Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-21
KALEIDOSCOPE

h India upper caste girls do not aslcs.
 The inventor of the friction match ls unknown.
 Street begging is greatly on the in- crease in LCndOn.
 COnstantinople consumes about 1000 tons Of sugar @ month.
 New York society women have formed their own radio club.
 Cauada's first league of women vot- CTS has been organized in Toronto. Girl students of the University of Oregon have organized @ rifle team. Women represent nearly 40 per cent of all the bank depositors in the United States.
 Kansas claims to lead all the states in The number of its women holding -l-1lal bank positions.
 Ranches in Arizona make the prick1y cactus edible for cattle by burnlny off the spines with blowtorches.
 Giant berries. looking like black berries. but dark red in color, have been discovered in Colombia, South America. X wireless tower at Tokio. Japan, 560 feet high, of reinforced concrete, Is the highest one-piece structure in tne world.
 Flour has been made successfully from beans and a Brazilian establish nent is now manufacturing this vege- table flour.
 Napoleon Bonaparte owned 2 tin oer-Ighter very similar to those used by cur soldiers in the trenches dur ing the great war.
 A valveless, gearless engine, Intend ed ultimately for the automobile is being brought to the bench-test stage -n Manchester, England.
 A motor truck, completely equipped as a medical and dental clinic visits tae remote tribes in California, ac- companied by a physician and 8 den- tis-
 To guide pilots flying on the Lon don-tO-Paris route. the French gov srnment is placing captive balloons n certain positions at a height of about a mile.
 One day last November in London 3+0,000 pieces Of soot were found in each cubic foot of air and the dia- meter of each piece was one twenty five thousandths of an inch.
 German experimenters are trying to Increase plant growth by the use of waste carbon dioxide from motors and furnaces fed to the soil as a fer niizer through perforated pipes.
 After a long continued diet, includ- ing one-fourth part of white pine saw dust in their ration cows. in a recent experiment, showed no change in their weight or milk production.
 In England the suggestion has been made that the public highways be -olOred by means of some cheap chem lea. spray which would make them ess tiring to the eyes of motor driv- --s
 Before the var. all flasks for pre- aaring typhoid toxin were made in fermany. When of necessity an Am 7ricau company had to make them -ncy were found to be far better than any flasks ever imported.
 Americas only woman railroad president is Mrs. Meta J. Erickson, oi Oakland, Cal. who for nearly ter -ears has been the active head of tht Amadlr Central Railroad Company which was founded by her husband now dead
 A manuscript Bible now being com -le-ed in London will be the biggest 5-his ln the world. T. is five feet two l---1s III l6l6nL ana three Le6L si3 inches in breadth and when opened out fat win measure. seven feet, ter inches across.
 The first notice of an order provid. ag that men and officers in the Brit sh navy should wear a uniform wa. made public March 5 174S, in tn, Iacobite's Journal and from that timt Jn the officers and men have wor1 Inc uniform while in service.
 Westminster Abbey now gives les. sons Co its congregation in the ar lt interpreting church music. For { short period each Sunday afternoon ln expert is present to critise and as Est members of the church in theil -ymn and psalm singing.
 Rivers in Siberia are quite different rom rivers in other parts of tEl. world in one feature, many of then unning over beds of ice. One of tho Tlbutaries of the Lena river has 2 red of ice from nine to twenty feei n thickness, over which the water ias been howeing probably for hun Eeda- of yeara.