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cries go to prove the truth of theiI
statements.

of fashion this winter Is the mantle. !
In making this garment the wonderful
skill of the furrier is shown at its best. !
The way in which furs are draped,
cut, fashioned and disposed like the
Simplest velvet in hundreds of taste
full combinations has never been done
before. One of the most surprising
of furs is the reversible
coat, the inside of which is made or
one kind of fur and the outside OF an
other, both so perfectly put together
that they seem to be single skin and
permitting the wearer to put on the
coat inside out. Thus coat made OF
black breitchwantz with collar OF er-
mine, on being turned inside out ap-
pears as a coat of ermine with collar
of breitchwantz. adapting itself at will
TO the color scheme of the dress worn
under it.
Berlin-The trend toward con-
solidation in industry and the dis
placement of small factories and es-
Enlistment by large ones, which
nowhere has been more marked thai
in Germany during the past 40 years
is brought out by statistics just pub
iished.
These show an actual decrease in
the numbers of plants in some of
the leading industries in Germany,
while the aggregate product has
been multiplied many times. The
number of works producing crude
iron has decreased since 1873 from
pa 10 50, and the number of blast
furnaces from 379 to 3O3, yet the
average annual output of each estab-
lishmelt has risen from 9,1S2 tons
to 1890 tons and the total pro-
ductiCn of pig iron from 100000
tons to 14,793,OOO tons.
In 1870 the amount of coal pro-
duced by the 220 mining compan-
les averaged only 1888 tons per
company, but in 1910 the average
was 4@0, 500 tons for each of 31S
companies.
In the beet sugar industry. though
the entire production of Germany
has risen from 256,412 tons in 1875
to 2,512.92S tons in 1910, the num-
Der Of factories increased only from
352 TO 354, but their average annual
output Increased almost tenfold,
from no tons to 7.O9S tons. The
greatest change occurred in the
brewing industry. the 1900 brew
cries Of 1874 being now represented
by only 1929. Each brewery pro-
duced only 10000 gallons of beer
/ in 1874, but now the 1929 estab-
lishments are averaging 3,2S7S,4OO
gallons.
The regulation Of all the public
clocks by wireless energy is the
progressive and ambitious plan just
adopted by the secretary of the I'm.
perial postcffice department.
According to the project of the
inventor, an electrician named Fer
dinand Schneider, which has received
the support of the military and ma
val authorities, a central station viii
be erected near Fulda, centrally sit
uated for the whole empire. 1t viii
have a tower 325 feet high, from
the top of which the electric waves
will be discharged at one minute in
tervals, affecting the hands of al
the clocks in the system. Three
clocks will be employed in the cen
trail station, switching in inter
changeabiy to guarantee absolute &C
curacy.
II is planned to have only one re
ceiving clock in each town, othe
timepieces in the same place beinI
connected with it on the ordinar
electric circuit now In use.
Preparatory steps have alread
been taken toward erecting the cen
trail establishment at Fulda. TIL
inventor guarantees that the syster
will work with absolute accuracy an
that the waves cannot be interfere
with by those OF other wireless sta
lions. The service, II is thought
owing to the great number Of clock
which can be controlled from tn
one station, will be comparatively in
expensive and the obvious advantag
of absolutely uniform time through
out the country has also. II Is under
stood. appealed to the postofic
authorities.