The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1916-01-06

ances with which fruit and vegetables
can be canned in jars in ordinary
wash boilers.
The discovery of a gas having the
same relation to hydrogen that ozone
has to oxygen is claimed by an Eng
lish scientist.
An artificial coffee has been invent
ed in Japan which is said to have the
right flavor and large percentage
of nourishment.
Corrections made recently in maps
of Greenland have shown it to be
about 100000 square miles larger than
formerly believed
AZ rotary stuhp-cutting machine.
has been invented that clears land ard
prepares the wood for paper pulp m
the same operation
Kokteik. viaduct in the Shan hills
Upper Burma, is the highest railway
bridge in the world. It is $50 feet
above the water.
Cooking with furnace fire has
been made possible by the invention
of food-hoIding attachment to be
inserted in furnace door.
An Englishman has invented tool
to probe cuts and small holes in au-
tomobile tires and remove articles
which might cause punctures.
California's development of water
power in the last few years has grown
until that state ranks second only to
New York in that respect.
Having spent about $500, 200. for
road Improvement and equipment g.
Swiss company will carry passengers
over the Alps in electric automobiles.
Apparatus Which photographically
records every motion made by a mans
hand, with a machine or tool has been
invented by an efficiency expert.
:: The Lackawana railroad is not sat
isfed with the novelty of it's own
name, SO it calls it's marvellous new
bridge. over East river, New York,
the "Tunkhannock Viaduct.''
Experiments conducted by a large
telephone company have shown that
1900 wires can be crowded into the
same size cable heretofore used for
1,2OO without affecting their eff
cheney.
AS rule a man with a swelled
head suffers less than those who are
compelled to associate with him.
Never do anything disagreeable to-
day that you can just as well put off
until tomorrow. By that time you
may not have occasion to do it.
Don't give your husband too much
rope tomorrow. Give him real cigars
for a change.
Blessed is the man who expects
handkerchiefs for a Christmas pres
ent, for he isn't likely to be disap-
pointed.
Nothing succeeds like the success of
the girl who knows just what she
right young man a gentle hint.
Cupid can see a silver lining of a
dark cloud.
But it is more blessed to receive
than to be- given away.
He who starts out to meet trouble
has a short journey.
1t isn't necessary for a woman to
be an artist to draw mems attention.
A perky feather will answer.
When a woman's age begins to tell
on her she just can't make it shut up.
To realize the hardness of this world
step on a banana skin.
Egypt has more than 1,5OO miles of
railways.
United States this year had Is foot
ball fatalities.
Nigeria formerly sent IA per cent
of it's exports to Germany.
New South Wales devotes $685.
900 acres to Wheat-growing.
Cologne, Germany, before the war
had a population of 652,381.
In the entire world there are g, 424
spoken languages and dialects.
A single projectile from a 15-incf
naval gun weighs 1850 pounds.
Ceylon in 1915 exported to the
United States goods valued at $685.
265.
Labrador had population of 3,94T
in 1901 and two more ten years later
The total value of the. worlds
fishery products has been estimated al
$493, 474,801.
The wealth of the world in norma
times grows at the rate of $4,000,
00O,OO a year.
A rank growth of weeds becomes
an asset when plowed under before
they make seed.
Every Time a 10-lncn gun is nre(
bale of cotton weighing 500 pound.
is blown away.
You could put ali the United State!
except Alaska in Brazil and hav,
| 100000 square miles left.
So many horses have been com
Wandered in Germany that oxen ar,
being used for blowing.
More than 100000 bushels of Tas
| naanian ann1nS have honn Shinnnd +,
Great Britain in one year.
On the average farm flock of 1O'
or $50 hens is more easily made prof
liable than one of thousand.
If the sea were to rise or the Lane
fall twenty feet, the Delaware ant
Chesapeake bays would disappear.
Illuminating gas is being extractet
from a mixture of peat and coal by
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