The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
MOVING, PACKING, & STORING
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.

Germany has a canal boat operated By trolley.
Edison advocates a system Of automatic stores for
use Of poor people.
The repair and removal Of instruments costs the
New York Telephone Company 100000 q year.
bridge at Yarmouth, England. revolTes Q
bearing containing balls two inches in diameter.
spoon which permits the most careless persons
TO sip soup noselesly has been invented recently.
species Of stiff graS which grUws abundantly
in that country IS used for match sticks In India.
An adjustable steering column that will meet the
height requirements Of any person Is q new auto
mobile feature.
Indications point to a heavy mortality from plague
IN India this year. Gases and deaths have increased
each week this year.
The Russian city Of Baku will obtain a new water
supply from mountains I'D miles distant, English
engineers doing the work.
Set upright in concrete bases old steel rails ara
used for telephone poles in Panama, where tropical
insects soon destroy timber.
For extremely nearsighted persons spectacles have
| been invented in Germany in which the lenses
| replaced by short telescopes
| Hats for women have been invented which do not
\ need hat pins the fabric winding around the hair
fastening with hooks and eyes
! A street sprinkling wagon, from which the water
issue in fat sheets, striking the ground without
splashing. Is a recent invention
II q bathroom towel rack be made Of pipe and
connected with the hot water system, It will In
sure supply Of warm and dry towels
New swimming apparatus made OF thin cushions
that can be inflated through air valve, Is % coin
pact that it can be carried in the pocket.
One Of the newest automobile horns be made
to produce three different tones by moving the bulb
| that supplies it with air TO different angles.
A New South Wales irrigation dam. which wiz
cost S,6sO.000 will mpound g. 000 cubic feet
Of water backed up in lake forty miles long
Out Of q lsl vessels in and out Of Singapore Har
Dor in 1910, the American flag was sen on six-OnO
cruiser two Enboats, collier. and two yachts
The rroYince of Nova Scotia has built per
MAJ dOpa han II
Canada, says the Nova Scotia bridge Commissioners.
One OF the hardest problems confronting amy
and navy engineers is the bending Of great guns
by their weight wtre-wound guns being greater
offenders in this particular than the built-up kind
Paris with a population Of 100000 has 1900
tonobies. Moscow, with 10000 inhabitants, has
Tm. The gasoline auto Of to-day Is not suited to
Russia
New Jersey woman has invented combination
chair and ironing board which folds into compact
form that takes up but little room when it Is not
in use.
The production Of oil fields between Tampdco and
Tuxpan Mexico is 5000 TO 1000 barrels daily, oe
which about 1000 being lost for want Of storags
facilities.
Because one aviator was lost in tho North Sea. an
English airman has equipped his machine with an
acetyIene fare which would burst into nHne should
he fall into the water.
The Mount Painter field Of South Australia b Q
wonderful place for the occurrence Of rare minerAA
and company has been recently formed 70 recover
radium from the earth.
A Russian locomotive works has closely copied
the American Prairie" type in building five high
speed engines fer on the line from ST. Peters-
burg 10 the Austrian frontier.
Resembling spoon with round wooden handls
and with the point and sides sharpened Is tool
that a New Yorker has invented for removing tins
eyes from fruit and vegetables.
Germany's efforts to levy tolls the navigation
Of the Rhine is giving the Hallanders some concern.
In the British rayy in 1903 there were lSsh
British and $50 LAscars and Asiatics.
Lake Baikal, IN Central Asia. and Lake. Tan
Eanyika IN Central Africa, furnish similar ptobens
for scientists Both fresh water, removed frun
oceans, yet both contain deepsea fish.
In testing tungsten lamps for durability French
railroad uses a machine which subjects sample lamps
to all sorts Of jots and jars, the breaking OF Ma
ment shutting OF the motor which operates II.
SaIonika is the most progressive city Of Turkey, a.
lis shown By the enterprise OF its Inhabitants and the
Industrial schemes urder way and proposed In tho
| papers American advertisements are beginning 70
appear
Iuv.stiaations by the Geological Survey Of ths
erosion Of numerous drainage basins ct The Urtteo
States show that the surface OF the country -
being worn away at a nate Of about an inch In
/ Ia years.
The last test Ct the standard Troy pound weight
of the Philadelphia Mint. bg which the gold and
/ silver coins cf the United States are weighed,
showed it had gained In Weight but '-is0 q
| grain In eighty-six years OF service
To protect the bottoms Of soa-going yessela ncm
MAXINE RroWths an Englishman has invented
method for plating their hus with giass Separated
from the steel by coating Of wood p1lp 70 SCI
as a cushion and prevent the glass breaking Wnen
heat expands the steel.
ne princiFal lumber producing States In ls9
wtre: Washington, ee2slsoo5 feet Louisiana.
ISL $500; AiississtrF 2sS2 600; Nerth Carona
7iecoo; Texas 20se.i0.6o; wisconsin 2o1eS. 90;
Crcrcn 1 pe $500; Michigan. 1sD f7t0os AAh1uaA,
! Lea 90, and Minnssota iso.M2