The discoverers of coagulen have made a gift of their secret to the armies in the field. They have sent large quantities of the powder to the surgical headquarters of both German and French armies.
War Stops Immigration.
Before the war an average of 5,000 immigrants used to arrive daily at Ellis Island, New York. Now the average is only 150 a day, according to Commissioner Uhl.
The total number of immigrants into the United States last year was 1,197,892. Of these the number admitted from the Russian empire and Finland was 291,040; from Italy, 265,542; and from Austria and Hungary, 254,825.
“Regular Horse for Work.�
John Phipps, a farmer near Kalamazoo, Mich., has an old horse that had done her full share of work and was finally allowed to take life easy. Two or three days later, when the other horses had been led to the tank and watered and were being lined up to be harnessed, the old horse ran from the pasture and took her position beside the workers, evidently willing and ready for duty. The old horse has just died.
Bandit Raids Poker Party.
Twenty men, eight of them playing, were backed away from a poker table in a private room at Iowa City, Iowa, at two o’clock in the morning by a lone bandit and relieved of a forty-dollar pot and about $200 in the bank of the game. He then made a safe get-away.
“Mother of Civil War.�
Mrs. Sarah Brandon, who died at her home in the southern part of Belmont County, Ohio, a few days ago, was 113 years old. She was known as the “Mother of the[Pg 66] Civil War.� She had sixteen sons who served in the war, fourteen for the Union and two for the Confederacy. Most of them never returned.