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Show NOTES OF - W SCIENCE Ml I INVENTION London is the banking center of the world. Radium emits three streams of minute mi-nute particles. Palmistry was practiced by the ancient an-cient Greeks. Cinnamon is a species of laurel that thrives In Ceylon. In point of Instinct antB rank above all animals except man. The sand dunes of the Sahara desert move about 50 feet each year. A chair in aeronautics has been established es-tablished aC a Vienna college. Men of science have not yet decided whether microbes are plants or animals. ani-mals. ' English mortality figures Indicate that farmers are the healthiest clasB of men except clergymen. For drying stockings a New Yorker has patented a wire frame to stretcn them, adjustable to any size. Asbestos recently was discovered In Sardinia in quantities that are expected ex-pected to make mining profitable. The amount of starlight reaching the earth is equal to that of three thousand stars of the first magnitude. More than 1,100 women students are enrolled at Berlin university this year, of whom 60 are from the United States. Because It has more phosphoric acid In easily digested shape than any other fruit, the apple Is one or the best brain foods. The queen of Bulgaria has a medical degree, and the young queen ot Bel-glum Bel-glum is said to be the only oculist of royal blood In the world. An attachment lor a gas jet that will cook almost anything as well as a gas range would do It has been Invented In-vented by an Englishman, |