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Show SCIENTIFIC AND GENERAL Franco lias 354 licensed airmen. A plnless hat for women hooks aiound tho head Mth hooks and eyes. Ovens heated by gas blasts are growing In favor for tho use of large break bakeries. An Instrument for measuring 'lie i nocturnal tcircstrlal radiation of luat bus been Invented by a Danls'j scientist. scien-tist. ' A year's product of the sllkworn, made Into u single thread would stretch around the world one and a rpiarter million times. It Is proposed to pass a law lu I Franco providing that private flying machines may bo requisitioned by the government In case of war, J. P. Ilrewer, a Neosho (Kan.) m.i, had to get off tho water wagon in older to get married. Ho drives the street sprinkler. A windstorm, possibly of a jealous disposition visited Braymer, Mo., a fow days ago and wrecked the homes of two well known auctioneers. Mnyor Graham of Wichita Is quoted as saying to tho mayor of Tulsa: "It Is hell running n prohibition city when a majority of ono's constituents have champagne appetites," In 11)10 fiscal year Germany lmpoit-cd lmpoit-cd ?3,12G,130 worth of boots and shoes and exported $3,277,734 worth Her purchases from the United Stntci amounted to $038,3.".,', besides l It..'.,-17!) It..'.,-17!) worth of "upper leather" We Impelled last year $17,043,001' ww th of works of art, twenty years old nnd over free of duty, besides 673,23 torth of art works produced abroad by Americans. Wo exported $9US,321 worth of paintings and statuary. sta-tuary. Tho Monett (Mo.) .Midgets, heretofore hereto-fore regarded ns Invincible, went over to Aurora and got trimmed, lu n column col-umn obituary In the Monett Star a Midget tan explains that "they had ( to pitch downhill, had to field uphill and tho umpire was n burglar." An English manufacturer at Bradford Brad-ford Is now weaving a cloth mado entirely en-tirely (warp nud weft) of human hair. Tho fabric is Intended for lnterllnlngs for men's wear, and possesses the ad' vantages of being absolutely unbreakable, unbreak-able, uuslulnkable uhd uncrcasable. A "come again" note from tho Glasgow Glas-gow Mlssourlan: "The editor of the Missourlau Is wearing a new summer lid, thanks to the generous hearted Col. Sol Oppenhclmer, tho head push jf tho Olasgow Mercantile company, ivho Is at present sojourning In our cy" Tho century old dispute over tho ooundury between Persia nnd Turkey lu Asia from Mt. Ararat south to the Persian guld seems to bo at last In a fair way to bo settled. At a confer. enco recently held lu Constantinople both governments agreed to submit tho points In contest to Tho Hague tribunal and to abide by Its decision. Tho discovery of a seam of good quality of coal, which far exceeds In Importance anything that has yet been found In tho Kent coal area, was plciccd on May 17 In a concession horning north of Dover, tho seam proving to bo no less than twelvo feet ten Inches thick. Tho seam was struck seventy feet below one nearly five feet thick, and Is believed to be second only to tho great seam of South Staffordshire. In an address to the Paris Academy of Sciences Professor Dnlthazard contends con-tends that when a leaden bullet traverses tra-verses cloth characteristic marks are left upon It, which are not obliterated by the subsequent passage of tho bul-lot bul-lot through flesh, provided that It does not strlko a bono. It Is oven possible, he claims, to Identify the nature na-ture of the garment through which the bullet has passed by n careful examination ex-amination of the marks on the .lead. M An executive order Is being prepared pre-pared In tho office of tho governor-general governor-general declaring tho region about Taal volcano to be a public reservation reserva-tion nnd prohibition residence thereon. there-on. The exact terms of tho order havo not been given out; but It is bellqved that It will bo modeled on tho legulatlons applied to Taal dur-I dur-I Ing Spanish days, when no one was ' allowed to settle on the volcanic island is-land or on the west shore of the lake. I Manila Times. The Andover Theological seminary has stored at Andover, Its library of 55,000 volumes; these books will bo moved to tho library of tho now building build-ing In Cambridge In Juno on motor trucks. It Is Interesting to know that tho road which thesa books will traverse tra-verse by way of Lawrence, Heading and Wakefield Is tho sumo over which tho library of Harvard college was carried to Andover for safe keeping In i evolutionary times. At that time the books wero hauled In ox carts, Harvard Alumni Bulletin. |