The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-02

| may be removed at a set time is the i invention of an Arkansan. | A mop which is having a large sale
 was invented by blind man and is setts institution for the blind. Last year the Geological Survey fix
 ed prices on 2,59S,621 acres of public coal lands and classified 10,857, 572 I acres as non-coal land. | Since Mexico acquired control of it's principal railroads six training schools for railroad men have been opened in l the city of Mexico
 The American wireless signal of dis l tress, ''S S." was adopted because 1 easily made and quickly recognized, 1 three dots, three dashes and three dots.
 A singular property of gold leaf is | that it contracts when subjected to | high temperatures, while more sub- stantial forms of the metal always expand.
 | To prevent a person soiling his ffng-
 CTS when squeezing a slice of lemon I at dinner table, a dainty silver inn plement for the purpose has been in- vented.
 A box-like utensil with crossed knife 1 blades on the top is a new implement l with which 8 potato may be cut into chips by a single pressure of the hand. A Philadelphian who saw child
 
 patented a fender which may be drop ped to the rails by a latch under the motorrnan's feet.
 To keep the rivers of the country free from snags and other impediments | to navigation, the Government main- tains a fleet of 30 steamboats and
 spends $50O,O0O a year. | A one-half horsepower electric mo- l tor, driven by lighting current and
 directly connected with an air pump, 1 is a new convenience for inflating au- 1 tomobile tires in garages. ! For the first time in history, Central Park, New York. has been we'll illum- mated throughout, 60 candle-power
 tungsten lamps being placed along the 1 edges of the driveways and walks. 1 TO secure entry of a pharmaceutical
 product into Spain it is necessary to deposit the formula at every. custom house at which entry is to be made
 for approval and registration. l A French scientist contends that more typhoid germs are transferred
 by the unclean hands of cooks and
 kitchen helpers than by either milk or
 water both great carriers of germs. l new English safety oil lamp for
 miners is lighted without removing the protecting gauge by a platinum wire through which current of cleo 1 tricity is passed from a storage bat | terX.
 1 A novelty in the ilne or eIectflc SiSns
 consists of each letter being fitted
 with a dioptric lens and lighted by
 single lamp. the effect being an even 1 illumina tion of the entire letter.
 New York restaurant man has his
 name appear on all the apples he
 serves by having paper stencils pas
 ted on them before they ripen, the | letters showing in green on the other- | wise red skins.
 A recent census of Buenos Aires
 showed it to be the largest city in
 South America and the fourth in the
 Western hemisphere, being exceeded
 only by New York, Chicago and Phil
 ade1phia.
 l By the use of anchors weighing 1,500
 pounds, army officers have succeeded in placing submarine mines in water
 300 feet deep. Foremrly 100 to 125 feet
 was the greatest depth thought possi- 1 ble.
 A 40 foot ferryboat built in Liver
 pool for use in Havana harbor made the perilous transatlantic voyage un-