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Show INDUSTRIAL MECHANICAL NOTES Glycerin Is n by-product of tbo soap factory. It takes 7.O0O tons of coal to bring ono of tho modern liners across tho Atlantic. Two districts In tho Philippines aro yielding gold profitably and prospect-Ihg prospect-Ihg s In progress lu several other localities. lo-calities. A calclmlno brush Invented by an Ohio man consists of n number of thin brushes fastened sldo by sldo to a sin-glo sin-glo handle. An Alabama man has Invcntod apparatus ap-paratus to bo fastened to tho back of n borso to bold Its hoofs In position for shoeing. A locomotlvo that originally was built In 1847 has been reconstructed and given light work to do by an English Eng-lish railroad. With a production of moro than five and a luilf billion pounds tho Chilean nttruto tlelds established a now record rec-ord lust year. Tho value of canned pineapples shipped from Hawaii during the fiscal fis-cal year of 1911 amounted to two million dollars. Tho success of the stepless car on tho street railways of Now York bus led to tho placing of an order for ICO cars of this typo. Tho back support of a stopladder patented by n Texas man can bo turned turn-ed up to form an extension ladder ot tho ordinary typo. A heating pinto of tho usual typo, a stand to hold food and a hood to cover cov-er them form a new oven for uso over a single gas stove burner. To an actress Is attributed tbo recent re-cent Invention of a capacious trunk which ran be converted Into a complete com-plete bureau and dressing tablo. A machine which thoroughly cleanses 300 barrols an hour by washing wash-ing tbem lusldo and out and rinsing them several times bo been Invented |