The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-01-17
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From Our Exchanges

"A new waterproof material is made of
cork and cloth.
Maine last year raised in two counties
$50, 600, 900 worth of potatoes.
"A Pitts6eld Mass. man sweetens his
coffee with chocolate drops.
In a chicago maternity hospital prints
are made of the babies feet with ink to
make their naturalization certain.
"A lighthouse on an island in the Brit
ish channel has been equipped with teIe-
phone SO that shipping men can land and
converse with persons on the mainland.
"A Korean lad holds the worlds record
for rapidity at figures. Recently he added
mentally column of Is items of four
figures each in seven seconds.
Experts have estimated that the tin de-
developed; can be made to supply about
three fourths of that country's needs.
instruments invented by German to
register the electricity produced by the
heart and its distribution enable physicians
to accurately diagnose diseases of that organ.
The fellow who wants to be the victor
bad enough to cheat never gets to be any
thing more than cheat no matter how
often he wins.
Life is good deal like railroad jour
ney. The people who ride in the day
coaches get off at exactly the same station
as those who ride in the Pullmans.
The handle of a new soldering iron is
hollow and can be filled with pellets of
solder, one of which is released to roll down
into the heated point as releasing spring is
pressed.
"A Swiss inventor has brought out de-
vice intended to keep the pressure on electric
lines constant and prevent lights becoming
dim when additional loads are switched into
circuits.
"A European violin instructor has in
vented diagram printed on paper to be
pasted on the neck of an instrument to
show pupil where to place his fingers to
produce desired notes.
TO enable man to hear a telephone
in noisy room and at the same time have
his hands free for use sound ampli6er ter
minating in tube to be inserted in one ear
has been invented.
OF French invention is boat pro-
peller with the blades extending far forward
and back of, the hub and so shaped that
the water is not churned and no vacuum is
caused around the hub.
"A new automobile spring lubricator re-
semb.es Ratchet, grease being contained
in the handle and passing through the blade
as it is inserted between the leaves of the
spring.
To lessen the humming of telephone
wire when fastened to buildings a system
invented in Europe encloses them in cement
cylinders that are softer on the inside than
the outside.
To facilitate rapid writing there has
been invented metal device to be clamped
to the little finger and with shelf on which
to rest the next finger and slide over sur
face written upon.
For tourists there has been invented a
clothing closet mounted on a wire frame
which can be folded and carried in a trunk,
being extended and hung on nail when
hotel room is reached.
After experimenting for several years.
Swedish railroad officials have decided that
peat powder is an efficient and practical fuel
for locomotives with value of about two
thirds that of coal.
To enable rifeman to see where his
bullets go an Ohio inventor has designed a
target which, when hit, extinguishes lights
in front of it and shows a light from the
back through the bullet hole.
Rubber tree tapping by series of small
borers set in circle, the invention of an
English expert in the Belgian Kongo, has
proven more productive method than the
customary vertical incision system.
AT the Hale's Corners, Wis, county
fair each year, old horses, for which the
farmers have no more use, are sold at auc-
ton. Generally peddlers buy them. but
this year a woman bid off the whole lot of
broken-down beasts took them to the hui
name agent and had them shot.