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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Taking Soft Ball to Japan Name Olga Has Two Meanings The name Olga has two origins, gives it a different ongitude 159 deg. W., while Pal- each of which Teutonic lonThe in 6 N. origin carand is meaning. island deg. myra and the the ries W. are Both 162 holy" .meaning tiny deg. gitude Either gives :slands in the Pacific, with an area Slavonic gracious. of about 1 square miles each. an Olga something to live up to, The States- says Florence A. Cowles in the uninhabited. is 5almyra mans Yearbook lists them among Cleveland Plain Dealer. St.ofOlga, Igor British possessions ; Whitakers Al- Tenth century, was the wife and after his death ruled Russia manac (British) acknowledges them as American. They are coral atolls, i!or 20 years as regent for her son. of some value for coconuts and She was baptized at 75 but was unguano, but more important in con- successful in her efforts to introduce Queen nection with transpacific air routes. Christianity into Russia. Olga of Greece, grandmother of Cing George, died in exile in Uses for Tung Oil Chinese tung oil has the highest taly during the days of the Greek specific gravity of all known fatty republic. oils, with the exception of castor Origin of Word Sybarite oil. Its characteristic quality is the A to a sets it sybarite is a readiness with which lard jelly on being heated for a person; a lover of ease and comtime. Besides being used for paints fort. The inhabitants of Sybaris, in and varnishes, it is also used for South Italy, were proverbial for dyes and as a lubricant for motors. their luxurious living and A tale is told by Seneca of g It is used in China for a Sybarite who complained that he paper. could not rest comfortably at night, and being asked why, replied that Columbus Named Salvador found a roseleaf doubled under he lyhen Columbus made his first him. in World in New 1492, the landing he named the West Indian island Size of Columbus Ships on which he landed San Salvador, Of the ships in which Columbus but it is now generally identified with the British island of Watling, discovered the Americas, the Santa and is no longer known by the name Mafia was the largest. The length which Columbus gave it. The cor- on deck was 86 feet 3 inches, the tonrect name of the republic is El nage 252; the Pinta had a length on deck of 82 feet 8 inches, the tonSalvador, or simply Salvador. nage 161, while the Nina had a length on deck of 79 feet and tonnage 171. Tacoma, Mispronunciation Tacoma is a mispronunciation of Tonnage figures are in terms of the common Puget Sound Indian modern weight. word for snowy mountain Pins in Wishing Well according to an authority. Wishing wells are common in It is the name applied to Mount Rainier, Mount Baker at Everett, many parts of Britain, the usual cusWash.; Mount Hood and Mount Mc- tom being to drop a pin into the Laughlin. Early settlers mistook it water while you make your wish. to be a specific name for Mount The most famous one is at Upwey, in Dorset, though there is no legend Rainier. regarding its origin. Here you must walk three times round the well beVisitors to Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika in Africa was fore dropping your pin. first visited in 1858 by Burton and Eat Clay in India Speke, who reached Ujiji, which was In certain parts of India clay eatthe spot where in 1871 Doctor Livingis common, ing very partly to give stone was found by Stanley. The flavor to food, and partly to prosouthern half of the lake was first inside. In duce a full circumnavigated by Lt. V. L. Cam- California the feeling Porno Indians mix eron in 1874, and the whole lake by clay with acorn meal and the peasStanley in .1876. ants of Sardinia mix earth with their - Vermont Family Dairy Has Output 700-Qua- rt NEWPORT, VT. Cows owned by one family supply the daily milk for some 350 families in Boston, 250 miles away from its Newport farm on the Canadian boundary. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rondeau have had 18 children. Of the 12 now living, 11 rise before sunup to milk the farms herd of 50 cows to send 700 quarts of milk daily to Boston. 