Show to cut down worlds fuel bill less than 25 years from now rail road locomotives will carry no fuel trains all over the country will be run by pc conveyed by wire from a dozen great central plants located in the neighborhood ot coal mines there will be no smoke no cinders to make a journey by rail disagreeable thus prof robert H fernald expert in charge of the government fuel in aulry Is quoted by robert franklin in the technical world magazine it has been proved practicable he says by the help of gas producers and gas engines to convert the energy of coal into electricity and transmit it by wire over distances exceeding miles this means that trains could be run from a single central plant over square miles an area nearly four times that ot the state of illinois and that ten or twelve suet plants located at or near mining cen could furnish motive power for all the railroads in the united states now that it Is commercially possible to transmit electric power miles or more says prof fernald the location of immense gas producer plants at the mines or within easy reach of 4 them must speedily follow but 1 should not be supposed that this power will be utilized only by the railroads of the country it will be supplied to factories and employed tor all sorts of industrial purposes in cities and towns whose populations will be thus enabled to enjoy cleanliness and freedom from the tyranny of smoky ahlm this Is the introduction to a remarkable article in this magazine several plans have been made to es a national american university the idea recently expressed in a bill introduced into the house of represent is as old as the country wash ington in his address to congress in 1890 urged the promotion ot 41 art and science and recommended that congress consider whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries ot learning already established by the in of a national university of by any other expedients the ques alon suggested by washington has not been finally settled although it has been answered in part by the growth of many colleges and universities throughout the land in a country like ours of wide area there should be many great centers of education it sometimes seems better to strengthen the colleges we have than to found new ones but there Is room for others A national university might have spa caal functions such as present alons are not in position to discharge and its official nature would make it a powerful influence in american higher education which Is now disorganized and uncertain in standard there have been from time to time many reported inventions of bullet proof coats or undershirts but somehow none ever seemed to meet a really adequate test now comes the story that a russian colonel has devised A garment of this kind which Is actually what Is claimed while the formula for construction Is not given out the announcement Is made that the materials are three and a halt times as hard as steel and are war ranted to ward off a mauser bullet fired from a high power rifle still it Is not going to be easy to obtain or wear the bulletproof coat the gar ment Is very costly and weighs five pounds and a man trotting around in it must feel something like the armor encased incased knights of old dut asks the troy times what are cost and weight compared to value as a life preserver it the coat Is truly bullet proof no doubt there are a good many rich and titled persons in russia who would think the garment cheap at ten times the coet in money and discomfort small boys who are afraid to go out into the streets to play lest they should get run over may be fired by the great hope that some day they will be president of the united states but the rough and tumble kid has bis eye fixed on a position as pitcher in the cham team of one of the big leagues that appears to him to be a higher position than president or even floorwalker in a department store As he pitches the tattered ball in the vacant lot his mind s eye wanders for ward to the time when admiring mul will rise up to applaud his curves meanwhile saving enough of their strength to throw pop bottles at bis adversary of the rival team A dispatch bays that prince bladl clr kutuzoff and Us wife warwara kutuzoff of russia have gone to Douk hobort sky hole to printer please put the letters back in the alphabet after using some men aro bachelors and some are bigamists biga mists between the two is a clasa about which executive messages are never writt ten or against whom warrants are rarely issued it must bo a colorless colo riess life |