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Show and misting st the rate of 0flO turn a minute. A Parisian inventor has gone the limit In devlslpf a craft for getting ever the water, which Is still so light and obm-rect obm-rect that It ran be folded up and packed Into a box no higaer than aa ordinary suit case. The case part unfoids and joins tog-ether to form the main framework frame-work or hull of the boat, whleh la of the -rnramarlan order. The two otger ahaped floais are made of waterproof eanvae. When packed up they occupy little apaee. and when In uie they are blown up with a MryHe pump. The framework fa fas- . tened. between them by meane of rlbe and istrNps. and when you have Axed a three-Jr,uud. double bladed paddls together to-gether and put a folding seat In place you are all ready to aet out en your marlre travels. In Champaign oounty. Illinois, exists an Isolated oak grove, ftbout three miles long by one mile broad, which Dr. H. A. Glea-son Glea-son of the T'nlveralty of Michigan regarde a a tieruHnr phenomenon. It la known ns Bur Oek grove. It la-surrounded on !l sides by sn open prahie, and la situated sit-uated Ht a considerable distance from the neHrept stream, whereas all the other fore(t tracts In central Illinois He along the larger water courses. Dr. Oleaeon believes, from the chsracter of the trees In the grove, that It "migrated" Into Ita present position from the northeast. It lies on a large glacis! moraine, formerly. It Is believed, covered with similar trees, and has been protected from foreet fires, which have destroyed the remainder of the wooded area, by the water standing In the low grounds scattered throughout the grove. BITS OF INFORMATION Germany has a canal boat operated by trolley. The he wee t bathroom fixture hao a separate sep-arate basin for dental uses. Ed J eon advocates a system of automatic auto-matic stores for use of poor people. Wheat was grown In China centuries before Columbus discovered America. Direct steamship service between Great Britain and the West Indlea Is arranged. Longfellow's "Hiawatha" has Just been translated Into Yiddish, preserving the original rhythm and Indian names. The French national touring office, a government feature established In Parle, fe an effort to facilitate the movement of tourists In that country. All Information Informa-tion about places of interest and routes la here available. Domeetlc freight traffic by way of the Detroit river last year wa G7.5it9.922 abort tons, exceeding the 1109 traffic by over MOO.OOO tons. Of this. 44. 471. SI J tons represented the south bound and ZS.0t8.10l tons the north bound movement. A remarkable specimen of Japanese Ingenuity In-genuity and akill has Just passed through the New York custom home. It la a complete set of false teeth carved entirely out of hardwood of a color to exactly Imitate Imi-tate the natural teeth. They are Intended for actual use. Percy French spent a vacation In the 1 country at a house where the landlady professed to give bed and board for 25 hllllnga a week. "I assure you.", said French, gravely, "I waa there a week j before I discovered which waa' the bed ; and which waa the board." A vicar was taken 111 and his church warden sought a substitute, when the bishop of the diocese offered to take the Sunday eervlcee himself. The church warden war-den at the close nf tne service went up to the bishop and after thanking him stammered out; "A poorer preacher would have done for us. your lordship, but wo were unable to find one." Tankel Heller, now 58 years old. who waa one of the first men In New York to buy caatoff clothing and has accumulated 1 250.000 In thirty-flve years, has nailed for Ms native town In Russia, which he left when he was 18 years old. and will marry the woman whom he loved as a girl. They have corresponded ever since Heller sailed for America to seek his fortune. In 19A4 the government entomologists In Utah discovered a new enemy of alfalfa, called the lucerne weevil. In six years It has spread from the neighborhood of Salt Lake City northward to a point near Ogden. southward beyond Provo, and eastward nearly to the borders of Wyoming. Wyo-ming. Prof. F. M. Webster thinks that It was Introduced Into this country from abroad In commercial packages. Th adult Insects conceal themselves In baled hay. fruit packages, crevices In freight cars, ar.d even In the vestibules of Full-man Full-man sleeping cars. In the west, says the Kansas City Jour- i nal, many of the farmers are planting patches of alfalfa on the south tide of their homes. They have found out that a Held of growing alfalfa cools the temperature tem-perature from 10 to 20 degrees on a hot day. Alfalfa Is filled with moisture and Is death to the hot winds, which usually come from th south. For the very opposite op-posite reason the farmers do not aim now to plant their wheat on the south aide of their homes. Winds passing over wheat stubble after harvest time will raise the temperature from 10 to 20 degree. de-gree. Th German General Electric society now manufactures metallic filament imp ig um run at xn iow leiiasitin ui fourteen volts, giving lights of 10, it and 21 candl power. They cont about halt th price or metallic filament lamps made for tensions of 110 and 220 volts, and are said to be very durable. Their Illumination Illumina-tion Is rendered possible by means of transformers, which reduc the tension. With high tension the filaments have to be long and thin, but those used with low tension are shorter, thicker and cheaper. It Is asserted that the light yield of a lamp la. increased when used at low tension. After th fir that destroyed the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati chamber of commerce building re cently. ox y acetylene cut tin r torches were 'I employed to sever the steel beams which flay In a tangled, twisted mas over the I place where th bootee of six victims of the -4!re were supposed to be. The In jtenJy hot flame, concentrated In a hlow-I hlow-I pipe pencil, cut through th hug I beams, som of which were thirty -six Inches broad. In from four to five mln-lutea mln-lutea Frequently th same beam was cut In severe places, la order that the pieces might be the more rapidly removed. By no other method could the work have been performed eo quickly. The beet walnuts In the world at least they have that reputation are those ; grown around Grenoble. France, and a I singular fact about them Is that et least three-quarters of the entire production i are transported s cross the ocean to be eaten In New York. Boston. Philadelphia, i Chicago and other large American cities. The calcareous soil of southeastern i Wane at pears to be particularly favor-1 able to the walnut, on the ruing land at th base of th French Alps the nut tree of'en form veritable cultivated foreet. for-eet. Th finest variety, the mayett. ! he a light colored she), and a broad, ' flat base, on which It readily stands up-right. up-right. In France Monsieur Gtrardvllle ha been experimenting with enodel aeroplanes furnished fur-nished with gyroscopes to Insure greater stability. The prlr.clp-e Is th same as, In th application of gyroscopes to counteract counter-act the rolling of ships, in a report to the Perls academy of sciences. Monsieur Glrardvllle eays that his models, when used a gliders without motors, wer free from periodic oec I nations, and that they automatically re-estahluhed their equilibrium equili-brium after being disturbed. The difficulty, diffi-culty, of co tire. Is that the gyroerope Introduce In-troduce an extra weight to b carried. With hla models Monsieur GlrardvUi used gjroooop weighing about twelve pounds. |