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m #•2 M0.f UnCOnscTOUSTy Christened by Peeved Postoffice Department Official ••,» * Washington.--There Is a very pe- ••.. tullar story connected with the nam* |ng of Peculiar, "Mo.--which is also peculiar name for a town. ,, t The federal government does not .jlame towns and hamlets when they •" Are born or feel the urge for a coglomen, but the Post Office department ' ifoes regulate them to the extent of '^prohibiting duplicating of names within the same state. So when a newlyformed community in Missouri sug- % -Rested a certain name for its post V. ifflce, the department informed tho inv habitants there was already one by .jghat name in their state. ' % ^ Several other names were chosen by • fbe residents and submitted, bat si* •frays with the same result. Finally r r;§n exasperated official of the departylnent, in refusing the latest choice, %rote the city fathers among other Ihlngs "that it was mighty peculiar ... <hey could not Had • good name for ; /jfhelr town." Whereupon he received the follow- ... Jng reply: "Acting on your suggestion, we select the name Peculiar." ^.nd so Peculiar Is on the map of to- -j' Rule In Naming New Towns. ^ There is only one rule In the nan- • §Bg of new towns, and that la that ..there shall be but one of the same . jiame in a state. But that does not prohibit other states from boasting .. lowns of the same name. For Instance, there are 46 names used mare than 20 " time® each to designate towns and pities. Benjamin Franklin Is remembered ; As an inspiration more than any other person, and Franklin as a town name Stakes the prise, occurring 81 times In states. ^ ' The others In point of popularity ^ tun: Clinton. 80 times; Chester and ^Arlington, 29 of each; Washington, 28; Troy, Saltan, Madison, Marlon, Manchester and Clayton, 27; Glenwood, Kingston and Newport, 20; Ashland, Centerville and Cleveland, 25; Auburn, Dover, Hillsboro, Lincoln, Monroe, Oxford, Princeton, Springfield, Warj ren and Union, 24; Greenville and Wilson, 23; Belmont, Buffalo, Canton, Dayton, Eureka, Liberty, Mllford and Plymouth, 22; Burlington and Lebanon, 21; Portland, Lexington. Jamestown, Hudson and Danville, 20. Bane- of Postoffice Clerics. ' Duplicated names are the bane ef the postal clerk, and the Yankee reputation for originality rises staggering when confronted by the apparent lack of Imagination used te name American communities. These are even two €%lcigos, six Philadelphlas, seven Detr^ tp |nd i4 Den vers. Similarity in names also causes the postal department considerable troubled Indistinct penmanship might easily confuse Eldoro, Iowa, with Ktdorado, Iowa. In Pennsylvania alone there are IS communities whose namee begin with the prefix Green: Greene, Greenbriar, Greenburr, Greencastle, Green Land, Greenoch, Green park, Greenboro, Greensburg, Greenstone, Greenstown. Greenville and (Sireenwald. There is a partiality for IMoomaas a prefix in New York state, as, for example, Bloomburg, Bloomingdale, Blooming Grove, Bloomlngton and Bloom v llle. Foreign dHes have contributed their names freely in this country. There are 18 towns known as Paris and a llkfespumber of Genevas, IT Berlins, despite the war, 12 Moscows, 11 Vlennas, six Pekins and two Brussels. it) »'# in Once Joined Asia Asisrtfe Expedition EstaMshes Existence of Land Connection --Discovers Fossil Field. Washington.--In a report Just received from Peking, Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the Third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, declares the existence of a land conneetion between Asia and North America has unquestionably been established and hundreds of yeaife of work will be required to exhaust the huge deposits in "one of the world's greatest fossil fields." Beyond Their Hopes. Mr. Andrews' letter says: The first month of the expedition's work is far beyond our hopes. Where we expected only fragments we have discovered an immense deposit of large and small dinosaur bonea. It will require many months to exhaust Vy - v-wt*. lift" : ^n.K:V' •i. +';'•"•? ;V a; W- '..