Show S II SCRAPS Abandoned forma farms in New England are being used for tor tree cultivation Spanish Is the tho official language of nations or states The average life Ufe of ot a tradesman tradesmen is Ss about two thirds that Of ot a farmer The city of Durban South Africa will spend for electric ele trio lights and rail ways An English agricultural society is rats rat ing lug a fund rund with which to exterminate the sparrow Sp Nearly every foreign automobile builder i now casts all nIl the cylinders of his engines in a solid niece The fur tur seal will not breed In captivity This does not apply to the hair seals which are those so readily trained for exhibition purposes A schooner built In Amesbury Mass in 1805 and used in the war of ot 1812 1312 as a n privateer r still Is in active service lathe intha Maine Maizie coasting oO trade A French scientist has figured that it would take a lamp to signal Mrs Mars and even at itt that the Mar would have to use telescopes magni tying ten thousand times to see it The Tha first carbon filaments made by Thomas Edison for tor his new incandescent lamp were made from thread dipped in lampblack and tar and carbonized at high temperatures This lamp was successful enough to warrant further Investigation An ozone generator has been installed In the Chicago public library which will generate ten thousand cubic feet of or air alt a minute This system s not only keeps Ite pa pure air in the large rending reading room but acts as an automatic deodorizer and dis Inventive minds have been trying for a n long time tIm to hit upon some somo process by Which old newspapers could be reduced to a pulp and the ink extracted d and the th pulp made Into printing paper again But Bul tho the extraction of the ink Iule has haa hitherto been unaccomplished unac From Germany however comes the tho news that the paper pap r pulp is treated with alkaline solutions so as to cause Causo a II change in the greasy part of ot the ink so that it ceases to hold the tM lampblack lam black and other pigments pl and they are easily extracted from the fiber by making an emulsion of ot the pulp with gelatinous silica Nearly marriages took place In hi France last year ear Frederick H Weyerhaeuser the lumber 1 Is a German and came to this coun try In 1852 During business hours the southern southernmost southernmost southernmost most square mile of Manhattan island has hasa ha haa a 0 population of Over pounds of ot rose petals are aN ar used In the manufacture of ot ono one pound of ot attar of ot roses perfume Aerial navigation as a commercial en enterprise enterprise enterprise I Is bringing with It the solution of various problems by the German en engineers One Is perfecting for tor the new ne company a system s stem of ot a complete network of ot signal lights for guidance on the night trips For fogs there will be added sig signals signals nals by bell and siren The Archaeological society has made math five excavations around the walls of ot the th amphitheatre in King Arthurs roundtable ble field in England and I Ithe the searchers found the tho main entrance the sand which formed the bed of ot the tha th arena and a corner stone From Inscriptions Inscriptions on this stone they trace the date of ol the theatre back to 1100 11 A D or 1600 years Popular Mechanics A close study of at the tha water supply for tor forthe the operation of ot the locks under present plans shows that the available amount of or water on the Isthmus is not sufficient to maintain at all aU times Umes in the canal the th forty feet of ot depth stipulate for by the law In dry years the modern Dread Dreadnought Dreadnought Dreadnought nought of the tho navy the large carriers of at freight and the army transports will not aol be able to use the canal Van Norden Norder I Magazine |