Show the pine hook swamps east cast of the st marls marks river in a florida are une explored regions which extend some distance down the peninsular sailors on the ocean often see a column of smoke rising from a certain put part of this flat land no one knows the cause of this phenomenon it Is supposed to be a volcano or a hot spring but all attempts to reach it have thus far been unsuccessful A lifesaving life saving suit which has been invented by capt moore a vancouver shipmaster hip master is made of rubber and can be easily put on it is entered from the top and is equipped with a hood which when adjusted leaves only the face ace exposed to the water A belt passing around tle the body lust just below the arms can be quickly inflated by blowing into a tube attached watertight pockets on each side provide receptacles for or food and liquids the wearer floats in an upright position A little three year vear old hoy boy whose foot was almost entirely cut off by the knife of a mowing machine was taken to a hospital in Phi philadelphia ladelpha some tiros time ago although the surgeons fund both bones the neives and all but one of the arteries entirely severed they managed to unite the parts in such a way that the wound is healing nicely end the foot is growing back into place it is said that ehst there is only one chance in a thousand for success in such on an operation the great peanut center of the world is norfolk virgina here are located nearly all the he peanut factories of the earth A peanut factory is a place where peanuts are ale cleaned assorted and polished by machinery and then packed in bags millions of dollars worth of peanuts are yearly 3 tnt ent to 1 all rails pails of the civilized world A british railway authority has sug betted the use of rubber tires or some other silent material on the wheels of street cars arguing that such tires if properly made would outlast similar tires used on motor and other ordinary vehicles used on the streets that the wear on the rails would be much less that the cost of maintenance would be greatly that greater speed would be possible and that a grbac deal of the objectionable noise and vibration would be eliminated the idea of dropping a penny in the slot box is over two thousand years old in the egyptian temples devices of thu this kind were use for automatically ng the purifying water A c e oin of five drachma drad hrna dropped into a slit in a vase set a simple piece of m echan kra like a well sweep in mot ion a valve was opened for an instant and a portion of the liquid was perl milled to escape the apparatus was described in the Spi ritalia of hero of alexandria who lived two hundred years before the christian erhand I 1 is illustrated Illustrate din in the century latin manuscript translation of his work in which is delineated the egyptian fire engine ci cf the authors I 1 dayt day with its double force pump valves lever arms goose neck which looks very much like the fire engine of our grandfathers day |