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Show NOTES OF r; SCIENCE M I INVENTION The French army will purchase no fewer than 350 aeroplanes during 1912. Tests of human bones show them to be 50 per cent stronger than hickory, hick-ory, j An Italian university profeBsor claims to have found radium In ordinary or-dinary dew. A noiseless aeroplane being tried out by the British army is so quiet that Its motor cannot be heard 50 yards away. German postal authorities are experimenting ex-perimenting with a small three-wheeled automobile for the use of letter carriers. An ingenious German baker utilizes utili-zes a windmill to mix and knead hli bread as well as to grind his grain into flour. In Slam there are three kinds of grape fruits, all seedless. One kiud has red meat. Two kinds are swmt and one is sour. It requires Ave big volumes to accommodate ac-commodate a new condensed dictionary diction-ary for the blind, printed at Vienna from raised type. Dr. J. H. Smith is said to have invented in-vented ?, photographic printing paper capable of reproducing in natural colors col-ors from suitable negatives. Japanese scientists are experimenting experiment-ing with the ginseng plant In the hope of maturing it in four or five years instead of six, as now required. The world's largest dry-doch baa been completed at Belfast, Ireland. It is 886 feet long anil 100 feet wide. All told, it was eight years In building. build-ing. There are 30 dental surgeries for school children in Sweden, Great benefit bene-fit has been derived from them, the children showing marked improvement. improve-ment. Carodoc Roberts, on whom Oxford recently conferred the degree of doctor doc-tor of music, for an oratorio, worked at a carpenter's bench only a few years ago. |