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Show BRIEF INFORMATION Homing pigeons can travol 70 miles an hour. The skeleton is ono inch shorter than tho measurement of tho living person. Louis XVI drank the first cup of cof fee mado In Franco. It was then worth $29 a pound. "5-? To protoit iclng motorcyclists from JL4H. , Injury there has been Invented a suit of pneumatic armor, covered with rubber rub-ber tubes In'o which air can be pumped. A Kentucky man has Invented nn electric fan to bo mounted under an umbrella to circulate air, so designed that It can bo folded as tho umbrella Is closed. After ten . years experimenting a Llvorpool man has porfected a prod net from seaweed for tho manufacture of nonlnflammablo motion plctun films and paper claimed to bo water, flame and germ proof. |