•diffe Houses Many Denominations m ! Crow Awakens Friend ' in Time for Work Hebe Patton, a street car motonnan of Dover, O., doesn't seed an alarm clock. He has • pet crow which calls him every morning at S o'clock by cawing at his bedroom window. Patton cared for the crow after It fell from Its neat three months ago. , i'hla community cuiircii of Jackson Height, yueeus, Long i&iuiul. the ttist ' u jrhurch in the United States to unite under one minister and «u» nxtf Zl dt- ^ •f iv%H>minatlons, was dedicated by Blahop Luther B. Wilson. this region, but we have removed two partially complete skeleton* and parts of several othecs. This includes herbivorous dinosaurs, 30 feet long, of the iguanodon type and smaller carnivorous species. These bones are at least 5,000,000 years old, but beautifully preserved. "They probably are related to European types, and with our former work indicate that Central Asia is the ancestral home of the dinosaurs which migrated to Europe and America. "We have discovered a skull of a giant rhinoceros--like the beast known as the tltanothere--which, although it has been burled for 3,000,- 000 years, is almost as perfect as though the animal had died a week ago. The tltanotheres were previously only known in America. Deposits Full of Intsrest "We have found also remains of a giant dog-like carnivore, aa well as many teeth and jaws of an ancestral tapir-like animal. We could spend easily a year's time t& these great deposits, but will give them only enough time to get a few of the choicest things. "The expedition's belief that Mongolia is one of the world's greatest fossil fields is thoroughly continued. It will require a hundred years of work by many expeditions to exhaust these huge deposits. "Our original theory of a Central Asian center of dispersal of the maminallan life of Europe and America is receiving more proof every day. The existence of a land connection between Asia and North America has unquestionably been established. "The expedition will proceed westward into the Central Gobi desert We expect to investigate areas which we located last summer and to explore new regions south of the Altai mountains toward Chinese Turkestan nnfl for to the west." •mall and Great. ft til -a small thing to die, bat * great thing to be depraved.--Horace. I New York Regiment Reviewed by General Pershing i Will Attempt to Train Miiiion-Dok ^ JPcodioy to Walk on , ^ ;; Ihe Ceiling. : J. 1 I The l,20t> oitirer.s mid n»eu »>! Oh tiun.ued and Sixth infantry, wartime succes the historic old Tw«i»- ty-thlrd New York, encamped at rwk«=ki!t y., being inspected and reviewed by : al Pershing and Mi*]. Gen. Charles W. Berry, new commander of the Twenty-seventh division. 11m Insert show* General Pershing congratulating General Berry on the appearance of the regiment. Odd Community Bars Out Women CHARGE GERMANS BRING W»sr DOWN FRENCH AIRPLANES Many Recently Lost in Ruhr Starts Strange Theory. ' Paris.--• startling theory has been • propounded to account tor the number of airplanes belonging to the ^Paris-Prague service which have fallen : In German territory. It is believed by many officers of the French air service in the Rhlneland and the Ruhr that the Germans have Jdlscovered a means of stopping the action of the magneto of airplanes in ^flight. The Germans are credited with ' ®rst having found a way In Berlin to 4rtop automobiles within a specified iarea and the French believe they have Applied the method to airplanes. The pilots and passengers forced to fland are allowed to go free, but the 'plane and the freight It may be carjrytng are confiscated, the machine "being, according to Ftench reports, •awed to pieces. Since January 1 Germany has regained the liberty of the air, so far as civil aviation is concerned, under the Versailles treaty, but they are unable to prevent foreign military planes from flying over German territory. Since the occupation of the Ruhr began they have refused to supply any weather reports which are so necessary to successful operation of the air services. Daughters Sue Father K | for Pay for Their Work Kansas City, Mo.--Frederick Lieser, a Lafayette county farmer, is defendant in suits for remuneration for personal services filed by his daughters. Edna Lieser, thirty-six, asks $10,- 000 aa pay at $000 a year from the time she reached her eighteenth birthday. Lena Lieser, fifty-four, asks $21,100 on the same basis, less $000 paid te her In cash in 1921. Frederick Lieser, who is elghty-twe years did. Originally*owned a 440-acre farm near Corder, Mo. The daughters say they were induced to remain on the farm and work on the promise that they would be paid and would be r^ membered in the father's wlUT Recently Lisser sold 220 acre* of the farm. Japanese Skipper U Found Dead at Wheel San Diego. Cal.--Steering erratically In a v circle twenty-iive miles off the harbor here, and, falling to answer halls from other craft, the Japanese fishing boat Fuso was overhauled by another Japanese boat and the -akip> per, O. Toiuann, found dead. Tomann, the only person aboard, was found lashed to the wheel, bis body leaning to one Bide, which caused the Fuso to steer about in a circlet as the gasoline engine of the boat was operating full power. Physicians declared death was dot to heart trouble. JPaderewski Purchases Tickets to Own Show & '* > Paris.