The Ocala banner., 1921-08-19

which had been bricked in centuries
ago contained complete daily records
since January /, of that year. DEGREES
Eof Spanish kings and Aztec relics we're
also found.
Texas is capable of marketing an
nually four million tons Of wax from
weed known as the candelilla plant.
lIt grows on the poorest kind OF soil
and a yield of ten tons an acre is
| frequently obtained. There are only
six factories in Texas manufacturing
the was at this time.
A carload of living quail has been
sent from Mexico to the State Game
Commission of Maryland The COM
mission is planning to restock the
country with, quail. The birds are
purchased from the natives of Mexi-
Ico who trap them for this purpose.
$50
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
Imerce is planning forest OF the
states" for Exhibition Park. 1t is
hoped to obtain a tree representative
of every state in the Union, as well
as from Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam,
the Philippines and Alaska. They
will be cared for by the Los Angeles
Municipal Park Commission.
$50
Al French scientist claims to have
discovered a process by which he can
convert iron directly into steel within
the space of five hours. 1t is said
that this has long been the dream
of experts. ,~.-
i A noted Chinese horticulturist has
produced, on his estate in Florida, a
remarkobIe variety of citrus fruit, a
perfumed grapefruit. The fruit, when
placed in a room, permeates the air
with an odor unlike that of any citrus
plant Only one tree of the variety
bears at present.
After piercing his heart with a IT.
! inch knife, with. which he was cutting
rope, 16-year-oId boy in New York
City was hurried to hospital, where
surgeons took four stitches in the
heart muscles and three in the cover
ing. 1t is reported that he is recover
ing.
! Senator Arthur Capper has loaned
out two hundred thousand dollars,
without security. to boys to purchase
pure-bred pigs The boys become in
terested in their stock raising and re-
main on the farm. The Senator is
applying the same idea to chicken
clubs with girl members and has al
ready loaned fifty thousand to Kansas
girls for purchase and development
of pure-bred focks
i Help came from the skies when a
man walked off the. sea wall recently
Unto the Potomas River. The pilot of a
seaplane five hundred feet in the air
saw him plunge into the water and
swooping down enabled his companion
fiier to drag the drowning man to
safety.
i The perkless train has arrived in
Sweden. BY employing anti-friction
4 bearings, technically known as disk
bearings, in place of the present jour
nal bearings on passenger cars, the
resistance at starting cars is so re-
duced that from ten to fifteen per
cent of the pulling force required with
i journal bearings will cause the train
| to move.
As result Of a terrific hail storm
which recently swept section of Col
orado. many wild ducks, unable to bat
tie against the high wind and the hail.
broke their wings, causing them to-
fall helpless to the earth. In the vi
cinity Of Crestone fully one hundred
plump ducks were obtained
i In barren and waterless waste in
British East Africa is what appears
to be lake covered with coating
Of snow partly thawed and then frozen
again It is in reality a deposit of
soda. Travellers travelling this dis
trict in the dry season find their shoes
burned and the sharp spikes Of the
soda will pierce any but the thickest
soles. During the rainy season the
lake is beautiful pink.
Il A Paris dispatch is authority for
the statement that blind worker in