The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 December 1928 — Page 6

- • Mt. Etna’s Lava Engulfing a Doomed Village 1/ rftft R ■ f Sf fta r ’ : >9| I / wMßferEßt •- Bl S I. ' ‘b ! I --81/ Bl I ■ s I 9(ft<® h Flafiwtc ISt 1 . HSrl K i. •' n ft H l r ® if *—*~'W ■ - ' ■ Boiling lava from Mt. Etna pouring through a Sicilian village, crushing and burying the houses. Mascali and other towns were completely destroyed. / Glasgow Students Battle With Rotten Eggs fiIORW ft_> ’i JftS jKi. *’* t- s; rSaft o&Ah ' ~uhmhi .ju ’ v ftll* 1 31 WWA scene during the rectorial battle at Glasgow university, Scotland, during which 60.000 rotten eggs and tons of i decayed fish and fruit were thrown. Stanley Baldwin was chosen as the new lord rector. .

Scene in Indian Desert Drama * Wl ' 1 «fc-XX z*. '»»J 8 I' »“J V /WL &*W? g 1 • $ ** JW AP WkW w O*«O *w«K * r far <HI ' > IB : IIW >Tk* ..x-'*'\x> - £ $^K• ”'. «| WWWk Jit. x '- > il i. ga. j| <« kF"**/ *••*• Mk \ BrW. . WSLj re ’< wSW i * *?*w|nL?r jri ’OmMBw llh wHWMI f /* -fifeiS*wr ■■ : jfoKX *Wy* fwwtfffm Here is one of the scenes in “Tahquitz,” classic Indian desert drama, given its annual presentation at Palm Springs in the Coachella desert near Los Angeles. Tenoc, the hero (with knife), is saving the princess. Suena, from the clutches of the evil spirit, Tahquitz. Spoor Trophy for College Teams ♦ |g| " : If /'f sli l' ; ’/< JFW® '■’ / f ..— This is the beautiful Spoor trophy for which stock judging teams from more than twenty colleges will compete in the International Live Stock exposition which opens in Chicago on December 1. qflnterest to everybody

Brazil has a greater area than the United States. There is one automobile to every sixty-four persons in the world. Os the few remaining beaver colonies in Europe, the greatest are in Norway. Doctors in medieval London required a patient to pay in advance, and the fee was retained if the patient was cured.

In 1921, Ontario employed 17,000 certified teachers. The grape harvest in the United States this year is expected to break production records. In the busy season, sometimes more than half New Jersey’s produce supply moves in trucks. The nyala, one of the biggest and handsomest African antelopes, was discovered by white men in 1910.

SCHALK AIDS McGRAW , L K >3 ■ ir'Ww JI ■U J| HB \ Jon Mri - « Ray Schaik, former White Sox catcher and manager, has accepted terms to serve as assistant manager 3 and coach of the New York Giants. ! Schaik will coach the young pitchers and act as general handy man to McGraw. He will have charge of the team when McGraw is absent. HE SAVED 22 . .igaL ’BS . His name is Licorice —and he is one of the outstanding heroes of the Vestris disaster. Lionel Licorice — his full name—was in command of lifeboat No. 14 when the Vestris sank, and took cluarge of the lifeboatyontaining 22 persons. Afterlife Amer ican Shipper rescued the boat?) the 22 people all joined in to praise/the lad and said they owed their livesxto nim. Italian Art. The earliest period of Italian art Is called the Gothic (about 1250-14(Mt); ) that from 1400-1500 Early Renaissance; that from 1500 to 1000 the Hight I Renaissance; after that the Decadence. Color and Sound. It Is said that at least 2 per cent of human beings associate a partlcu-' I lar color with- each sound they hear > and sometimes this extends to the names of days of the week.