--Ignace Jan Paderewtkl, the '> ^Famous Polish pianist snd composer, 'J, ..Received one of the heartiest welcomes - accorded him since his return to the concert stage when he appeared bejfore a Paris audience recently. £ The French press retold at great length the story of how the noted jartlst was expelled from Russia years •4ago by Emperor Alexander III, after ipaderewskl had played before the Ncourt. - ' > >;V "YoQ a great artist, and an \ifconor to Russia," the emperor Is re- ^ported to have said. "Pardon, your majesty," replied Ipaderewskl. "To Poland." ,!Y The next day the pianist received ; 'i«aan order to leave Russia, and i.e has i txever returned since. Hie newspapers here also mentioned *the fact that on the day of his first * • Concert, Paderewskl drove to the tbe- »ter box ofi.ce and purchased nearly flOO seats at regular prices, which he ^ distributed among his friends. HERE'S cftMiPTMiNr, NEW Married uu uquapiaue* speeding behind a seaplane going sixty miles an hour Is the record of this Seattle couple. This closeup of the very speedy wedding shows the parson trying to steady the bride long to give the groom her hand. Old Sailing Vessels Puzzle Modern Mariners Norfolk, Va.--The reappearance of the Leviathan on the high seas caused many an "old salt" to reflect on the passing of the American sailing ship which has now virtually disappeared. The modern mariner, however, knows as little about the old-time sailing vessels as the flapper know* about her great-grandmother's spinning wheel. The sailors at their seagoing school here are familiar with nautical terms and can quote the nomenclature of a modern oil-burner from bow to stern. But when an examiner asked them to name the seven masts of a sailing vessel, only a few could recall the names offhand. Fore, main, missel), pusher, driver, jigger aniL-spanker are the names la order, running fore and aft, of a seven-masted ship. Some authorities give them the names of forecastle, fore, main, mlzzen, jigger, spanker or driver and after masts. Others compromise by naming them from bow to stern after the days of the week, be ginning with Sunday. Athot Peninsula in Greece Hat One of the Strangest Governments in the World, Washington.--"The Atboe penln* suls In Greece, to which the patriarch of Constantinople^ head of the Greek church, has retired because of pressure from the Turkish government, is one of the queerest communities and has one of the strangest governments in the world," says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. "On the 200 odd square miles of this rough peninsula which iacka little of being an island, it has been unlawful since the year 1045 for a woman to set foot. Moreover, domestic animals are barred I Even the eggs apd milk that the good monks of Athos eat and drink must come from farms safely across the border of the strange monastic republic. Treasures ef Bysanttum. *The entire peninsula is given up to FRANK LOWDEN IN OILS This oil portrait of Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinola, has been painted by Ralph Clarkson, wellknown Chicago artist, for the state Df Illinois and will hang In the executive office at Springfield with the portraits of twenty-five other governors >f Illinois. Mr. Lowden was t^e twenty- first Individual and the tenth Republican elected governor of Illinois tud was the state's fourth "war' govtrnor," serving from 1917 to 1924 monasteries of which there are '20, mostly on the slopes or cliffs of Mount Athos, the 6,350-foot promontory that raises near the outer end of the headland. "There are one or more monasteries for each of the countries, or In some cases the communities that accept the Greek rite--Greece, Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Anatolia, Constantinople and many others. "The monasteries are today one of the richest repositories of the Illuminated manuscripts, statues, paintings, mosaics and other works of art produced in the heyday of that glided eastern Rome. "The monks of Mount Athos have traditions of the beginnings of their establishments as early a* the days of Constantine the Great, about 800 A. IX But history tells of the foundation of the earliest of the present monssteries, that of Lavra, In 969. The latest was established In 1545, a century after the fall of Byxantlum. "The monasteries sre in every conceivable situation; some on gentle slopes near the sea, some on lofty crags overhanging the beating surf, and others inland on shoulders of the •acred mountain. All consist of walled spaces In which are churchea, chapels, l dwelling houses or dormitories, guest I abodes, libraries, and In the case of the establishments under a n on Individualistic regime^ refectories. The Bast has always been turbulent, and Mount Athos knows Its east; so sll the indosures are fortified. "The government of Mount Athoe has been republican In form