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Show SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST ,- One hundred million atoms can be placed within the space of an inch. Some of the malaria-carrying mosquitoes mos-quitoes themselves die of the disease. A "fountain pen" has been invented which emits pas that "knocks out" an outlaw for 30 minutes. A clock is being made in England, the hends of which weigh half a ton. ?'ho minute hand is 1" feet long. Seventy-one towns in Germany are named Xeustadt. The glass roof of the Victoria station sta-tion in London covers ten acres. Free libraries for the people are beni- established throughout Turkey. One pincnpple packing company of Hawaii packed 1,080.000 cans of' the I fruit a day for ten consecutive days j this season. J |