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Show SITS OF INFORMATION A combination crowbar and trurk haa bn lnvMitrt for moving heavy arttrlM. In th HrlHsh navy In 1W thr wre l CV 47 1 Bri t ih a nd 43.930 Ltu ra and Aalatica. A br1ti; mt Yarmouth. England. n-volv n-volv on ttariiuc wot-ialnlug balla two lm-hra in diameter. Th 'ua of muttUn fn dairy window inaiead of la natd to lessen the danger from disease germs. German Y'a efforta to lvy lolia ofc the navlKation of the Rhine la giving the lloilandera aome roncf-rn- A apoon whfrh permlta the mot rar--lea peronn to nip miup Aoiselettsly haa been invented recently. lit ISM the rt at of Minnesota had a population "f l'.'O.ofto, and nm a foot of railroad within fta htsrdera. A trimming table for drawing and blue prints, equipped with a motor driven revolving knife, la a Chicago man n invention. in-vention. Our kerosene export n to India have Increased In-creased greatly of rereni yearn, and our fur import from thai actiou have bounded upward. For extremely near nrhted pertona tpe-tao! hrtve been Invented in ier-many ier-many In whlrh tht leneea are repia ed hy fvhort !el-aoopei. One of the newest automobile horri ran be made to prodme three different ton by moving the bulb thai aupplle ll with atr to different angle. 8or rate la the name of one of the rata on the government pn roll In the poat-offlre poat-offlre deparfmrnt. An nfnVe rat wine enough to hold of fire la worthy of auch a name, say a the Washington Time. Sydney. Australia, la becoming the wool market of the world. The saJe nf last wool season were 1 V.IM) bales (tip from two years beforel, and thla m-ant about $:.R,otO In roln of the realm- There are nearly 60.OOd.O00 ahnep In New South Wales. Penman Thompson used to love to teM why fa? waa afraid "The Old Ifomfi'esd" would neverJ-! flKICftLJ'opuUt 4UCt.'CiS,. ATorjT wlio h vr 17 h l rvrhHrsaN wt-re moved to tear.- and io laiighitr jujsi thousands 1 1 theatregoers have slnre been moved. It Is a wll known stttK? superstition that when arMm like h piay at rehearsals the pubic will not like it when offered for regular irformiinre. "The Old Homestead" waa a great, exception ex-ception to the rule. Jackson, a colored man-, was the principal prin-cipal witness In a ra-. and he was supposed sup-posed to have knowledge of rertsln trani-a. trani-a. -lions not at all to the r red It of his employer, the defendant. "Now, Jackson.' Jack-son.' said the lawyer. "I want vou to understand the importance of telling the truth when you are nut on the stand You know what will happen, don't you. If you dont' tell the truth?" "Yesslr," waa Jackson's reply; "in dat case I expert a our aide wlil win de case." A vivid picture of the amount of rain that falls upon the I'nlfed Htate tn the rourae of a vear Is given bv President f. R. Van Hi. It Is equivalent to ten Mississippi rivers. flowing eonstantlv. Otherwise measured. It equa's thirty Inches of water for the entire arra. making mak-ing a total volume of i5;.WK.ufo.non,ooii eublr feet. But this Is only half the amount that would he necessary to maintain main-tain the full produrtlvlty of the soil of the whole country. One-third of this amount runs down to the sea n rivers. The problern for engineers In to utiliie to the utmost the supply that nature furnishes. Prince Kugen of Fweden. youngest brother of Kins: (Justsv v.. Is not oniy passionately fond of art. hut Is lilmse!f an artist whose talent has earned for him one of the foremost plsces among the Swedish palntera of the present day. He atudled in r'arle, perfecting a natural gift. None of hla palntmga Is for sale. At all exhlhltlone of Swedish art at home or abroad Prince Kugen Is Invariably Inva-riably Invited to act aa president and often eonaents to do so. fie himself la s frequent exhibitor. His home, where often assemble the most famous of Rwedlsh artiats. la within a convenient distance of Stockholm. A Vienna court haa sentenced a woman. wo-man. Leopoldlna Futschel. to three months' Imprisonment for abusing Km-press Km-press Maria Theresa, who died In 17A". Krau Futschel. who had been ordered by the police court to be expelled from Vienna Vi-enna for eome offense, heard from a fellow fel-low prisoner In her. ceil thst the (sw providing for expuHlon from a town whs passed In afsrla Theresa's reign. "Hhe then relelved her feelings." says a I.OP-don I.OP-don Standard correapondent. "bv violent vio-lent abuse of the great empreas. not knowing or not caring thai under the Austrian, law the ancealors of the emperor em-peror are protected from unduly unfavorable unfa-vorable crtt!ctm. wlrtten or spoken, for :iK5 years hack." When Sir Herbert Samuel In his capacity ca-pacity aa postmaater general, advocated a higher rate for telegraphic code mea-aagea. mea-aagea. he toid the atory of a bishop v.ho telegraphed to a friend: "Third Epistle. John, thirteen, fourteen. ' The story hss since then appeared In sn many plsces. tn so many guises, that Ita origin has become be-come questionable. One paper, referring to the many "twists" which hsve been f-Iven tr. the tale, wonders "where Sir lerbert found II." The code words mean; "I have manv things to write: but I will not with Ink and pen write unto thee. But I trut I shsll shortly see thee, and we ahall speak face to face. Peace be unto thee. Oiir friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name." A report In the Hlas Naroda of Prague to the effect that the Wenxel crown, which waa made In l.t?4 by order of Charlee IV. and since then regsrded as the smybol of Bohemian Independence, haa been stolen from the Hrsaschln by workmen engaged In repairing the ancient an-cient airucture, created consternation among the Bohemlana. who have been a Man red alnce then that the eacred emblem em-blem la safe. Fear that the Pruasisns might take it cauaed Ita custodians to remove re-move the crown to Vienna In lfcss. It was returned a year later, and since then its repository Is behind seven doors, the keys for which sre held bv ae many persons, per-sons, among whom are the cardinal of Prague, the mayor and the chief marshal mar-shal of the realm. One of the greatest schemes of land reclamation Is thsl which has been devised de-vised lor draining the Kverglades of Florida. Here more than ft'o aouare mflea of land are under ahallow water, sprinkled with little lalets. and containing many secret receses which no while man haa ever penetrated. Channela lead lo the settlements of the gemlnole Indiana tn the Interior. It la known thl much of the aoll underlying the Kvergiadea Is ex-tremelv ex-tremelv rich, and that If It were drained millions of acres of the most excellent land would bei-ome available for farming The F.vergladea occupy a baln. poslb'y of volcanic origin. S'irroimded bv a rim nf coral and llmeatrne. The lowest parts of the basin are. It la believed, twenty feet abote een level. Accordingly, the plan Is to make outlesV throush the rim. Some t.VOne acres, already drained, are under cultivation. |