Gathering Russian Grain to Dump on Markets
Scenes and Persons in 'die Current News
1 ? Thomas A. Edison untying the ribbon across the new $f>u0,000 bridge ovei the Caloosuhatchie river ut Fori
aiyers. Fla., named for him, on his eighty-fourth birthday. 2 ? Building of the Smithsonian institution in Washington
which will be razed to make way for a new street. ? Governor Kmmerson of Illinois, the Ja'panese ambassador
and Maj. G. L. Swift, representing the President, at the rededicntlon of Lincoln's tomb in Springfield. 111.
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Glviug an idea of how Kussia is engaged in gathering nil lite wheat raised throughout the vast domain in ortlei
to dump it on the world's markets at a iow price, this photograph of one of the stations in Asiatic Uus??S shows
peasants bringing in their grain.
Scrapping the World's Shortest Railroad
Wlrnl was sold to be Hie shortest railroad tn the world, running (ur one and one-hull miles between the dorks an.i
warehouses on Govern, .rs Island, has been condemned by .he United Slates arm, an, I torn up. limit daring the ?ar
to transport stores and machinery on the sland. the railway, with the official name. Governors Island ra.l.oad,
gradually decreased in usefulness.
Here Is the airplane ot a new type, designed by Albert A. Marrill and
successfully tested at the Glenn Curtiss airport on Long Island. Apparently
if "innof dive stall or spin, and the pilot. cutting off the power se\ernl
hundred feet in the air and taking his hands from the controls, landed it
gent'y and slowly.
This Seems to Make Flying Quite Safe
WORTH RECORDING
America has more than 5,000 place
nanus of French origin.
American students who go abroad
to study music spend $7,500,000 there
"annually.
One of the host methods of feeding
wild birds in winter is to serve corn
on the cob.
Le;?ers. like tuberculosis patients,
are required to follow a program of
fresh air. rest and suitable food.
The city of Paris has about 350
public drinking fountains which were
given years ago by an English philan
thropist.
The fiber of t lie young cotton plant
is round, but takes on a spiral form
when the plant matures and the fil?er
walls collapse.
Two pull man cars designed for
transportation of sick and invalided
persons have been built for use on a
northern railroad.
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Dor "Mother*" Lion Cubs
A small softer ?log at the National
Zoological park in Washington, |>. <\,
has taken on tlie task ??r iimt ticrint!
t liroe wee Hon etihs. The euhs tirst
appeared to have been horn t?? a life
of starvation heeause I lie mother
lioness ignored them atxl stalked i
ahout lu r ? :i^f. Tile tli?u adopted the
trio of ml is quite willingly, nnd
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ever, are apt to forget ta forgive.
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