Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-17
Some Facts

when deer is without horns he
feels weak.
out OF every one thousand births
IL are twins.
The doors of tho up-to-date garage
are now controlled by an electric mo-
tor.
only the back tilts In new revolv-
ing office chair that is said to be more
than ordinarily restful to users.
A cook stove that Is supplied with
gas from headlight tanks has been
invented for automobile tourists
woman Is the patentee of new
post-hole digger with IA hinged scoop
to remove all the loose earth from n
hole.
SO that IL will be OF convenient size
until consumed IA cake of SOAP Las
been invented that has n hollow waNcd
paper core.
n Hong Kong man has invented n
system of shorthand applicable To the
Chinese language by which speed of
lao words IA minute has been attained.
Recent government figures show
that only one person In every one
thousand In Denmark is unable to
read and write, compared with seven
In each one thousand in the United
States.
Mike Liskas. who had not been able
to talk for "A year. was boxing with
his cousin. John Liskas. in New Cas-
tie, Pa. when he stopped "A strong
right with ,he point of his jaw. Blood
began to flow, and the anxious John
was about TO go for doctor when
Mike cried "l ou have not hurt me; 4;
you have brought back my voice"
In the case OF Homer Moore, author
of the opera Louis XIV, against
Florence Constantine, tenor, ST.
Louis judge will be called on to de-
eide what Is and what Is not singing.
Constantine was hired to sing a. the
performance of the opera. and col
lected sl.250, but Mr.. Moore COM
plains that ho uttered 'wahs' and
''la-las" instead of the words. ana for
got his role, filling in the part TO the
despair of the orchestra. That, Mr.,
Moore says, was not singing.
The first dropping bal 'oons
were humble enough and equally flu
tile. Balloons had been used In war
as early as the siege of Maubeuge by
the Austrians for observation pur-
poses. The first talk of bomb drop
| ping was in 1912. when the Russians
were said to have had a huge balloon
| for that purpose; but nothing was
done with it. In 1S47. however the
Austrians, when attacking Venice
sent up paper fire balloons, which
were to drop bombs into the town
But they forgot to allow for contrary
| air currents. The balloons got into
such current and, drifting back over
| the Austrian line, bombed them in
stead of Veplce.
All evidence points to the fact tha
the navel orange, now so largely
grown in the United States, first came
into existence at Cabulla, "A suburb o
Bahia, Brazil, early in the nineteenth
century as a sport from the Selects
| orange. The latter variety Is still
grown extensively near Bahia, anC
sometimes shows a tendency to pro
duce fruit with n ell-developel ma
vel. Such fruit, however, is not seed
less. tho the number of seeds is fela
lively small. The navel variety ha
almost entirely supplanted the paren
stock about Bahia, where IL has beer
known for one hundred years II wa
from n plantation near Bahia, so ia
as can be determined, that the budde,
trees were obtained thru which tn
navel orange wood was introduce,
into the United States. Several wer
shipped to the United States depart
ment of agriculture. Trees wer
grown in the department greenhouse
and others propagated from then
were distributed to California an,
Florida. The variety proved TO b
unsuited to the latter state, but ii
California IL Is very productive am
highly valued. Almost the entir
planting of the variety In that stat
can be traced directly back 20 two o
the trees sent there by the depar:men
of agriculture in 1873.