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I NEARBY AND j* J YONDER | Maxey* || j y*?*"*& y “The Queen Fountain of the World” A PUBLIC-SPIRITED Chicago worn- i an—patron of the arts —anxious to erect a permanent memorial to her noble brother, decided upon a fountain, said to have cost about $700,000. which she presented to ana the city maintains. It adorns a central space in Chicago’s great lake front— Grant park— is “A thing of beauty” and should prove “A joy forever.” Rising from a mammoth, .Irregularlyshaped poo) set down in a beautifullylandscaped space, this monstrous and gorgeous, carved and tinted fountain ' greets the visitor. Its great basins, i three in number, rising one above the other, are 100. GO and 24 feet in diameter respectively. A great volume of water gushing a cluster of I central jets, rises many feet, falling back into and over the sides of the ' two upper basins to be caught In the ; lower basin. Many lesser jets are ! distributed about the formation. Al! ; told, many thousands of gallons of water are used per minute. Obviously, , the effect produced is dream-like. Four ; pairs of massive sea lions, cast in ; bronze and belching forth streams of water as they appear to be swimming about in the lower basin, ostensibly guarding the fountain, complete this lovely scene. Beautiful as it is ny day, however, this fountain, to be fully appreciated, should be seen at play after nightfall, brilliantly illuminated in various and , changing colors—a sight that is practically beyond power of words to fit- j : tingly describe. In beauty as well as in splendor ' this magiiticent fountain is said to ■ surpass all other fountains and is. therefore. “The Queen Fountain of the World.” • • • Uncle Sam’s Printery THE government printing office In Washington is the greatest print- : ing establishment in the world. In round numbers—lß(l presses. 375 typecomposing and 325 binding machines. ; 4.KM) employees, occupies a building I containing 17 acres of floor space. 30 i motor trucks are kept busy hanuling ' raw materials and finished product, a belt conveyor with a capacity of 360 sacks an hour dumps its mail in the post office —cost to operate, about SI2.(HH),(Mio annually. Congress is Its largest customer — The Congressional Record, averaging 80 pages, of which some 35.(MM1 copies are printed every day when congress is in session, is perhaps its biggest job. The Department of Agriculture, also a big customer, had 27.055 223 coi»ies of various farm bulletins and publications run off during one recent year, while among the lobs for the Post Office department during the same period were 1.5!»G,8G2.550 postal cards and 720.(HH).(H)0 money-order forms. Materials and supplies required for a year’s operation include 4(>.<mm>.ihh> pounds of paper. 12.000.000 yard® ot wire. IIS.(HM) pounds of ink. 4.o«o printing press rollers and 60.000 pounds of glue. 3.000.000 containers for postal cards, 2(H).(XHI yards of binding cloth, 22.000.000 square inches of ! stamping materials. 28.<HM>.(MH) yards of sewing thread. tO.(XX) square feet l of leather and 4.600 tons of type metai. Its employees own and direct a cafeteria which seats 1.000 persons at a time, have an emergency hospital, recreation rooms, shower baths, bowling alleys and day and night orchestras which give concerts during lunch- ; eon periods. . . . A Master Time Teller WHEN It comes to telling time accurately and in a wholesale manner, that mammoth time teller located high up In the Metropolitan tower In Madison square. New York, probably occupies first place in the ranks of clockdom in America. This clock is “up in the air.” Its | faces, of which there are four, are i almost 300 feet above the street. Obviously, they look out over a large portion of the metropolis and the surrounding communities—it having been . said that “within range are visible the homes of over one-sixteentb of the ?ntire population of the United States”—and down upon the passing multitudes. Each of its faces are feet in diameter The figures on them are 4 feet high. Each of its Iron- i frame, copper-covered minute hands is 17 feet long, weighs I,(XM) pounds . and moves on roller bearings; This clock does not keep time. It merely tells time. The time is kept ' by another clock in the same building, ! transmitted to it by electrical impulses and this clock, simply though proudly, passes the time along to the public. On the quarter hours the other clock puts into operation electrical impulses which cause Huge hammers to strike large bells which announce the time in the notes of the historic Cambridge chimes. The four bells of the chime weigh 13,500 pounds. As night fall approaches, at any time for which the mechanism is set, the time-keeping clock closes a switch and the faces of the time-telling clock become brilliantly illuminated. ! t©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Combating Avoirdupois “To bant,” the humorous name for | dieting with the purpose of losing weight, originated in the making of a ’ verb from the name “Banting.” Banting was the advocate of such a system, which bears his name. Variation in Weights In the United States a hundredweight is 100 pounds. In England, however, a hundredweight Is 112 pounds. The metric hundredweight Is 110.23 pounds.

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VERY ANCIENT I J First Egg —What an old egg that is. So-•' « ’ —Yes. he’s so old I sus-

■ — - peet he’s the one Columbus stood on end! Hats for Heads They were dancing gracefully around the ballroom when suddenly she said to her partner: “Oh, George, my slipper is loose. I think it’s coming off.” “Well, I hope you don’t lose your head.” “It’s not my head I’m worrying about, George; it’s my slipper.”

T His Avocation Mrs. Nextdoor—Yes, I’ve met your oldest son. He’s a dear fellow—a thorough optimist. Mrs. Multikids—Not him. It’s the man in the flat above that you heard. My kid’s teamin’ to be a saxophonist. And How! Baxter—When you went to France on your vacation, were you personally conducted? Brewster—Yes, my wife was with me.