the scale now being at
tempted in East Anglia differ from
trials on small plots.
The difficulties In the way of this
new Industry are, however, well
worth facing. England pays annually
to the continent for beet sugar no
less a sum than $90,000,000. To grow
at home crops worth even a moderate
percentage of that amount would be
a huge boon for the English agricul
turist.
TWO GIRLS SEEK DRUG CURE
Beg to Be Sent to an Insane Asylum
to Kill Their Craving for
Morphine.
Oklahoma City, Okla. —Two young
girls, Lllliam Kersey, aged seventeen
years, and her fifteen-year-old sister.
Ollie Kersey, both, according to their
own statements, confirmed users of
morphine, voluntarily appeared before
Mrs. Sam Bartell, police matron, and
asked that they be sent to the state
asylum for insane at Norman, to be
cured of the drug habit. Both girls
physically were in a pitiable condition,,
Night Marriage Is Valid
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Secret Union of Farmer and House-
Maid in Ireland Held to Be
Binding in Law.
Dublin. —Justice Kenney recently
delivered judgment in the "midnight
marriage case” of Ussher and Ussher,
which came before him in December
last.
The plaintiff, William Arland Us
sher, a gentleman farmer of Eastwell,
Galway, sought to obtain a decree of
nullity of his marriage with bls wife,
Mrs. Mary Ussher. The petition was
dismissed.
He alleged that the marriage was
null and void owing to the fact that
only one witness was present and that
the marriage was not carried out ac
cording to the rites and ceremonies
of the Roman Catholic church or ac
cording to law.
The evidence showed that the mar
riage took place on April 24, 1910. Up
to that time the petitioner had been
a Protestant, while the respondent,
Mary Caulfield, was a maid in the em
ployment of his mother. After 10 p.
m. on April 24 the parish priest, the
Rev. Joseph Fahy, went secretly to
the house and was taken upstairs to
a bedroom.
There he received Mr. Ussher into
the Roman Catholic church, baptized
him, and then performed the marriage
ceremony between Mr. Ussher and
Mary Caulfield. The marriage was
kept a secret and a child was born In
January, 1911.
Justice Kenny held that the mar
riage was valid. His lordship said it
'■ was clear from the evidence of the
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back to the village. He swore he
. would never go to the quarry again.
La Turbie residents who do not be
; Heve In material manifestations of the
. supernatural say that the animal is a
i crocodile which has perhaps escaped
■ from a menagerie. And why not, they
declare, “Marseilles had its tiger!”
their faces red, and their eyes swollen.
In charge of a deputy sheriff the two
sisters left over the Santa Fe for Nor
man Wednesday evening.
Lilliam, who did most of the talking,
appeared to have a very good educa
tion. She told of how she had be
come addicted to the use of the drug,
saying that after she had been sick
with penumonia fever four years ago
she took morphine in small quantities
to relieve her suffering. As she re
covered from the illness, Instead of
quitting the use of morphine she used
more and more, and now claims to
take about 25 cents worth daily when
she can procure it. According to phys
icians that much of the drug daily
will kill two healthy men.
The younger girl has been addicted
t othe use of the opiate only a little
more than one year, but her system
already requires nearly as much of It
as does her sister’s. The two girls
were arrested by Patrolman Smith at
the stock yards. They claim to have
been employed in the sausage room of
one of the packing plants since they
left home.
TO DIG INTO MAN’S PAST
Yale University Expedition td Peru
Will Try to Find Bones of the
/ Ancients.
New Haven, Conn.—The next expe
dition to Peru, which will be made this
year under the direction of Prof. Hi
ram Bingham of Yale, will not be geo
graphical as in the case of the last ex
pedition, it was announced at Yale
recently, but will concentrate its work
largely in that region where the hu
man bones were found under a gla
cial deposit which indicated a mini
mum age of 2,000 years.
It is believed that with a combina
tion of geographical research and pros
pective new discoveries of human rel
ics much light will be shed upon the
age of man in South America. In con
nection with this investigation there
will also be research in architectural
remains of the Incas civilization and
of the periods which preceded it.
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Most Rev. Dr. Gilmartin that In the
eyes of the Church of Rome the mar
riage was absolutely ineffectual, and
that the petitioner and respondent
were living in a state of sin.
But he (Judge Kenny) held that
marriages between Roman Catholics
were governed by the common law of
the land. They W'ere in law uninflu
enced by the decree of the council of
Trent requiring two witnesses.
The intention of the parties to be
married was clear, despite petitioner’s
contention that it was a contract con
ditional on their being married sub
sequently in a manner that would be
approved by the church.
