Japanese shipment of 1,671 cases; 1,568 crates and cases from Canada; 126,000 pounds of exhibits from the Philippines; 110,000 pounds of materials from the Argentine.
Heavy shipments from England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Italy are already on the grounds.
Two Prolific Apple Trees.
Frank Weber and John Trent, of Troy, Kan., picked from two trees twenty-seven barrels of apples. They were of the York Imperial variety. Trent’s orchard is considered one of the most productive in that section.
Wireless Tit-for-tat Shots.
Europe’s two principal wireless stations, the Eiffel Tower, at Paris, and the Nauen Tower, between Berlin and Hamburg, have been exchanging conversations.
The Nauen operator, discovering that the Eiffel was able to pick up his war messages ticked an indictment of Eiffel’s news as flimsy and unreliable, to which the Eiffel rushed a long, rhyming retort, jeering the Germany army for its failure to reach Paris, and concluding:
“Despite your fine telegraphic victories, the Germans are slowly plunging into an abyss.”
Oldfield Wins Desert Race.
Barney Oldfield, “master driver of the world,” is the title the automobile speed king now is wearing.