CHINESE TYPEWRITER
■ OF 4,030 CHARACTERS
'•oifU New* Bervio*, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, The Chines* Mln
rtry of Agriculture and Commerce
■as Just granted a patent for a Chi
nese typewriter, according to consular
eporta. The machine Is the world's
i rst machanical apparatus to write the
world’s most complex language.
The typewriter uses 4,000 characters,
,000 less than are used In the ordin
C hlnese printing office. A complete
dictionary of the Chinese language
contains about 60,000 characters.
The Inventor of the typewriter Is a
ratlve Chinese, who was educated at
« ht Massachusetts Institute of Tohch
rology and who, after graduating at
that institution was employed at
oonautlcal engineer in the United
States by an American company. Ue
i now mechanical engineer for the
i tommerclal press, of Shanghai.
SHARK SKIN MAKES
GOOD LEATHER
Paoiflo News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON .The Japaneee fleh
lng fleets which for years have opera
ted off the California coast catching
3lmrks will find a new stimulus to
the Industry In the discovery of the
Bureau of Fisheries here that the skin
of the shark can be made into a very
good leather. The Bureau has con
ducted some experiments with shark
skins and now reports that a leather
good for almost any purpose for which
pig skin or cowhide Is used can be ob
tained by properly treating the skin of
the shark. The shark's skin Is ox
tremey tough, the Bureau says, and
the leather made from It willl be found
durable. The Bureau also has discov
ered that the sk'n of the dogfish which
Is found in great abundance in the
At'antic coast can be made Into lea
ther.
LIVE STOCK PRICES
ME STILL CLIMBING
Pacific News Service, Wash, Bureau.
WASHINGTON, IX C.—Live ntock
pr'oe3 In the last month have continu
ed to Increase at a steady rate. In
November the prices of meat animals
--hogs, cattle, sheep and chickens—
to producers of the United States in
creased 0.6 per cent, to a figure 25.S per
cent higher thun the prices of a year
ago, the United States Bureau of
Ctop Estimates ha3 announced,
The price of hogs on November 15
averaged for the United States aver
aged $8.74 per 100 pounds, compared
with $6.36 a year ago. Beef cattle
averaged $6.44, compared with $5.85 in
the same time lust year. Sheep aver
aged $6.41, against $5.18 at this time
in 1915. Horse averaged $129.45 each
compared with $127.03 a year ago.
Milch cows averaged $62.67 against
$57.35 last year.
HIGH COST 1
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Pacific New* Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, The cost of living 1
has gone skyrocketing even In the re
moter parts of the world. Advice
to the Panama Canal Commission an
to the effect that foodstuffs la th< ‘
Canal Zone have advanced In nearh
the same ratio as they have in the ,
I'rlted States, and that as a resul
hotels In the Zone operated by the ^
government have Increased the price
of dinners to canal employes from 75 f
cents to $1. ?
Calling Card* at tha Nuggat Offic# *
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BIG VAUDEVILLE PROGRAM
1 MIRTH, FROLIC, SONGS, MUSIC
TREAT YOUR SYSTEM TO A GOOD TIME AND SEE
Miss Bertha Johnson
And her bevy of Pretty Dancing Girls, Helen Stipek, Ina Lyle, Vesta Kelling,
Anna Stipek, Ruby Martin, Irene Young, Jean Crowley.
THE DOLLY SISTERS
Late of Zingfclds Follies, New York—In their latest Musical Skit
J. NICHOLAS
The talented Mandolinist, Piano Obligato by A. Hutchinson
A DRAMATIC EPISODE IN ONE ACT
1 “A MAN ABOUT TtiWr—E. F. ASH
Nome’s talented actor assisted by Messrs. Weathcrill, Pettit, Newhouse and Mull
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I Edwin R. Upham
7’he popular and entertaining Monologuist
FORT DAVIS’ CARUSO
CLIFFORD DAKIN
IN A SELECTION OF SONGS
GEN ADM. $1.00 RESERVED SEATS $1.60
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