The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-11-11

the the sea to connect Sweden and
Denmark has been proposed.
Five O'Clock in the morning is the
coolest hour of the twenty-four near.
| ly all seasons of the year.
The use of electricity for light and
power in the United States has more
than doubled in the last eight years.
So radioactive Is the water sup
piled in the city of Belgrade that the
scientists are searching its source
for radium.
man has patented board with a
hinged knife dropping into slot at
one end.
A zigzag arrow has been adopted in
Germany as danger sign to be dis
played on high tension electrical ap-
paratus.
More coal is mined per person en-
ployed in the United States than in
any other nation, with Australia
ranking next.
Petroleum and iron have been
found in Syria in sufficient quanti-
ties to warrant their exploitation by
native company.
Water flowing from subterranean
streams of unknown depth is used
for power in novel hydro-electric
plant in Arizona.
russia has established it's first
electric steel works, mainly for the
production of armor plate and pro.
jectie material.
The inventor of the papier-mache
matrix process of stereotyping, viii.
lard S. Whitmore, died recently in
Washington, D. C.
The Chilean government plans to
link Punta Arenas and Valparaiso
Geographically, probably by a chain
of wireless stations.
Occupants of rocking chairs are
cooled by an attachment that has
been invented to sway fan to and
fro as the chair is moved.
An exhaustive test is to be made of
the rubber obtained from the juice of
species of banana plant that grows
in British Guiana.
One Of the characteristics of the up
todate flaming arc lamp is tenden-
cy to throw its rays downward rather
than toward the sides.
A grease that can be made into can
dies and soap is obtained from the
fruit of the African karite tree, which
looks like a chestnut.
Boston's shopping district subway,
which cost Sl0000,O00 to build, was
the most expensive mile of under
ground railroad in the world.
Expert butter tasters in France
maintain that they can tell whence
butter comes by favors given it by
the soils over which cows browse.
More than 3,OO0,OOO,OOO gallons of
waste liquid are poured into the
streams of the United States each
year by the sulphite paper mills.
An automobile truck, the body Of
which is huge refrigerator, has been
invented for the use of packing COM
panies in handling fresh meats.
Both Russia and Italy are expert
menting with battleship turrets to
hold three large guns, one more than
ever before so carried by any navy.
A statue of Washington, 100 feet
| high, is planned by the city of Seat
| tie for the celebration of the twenty
fifth anniversary of statehood in 1914.
From human hair, first spun into
yarn, an English manufacturer
weaves cloth for interlining cloth
ing that cannot be broken, shrunk nor
creased.
The last complete figures for this
year placed the tonnage of the
worlds shipping at 41,91500O tons, of
which 1921 ,OOC were steam and A.
624000 were sail.
Especially to enable dentists to
make accurate diagnoses of the condi-
ton of teeth and jaws is portable
X-ray apparatus that has been per-
fected in Germany.
The standard gallon used in the
United States was established in the
reign of Queen Anne in England
which country adopted new stand
ard nearly century ago.
Scientists fighting African diseases
nave been encouraged by the discov
cry of wasp that feeds its larvae on
tne tse-tse fly, the distributor of many
deadly germs
Light rays, concentrated from a
source of sufficient actinic power, can
be made to penetrate the entire hui
man body, Independently affecting
all the inner organs,
A French commission has reported
IN favor of the inclined over the YER
ucal system of penmanship as less
likely to injure the spines of children
while being taught to write.
A tOothed-wheel to break the ice
followed by scraper to remove it
from trolley wires, the two to be at
tached to any trolley car pole, have
been invented by Kansas man.
A Trinidad planter has discovered
a way to mako paper from sugar cane
so economically that it is said to be
profitable to raise cane for the paper
stock, the sugar being a by-product.
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