300-ac- re Air Conditioning Found As Check to Pneumonia self-indulge- nt BOSTON. Air conditioning, Dr. Albert G. Young, medical director of the Corey Hill hospital, contends Some members of the squad of 31 girls from all parts of the United States who sailed for Japan where they will introduce the game of soft ball. Left to right are Dorothy Day, manager, of New York; Genevieve Best of Indianapolis, Masuko Fujioka of Los Angeles, and Muriel Cox of New Orleans, wearing the uniform with its crossed flags. International Highway to Alaska At Standstill Because of Canada 8 Ottawa. Seems Reluctant to Set Aside Fund of $12,000,000. SEATTLE. Financial problems and Canadas apparent lack of interest in the International highway to Alaska remain as outstanding barriers between America and its .last frontier. ' Despite these two obstacles, proponents of the most progressive project of a century are confident actual construction on the remain stretch between Seating 1,183-mil-e tle and Fairbanks will be started in 1939. ( With the dominions position made precarious in view of Great Britains stand in the international situation, government officials at Ottawa are reluctant to appropriate $12,000,000 as Canadas share of the British Columbia-Yuko- n territory section of the graveled artery. Cost Small to United States. Estimates show that the remaining 183 miles of new road to be built by the United States would cost less Kamloops, the highway would split,-onartery running to Vancouver and Seattle, and the other through Spokane and the Inland Empire. The route would extend east of the coastal mountain range, where there is considerable sunshine the year around and a minimum amount of rainfall and fog. Alaska now has less than 1,600 miles of road. Championing construction, proponents contend the highway would connect with, or intersect, all existing and contemplated transcontinental highways in western Canada. It would also interlace with Americas vast highway system. Actuality of such a highway is also seen as the initial step in the building of a vast highway to extend from Alaska to South America, thus further promoting international good will and trade relations, Pacific-Internation- commission apRoosevelt. President by pointed n The commission, headed by Rep. Warren G. Magnuson, has been active in studying proposed routes, figuring costs, and obtaining endorsement by veterans organizations, chambers of commerce, service and automobile clubs in the Unit-- , ,ed States and Canada. At a recent conference between the American commissioners and Premier T. D. Pattullo of British Columbia, Pattullo assured Magnuson he would recommend to dominion officials that a survey of feasible routes through the province be made five-ma- n five-ma- , ' as soon as possible. ' ' ' Ta-ko-b- ve WOMAN COMMANDER food. Cultivation of Rice in India The cultivation of rice in India Clove Tree an Evergreen was subsequent to that of China. In The clove tree is an evergreen, the Twenty-eight- h century B. C., 20 to 40 feet high, belonging to the had the excluShen Nung Emperor family. It bears large oval sive right of planting one special myrtle leaves and clusters of crimson flowkind of rice, and four other kinds ers. The unexpanded flower buds, were planted by princes of his fam- when dried, form the cloves of comily. merce. a PRIZE BUNNY Being Absolutely Frank There is danger in a man priding AmerCommander of a himself on being absolutely frank, ican Legion post, not an auxiliary, said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. is Mrs. Pearl Vetter of Miami, Fla. He gets so in the habit of surprisThe commander of the only ing people that if he runs out of facts he is tempted to make them post in Florida served as a in the World war. full-fledg- ed all-wom- an roadway has also been held up by Canadas delay in naming a commission to work in harmony with Americas water-proofin- al than $2,000,000. Progress toward realization of the i can apparently eliminate 99 per cent of the danger from pneumonia which frequently follows surgical operations. Experiments showed, he said, that with air conditioning only one of 743 operations performed at the hospital during the last year had been followed by pneumonia, and recovery in this case was rapid.. Dr. Young explained that strict control of moisture in the air which keeps humidity low, except during the operation, is apparently responsible for at least half of the improved resistance against the disease. Temperature also was rigidly controlled at about 75 degrees. pneumonia usually follows 6 to 7 per cent of all operations, physicians say, and constitutes a major risk for which no satisfactory preventive has