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OP SEWARD. ALASKA
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BICYCLE AVERAGE BELGIUM
NEARLY EQUALS AUTO
MARK SET IN THE STATES
BRUSSELS, Feb. 26—Belgium, for
its size and population, can boast of
more bicycles than any other country
in the world. One out of every nine
men, women and children in Belgium,
owns a wheel, the official figures be
ing 792,384, out of a population of a
little over 7,000,000.
Bicycle racing is the national sport
of the little kingdom, and fifty-four
velodromes are holding weekly and bi
weekly meets.
Belgian riders are noted tor their
endurance and they devote most of
their efforts to road racing over long
distances.
Up to 1923 and 1924, when Henri
Pelissier of France and Ottavia Bot
techia of Italy won the four thousand
miles “Tour de France,” the race had
been regularly carried off by Belgians.
Local riders all look forward to the
winning of a six day race in America
as the crowning success of their car
eers.
Carl Huddle, 75, and Mrs. Eliza
beth Wagner, 70, sweethearts fifty
years ago, were recently married in
St. Louis. Each has ten children
and all twenty attended the wedding.
Henry Faison, declaring a negro
cook induced him to marry her while
he was drunk, asked a Washington
court to grant an annulment.
SHEFFIELD WORKS WILL USE
WIRELESS TO MELT METAL
SHEFFIELD, Eng., Feb. 26.—Wire
less is to be introduced into the steel
industry of Sheffield for the purpose
of melting metals, announcement to
this effect being made by Dr. C. H.
Desch, dean of the faculty of metal
urgy at the University of Sheffield.
Wireless valves can be used to melt
masses of steel into white hot liquid
and within a few months there would
be furnaces here worked by these
valves.
“Furnaces have actually been built
in which the motive power for melting
the metal is supplied by large ther
mionic valves,” Dr. Desch announc
ed, “and these are of special use in
the manufacture of certain nickle al
loys.”
Further, it was explained that a
200-volt direct current is passed into
the valves, which converts it into
alternating current of extremely high
frequency—much higher, in fact, than
can be obtained from a mechanical
generator of alternating current. This
current is passed through the metal,
which may be said to melt itself.
“The melting metal,” said Dr.
Desch, “is often far hotter than the
crucible in which it is being heated.
A piece of Swedish iron was melted
in this way before the crucible in
which it was contained was thoro
ughly warm.”
A blind itinerant musician was ar
rested at Selma, Ala., for bootlegging
liquor carried in his hand organ.
Mrs. Della Powne and six children
are traveling from St. Louis to Mia
mi, Fla., in an 8 by 18 foot house
on wheels, drawn by horses.
Wm. Abecafis, cook on the battle
ship Mississippi, was left a fortune
worth $350,000 by an uncle in South
America.
Establishment of better mail ser
vice in Alaska by airplane may re
sult in consequence of the diphtheria
epidemic at Nome.
1 Seven girls arrived from Scotland
. on one steamer to meet their fiances
j and were all married in New York
immediately after landing.
Otto Fuler, 15, left his home at Fair
view, Okla., because the rest of the j
family were cross-word fiends and
he had to do all the chores.
Checking up the 4,043 millionaires
in the United States, President Rus
sell Conwell of Temple University de
clares that 3,780 began life poor.
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London’s Famed Abbey
Filled with Plenty Junk
(By Associated press)
LONDON, Feb. 25.—The proposal
to overhaul Westminister Abbey so
that more of its treasures and beau
ties may be revealed, has led C. W.
R. Nevison, an English artist, to re
mark that the Abbey is more like a
departmental store than a church.
The opinion that some of the most
beautiful things in the Abbey cannot
be seen because of the overcrowded
memorial statuary is shared by many
lovers of the historic building, in
cluding Canon Westlake, the Abbey
historian.
“The proper course is to get rid of
some of the ecclesiastical junk at
present in the Abbey,” Mr. Nevison
told the Westminister Gazette. “I
thing it could be cleaned out without
offending anybody’s susceptibilities.
Ultimately many beautiful things
could be discovered which cannot now
be seen.”
PARENTS URGED TO GUARD
PLASTIC MINDS OF YOUTH
LONDON, Feb. 26—In every child
there is the spark of genius which is
too often quenched, Sir John A. Cock
burn told the annual conference of
educational associations at University
College here recently. “But if this
spark is allowed to become a flame
it is w’onderful what a child can do in
later life.”
“That child’s mind,” said Sir John,
“is clear of the mists of sectarianism,
party and prejudice. Above all things
the parent must avoid making finger
marks upon the delicate tissue of the
young brain. The whole mechanism
of the child’s mind might easily be
spoiled before it ever comes into the
hands of the teachers.”
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BAKING PIE IN U. S. BAFFLES
GERMAN DOMESTIC EXPERT
POTSDAM, Feb. 26— Baking an
American pie was the stiffest propo
sition put up to Louise Wnyeken, of
this city, formerly teacher at the
Domestic Science and Trade School
of Nienburg, when she went to the
U. S. recently to study American
home life as a cook. In a series of
articles contributed to the Berliner
Tageblatt, she narrates her personal
experiences. The apple pie episode
came during her second week in the
States.
“With diabolic cunning,” she said, j
“the lady I worked for singled out j
a pie for me, greenhorn that I was,
to bake. This American national
dish was a mystery which I dared
not attempt to solve, as I had been
in the counti’y for less than two
weeks. I therefore made a tip-top
German apflekuchen, which looked
almost like a pie and certainly tasted
better to me. Result: The others
disdained it.”
Grapefruit was another dish that
stumped Miss Wyneken. “The first
course,” she observes, “was grape
fruit. Every American child, or
course, knows how to prepare it, dj:
I didn’t.”
On the whole Miss Wyneken found
that American servants have beitei
quarters than German, even the lux
ury of a private bath, and that they
are treated politely, but that, never
theless, “being a cook in America
is no more fun than being one in
Germany.”
CANON TAKES FLING AT CHURCH
YORK, Feb. 25.—A great deal of
church and chapel music is “beneath
contempt and even immortal,” and
appeals “to all that is low,” Canon
Bell, precentor of York Minister, de
clared in an address on religion and
music.
“I believe God,” he added, “does not
want people to be so conceited as to
think that they can sing when they
cannot. I believe we can play golf
or cricket to the glory of God, but I
do not believe it is any good trying to
sing a song when we cannot sing at
all.”
Basketball tonight at A. B. Hall.