The Newest Notes of Science Poedmatic balls as well as springs support a new bicycle saddle. Spain has 992 plants for public | electric lightigg and 987 are for pri- vite use, : : Mica is produced commercially in © eight states, North Carolina leading in the industry. "Press cloth for use in the manu. Yacture ol vegetble oils is made from human hair in France. In 35 nations oysters support spec- fal fisheries and in several otters fig- ure in the food supply. A French inventor claims that his system of wireless telegraphy will transmit 200 words £ minute. A folding metal seat, which will grip any size window sill, has been invented for window washers' use, Fuel of} that works well. in engines of certain types is being produced in Sweden from ghale and slate. The inventor of a motorcycle tire claims so to compress the rubber that it automatically closes punec- tures, : Motorcycle sidecars are being suc- cessfully uscd-for carrying the mails through rural districts in England. A new motor truck for carrying coal carries the body on a turntable 850 that it can be unloaded at any an- gle. A remarkable photograph of the trail 'of a meteor in flight recently was made by an English soldier in India. Pennsylvania's mining laws re- quire a mule to be given 700 cubic feet of air a minute and a miner 200 cubic feet. Shafts sunt into a coal fleld in Germany which had been burning se- 'veral years revealed eighteen veins of blazing coal. In a Chicago maternity hospital prints are made of the babies' feet with ink to make their identification certain. , Italion peat too lew in fuel value to be used for heating is being utili #0d in the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers, Electritication of steam railroads in the United States last yea brought the total of such equipment up to. about 2,600 miles. 5 By a generator connected with its crank mechanism a new French mo- tion.picture projector is furnished with its own electric light A thermostatic device invented by a Los Angelés man automatically lights smudge pots used in orchard: to protect them from frost. Ice cream is frozen without ice iv a new English freezer that is. a min iature refrigerating plant, using com pressed carbolie acid. A vacuum cup to be worn on the hand, which he claims will enable any person te curve a baseball, has been invented by a Nebraskan. Gold is being mined at a depth of more than 5,000 feet in South Afri ea, and it believed that the shafts can be sunk 3,000 feet more. Iowa is the first state officially to establish a library of motion-picture films of current events for the use ot future historians. The British meteorological office has established a station for furnish- Jng weather information and fore casts to aviators and aeronauts. What is claimed to be an unbreak- able watch crystal has been patented, made of celluloid and held in an un- dercut groove in a wateh bezel. A window that a Frenchman has patented consists of a number of pi- voted sdctions which may be moved to any desired angle by pulling a chain. A new muffler to lessen the nojse of a motorboat exhaust permits the waste gases to.expand cousiderably and cool before reaching the air. 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For the 'construction of cylindrical Concrete articles a form has been in- vented that can be expanded or con- tracted to various desired sizes. So .serious was a recent invasion of Uruguay by locusts that an agri- cultural and live-stock census of that Country was postponed for three months, A recently patented lens for help- ing persons to thread ne s is mounted on a wire that may be thrust into a spocl to hold it in posi- tion for use, Two English scientists have evolv- ed the gas nedn from suovposedly pure hydrogen by passing electricity through the latter while at low tem- peratures, or cledusing surfaces from sand and grit a fountain sponge has been invented, mounted on a metal base that is @nnected by tubipg-to a wa. ter supp A French bitycle rider is the in- venter of a man-power street sweep; | er consisting of a tricycle with a re- volving brush mounted between the rear wheels. The annual productiop* of ¥ulphur in the United States has increased Jrom a few more than 3,000 tons to more than 230,000 tons in the last doze years. To enable persons to take breath- ing exercises systematically and on a progressive scale is the purpose of a simple apparatus invented by a French doetor. An Indiana woman has invented a kitehen table with a mirror set in one leal. so it can be turned up against a wall to convert the table into a sideboard. A lighthouse on an island British channel has been equipped with a telephone so that shipping men can land and converse with per- sons on the mainland. A patent has been granted a Mich- igan inventor for an umbrella with electrie lights in the handle and at the tip and end$ of the ribs, all fed by a dry battery Experts have estimated that the lin deposits of Austria, which have been but little developed, . can be made to supply about three fourths of that country's néeds. Sun glasses have been invented for baseball players, so hinged to a cap that & touch wil drop them into po- sitlon for a man to see a ball com. ing toward him while looking direct ly at the sun. To protect wallpaper, carpet or furniture from injury, by steam or hot water escaping from a radiator valve is the purpos8 of a recently in- vented glass valve cover. Instruments invented by a Germ to register the electricity produc by the heart and its distribution en- able physicians accurately to diag- nose. diseases of that organ. To save the use of collar buttons there has been patented a tape to be passed through the buttonholes in a collar and shirt, fastening with an ornamental clasp in front. A Frenchmen has perfected a hori- zontal windmill with the vanes 80 shaped that nine tenths of them util. ize the force of the wind no matter in what direction it is blowing. To enable his automobile to run over deserts and sandy roads a Call in the | self entirely Whether Mme. Melba is to appear in fornian has equipped it with canvas wheels, providing smooth tracks. To hasten the mending of badly fractured bones an English surgeon hag invented a system of screws to pass through the pieces of bone and nuts to press them into position, Sanitary advantages are claimed for » Penusylvania inventor's wire handle for milk bottles which con- veris them. into pitchers, a spring controlled cover fitting ' inte their tops. A process has been perfected France for applying colors to glass by heat so that stained glass win dows cah be made without fastening many pieces of. glass 