for more than 860 years--since 1060, six years before the Normans conquered England. Each monastery elects a representative who is sent to the centrally situated village of Karyes,- which is the capital. >There the delegate occupies a dwelling owned by his abbey and constituting a sort of "embassy' building. "The twenty representatives sit as the most blessed assembly of - the sacred mount, a parliament more venerable than that of London, if that Tbody be dated from the recognition of the elective principle. The executive of Mount Athos is ft body of five monks chosen by the monasteries voting in groups of four. Four of these executives each keeps In his custody a quarter of the great seal of the 'republic' and the fifth, the secretsry, carries a handle which locks the fragments properly togethsr." Earrings as MelHoowief A New Hampshire woman boasts of a pair of earrings that has been worn in her family for nearly 100 years.-- IndlanapSITth News. SCARED BY CENTIPEDE Highlands, N. J.--The chief topic of discussion among local chicken fanct- >'* ers Is the news of the broiler phenomenon hatched at Mrs. E. Degenbrock's home. Bay avenue. It has four leg* ' Mrs. Degenbrock says. According to Mrs. Degenbrock, two of the remarkable chick's legs are l„ placed between its abdomen and the ; ground, following the time-honored custom of leg-placing among bearing animals and poultry. Two Legs on Back. Then there are two more legs on its back. When Mrs. Degenbrock's family first saw this phenomenon they . thought they were the victims of some ophthalmic Irregularity and had almost decided to have their glasses changed. But yea, the four feet were really j! there. If there had been only three feet, ,, the Degenbrocks could have called the chick "Yard," but owing to the four %wt, no name haa yet been Mt upon.. hMSUNITED STATES MAKING IRON AS AN EXPERIMENT Bureau of Mines Is Attempting to Solve Some Problems. Washington.--The United States government Is now making iron, but only as an experiment and cot for the commercial field. Its blast furnace is located at Minneapolla and Is operated as a laboratory by the bureau of mines In co-operation with the University of Minnesota. After four years of experimentation to develop It, the furnace recently produced several tons of gray Iron and splegeleisen. This type of experiment is declared unique In the field of Industrial research, as blast furnaces are not Included usually In laboratory equipment. But with the demonstration showing every phase of the operation of Iron-making under complete technical control. It is believed the investigators at the Minneapolis station are in a position to undertake the study of various problems, the solution of which should be of great practical value to blast furnace operatora. The furnace was operated first as a slagging type gas producer until it had reached a steady state thermally and chemically. Iron ore without the addition of a flux then was Introduced, and Its descent In the furnace was followed by means of gas samples taken at various stations. When the effect of this charge had been dissipated, more ore waa charged without limestone, and other sets of samples were taken. The purpose is to obtain a comparison of the gas composition at various planes of the furnace. Various sixes of ore also were used. The reduction of the ore at the stockllne was found to be greater with smaller sized ore, as indicated by higher carbon dioxide. One of the most important problema that will be worked out with the experimental furnace will be that of finding a means of extracting iron from the low-grade ores found Mpa^iniiy in northern Minnesota. Itr Haa Four Lege. CENSUS FIGURES SHOW INCREASE IN DIVORCES fttlo Compared With Marriages Up 50 Per Cent in Six Years. Washington.--A sharp increase In the last six years In the ratio of divorces to marriages Is disclosed In preliminary reports for 1922, announced by the census bureau. Computation is made for half a dozen northeastern states, the first for which figures have been completed in a nation- wide survey." The 1922 ratio was almost half again as large as It was In 1916* there having been almost 9.3 divorces to each 100 marriages In 1922, compared with almost &3 In 1916. Analysis of the statistics for the six states shows the number of marriages In 1922 were one-eighth less than In 1916, while the number of divorces was almost one-third more. The states covered In the report were New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. Marriages In these states In 1922 numbered 80,883, as compared with 92,531 In 1916, and divorces 7,513, compared with 5,793. There was a decrease of 11,648 marriages In the states, or about 12V6 per cent, while divorces Increased 1,720 in number, or almost 30 per cent. There was an increase In the number of marriages In only one of the six states--New Hampshire. There was a decrease in the number of divorces in Vermont, but the ratio of divorces to the number of marriages showed an increase in that state as It did In the other five states in which divorces Increased In number. 