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Show CONDENSATIONS The huge revolving light which hasi been placed at the lighthouse on the: Island of Heligoland, in the North sea,, is perhaps the most powerful flash-' light in the world. It Is equnl to 40,-, 000,000 cundlepower, and in calmi weather enn be seen for a distance otl 30 miles. The tower In which the' light Is stationed is 272 feet above thel sen level. It costs $8,000 a year to' maintain the light. Shears for trimming grnss, mounted mount-ed on wheels and with the handles so extended that they can be used by a person standing upright, have been patented by a Canadian woman. According to the naval critic, Hector C. Bywater, so far as building ways and construction plans are concerned, there is no reason why Germany could not have 25 battleships or battle cruisers under construction at one time. Though he admits that this figure fig-ure may be astonishing, he shows that an examination of the various yards, governmental and private, In Germany, justifies the estimate. In fact, he says that, simultaneously, a program including includ-ing light cruisers, destroyers and submarines, sub-marines, could be put through, Blnca there are many Ccrman yards which, although they cannot build capital ships, are well equipped to produca the lighter craft. He estimates the total working force in all these yard at 100,000 men. Far off the coast of Maine is a jagged ledge of rock, known as Saddleback Sad-dleback Island, on which the only moans of landing Is by derrick to which a sorl of chair is attached. A lighthouse la maintained on this ledge, managed by a keeper and two assistants assist-ants with ten men ou duty ut all1 times. Holland's mines are now producing coal at a rate of about 2,000,000 tonsi a year. It is estimated that o0,400 plants of Easter lilies, representing a value of more than ?2-J,000, were sold In Se-nttle, Se-nttle, Wash., on last Easter Sunday, and that the Easter price of lilies In that city averaged about 2 cents less a blossom than In any other city of thoi United States. The first street railway In the Unit-, ed States was built In New York city In Fourth avenue, between Prince, street and Harlem, in 1812, and horse cars were Introduced Into the principal American cities between then and 1881, when the use of electricity was begun. |