Aged 88 She Picks Cotton.
Athens, Ga. —An Athens cotton firm
has received from a patron at Com
merce, eighteen miles distant, a bale
of cotton that was picked out of the
field by a white woman eighty-eight
years old, Mrs. W. H. Gordon.
During the pleasant weather In the
early fall, Mrs. Gordon spent five days
in the fields near her home and picked
leisurely the 1,400 pounds of seed cot
-1 ton which were to make the pressed
1 bale of 453 pounds of lint cotton.
The cotton graded high, as the aged
। woman had taken pains to remove
. every particle of trash from the fleece
i lock by lock.
i Grocer Objects to Law.
i London. —Obeying the new half-hol-
iday law, a Bristol grocer closes Sat-
• urday afternoons with this notice: "By
; order of the most tyrannical govern
i ment since the days of CromwelL”
INDUSTMB,
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CALCIMINE BRUSH IS UNIQUE
Series of Small Brushes Bound To
gether Found Advantageous Where
Much Surface Required.
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For calciminlng a brush with a
great deal of surface is required and
the Ohio man who designed that
shown here seems to have been suc
cessful in getting what was needed.
A block with a series of longitudinal
furrows cut along Its under surface
has a handle at the top. Into each of
these furrows fits the top of a thin.
Novel Calcimine Brush.
flat brush and across each end of the
group of brushes thus assembled
there Is a separate flat brush. After
all these brushes have been fit into
the block a band is made fast around
the whole collection, thus forming one
huge square brush that will hold
about a pint of calcimine at a dip and
will coat a larger surface at one dip
than the ordinary brush, thus ex
pediting the work by a saving of both
time and labor.
SECRET OF POWERFUL FUEL
Carbon From Refuse Produces Greater
Calorific Value Than Coal—Cost is
Very Little.
“We are no longer Interested in or
affected even remotely by coal and
miners’ strikes,” said the proprietor of
one of the largest box and packing
case manufacturing plants in the
whole of London. “We get all the
power we want on the premises for
nothing.”
The interviewer glanced around in
bewilderment at the humming engines
developing 200-horsepower and the
scores of men working busily at the
whirring lathes, and speculated on the
source of all this power.
“The entire power used in these
works, which have an annual output of
tens of thousands of pounds,” said the
proprietor, “is derived from one thing,
and one only—the carbon from com
mon wet sawdust, if air be excepted!”
A patent gas plant has now been
placed on the English market capable
of producing not only from sawdust,
but from practically all combustible
refuse, a gas greater in power and ca
lorific value, and richer in hydro-car
bons, than the producer gas from coal.
And the cost of the new fuel for manu
facturers who possess quantities of
combustible waste refuse which they
would otherwise have to destroy is
practically nothing.
“I have recently installed one of
these plants,” said Mr. Clarke, of
Messrs. Clarke & Co., Groveroad, Bow,
who make hundreds of tons of waste
sawdust, wood chips, and shavings in
heir business, “and I can only say that
I am delighted with it. I estimate that
whereas my power was formerly de
rived from producer gas made from
coal costing me about $25 a week, it
will now cost me nothing at all.
DUMPER ON A MOTOR TRUCK
Especially Adapted for Handling of
Coal and May Be Turned in
Any Direction Desired.
One of the American motor-truck
concerns is demonstrating a revolving
self-dumping body designed especially
for the delivery of coal, says the Pop
ular Mechanics. The body operates
In Position for Unloading.
on a turntable so that the coal may
be shot in any direction desired.
When equipped with turn-table body,
the truck is brought to a' stop along
side the curbing, Instead of having to
be backed against the curb.
Manufacturing In New York.
In the manufacturing establishments
of New York City more people are
employed, it is estimated, than in all
the mills and factories of Massachu
setts. The aggregate production of
the city exceeds in value that of the
"States of Illinois, Ohio or New Jer
sey.
MAKING CITIES OF CONCRETE
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Dwellings For Workmen Also Made of
Cinders, Sand and Cement —Waste
Products Utilized.
A model concrete city for the wage
earner is being built at Nanticoke, Pa.,
• E. N. Lewis conceived the idea of
; building these houses of re-enforced
' concrete throughout, which would not
only furnish the operatives with model
sanitary homes, but would serve as
a demonstration of the possibilities of
building industrial communities by this
' new process of pouring in steel forms.
। While the idea of the poured house
( is similar to that of Edison, the metb
' od, the Scientific American says, is
entirely different from the plan on
' which he has been working. The prac-
J ticability of the system of building, in
; vented by a Washington architect. Mil
ton Dana Morrill, has been demon
' strated in the building of a cement
city, Virginia Highlands, near Wash
ington.
