The Ocala banner., 1922-07-21
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FROM "FoRD's" DEARBORN INDEPENDENT

in common use when white explor-
ers visited the North Pacific, al
though copper and iron we're found
almost everywhere Stone hammers
and axes discovered are almost
identical with the tools of the
|neolithic man found in Europe old
she'll mounds on the Fraser and
Thompson rivers reveal many
things formerly used by man of the
Stone Age.
Asbestos suits are made for per-
fraproof clothing. Asbestos can be
sDun so fine that 100 yards of the
filament will weigh only one ounce
and cloth can be made from this
weighing only few ounces to the
square yard.
Becky Thatcher" the little
schoolgirl in the Mark Twain book
on the adventures of Tom Sawyer
and Huckleberry Finn, is a real per-
son living today in Hannibal, Mis-
souri,, the old home of Mark Twain
She is Sc years of age and is matron
of the Home of the Friendless
there.
A radio telephone at each of the
20 tables of a San Francisco hotel
enables the diners to listen to one
of several concerts that are broad
cast daily. Diners now eat while
listening and the hotels of the city
are making preparations to have
wireless phones installed in their
guest rooms.
"Armored" aluminium, used in the
now obtained by embedding in the
manner of reinforced concrete, is
aluminium mass thin steel portions
which transmit tensile stresses, the
surrounding aluminium being relied
upon to take care of compressive
stresses.
President Harding has a copy of
the Marion Star, his own paper. de-
nvered at his executive desk every
morning and he reads it before he
does anything else Throughout the
day it is neatly folded away On the
left-hand corner Of the desk for
ready reference.
The first sawmill within the Arc
tic Circle will soon be established
at Herschel Island at the mouth of
the Mackenzie River The engine
accompanying the mill is of the two
cycle kind, without cerburetor orig
milton. and can be run on fish oil
or crude petroleum from the Fort
Norman wells.
new stump-burning method en-
ployed in washington consists of
placing an apparatus against the
stump with fue and blowpipe in pos
ition. A draft created by the blcwpipe
turns the inside of the stump into
mass OF Goals, the fire eats down
into the roots and the entire stump
is consumed at half the cost OF for
mer methods.
The Chinese prefer a paper OF
much softer quality for their CORES
pondence 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 bet
ter stationery shops, while the nat
i've shops sell a cheap brown paper.
Flashing across the skies OF vir-
ginia, a meteor struck in grove
of oak trees in the south central
portion of the state, making de-
preston in the earth which measur-
ed more than 500 square feet in
area. The meteor was composed of
a metaEc substance and several
trees were buried beneath the fall
ing body. Homes in nearby towns
were rocked by the concussion.
A community COW. rented out at
81 week to families in the con-
gregation who have children. is the
of-the-Road in Greensboro, North
property of the Church-by-the-Side-
Carolina The proceeds realized
from this rental are being saved to
buy other cows and eventually
there will be a 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 compos-