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Show WORTH KNOWING Dickinson college, Cnrllsle, Pa., Is 132 years old this year. Ono Now England statistical ofllco, tho proprietor boliovlng in fresh air, has offices that aro practically out of doors, making It necessary in winter for the typists to wear gloves, and as theso cnuso frequent errors through striking two keys instead of ono, small curved stlckb have been put hi uso with which, instead of tho fingers, the keys woro struck safely, ono at a tlmo. Tho death rato from wounds In the war is less than one-half as great ns It wob a yenr ego. Dr. Jacques Bcrtlllon medical statistician In tho FroncL army, doclnrcs that by hardship and exposuro the men have become so toughened that thoy enn now stand twice ns much as thoy could last year. Thon 45 out of every 1,000 wounded dlod, whllo now loss than 20 succumb. A process has been perfected In Franco for applying colors to glass by heat, so that stained glass windows can bo mudo without fastening many pieces of glass of different hues together. to-gether. Two Pcnnsylvnnln inventors have patented a slingshot with u sight to aid In aiming It. Telescopic spectacles have been Invented In-vented by a German for persons with extreme ncur sight. Whllo searching the ruins of the homo of Dr. O. II. Itnrton, In Spencer, Muss., which was destroyed by fire, firemen found a pocketbook containing $355 In bills concealed between mattresses. mat-tresses. Although everything elso In tho room was burned, the bills were undamaged. Consul Ilnrry G. Seltzer, at Hrcslnu, Germany, reports, that ono of tho Hrps-luu Hrps-luu tinfoil factories has succeeded In providing u substitute for tinfoil by producing zinc foil. Tho now product Is not to be distinguished from tinfoil and Is supposed to render tho same Bervlce. |