Show SCIENCE OF MANY KINDS Death records show that married men live longer than bachelors From the ruins of Pompeii it appears glass windows existed before 17 DIn D-In the parrots beak both mandibles arc moveablea peculiarity unknown in other species of birds In twelve years the city of Paris has expended ex-pended = 270000 on statues and 85000 on inamental fountains An infant at oirth usually weighs one twentieth of the maximum weight it ought to attain in middle life The salary of the King of Samoa is only SS10 a year His legal adviser is much bettor bet-tor remunerated His pay is 5000 a year The remains of ancient hot air baths and sweat houses still exist on the island of Rathlin on the northeast coast of County Antrim Ireland A valuable find of skeletons belonging the the fourth dynasty was recently made in i Egypt This is the earliest known data of Egyptian remains Papier mache oil cans which are now being made are very endurable and impervious imper-vious to thy spirit or oil likely to be used in a machine room The smallest steam engine ever made has been constructed by a machinist in Chem nitz Saxony The flywheel is twofifths of an inch in diameer Chimneys are scarce in the City of Mexico Mex-ico There are not ten dwelling houses that have them Charcoal is the only fuel used for cooking and heating A creat improvement in machine bear fogs is made from compressed wood pulp combined with graphite No lubrication is necessary and the amount of friction is i greatly diminished It is a valuable fact in natural history that every race whether of man or beast and everything that has life which grows in or from the ground is distinguished by its own peculiar and individual odor Prof Do War in studying the relations of oxygen and magnetism lifted a saucer full of the gas liquefied by a magnet the liquid remaining fast to the poles until dissipated dis-sipated in the original form by the heat of the metal In Boktan they talk of a band of English crusaders who strayed away from their leaders about 1150 AD and settled in Kur distanmingling their blood with the native stock so that it is dangerous for Britons to be too severe about the faults of the Kurds An Italian engineer has originated a system sys-tem by which he proposes to utilize the power of trains running down grade thais tha-is he has devised a machine for compressing compress-ing air as the train goes down which ca n be used to actuate a motor at the will of the engineer and to assist the locomotive on upgrades I |