The Dickinson press., 1913-12-27
.R0U.ij THE WORLD

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ST. Louis hotels now employ only
negro walters.
Rents in Hongkong have advanced %
per cent since the Chinese revolution.
New Orleans refuses to employ mar.
5raed women as public school teachers.
Duluth has put into service a comb
nation automobile patrol and emer.
gency ambulance.
Chicago health board offers free ty.
phoid fever serum incubation to 1000
citizens to popularize the idea.
Treaty tree" twenty feet in cir.
eumference; near Tarrytown, N. T.. ia.
nous in history, has just died.
Draining the Zuider Zee Of Holland
viii be undertaken in parts. The first
dam will reclaim 10000 acres.
According to the Canadian. Forestry
association, 80 per cent Of Canada is
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, q burglar
alarm sinvented by an Italian ignites
Q nashlight and photographs the In
truder who invades the room In which
It Is set.
Dogwood, the principal source of
shuttles for use in cotton mills, is
growing scarcer year by year, and vari-
GUS substitutes are being tried, but
with no great success.
One Of the German navy's dirigible
balloons is being fitted with a 10000
candle power searchlight, capable of
Illuminating the surface Of the sea
from a height Of 5000 feet.
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. u.
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 r~anching, general
farming, tobacco and cotton raising.
Citrus fruits also do well. Up to the
present there has been but little min.
eral development.
The integrity Of afternoon tea in
England has been threatened by some
interruptions members Of the house
Of, commons, who have ordered steaks
and heavy food at the hour when the
aroma Of tea should hold its own.
A machine has been perfected which
pours any dry powder into a paper
bag, folds the bag, makes a paper box
IND places bag and a folded circular
within 1t, pastes on 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 en-
ploys q thermostat to ring q bell and
uberate large quantities of carbonic
acid gas in a room in which It 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 a beautifully equipped
room will be built Here the bride win
be able to put the finishing touches to
her attire after the drive to the church,
The coke industry in the United
States has nov reached in good years
the 500, 100000 mark, and, moreover,
here 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 hutton will