heretofore been found. Post-operati- Tiny Islands in the Pacific Jarvis island is on the equator in yeo-manet- te Christmas on January 5 Defense Outlay $8.60 for Christmas comes to the residents Each New Zealand Person of Rodanthe, on North Carolinas WELLINGTON. New Zealand is Hatteras island, on January 5. Inhabitants observe the holiday on doing its bit toward empire defense. Twelfth the old calDefense expenditure this year wil endar. Night, following be $13,650,000, or $8.60 per capita an increase oVer last year of $27.29 Largest. Smallest Counties per cent., The largest and smallest counties D class cruisers have been re- in the United States are San Berplaced by cruisers of the Leander nardino county, Calif., with 20,175 class, and the essential maintenance square miles, and New York county services are being provided. (Manhattan borough), N. Y., with Cadets are to be sent to Englanc 22 square miles, respectively. for training for commissions in the Cosmetics Heavily Taxed navy, and there is a scheme for seWhen women buy powder, accordlected ratings to be sent home for Jerry Clark poses with Earl of special training in the British fleet. ing to the National Consumers Tax Boywood, imported angora rabbit Announcing these measures, F. commission, they are paying part o: named grand champion in rabbit Jones, defense minister, added tha the hidden tax bill on cosmetics o:! show at Los Angeles county fair. 30 new bombing planes had been $8,115,000. The ' fluffy angora defeated ' 3,000 ordered from England and are to be flown out. City Named China competing rabbits as champioi. The city of Lachine near Montrea was mockingly namqd China by its founder La Salle, ovhose efforts Alaska to discover the Northwest passage ' To Follow Rivers. or Latest plans call for a with a correspondingly highway, ' wider roadbed to run through river routes from Fairbanks along the s Tanana river to Dawson, theqce to Whitehorse, Yukon territory, Atlin, Hazelton and Prince George. At 20 22-fo- ot Odd Seasons Trick Toad Prophet After Five Years John Browns Sons Aided Him John Brown, the abolitionist, was twice married and was the father of 20 children, eight of whom died in early childhood. His sons aided him in all of his undertakings, two of them being killed at Harpers Ferry. Early White Settlement Residents claim a white settlement was made at New Smyrna Beach, Fla., in 1565, nine months before St. Augustine, which is generally regarded the oldest city in the United States. July Once Fifth Month July, now the seventh month of the year, was the fifth month during the Roman empire. The month was named in honor of Julius Caesar, who was born in it. Highest Known Peak in World Himalaya is a range of mountains between India and Tibet. Its loftiest peak is Mt. Everest, 29,002 feet, the highest known peak in the world. ; Travel From for Operation Warehouse SUPERIOR, WIS. employees here are looking for a , new prophet of balmy days since Oscar the hop toad vanished after having called the turn wrong twice this year. Ollie Lundgren, Oscars counsellor since 1933, said he feared the of having been twice mistaken was tod much. Oscar was wont to disappear each fall with the first cold blast off Lake Superior. When he returned in spring it was a sign summer had come. In 1933 he began his remarkable run of predictions. When five-yeOscar appeared that year, and in 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937, he hit the nail squarely on the head warm N weather remained. But this year a cold spell followed Vadra Janice Fleek, daughter of Mrs. Elroy Fleek of his first appearance, and Oscar vana with was cleft born Juneau, Alaska, it when palate and other abnormal throat ished, only to return later disorders. Mrs. Fleek is taking the baby to the Shriners hospital for come. had summer Again appeared ' cold weather returned, and Oscar crippled children at Portland, Ore., where an emergency operation will vanished, apparently never to re-- ( be performed to enable the child to eat solid food again. Photograph shows the mother and infant on their arrival in Seattle from Alaska. turn. Aquila an Imaginary Place Aquila is an imaginary place. In the novel, "Action at Aquila, it is supposed to be a few miles south of Luray, Va., and west of the Blue Ridge along the Shenandoah river. ar ld -- 75 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPRITS. WIUCEN FAMILY, INC., ALADDIN, SCHENLEY P. SO proof 0 THE PA. |