Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 54 | odd and Interesting Facts

ODD and INTERESTING Facts BRiTTLE finger nails can be cured by soaking them frequently in strong alum solutions. . A PERFUMERY atomizer small enough to be carried in a pocketSook is the idea of a French inventor. A COOK stove that is supplied with gas from headlight tanks has been invented for automobile tourists. . ONLY the back tilts in a new revolving office chair that is said to be more than ordinarily restful to users. A WOMAN isie patentee of a new post-hole post-hole digger with a hinged scoop to remove re-move all the loose earth from a hole. AN ATTACHMENT for two-wheeled hand trucks has been invented that holds hags open as they are being filled. SPINACH has been termed the "broom of the stomach" by a French physician because be-cause it thoroughly cleanses that organ. - ITALIAN motion picture makers start Alpine avalanches they photograph by exploding ex-ploding dynamite in the snow by electricity. SO THAT it will be of convenient size until consumed a cake of soap has been invented that has a hollow waied paper core. SEAWEEDS obtain their nourishment from the water in which they grow, not from the ground in which they may be rooted. ALTHOUGH color blindness is hereditary, hered-itary, according to a British scientist, it is transmitted to children only by mothers and never by fathers. A BRITISH aviator has Invented a biplane bi-plane with wings that fold so that It takes up less room on the deck of a ship or in a hangar. -f A MOTOR sleigh built for a Russian grand duke has a cigar-shaped body and is propelled by a suction turbine operating oper-ating against the air in front TO LESSEN the labor of cotton pickers a Virginian has invented a low-wheeled truck on which a person can sit close to the Plants and push himself along, the vehicle also holding a bag to receive the cotton and an umbrella for shade.