Show SCRAPS I I Falls N. N Y maintains a a. afree free Information bureau for tor the benefit benefit benefit bene bene- fit of visitors I Nearl Nearly women are employed by the I French railways of them actIng acting act- act Ing as station m masters An English Inglish city is experimenting Ith a steam driven street cart the tile tank of which holds 1000 gallons of water I The he first wor woid II in advertising was the script written written on on I papyrus I years ago by an au Egyptian gentleman I who had lost a slave I Norway is to have a plant that will use a engineers engineer's process for foi the electrical extraction of zinc from ores heretofore regarded as worthless A 11 Maryland powder plant has chutes instead of the ordinary fire tire escapes I for It its es When dang danger r is near nea the workmen the slide to safety The Russian government go has given an American company the right to ex explore explore ex- ex for peti petroleum oleum in il Siberia where there are indications of its presence A Sussex England farmer who lives well weli within range of the sound of ot the guns in France says that the sound is as trustworthy a a. weather prophet as aa hl hIs hla barometer Whenever Whenever When When I ever he says th the wind is south and the boom of the cannon carmon is Unmistakable unmistakable un un- mistakable it Is sure to rain to tomorrow to to- morrow morrow anti and it does I Webb Weeks a young farmer near Geneva 0 O. did not riot wish to miss an early car to the county fair His Ills watch was broken He slipped his alarm clock i into the pocket of his overalls so he could keep posted on the time While I I he was busily milking a a. somewhat nervous cow the alarm went off Weeks did not go CO to the fair air This advertisement ared in an Ottumwa la Ia paper For sale One sale One large red cow three eighths mule and five-eighths five wildcat Any person wishing to buy her will throw in fifty feet teet of two-inch two rope and an old ax Would like to sell her to some man who thinks he could whip Mexico single handed Address Logan A Boston physician Dr Edmund D. D Spear has baa invented a a. megaphone which Is constructed on the theory that the orl original horn the horn the rams ram's horn was horn was and still is technically I for sound reproduction notes note POI Popular ular Science Monthly His Hism nt phone Is curved instead of of straight shape oJ other instruments and anc ancone one of most interesting and useful feat tea about it is the he ability to use tt It out having it interfere w wIth vision Owing to the technical I of or the curved horn the ume of sound obtained Is al more satisfactory I Damariscotta Me We conducts a an usual industry that of pickling wives for which commodity Haiti fers rs almost the sole market i The t j I which run up a small river near D Du Pa each spring and are caul caugh quantities are very bony buta l meat they have is very sweet Bet Bets and barrels of these ar are I 4 yearly to the black republic hll hil hile j of the United States buys lei leas II fifty barrels fe |