Show EMOTION AND rnoWffNu Notebook Convenience The arm rest that the bookkeeper finds so useful In wrltHg up his accounts ac-counts has been duplicated In modified form for the benefit of tho Individual who has to use a notebook to any extent ex-tent Many collectors solicitors and others having work of a similar character char-acter are required to make frequent entries In pocketslzo notebooks while resting these either on their hands or knees This It 1 obviously very Inconvenient Incon-venient and a German Inventor has devIsed an Improvement In notebooks which h believes overcomes this difficulty dif-ficulty at least to a great extent Inside In-side the book cover ho provides wire guides extending lengthwise Upon these guides a stiff handrcst slides laving Its edges so arranged that It cannot be entirely disengaged Two of these Imndrests are provided one on each cover When not In use thoy are concealed by the book cover In making entries the upper portions of the note leaves the hand rest Is not essential but when these entries have to be mado on th lower half of tho leaf their use does much to facilitate neatness and legibility The stenographers stenog-raphers familiar notebook accomplishes accom-plishes much the same result by simply sim-ply binding tine leaves on tho short end and manipulating the leaf upon which the record Is being mad so that tho hand Is never without support sup-port Chain on the Rule The carpenter probably uses his twofoot rule about as often as any other tool and accordingly mislays It a proportionately larger number of times If ho does not mislay it It is lost by falling from his pocket even though uptodate overalls have a special spe-cial pocket designed as a rule receptacle recep-tacle An ingenious New York man however proposes to manufacture rules In which tho main Joint or hinge carries a stem and loop designed de-signed to bo attached by any at tho common methods to tho suspender buttons If tho mechanics wife does not keep his suspender buttons up to tho regulation number he of course can utilize any other button that Is convenient The attaching device Is much like that used on tho key chains that had such a vogue several years ago and which still constitutes a staple sta-ple article of trade of the small peddler ped-dler The stern and loop are so designed de-signed that they do not interfere with the opening of the rule members to their fullest extent In other respects the rule does not differ from the standard stand-ard article Tho New York Inventor of this Improvement In design claims I I I I I I I t I thatits embodiment does not Inter fore with tho convenient and ready use of any rule I New Tortosa Observatory Tho new observatory of physical as tronomy at Tortosa In Catalonia Is one of the finest of tho kind One of tho chief objects of tho authorities of tho new institution Is to discover tho relations which may exist between magnetic electric and solar disturb anres These phenomena aro to bo registered at once and regularly so thoy may bo studied seriously Of thor seven buildings In tho establishment two are devoted to magnetism one of which Is reserved for Instruments of variation and the other Is solute used for ab hIIII determinations n Another of tho b o UUMHOU to I and electricity another to meteorology seismology antI to physical ono lalIIon is I entirely given > over lOlls departments astronomy All these var are vell SUlllled with the most modern nl1llaratus and Inventions for the stUdy or tIme various subjects and all that Is now deslreu Is a monthly record of time thIs work of observatory for the benefit world at largo of the Wireless Telegraph to An Isthmus attractlvo leld for telegraphy has been wireless Opened Ul by the organIzation oC time Panama ecTo oct Officials are canal pros feaslblllt of consltlerlng the connection establishing Irolpss between New the Isthmus Orleans amid Between there Is a clear theso Places seaway of 1300 miles through the gulf of Caribbean sea Mexico 5d the |