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Show MEN AND MATTERS ; Ever since the year 1396, all the fine porcelain used in Chiua's royal palaces has come from the King Teh Cheng factory. The factory was part-i ly destroyed and many of its choice designs were divided among certain revolutionists. Recently, the ancient factory has received a grant of $20,-000 $20,-000 and will again produce the rare and beautiful porcelain for which it is noted. The Mount Wilson Solar observatory has completed a catalogue of the magnitudes mag-nitudes and colors of more than 1,000 stars in the globular cluster Messier 13. Nearly 11 per cent of these stars have negative color indices, suggesting that in this direction there is no marked absorption of light in space. Of the 400 brightest stars, 70 per cent are redder than a normal solar type star; of the 400 faintest, 85 per cent are bluer than the normal solar type star. By statistical methods the paraT-lax paraT-lax of the cluster has been found to be less than 0.0001 second of arc. Five, new variables have been discovered in this cluster, making a total of seven. Buoys that make a flapping noise as. they pass through the water and leave p. plainly-seen wake have been invented invent-ed in England to be towed behind vessels ves-sels to guid following ones in fogs. For measuring cloth in a roll without with-out unrolling it there has been invented a device that passes a thread between, its folds and at the same time automatically auto-matically measurew the thread. Parchment manuscripts nearly SOO years old, from which the ink hast Faded from view, have been read by a' Berlin scientist who photographed them with ultraviolet rays. |