The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-08-22
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Duluth has put into service a comb.
nation automobile patrol and emer.
gency ambulance.
Chicago health board offers free IT,
phoid fever serum incubation to 1000
citizens to popularize the idea.
Treaty tree" twenty feet In cir
conference, near Tarrytown, N. T.. IA
NOUS In history. has just died.
Draining the Zuider Zee Of Holland
win be undertaken in parts. The frst
lam will reclaim 10000 acres.
According to the Canadian Forestry
association, 30 per cent of Canada 10
capable Of growing nothing but timber
crops.
The old cathedral Of st. Louis.
New Orleans, has been closed as un-
safe, owing to the sinking Of the east
wall. It was built in 1921.
Known as the kleptograph, a burglar
alarm invented by III Italian ignites
q fashlight and photographs the in
truder who invades the room in which
Il Is set
Dogwood. the principal source Of
shuttles for use in cotton mills, is
growing scarcer year by year, and vari-
ous substitutes are being tried. but
with no great success.
One Of the German navy's dirig1ble
balloons is being fitted with a 10000
candle power %searchlight capable of
illuminating the surface Of the sea
R~n~ a hofnht NJ K mn foot
Missing his mistress when she came
out a Boston dog waited. %forty-eight
hours at a church door for her ap-
pearance and could only be induced
TO leave when she came after him.
For testing the terminating qualities
of seeds quickly an Iowa man has
patented a cabinet something like an
incubator, warm moisture rising
through the walls and dropping on the
seed trays.
An ultra modern German institution,
the purpose Of which Is to counteract
the evil Of haste in the modern bust
ness world, is the ''slumber saloon"
where sixty hunks for MONDAY maps
are provided.
The chief industries of northern
Rhodesia are cattle ranching. general
farming. tobacco and cotton raising.
Citrus fruits also do we'll Up to the
present there has been but little min.
eral development
The integrity of afternoon tea in
England has been threatened by some
~usovr,pr,lo,, no~ horo ~ tho hoNon
Of commons, who have ordered steaks
and heavy food at the hour when the
aroma of tea should hold its OWL
A machine has been perfected which
pours any dry powder into a paper
bag, folds the bag, makes a paper box
and places bag and a folded circular
within 1t, pastes or a label and seals
the box at a rate Of 1900 boxes an
hour.
To aid a policeman in controlling a
prisoner a Philadelphia has patented
gloves with electrodes in the palms
which send a powerful current through
an unruly man from a storage battery
forming a part Of the policeman's
equipment
An automatic fire alarm and ex-
tinguisher invented in Germany m
ploys a thermostat to ring a bell and
Nberate large quantities Of carbonic
acid gas In a In which 1t Is
placed when the temperature rises
above the danger point
A brides dressing room is to be pro-
vided at a church in Madison avenue.
New York. The organ loft over the
church entrance will be removed, and
in its place q beautifully equipped
room will be built. Here the bride will
be able to put the finishing touches to
her attire after the drive to the church.
The coke industry in the United
States has now reached in good years
the $1OO,OOO.OOO mark. and, moreover.
there is a steadily growing increase In
the proportion Of coke made In by.
products retort ovens whereby the val
liable byproducts of gas, tar, ammonia.
ETC.. are saved to the value of tens Of
millions Of dollars annually.
A life buoy for aerial navigation has
been invented by a Nova Scotia man.
The parachute is folded In a horizon
tai position on the tail of the flying
machine and attached to the aviator
by harness. It is folded by straps
connected to electromagnetic releases
and on the pressure of a button will
open and lift the aviator out Of his
seat.
The new Chinese dictionary publish
ed recently at Shanghai represents five.
years labor of many Of China's great
est scholars and supersedes as the
standard the famous dictionary pub
slfshed in 1716 by the authority of the
emperor Khanghsi. Many scientific
words are included in the new diction.
my. and many obsolete characters have
been dropped.
Alfred Austin. the late poet laureate,
was lucky In his work as a journalist.
For many years he did his daily task
III home with the assistance of a tele-
graph wire run into his study sixty
miles from the London Standard Of
ice. His instructions came over the
aUfre. and his editorial article went to