In the Pennsylvania town for work
men, now being completed, products
which have been heretofore regarded
as waste are being utilized. The build
ings are a mixture of coal cinders,
sand and cement. Rorty houses are
being poured, grouped In pairs, inclos
ing a park or a playground which is
300 by 600 feet. A railroad track is
laid around the whole group and a
mixing plant is mounted on a flat car
with an elevator for hoisting concrete
attached. Cars of sand, cement and
cinders pre attached to the mixing car
and spouts conduct the moisture into
the steel forms at the various parts of
the building. As a section of one
house is completed, the train is moved
to the next.
Still another cement city is well un
der way at High Lake, a suburb of
Chicago. Here, the entire concrete
work, including cellar walls and first
। story walls of one of the bungalows,
. some 30 by 40 feet, has been poured
■ in four days and the cost of construc
। tion of six inch walls, which is ample
for a one or two story building, has
■ been brought down to eight cents a
square foot, which is less than the cost
of constructing of frame houses. The
> houses are said to have proved dry and
• exceptionally warm during cold weath
er,
KEROSENE TORCH IS USEFUL
One of New Style Adapted Especially
for Plumbers and Gasfitters—
Blast Is Regulated.
A new kerosene torch of the type
used by plumbers and gasfltters has
been designed and burns kerosene, the
inventor claims, as satisfactorily as
gasoline is used in the old style torch.
The reservoir is, filled through the
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New Kerosene Torch.
handle, which is hollow, with a screw
cap. As the fumes rise they can find
' outlet through a series of perforations
in the cylinder at the top. There is
a plunger in this cylinder and by
pressing this forward these holes can
. be closed, leaving only the mouth of
. the cylinder open, and through this
the gas rushes in sufficient force to
form a hot blast. The size and force
of this blast can also be regulated in
this torch, it is said.
INDUSJRIAL
^CHANRg
; About eight million men are em-
J ployed in regular occupations in Great
Britain.
। The burning quality of coal was
known for a long time before it was
used as fuel.
The manufacture of cement has at
tained eighth rank for value among
the industries.
Aluminum pulleys for machinery are
said to lessen the friction and thus
extend the life of belts.
Coal is used to provide about 27,-
000,000 horse power in the United
States to 5,000,000 provided by water
power.
Germany has the world’s largest
loom, in which felt disks for paper
mills up to 233 feet in circumference
r can be woven.
An Ohio man has Invented a plumb
. er’s torch in which a soldering iron
- is utilized to operate the compressed
5 air pump as it is being heated to
economize fuel.
A Maine Inventor has combined a
gasoline traction engine and thrash
-3 ing machine on one set of wheels, the
3 same power being used for both pur
-1 poses. •
i. A French engineer has Invented a
f sand box for locomotives in which a
e ' stream of water is used to carry the
.. i sand to the rails with but little
| waste.
TO MAKE SURE.
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Miss Hascoigne — Er-before an
nouncing our engagement, count, I-er
I think perhaps it would be more sat
isfactory if you had your-er-tltle guar
anteed.
The Worm’s Way.
“The Hon. Stephen Coleridge, the
English anti-vlvlsectlonlst,” said an
anti-vivlsectionlst of Philadelphia, “Is
delighted with the recent English vivi
section report, which promises to
abolish even the use of live bait in
fishing.
“Mr. Coleridge once argued here in
Philadelphia about the cruelty of fish
ing with worms.
“ ‘Oh,’ his opponent said, ‘the mere
fact that a worm writhes and wriggles
when impaled on a hook Is no proof
that it is actually suffering pain.’
“‘No, oh, no!’ said Mr. Coleridge,
sarcastically. ‘Beyond doubt that is
just the worm’s way of laughing at
being tickled.’ ’’
Still Hoping.
“Life is a series of disappoint
ments.”
“Yes. I know’ a man who has been
hoping nearly all his life that he would
some day come into possession rtf a
coin worth more than its face value.”
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Slightly Puzzled.
“Say, pa?”
“What Is it?”
“Which union does a jack of all
trades belong to?”
A Hint.
Knicker —Did you explain baseball
to your girl?
Bocker —Yes; she said she under
stood all about diamonds.
Too Favorable a Description.
“That man is a pinhead.”
“You flatter him. A pinhead knows
just how far to go.”
The Worst of It.
“Do you keep a cook, Mrs. Suburb?”
“Madam, I not only keep the cook,
but also her entire family.”
She Wasn’t.
"Come into the garden, Maud.”
“What do you think I am —a far
mer?”
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