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Show CONDENSATION The latest piece of fire-righting equipmwst is a tricar cheo-l engine. en-gine. Sediment carried to sea by the Amazon Ama-zon river can be detected 100 miles from the coast. In some parts of Switzerland granite is so plentiful that it is used for telegraph tele-graph poles. The use of the oxygen Inhaler alone has made it possible to make balloon flights above 25,000 ieet. Russian petrolet. i producers are experiencing much inconvenience from a scarcity of steel wire rope. Last year the total output of the 5,521 ceMral electric stations in 'is country was 14.000,000.000 kilowatt hours. The production of copper in the United States last year exceeded all previous records. The world's turpentine output exceeds ex-ceeds 25,000,000 gallons annually, the United States being the greatest pro-j pro-j ducing nation. A famous hymn, "The Day Is Past and Over," is believed to be a translation transla-tion from the Greek and written by St. Anatolius. Tea leaves are gathered four times a year from the tea plant after its third year. "Have you any false teeth for sale?" inquired a customer at Jacob Leedon's second-hand store In Bellefontalne, O. Mr. Leedon remembered he had a set of teeth in stock that he had kept for 12 years. The teeth were brought out and suited the customer. Levelers, members of an organiza tion bent on removing all class distinctions dis-tinctions and leveling all tltlos. who were powerful in the English parliament parlia-ment in 1647, were first hearu of In Germany during the sixteenth century, when two men. Munzer and Storck. by their teaching quickly acquired wide influence and accumulated a following fol-lowing of 40,000 men. A lighthouse on the Japanese coast, constructed of bauiboo, has great power pow-er of resisting Bait water, and does not rot like ordinary wood. |