Show the machines turned out by a large typewriter manufactory ire are tested by an automatic machine which does the work much faster than human hands handi more fatal tramway accidents occur in n london on sundays than on any other day tests of human bones have shown them to be SO 50 per cent stronger than hickory throughout the world one fourth of all children die before six years of age one half before they are 16 and one person in n lives to see 65 college statistics show that in jhc thc thes early days in america fully half the graduates entered the ministry five per cent is the present proportion german army surgeons have to have gold for many jobs of law jaw catching among the articles being melted down for the material are old wedding rin rin gs english coins and even filling from other teeth an individual transmitter for the telephone has been designed for those who hesitate for sanitary reasons to make use of instruments in more or less public places it collapses into a case no larger than a watch in a recent boat race one of the racing craft sprang li arlous leak A hole waa bored sl slanting inting backward in the middle of the bottom and the suction on of the water beneath as the boat aglid ed along alon completely drained it A wooden plug was inserted in the hole and removed moved re whenever too much water leaked in the boat was drained satisfactorily each time some scientists scientist I 1 art are now insisting that plants have memories that they are capable of love and are also capa ble of bating ins ensly the so called blue rocket emits a perfume which is one of the most deadly poisons but it often shows fear wi we are told the deadly nightshade in addition to its extremely poisonous quality Is described as full ful 1 of hatred an anonymous letter compiled from words clipped from a news paper came to mrs H S han sen of new york some months ago in it she was ordered to place 2100 in a milk bottle and leave it in the park behind a big stone or have a bomb placed under your home and get blown up after a consultation with detectives mrs hansen chose the former alternative only instead of 2100 she placed a sl 1 bill f in n the bottle and it was marked for identification that evening the bottle was concealed as per directions in the park indicated in the black hand letter mrs hansen then concealed herself behind a tree and awaited developments she had not long to wait for when twilight had deepened into dark darkness ness a man emerged from the shelter of neighboring bushes and stealthily made his way toward the bottle no sooner had he picked it up man detectives stepped and made him a prisoner he was convicted and at pre present sentIs as living a retired life in which he is afforded ample time to meditate on the unfortunate results of some black hand schemes and especially those which go awry it has been observed in the present war thit that parrots become greatly excited and screech loudly at the ap of an aeroplane before it becomes visible to human eyes A number of the birds were placed in the eiffel tower recently for or the purpose of serving as sentinels to give warning of hostile aircraft but the experiment proved unsatisfactory because they were unable tu distinguish between enemy air crafts and those belonging to the french |