“We learn, on unimpeachable authority,” says the journal, “that Lord Fisher makes a habit of going to a certain church practically every day for prayer and meditation before commencing his responsible duties.
“We understand that Lord Kitchener follows out a similar rule whenever he is in London.”
“Tipperary” Causes Mix-up of Nations.
Allan McAtee, Scotch, of Bridgeport, Ohio, asked two Austrian girls to give ear while he sang “Tipperary.”
He was interrupted by Policeman Tom Howley, formerly of County Donegal, Ireland, who arrested him for disorderly conduct.
Next morning McAtee faced Mayor Herman A. Schafer, German by right of descent, who fined McAtee one dollar.
Harry Wilson, an American and a friend of McAtee’s, paid the fine.
Fuel Value of Wood.
The fuel value of wood is in weight about half that of coal. But the forest-service laboratory at Washington has determined that a cord of seasoned hickory, oak, beech, birch, hard maple, ash, elm, locust, longleaf pine, or cherry equals a ton of coal; a cord and a half of short leaf pine, hemlock, red gum, Douglas fir, sycamore, or soft maple, and two cords of cedar, redwood, poplar, catalpa, Norway pine, cypress, brasswood, spruce, or white pine are needed to equal in heat a ton of coal.