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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1920)
tub Noimr platte kumt-ayeekly triwxe. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CZECH0-8L0VAKIA AT PRAGUE ' 5 -J I This beautiful National Museum of Czecho Slovakia Is In Prague and contuhis one of the ilnost collections of old manuscripts In existence. PLANE MAKES RECORD FLIGHT FROM LONDON TO PARIS BRITISH ENJOY THEIR FAVORITE SPORT AGAIN Slnro tho wnr ended the British have revived one of their favorite sports -following the -hounds In the hunting Held. The photograph shows a meet In the market place of Oxford. TRYING TO FIX UP A SATISFACTORY RAILWAY BILL The new Hundley Pago aerial London-Paris liner, a revelation In up-to-thc-mlnuto air passenger conveyances, fitted with every Imaginable luxury, such as separate windows for each of Its 15 passengers, map receptacles, car mots, curtnlns, vases and lamps. On Its first trip the liner made an average speed of 120 miles per hour, completing the trip In three hours and ten minutes. , OLDEST HEATHEN BECOMES A. CHRISTIAN Senate and house conferees In session for Joint consideration of a railroad hill. Senator Cummins Is In the left foreground. Back of him are, from left to right, Senators Polndoxtcr. Pomorene and Kellogg. On the right, front to rear, are Representatives Esch. Hamilton. Sims nnd Bnrkley. ALFRED M. HUBBARD "Yellow Sky," believed to bo more than 1110 years old, tho last heathen In the diocese about El Cajon, Cal., iindiun Indian of an unicnown tribe and language, who has Just Itcon confirmed by Bishop John .1. Cantwell of the diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles. An Indian had to live with him for n year to learn his langunge and then a second year was consumed explaining Christianity to "Yellow Sky." , He had never worn clolhes and mission In dlans presented hltu with Ids (li-st sull after the service. SES l BRAZILIAN GIRL WONDERFUL PIANIST PLANNERS FOR DECENNIAL CENSUS Countess Wanda Rnwltu-Ostrowskl, director of tho Polish Bed Cross In Siberia, Is In this country to seek aid in repatriation of !l,000 wounded and Invalided Polish soldiers, who nro re ported starving nnd freezing In Inad (iiatti barracks In Siberia. Lord Fisher Loves Roses. Sir William Watson, describing an utuinn holiday with Lord Fisher, pent at Dungavel. Lanarkshire, says: Ills innate love of beauty may Indeed e seen In bis passion for roses. By is special desire tho very wall paper r his room at Dungavel Is all roses, rent red roses that perhaps atone In at foi their lack of perfume by . -Ir Immunity from decay. There It .is been his habit to pace up and own while dictating the 'Memories' hlch all the world Is now reading If you want to think nnythlng out,' he said to us, 'never go for a long walk you have to think about turn lug corners. I always found the iunr ler-deck quite long enough.' " Alfred M. Hubbard, a nineteen year old lad of Seattle. Wash., claims to have Invented nn "atmospheric power ;encrntor." nnd if ho has, the world of power will be revolutionized. The device consists of a coll of wire about six Inches in diameter surrounding a permanently magnetic core eight Inches long, tho entire contrivance small enough to be carried in a man's band. Without the aid of any moving parts connected with the generator, storage or primary batteries. Alfred causes an ordinary Incandescent elec tric light, connected with the appar atus, to glow for nearly an hour. Maria Antonia of Rio de Jnnerlo, Brazil, who made her debut in New York recently, and Is, despite the modest claims of her parents and teacher, n wonder child. Described by her parents as "Just an ordinary little nine-year-old girl." Miss Antonia Is on her way abroad and will study at Paris. ASSORTING MACHINE FOR THE CENSUS These olllclnls or the United States census bureau have borne tho brunt of planning tho decennial population census which was begun by 27,000 enumer ators on Jouunry 2. From left to right: E. W. Kock, chief of population di vision; William L. Austin, chief statistician, agricultural division; O. S. Sloane, geographer, and Wm. M. Stounrt, assistant Jo tho director of the census ,nnd In charge ot the decennial census. Associated Ideas. "The discharged soldlor you engugef for the band won't play the kettle drum." "Why not?" "IIo snys tho combination remluda him too much of his kitchen police days." New Cloth for Hard Wear. A new textile fabric which, It Is claimed, will tend to lower the present high cost of men's clothing Is being placed on the market by a Pudsey (Yorkshire) manufacturer, wrltet United States Trade Commissioner Henry y. Grady from Loudon. The London agents of the manufacturer stato that the now cloth Is made en tirely of silk noil (or short fibers) ; and that, while superior In wearing properties to a pure worsted, It enn be sold at the price of shoddy cloth, or one-fourth tho price of the best wool fabrics. It Is said to bo strong and almost untearable, very suitable for hard wear, and enn be obtained In grays, browns and blacks. This is the assorting machine In tho census bureau, capable of assorting under 11! different headings :! 1,000 cards an hour. The thirteenth compartment is for errors, it catches a card, for example, which might show a person us both American nnd foreign born. BITS OF INFORMATION Syria,' almost the only country culti vating pistachio nuts, produces about 500.000 pounds a year. The head of a man or woman In nor mal health contains MitnelhlMK like 80,000 hairs, In the Interior of China natives hatch both hen and duck eggs by bury ing them In lukewarm rice, which they reli cat dnlly. Two English words In which' all tho live vowels are to ho found In proper alphabetical order are "abstemious'" and "facetious,"