Show seattle scottie wash has I 1 as A kiy ej y rigid dry laws A new beverage which thou gh claimed to be bonon non alcoholic smells and tastes like beer recently becane boito popular but the authorities have now forbidden its sale they bavo bave also warned news dealers that they must sell no papers containing in liquor advertisements as such misdemeanors will be fully prosecuted at the end of 1915 great britain had bad a national debt of france and germany 7 besides each has bocal local debts amounting to about three millions the interest on these debts will consume enormous sums the only persons alc who will ever bra be bene fitted will be the bondholders bond holders the rich will bo be made richer and the poor still poorer we in th s co country antry ought to be thanking our bur lusky stars that we are not confronted with the conditions that now oata obtain inand and will obtain later across the atlantic when dr N W daniel of thi the elkins W va hospital was call aeao ed to the mountain home of mrs thurman coberly recently he h found her unconscious and ap parent patently ly dying of diphtheria havi having ng brought no surgical in st with him and realizing rea lizine that death would come quickly without prompt relief he be used his pocket knife to make a incision in the womans comans windpipe then with tin teaspoons bent double as retractors he inserted a piece of rubber tube with these crude he saved her life respiration was restored and within a few hours the patient atif regained I 1 vincent gecan a streetcar street car track foreman in chicanot Chi cagot aland ing near the intersection of a st she abet etcar car line and a railroad saw a Dasse passenger train rapidly approaching the crossing realizing that it must inevitably crash into a street car about to cross the tracks he jumped on the rear platform of the car and shouted a warning to the passengers who crowded to the front end all but one escaped death when the engine crashed into the rear end of the car killing gecan instantly another employee emp loyes of the railway company was killed and seven passengers were hurt when the car overturned surgeons at a chicago hospital recently employed a method of blood transfusion for the of a man overcome by gas and n d the operation is regarded as entirely successful the patient was unconscious and nd weak when the ifie operation wils was performed and from all indications would have died in an hour surgeons say there is now no doubt of his recovery blood transfusion has been bce used aused in such cases in europe but this is said to be the farst operation of the kind in america it has been found that by feeding silkworms partly on mulberry leaves and partly on osage leaves being beina extremely careful with the allowances of the two foods they can be made to pro duce red and blue silk colored thread has been obtained by feed aa ng the worms gormson on dyed leaves but t hia method is not practical on a ic commercial om mercial aca scale le the natural color of raw silk is yellow or white the other day john franklin of kansas city kans was sen fenced to servo days a 9 breaking rocks for having killed his horse with a shaft tho the court ordered that on the days when franklin was not breaking rocks he should be allowed but one meal copper in this country is ver very y high and there is every prospect that it will go higher at present france russia and japan are placing large orders with us at 24 to 27 cents per pound not since 1907 when it reached 25 23 cents has haa copper been so high and then the price stayed up for only a short period harry schwartz of new 22 years year sold old hit upon a unique scheme to get himself a job he wrote out on a staff a huge sit bation wanted ad and carried carri ed it about the streets for hours hour s crowds of curious people collect ed and followed him for blocks but he finally got what he was looking for it is human nature to be attracted by originality and when properly used it is often a means of bringing success friction matches are a combar actively madern invention they were first made by john walker in england in 1827 but were rather crude affairs he improved them somewhat in 1833 by using phosphorus but the first really practical friction fript ion match was made in a the united states in 1836 by L C allin of springfield mass before this time a clumsy form of match was imported frow row france which had to bo dipped into a bottle of sulphuric add acid before it was llah lighted ted this took a areat deal of time and trouble and allin seeing the abo necess necessity ilY for friction matches sot set about to make them and succeed ed he neglected elected ne to patent them however and on finally applying for a patent found that a man named alonzo phillips who was a peddler had bad discovered through a third person the secret of making the matches and had bad already obtained a pate patent fit allin though the real inventor was forced to become a mere manufacturer abder an another I 1 mans patent |