Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1920 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

The state opera and the state theater in Vienna, formerly subsidized by the crown and now by the republic, show a deficit of about 26,000,000 crowns for the year. As a result prices are to be Increased heavily.- In the old days the best seats were 7 crowns, while now they are 75. Boxes formerly cost 80 crowns, as against a minimum of 500 now. Gallery seats have risen correspondingly, and now sell at 18 crowns.

A weapon newly adopted by the police of New York City is a pocket machine gun that weighs only seven pounds. Its barrel is less than a foot long, so that the deadly instrument may be concealed on the person. It is described as a sort of cross between a pistol and rifle, is of 45-caliber and fires automatically as long as the trigger is held back and the cartridges in the magazine last. This remarkable gun is extremely simple in construction, having only fifteen parts, and can be taken to pieces or put together without any tools.

To consider only a few of the more valuable ships now lying at the bottom of the ocean one might turn to the Irish sea first of all, says the Chicago Journal. Off the north coast there are the California, Laurentic, Tuscania and Audacious, while to the south there are the Lusitania, Arabic, Folio, Hesperian and Anglo-Columbia. In the Bristol channel He'the steamers Falaba, Glenart Castle, Armeran and Mantola, and off Plymouth are the Afric, La Negra and Formidable. At the entrance of the English channel there are many important wrecks Including the Laconia, Ohio, Kansas and Kleber. There are st’Hl- more valuable hulls and cargoes in the southern waters of the North sea, including the three battleships Aboukir, Kressy and Hogue, off Yarmouth.