The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-10

of 2 dollar ana fract ona1 parts there Of
 For use on rivers subject to great tidal changes an Alabama engineer has invented 8 floating whan that runs up and down a solid incline laid with rails.
 The last time India took a census 300, 900 600 persons were enumerated and the result was made known In 15 days, which is claimed to be a worlds record.
 Records for Portland cement produc- tion in the United States were broken last year with an output of more than 62, ,OO0. GOO barrels, worth more than | $50 900, GOO.
 The number of telephone subscrib- CTS in Great Britain increased last year by twelve per cent and the num- Der of conversations over trunk lines | by fifteen per cent.
 The automobile searchlight appara- | tcs adopted by the United States army, though it weighs 10.5CC pounds, l can make Is miles an hour and climb | a g per cent grade.
 After months of experiments the French government has decided against it's proposed aluminium coinage because 1t is too light and slips l through the fingers too easily. Dishes may be warmed and food | Or other particles heated without the l use or a tOVe DY a metal IdCf Ilid | a massachusetts man has invented tc ! hang upon a steam radiator. Vienna. recently inaugurated new
 water supply system by which more | than 5O,0OO, ,0O0 gallons a day are brought from the Alps. 113 miles away I by an acueduct and tunnels. {
 The English inventors of a new alloy claim it is but little heavier than aluminium but as strong as stee | and that it can be rolled,s drawn stamped, expanded or forged:
 The father of a Japanese boy Wnt
 recently died In Denver, desiring ut
 have the remains rest in his native
 soil, had the body cremated and sen
 the ashes home by mail. | A course in the municipal technica school at Birmingham, England, fol ! the instruction of hardware salesmer
 includes lessons in practical Snee \ metal work and metalurgy. Il Deafness is remedied by what l | called "sound massage" by an lnstru
 ment that produces sounds Of vary
 ing intensity through pair of tele
 phone receivers, attached to the ears
 Because of a native prejudic against whirling electric fans in Ind1
 there has been devised a broad blad
 ed affair which is slowly waved bacl and forth by an electric motor.
 An attempt will be made to pre- ? vent the importation into the Unite States of the English starling, whic l, is regarded as an undesirable DIT : because of its appetite for grain. Within the past year the Phil1pp1n Islands have advanced to the front l
 the coceanut industry, produc1n , about 103.000 tons, or one-th1rd c 1, the total production in the world. i, , An Italian scientist has invented system for personal 1dent1hcatlo
 based on the patterns of the vein tin the back of the hand, cla1mln that in no two men are they exactl alike.
 Plans already are under way fo the celebration on an elaborate seal in Philadelphia early in 1912 Of tn
 one hundredth anniversary of tn 3 founding of the Academy of Natur; Sciences.
 S That snakes are "charmed' l. y music has been declared a myth by
 scientist who has investigated tf S subject in Ceylon and who says tn: n their actions are merely inspired T curiosity. d To blow the dust away from tf P path of a saw, a Californian has il
 lvented a rubber bulb, to be fastene e to a. saw handle and operated by d thumb, to direct blast of air throue d a tube.
 n In new electrical. horse clipp h the motor is placed in the handle ,l the tool itself, doing away with muc 1T cumbersome machinery and perml
 ting current to be taken from Hg a ! socket through a cord. ,f To do away with the gears ar