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Show Why worry when the swimming 19 good?. Flying is sadly In need of a safety attachment. Don't make a man hot by telling him to keep cool. Among the few things that are better bet-ter broken may be mentioned heat iwaves. A German scientist has found 61,-400,000 61,-400,000 germs in a raisin. Boil your raisins. Man has constructed the flying machine, ma-chine, but ha has not succeeded in taming it. Life-insurance men who refused to take chances on the lives of aviators made a good guess. Instead of trying our popular socgs on the -dog we should first have them sung to the cow and note results. The emperor of China is to wear a military coat of European cut and tuck his shirt into his trousers. China Is up and coming That boy aviator who cuts circles In the sky will not have to wait more than a week or two before finding himself the hero of a 5-cent thriller. A New York woman has recently been hunting through that city for an honest lawyer. When last heard from she was reported to be hoping on. That New York woman who sent $600 worth of jewels to the iceman by mistake did not wrap up the chunk of Ice he left under the impression that It was a diamond. A St. Louis professor has discovered that noise shortens life, and this discovery dis-covery we recommend to the whistling whis-tling milkman and the neighbor who rises at 4:00 a. m. to mow his lawn. It may be true that a cow gives down her milk better when there ia music In the air, as an expert says, but that is no reason why the milkman milk-man should whistle while making his early morning calls. A financial news item reports a "superfluity "su-perfluity of money In London." But even under such conditions and with summer heat prevailing the average Englishman probably will not admit that he has money to burn. A Florida woman who is the mother moth-er of 13 children has received a souvenir sou-venir spoon from the state. As a dozen doz-en spoons constitute a set, It will readily read-ily be seen that she can furnish her table sooner by saving trading stamps. A California girl, fined $25 for racing rac-ing her automobile against a steam locomotive, told the magistrate that the fun was worth the price. That Is the trouble with the speed maniacs. The fun Is more Important to them than the safety of the public highway and the fine that may be thrown in. The only way to stop it ris to impose a penalty that is weightier to them than the excitement of railroad speed on an open road. Americans are winning In fields where Intellectual ability counts, as ' well as in more materialistic lines. The Royal Academy of Science of Prussia has conferred on a young man who formerly was a student at Columbia Colum-bia university, New York, the Leibnitz Leib-nitz gold medal, a very notable distinction, dis-tinction, and awarded only to those showing high scholarship. The winner win-ner is the first American to whom the prize has been given. Everybody will rejoice that the forest for-est fires which threatened destruction to the big trees of Sequoia National park in Californa, have been brought under control and that the danger is past for the present. The big trees are unique, and once burned could never be replaced. They are among the most interesting of the natural curiosities of the United States, and it Is to be hoped may be preserved for hundreds of years in addition to the long life they have already enjoyed. The little submarine boat Salmon, built for the United States navy, seems to have shown beyond a doubt that she is seaworthy. She made a trip from Qulncy, Mass., to Bermuda, over a course where rough weather and heavy waves are frequently encountered, encoun-tered, and went through a rather trying try-ing experience. But she stood the test end has demonstrated that craft of this kind may be operated effectively on the surface of the water as well as below. Her exploit adds another to the list of American submarines. |