| | The Newest Notes of Science One of the best cléanstng agents for brass {s strong ammonia. Bananas are immunt from insect attacks and most frult diseases. The peak of Teneriffe casts a sha- dow on the ocean 50 miles long. Resembling a skeleton key with a flexible shank is a new dork puller. { Broken ivory can be mended with a cement made by dissolving alum in hot water. A cane that can be taken apart and rebuilt into a stool is a French invention, Medical statistics show that eight men die suddenly from disease to one womdn. Hinged plates, held together by springs, have been invented for| pressing men's neckties, 'Opossum farming for the fur of the animals has passed the experi-| mental stage in Austria. ! Brewers have found that the fer- menting power of yeast in increased by brief exposure to ozone. A vone-gshaped, ajustable cover has been invented that will fit any ordin- nary sized cooking utensil. China has almogt 6,000 mies of railroads opened to traffic and more than 2,000 miles under construction. In Chicago there is an electric pie making machine with which six girls can turn out 23,000 ples a day. Shears of a new design have no finger loops, a spring opening the blades after they are pregsea togeth- | er. { One quart of liquid soap Invented | by a Duteh chemist, it is claimed, | * tnd claiming some of Russia's great swamp areas the government has es- tablished a school for specialists in swamp cultivation. A new refrigerator drip pan alarm drops a sort of semaphore signal where it can be seen readily when the water in the pan is in danger of overflowing. Gold produced in the United Stat- es by the geological survey at $3,- 549,799,400 in value and the silver at $1,709,517,600. In Great Britain there has been patented a trousers protector con- sisting of a wire frame to be insert- ed in the top of a shoe to hold a tfou- ser leg out of the mud. An - alarm Indicator for firemen has been patented that switches on an incandescent lamp at a point on a map corresponding with the place from which an a'arm comes. To transplant growing plantsan Idaho man has invented a metal pot, made in two sections, which may be inserted in the ground around the roots and brought together. screw has been patented by a New York man for the use of mechanics. Germany leads the world in the number of electric furnaces for steel production, with France in se cond place and the United States in third. To foil electric light bulb thieves a hinged wire frame has been patent- ed to be locked about bulbs after Colossal stone statues and other relics of an unknown race on Eas- ter Island, 2,000 miles off the west will wash & man's hands 2,500 times. | coast of South America, are to be To be carried inside a man's hat a | studied by English sclentists, recently patented combination of A guage to be fastened to the mirror, memorandum tablet and head of an ax has been patented to card case, { pemmit that tool to be sharpened with A machine to thoroughly cleanse a file as accurately and with less la- coffee beans and sort them into threé! bor than with a grindstone. glzes is the Invention of a Colorade Among the parachutes designed man, {for an aviator is one consisting of To cure Insomnia an English doc- | wings and a balloon-shaped canopy, tor has invented apparatus to flow | worn folded against the body = and water over a patient's head as he 18 | opening automatically if he falls. lying down. | . A French scientist successfully The United States produced about | combatted locusts in Argentina by 42,090,000 gallons of wine in 1914, | inoculating a number of the insects California's share being about 30,-| with a parasitic disease and liberat- 000,000 gallons. ing them to infect others of their Loops of wire, normally held apart | kind. by a spring handle, form a recently | To lesson the glare of tungsten paténted device for handling hot | electric lamps, a globe has been in- cooking utensils, | vented with longitudinal corruga- A typewriter that writes a syllable { tions on the outside that diffuse the at a time, the invention of a Belgian, | light so that the entire globe seems has a speed of from 125 to 150 words | to glow. ' a minute. | New embroidery forms are made An electric vacuum cleaner has | of feit, compressed and starched, so been invented for printing presses to that when articles on which they are keep the rollers and forms clean used are washed they will expand while in operation. { and fill out the slack of the embroid- A gas meter has been invented | ery threads. that automatieally prints bills for| Because it is difficult for a man the 'gas that has passed through it|aiming a searchlight to se the oo when a lever is pressed. | Ject at which it is pointed, a French Under the direction of an English | naval officer has invented an electri- engineer New Zealand plans to | cal aiming device to be operated spend about $2,600,000 to develop | from a distance. its water power resources. | An acre of bananas will produce In a combination automobile horn |More than 1 1-3 times as much food a single note is produced by pressing | #8 an acre of corn, almost three a bulb or a siren shriek by pushing | times as much as an acre of wheat an electri¢ button, | Copper is produced in nineteen states and Alaska, the ore from all of five states also containing gold and from all but two silver. Of the 12,000,000 tons of iron ore produced in Spain yearly but about| 3,000,000 tons are used at home, the rest being €xported. | Two Wisconsin inventors have pat- ented a keroséne lamp that is auto- matically extinguished if upset or even lifted from a support. | _A screen has been patented that] is raised and lowered with a window | #0 as not to interfere with the light] when the window is shut. In treating a man for an ulcer on his tongue Paris surgeons discovered that the X-rays they used also cur- ed long standing deafness. The annual waste of metal in the world from coins rubbing together is estimated at 1 1-4 tons of gold and 88 tons of silver. Fire losses of the United States and Canada last year reached a total | of $286,591,351, or nearly $11,000- 000 more than the year before. Travelling machine shops, carried on motor trucks, are in use in Eng- land for repairing automobiles brok:, en down on roads far from garages.' An envelope that, once sealed, cannot be opened without detection has perforations in the fap that fit over embossed spots on its back! A candle holder which may be fas. tened to any projection with a thumb they have been screwed into sockets. Gas ranges are being made that, in addition to cooking food in the us-| ual ways, heat retaining compart- ments that can be used as fireless cookers, or potatoes and four times as much as an acre of rye. To protect baggage as it is unload. ed from cars, an eastern railroad has equipped several stations with mova- ble platforms made of pieces of old air-brake hose fastened across resili- ent wooden strips. The more that it is being used the | better are the results obtained from a Swedish system for stimulating backward children by circulating electricity through the air of the rooms in which they study. To enable a baseball pitéher to practice his curves without any help from another man, a North Dakotan has patented a tubular casing se formed that it returns with consider able foree a ball thrown into it. Since the United States took charge of the Philippines more than 3,000,000 natives have had some in~ struction in the English language | and more of them speak and write | some English than any other tongue. Duty And Pleasure. Maud--You know the handsome » yes." "Isn't he obliging?" '1 suppose he is." "I know he is. When the street was flooded the other day he saw the waiting at the curb and walked right up and carried me across. . "Oh, well, I suppose it: was his duty." "Perhaps. When he put me down 1 said, 'Dear me, I forgot something one the other side.' Then he picked me up and carried me back." "Um. I suppose he was making duty a pleasure." "No, he said he was making plea- With the idea of eventually re-| 0°. quiy." 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