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Show NOTES OF w SCIENCE II I INVENTION Zurich has a midnight curfew for automobiles. The average human heart pumps 192 gallons of blood an hour. Pneumonia and phthisis cause the greatest Dumber of deaths in London. Lon-don. A Cincinnati packer has Invented a way to cure haras in 30 days instead of 90. The French army will purchase no fewer than 350 aeroplaues during 1912. Patent medicines yield over 300,-000 300,-000 to the British exchequer per annum. an-num. Of the 24,302 world's postage stamps, the Iirilish empire haB issued over 7,000. Paper 175 lnrhos wide, for newspaper news-paper use, is made at the rate of 650 feet a minute. Esperanto has been officially recognized recog-nized as a language by the United Slates patent ollice. 1 IIO nn.tlttjtoinau wan-i uuuiu OI London supplies more than 250,000,-000 250,000,-000 gallons of wafer. In China stags ure raised for their horns, which are cut when soft and us"d in the manufacture of medicine. Because It has more phosphoric ucld in easily digested shape than any other oth-er fruit, the apple Is one of the beBt brain foods. C-ermnn postal authorities are experimenting ex-perimenting with a small three wheeled automobile for the use of letter let-ter carriers. In some parts of Mexico the natives hang the nests of largo spiders in their homes to trap files and other small Insects. |