The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1922-06-30

0uiiAHulll, uSeQ IN the
manner OF reinforced concrete.is now
OBTAINED by embedding in the ain.
inlnum mass thin steel portions which
transmit tensile stresses, the surround
ing aluminium being relied upon To
TAKE care of compressiye stresses
ASBESTOS suits are made for persons
engaged in work that REQUIRES fire.
proof clothing. Asbestos can be snun
so fine that 100 yards of the filament
VIII weigh only one ounce and cloth
can De made from this weighing only
lew ounces to the square yard.
Inc Oldest post-office building in the
united States is in st. Augustine
Florida, Records at Seville. Spain
show that the structure was erected
some time between 1868 and 1903 by
Gonzaio Mendez. The King of Spain
bought it in 1904 for a residence of
the Spanish governor of Florida.
A radio telephone at each of the 70
tables OF SanFrancisco hotel enables
the diners to listen to one of several
concerts that are brodcast daily.
Diners now eat while listening and
the hotels of the city are making pre-
parations to have wireless phones in
stalled in their guest rooms.
president Harding has copy OF the
Marion Star, his own paper, delivered
at his executive desk every morning
and he reads it before he does any
thing else. Throughout the day it is
neatly folded away on the left-hand
corner of the desk for ready refer
ence.
Becky Thatcher the little school
girl in the Mark Twain book on the
adventures of Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn, is a real person
living today in Hannibal, Missouri,
old home of Mark Twain. She is Sc
years of age and is matron OF The
Home of the Friendless there.
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A new stump-burping method en-
ployed in Washington consists CT plac-
ing an apparatus against the stump
with flue and blowpipe in position.
A draft created by the blowpipe turns
the inside of the stump into mass
of Goals, the fire eats down into the
roots and the entire stump is consum-
ed at half the cost of former methods.
The first sawmill within the Arctic
Circle will soon be established at Her
schel Island, at the mouth of the
Mackenzie River. The engine accom-
panying the mill is of the two-cycle
kind, without carburetor or ignition,
and can be run on fish oil or crude
petroleum from the Fort Norman
wells.
Flashing across the skies of Vir-
ginia, a meteor struck in grove of
oak trees in the south central portion
of the state, making a depression in
the earth which measured more than
500 square feet in area. The meteor
was composed of metallic substance
and several trees were buried beneath
the falling body. Homes in nearby
towns were rocked by the conclusion
i The Chinese prefer paper of much
softer quality for their correspond,
ence than that made for the use OF
Americans. This is because the
Chinese write entirely with brushes
and ink. Wrapping paper of a soft
thin variety, light cream in color, is
usually found in the better stationery
shops, while the native shops sell a
cheap brown paper.
A community cow, rented out at 81 a
week to families in the congregation
who have children, is the property
of the Church-by-the-S ide-of-the- Road
in Greensboro, North Carolina. The
proceeds realized from this rental are
being saved to buy other cows and
/ eventually there will be community
herd to supply milk in large quantities
for all the children in the congrega-
ton.
A substitute for cardboard and wood
in boxes is a chemical composition OF
sawdust and ashes. The finished
boxes are light, washable, sanitary
and poisonous. They are water.
proof and as freproof as asbestos and
can be made in any degree OF fiexi-
bility or texture. either as hard as
oak. tough as metal or pliable as card
board A pound of the substance from
which the boxes are made costs not
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