'of different hues together, An Englishman has invented a safe fastened. with a wire strpfched to respond to a musical tone produe- ed by sdme instrument, its vibrations affecting electrical mechanism that operates locks. As an addition to system of identification A the Bertillon an Omaha § 2 «WHAT FOR ? ? Por all young men soldiers and civilians who | | live in n. For all young menseidion and civilians -- | who are coming to Kingston: Thisi is what every progressive city does for its young | belts which revolve around the rear! THE dentist Has perfected a way to regis- ter the ridges of upper gums, whicl he says mever change and are differ eut in every individual. After fifteen years of experiment- | ing a Dresden engineer has succeed- ed in perfecting § rocket carrying a camra to photograph objects and places over which it passes, being re- turned to thie ground by a parachute. To aveld the trouble of answering a door bell when a peddler calls there has been invented a sign, dis- played by pressing push buttons in- stalled through a_house, informing him that his wares are not desired. Guns that automatically - load themselves with aceylene and dis. charge'themselves have been invent- ed by a Scotchman for fog signalling, the mechanism being set in metion bs 'wireless wdves from central sta- tions. Plays And Players A despatch from Cincinnati states that Mrs. Leslie Carter has retired to private life. Her last appearanc on the stage was in vaudeville this season in a condensed version "of "Zaza." Julia Dean, last seen in the legiti- mate ag the star of 'The Law of the Land," and very pleasantly remem- bered in "Bought and Paid For," is making her vaudeville debut this week at the Palace theatre, New York, 'n 'Marie Rose" by John Wil- lard. It is described as a melodrama of the great war Miss Dean has the name part, which ig the character of a Red Cross nurse, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Selwyn (Mar garet Mayo) have gone to Havana, Cuba, for a month's vacation. Up- on their return they will begin pre- parations for next season. Miss Mayo's last play "Twin Beds" which was produced last season. Mr. Selwyn is represented this year with "Rolling Stones." Vernon Castle the dancer, sailed fer England. to join the tion Corps of the cadet under is has Avia- Jritish Army as a his own name, Vernon Blythe. He has been taking lessons in flying «at Old Point Comfort and California since the conclusion of hig engagement in "Watch Your Step" last December, He will report. at the War Office directly arrives in London. ine Two new stars have been added to Charles Dillingham's attractions for next season, two extremes ag it were, one being Mme, Melba, the foremost English-speaking prima donna, And the other Marie Dressler, foremost burlesque comedienne and a Can- adian. It also was reported that Mr. Dillingham: had signed, Hazel Dawn, who of late to motion pictures, has devoted her- years hs succked about : the world | mainly in Canada and the United | States--earning his living by his pen| ard in a variety of other ways, and | gaining experience which afterwards made him a fagfgotine talker, A new melodrama has been written by Bayard Veiller, the author of; "Within the Law." buf'it has not yet been named. Ag an unusually elaborate produc-| fun is called for, the play will not be presented unt'l the beginning of: next season, when it'will open at one| of the Klaw and Erlanger New York| theatres. It is estimated that it will take at] Jeast three months to complete the production. Nr. Veiller's new melodrama, deal- | ing with New York life, is in three acts and twenty-four scenes, and the story ig said "to bp developed upon! novel lines. Edward H. Sothern, one of the] foremost actors on the English-| speaking stage to-day, is the intest to succumb to the lure of the once- | despised movies. { "Until recently," said Mr. Sothern, "I regarded motion pictures as com-| paratively unimportant as compared | with the speaking stage. In the legi- timate theatre I appear before sev-| eral hundreds--possibly a thousand or two-----six nights a week for a mat-! ter of 40 weeks. In the movies, 1 am told, 1 wil] appear before hundreds of thousands every afternoon and evening. The temptatioly was too strong " Mrs. Sothern (Julia Marlowe) wilt not be seen with him on the screen. C. Haddon Chambers, who hag re-! written his play, "The Idler," which is shortly, to be presented by Joseph Brooks bf a group of players extraor- dinary even in this day of -all-star casts, has renamed it '*'The Great Pursuit." The. complete cast ig af follows Phyllis Neilson-Terry as Lady Hard Marie Tempest as Mrs. Glynn-Stanmore, Jeanne Ed as Kate Merryveather, Cynthia Brooke as Mrs. Crosby, Bruce~McRae as Simeon Strong, Charles Cherry as Mark Crosby, H. Graham Browne as General Merryweather, and Mont- ague Love as Sir John Harding. -- Herbert Beerbohm "Henry VIII" ale at the New Amsterdam » in New York last in March with a notable company 8f American and Eaglish actors The Tree Shakespearean have been a feature of the season for some years past, Just now things of a rather more serious | nature than the theatre are occupy- | ing London and the notable celebra- tion of the tercentenary of Shakes- peare's death is to be appropriately celebrated with a season of Shakes-i pearean plays at the New Amster- dam Theatre instead of at-His Majes-| fy's Theatre in London. i The Park Theatre stood on is now Sir Tree is to revivals London what Park Row at numbers 21 to light opera or whether she will con-) 25, and the public thoroughfare back | tinue in concert under Dillingham's! direction, has not been disclosed. Francis Neilson, M.P., is probably the only ex-actor who is a member of the Imperial House of Commons, according to The Boston Transcript. He made 'his first appearance in London in 1897 in 'the American Drama "Secret Service," and liter stage manager at three London theatres. Mr, Neilson done eimost everything. has For ten + in Ee madbuas- AR R Hooke Tiros., Limited, Montreal. was | big!' of these buildiggs up to the present] day bears the name. "Theatre Al-| ley." Now making his last tour of Am- erica, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson | will appear by special invitation at! | the Indiana University in Blooming-| ton, Ind., on March 9th, presenting | 'Hamilet" in the Campus 'Theatre, | On March 11th he will be seen in| "Passing of the Third Floor Back"| and "Hamlet," under 4he auspices] of the University -of IHinois. The | University of Wisconsin at Madison | has also extended an invitation to! 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