8ale of Blood Aids Students. Philadelphia.--Several students In the University of Pennsylvania summer school are paying part of their expenses by giving blood for transfusion, the university hospital report* ! Child Marriages Many \ but Few Endure Long | Child marriages In the United States are increasing at an alarming rate. Statistics show that 15,000 boys and 1,200 girls less than 15 years old are married. The average life of infant marriages is only a few years, and more often a few months, sccordlng to Professor A. N» Farther pf Des Moines, la. The Degenbrocks want something ap proprlate to four feet of course. Some- < "J body suggested "Horse," but the Deg* enbrocks told him to go on home and mind his own business. . v The Degenbrocks cannot explain thef^ >|| phenomenon. The eggs from whlchr..^-•'$'*• the chick was hatched were guaran-^ ;?"^ teed strictly fresh. The only theory^ • that has been advanced was brought!^ *i|| up by little Agnes Albertson, a neigh- - v» bor, who said that she saw Winona,. If. mother of the UttlS chick, belngu^..;^ chased by a centipede one day shortly before she started to set on the egg that was eventually to be the pheaomenon. Try Upside Down. , Just as soon as the chick gets enough, the Degenbrocks are going to^;||§£ put her on a ceiling, and if she walks upside down they will be convinced that the centipede did indeed frighten Winona so much that the little chick was marked. Even now the little one can turn handsprings with half the effort of the normal chick and It Is amusing to see the little yellow ball of fluff revolving like a plnwheel In the middle Of the barnyard. The Degenbrocks wouldn't CKfet • million dollara for her. Two Qlrla Become Actuaries. London.-- Yet another profession which has hitherto been regarded as exclusive to men has received women Into its membership. Two English girls. Miss Gladys Gregory and Miss Dorothy Davis, both of them young, are the first women to become qualified actuaries and members of the British Institute of Actuaries. Truth la generally a platitude^ Fatal Railway Wreck Caused by Seepage From Canal Seepage from a drainage canal near Salt Lake City. Utah, caused the trucks of the Salt way, ditching the crack Los Angeles flyer, killing three, und injuring many more. vonte te give Bullet Kills- Man, Wounds Another. Portsmouth, O.--A shot fired from a pistol in the hands of Robert Turner wounded "Sugar Foot" McDonald tailzied over a card «unsv Tamer im the arm and killed Charles Johnson. J caped when peUee were attracted by Turner, McDonald* and Johnson quar- j the abet. Waterspout Hurls Fish if ^ Over Florida Golf UMks *5 St Petersburg, Fla.--Hundreds of 13?S* O a h , r a n g i n g i n s i z e f r o m f o u r t o s i x ^ Inches long, fell on the golf links of ^ St. Petersburg Country club at Pasa-%.> I, dena when a waterspout estimated to •-* have been more than a mile high,' v; broke on the eastern shore of Boca *.. 5 Ceiga bay. ^ Two local fish companies sent ont v - trucks to bring in the fish, but It waa ^ found they were too smalL The ma- Jority were mullet, although a few j. trout and blueflsh were picked up. v During a period of twenty minutes ^ in a hard electrical storm four big t waterspouts were seen, three In Boca 4 * **' V Oelga bay and one in the Galf. UnabM fo Assemble • j " Motor, Kills Himselt & Despondent because he had taken : his automobile engine apart and could ' not put it together again, Gustave ^ Schutzenhofer of Floral Park, N. J^ " k hanged himself from a rafter in his ^ garage. The body was found by hta * mother, who became alarmed ever absence . M Telephone Scares Burglars. Portsmouth, N. H.--A telephone re* celver clattered to the floor in the office of the Texas Oil company at Portsmouth, N. H., and frightened two bandits from the. office. The intruders were preparing to blow open the •afe, police believe. One of them apparently bumped the table on which^ the telephone was standing. y VfV\:ivrJ!LW Sfe* Ride Engine That Hits Can Norfolk, Va.--When a passenger train struck sn automobile in which • they were riding near here, Mr. sad Mrs. L. Johnson were hurled on the locomotive. Their car was smashed to splinters. The man and woman .psn»>. not seriously injured. • Soda Jerker Becomes MUNenelfm * Ottawa, Ont.--Heir to a part of the tl,500,000 estate left by an aant Miss Monica Mou-sseau. retains her present job--uiixiug ice cream sodas In a ce>» aer drug stores - ' , „ > , ^