Show the city of nome alaska has bas a chemical department in its public schools designed to teah teach tle hie pupils to recognize the various ores and minerals and even to make tests there is a good hint to all the mining communities in the lead thus taken by the tar far north the authorities or of arizona sprinkled the paved streets of 0 their city just after christmas with a thousand gallons of contraband liquor abich had bad been seized there heie they are justifiably proud of their novel method of di disposing of the various beverages and it is said oaid that never before in a mining community has the water wagon been as a a popular as it was on that occasion casion cc occasion casion but did you ever see an advertising stunt that could beat it 0 A great railroad bridge across tiie missouri river Ine oe tween omaha and council bluffs weighing pounds was removed and replaced by a new structure weighing hing pounds on december the entire operation being accomplished Plis lied in fifteen minutes trains were crossing the new bridge an hour afterward this was at almost the exact spot where pioneers first crossed the river on flatboats flat boats within the memory of men still living the incident is certainly a good example of the speed of this modern age 0 E C drew has been serving a six year sentence in the federal prison at atlanta convicted of using the mails to defraud he sold id stock in a company which proposed to drill for oil near cordova louisiana recently a well was opened on the ground a good flow of oil notwithstanding the fact that experts had testified at the trial that there could be none there it is merely a little story of the chances of life but what is the answer Is mr drew not entitled to some compensation for the ruining of his life by government experts who knew no more about the matter than the man in the moon |