The Washington herald., 1911-08-28
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.

An Oregon man has invented machine
to make beefsteak tender
The hottest furnaces in the world are
at Niagara-and there Is water enough
there to put them out.
Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah,
and Washington materially increased
their production of silver last year.
Stone temple of unknown antiquity al
Mecca was visited bv worshipers in SOC
and greatly enriched with offerings.
A new German bayonet carries a wire
cutter near its base and another has saw
teeth on the back Of the blade.
A perfect fossil Of huge sea tortoise
has been found on a mountain near Los
Angeles. Cal, 5000 feet above the present
sea level.
An estimate of the annual expenditures
for art education In the United States,
compiled by Henry Turner Bailey in 1908.
is given as q total OF 81, ,565,A.
To train baseball pitchers without the
assistance of other players, an Ohio man
has invented a machine that rings bell
If a pitched ball crosses a plate.
Lazy tong gates that automatically close
to protect an operators hands when a
machine Is started after a piece Of work
Is inserted are new safety device.
A self-dumping barge invented in Eu-
rope unloads its contents by tipping over
bodily when water is pumped into a tank
supported over one side of the deck.
A Boston man has invented ap electric.
fountain, small enough for use as din
ing table decoration. in which the falling
water supplies power to change the color
OF the lights Illuminating It.
So nonconductive of electricity is dry
snow that the bare wire OF the telephone
live H. Ttolia Oh NA~1y ~,
Mount Rosa often buried in it without
interfering with the service.
Such satisfactory rubber has been OBJ
tanned from secies of tree growing
abundantly in Natal that a factory for
refining II Is to be established in England
In the new naval collier Jupiter tur-
hine engines will drive electric genera.
tors. which will provide current for pow
erful motors connected directly with the
propeller shafts.
Expert French butter tasters claim
that they can perceive the flavor Of the
soil over which cattle browse. no matter
Wat the race of the cows producing the
butter may be.
To stop a rupaway horse there has
been invented a curtain, to be attached
to the harness at one side OF the ami
mails head and unrolled over its eyes by
its driver pulling a cord.
Equality Of strength in both arms oc-
ours almost twice as frequently among
women IS among men, a very large ma
Jority Of the latter being stronger in
their right arms than in their left.
bag, which a fruit picker may take
with him into a tree fill, lower to the
ground, and empty without bruising the
fruit or descending himself, has been in
vented by a Pennsylvania.
Experiments have been made by the
United States Bureau of Mines IN COM
bining limestone with coke as q fuel.
forming a liquid Stag which runs free
ly and avoids clinker and ash troubles.
The authorities of Duxbury. Mass.
are seeking the persons who desc
Grated Miles Standish's grave. The Of
tenders went TO the grave and tipped
over the four marble columns. Special
detectives are aiding in the search for
the culprits.
The objection to armor plate COM
posed OF alternate layers of hard and
soft steel, which separate under ham
mering, has been overcome by the in
sertion of sheets OF copper between the
plates before they are rolled together,
to bind them.
To prevent moving picture theatef
panics In case OF fire. a Swede has In
vented COmDuStiDle COrd 10 De plaC6d
near the film and burn II Il burns. re-
leasing a weight to close doors about
the projecting machine and to switch
on all lights in the building.
For the first time IN athletic history
Chinese athletes will compete with
those OF other nations at the Olympic
games OF 1919 at Stockholm. Sweden
For this purpose an Englishman has
been training students OF the Univer-
sity OF Shanghai for three years.
A California inventors wave power mo.
tor consists OF small truck with o
broad tail A wave. striking the tail,
pushes the affair up n track and piston
In the head OF the truck compresses air
In q cylinder.
The upper end OF an iron ladder f,rs-
escape that New Yorker has patterned
is mounted on rollers that run along y
track built the length Of building. %
that u can b moved 70 any window
whore q nay b naedsA