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the vineyards i'll SlAin have hoon de-
! stroycd by the lhylIoXera.
! CeIlulose is being recovered from
| waste asparagus by a process dIsrpv-
cred by a Hamburg chemist,
The most hygicnc country i'll tbs
world is Sweden. in the opinion OF Pro
fessor Irving Fisher of Yale.
| Venice is euuipping its fire depart
| mcnt with steam engines carried or
! petroleum propelled motorboats.
| Atlanta, Ca, has a public safety
league of which more than 1,0UV street
railway employees are members.
| Lexington, Mass. has restored its
ancient Paul Revere bclfrey to its orig
inal location whore it stood III 1851.
/ An organization of scientists who are
/ f,f
has recently been formed in Washing
ton,
| st. Louis is being urged to adopt the
plan Of assessing benefited localities
for the purchase aud maintenance of
parks.
The asphalt production of the Unit
ed States. chiefly by Texas and Cali
fornia, has increased more than four
fold in ten years.
CeIuloid models Of gear wheels have
strain steel wheels of the same design
will withstand.
Segundo Sanchez Of Penonome Pan
anna who has proclaimed himself the
Messiah, has predicted the destruction
Of the world.
Ice cream is not used to great ex-
tent in England. Ii the season Is I'M
usually warm there Is a good sale for
bottled soft drinks
The United States has an enormous
appetite for Swiss cheese. About rs
per cent Of all the Swiss cheese pro-
In the cotton mills Of Bnngalore, In
d1a, great part of the work Is per-
formed by children Of both sexes who
do not receive over cents day,
Nearly 70 per cent of the residents
of the United States are using cleo
tricity in some form every day, If only
for telephoning or ringing doorbells
Swiss pastry makers have been ia
nous for many decades With the
bakers and candy makers, they had az
exposition at Zurich recently. 215 ex-
hibitors taking part
The number of ostriches in the I'm
ion Of South Africa exceeds 746, 700.
The weekly sales in the Cape province
average more than million feathers,
not including the lowest grades.
Maps Of Australia, giving the re-
sources, industrial activities, etc. are
to be published by the commonwealth
government at Melbourne. The first
edition will be issued early In 1914
Fan brakes to displace the air be-
meath a car and thus retard its motion
and also to keep the hub brakes cool
have been fitted to some auto iobiles
used in mountainous portions Of Swift
zerland.
1t has been asserted that oranges
are Indispensable to English coal min
ers as a relief from the inordinate
thirst created by the irritation of coal
dust in the membrane Of the throat
and mouth.
Gutta percha now obtained from the
leaves Of the caoutchouc tree is said
to be more durable than that obtained
by tapping the trunk and is coming
into use in France for insulating sub
marine cabies. s..
More than 5000 small logging opera
tors now buy national forest timber
At least 2o.OGO persons, settlers. min
ers stockmen and others. obtain timber
from Uncle Sans big wood lot for
their own use free of charge
Chile thinks of withdra wing all iron
ore deposits from entry by private per
sons or corporations In order to give
the government time to select such
properties as it may want to hold. that
they may become sources Of revenue.
An agricultural chemist Of the Pun
jab government has come to the con
clusion that sugar could be made prof
itably from wild date palms. which
grow plentifully throughout India. one
small province alone having 100000 Of
them
A report Of the United States bureau
of education says the public school
teachers in the United States do not re-
ceive sufficient salary to save enough
money to carry adequate life insurance
or to proceed with further professional