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Show SCIENTIFIC AND GENERAL. There aro tventy-slx great glaciers In Switzerland. A shudow fifty miles long is thrown on tho ocean by tho peak of Tenner- ffc. . Laurie Island, In Scotia bay, Is tba soiithermost Inhabited In tho world. .Molug pictures aro being employed employ-ed to tench tho less civilized Filipinos Filipin-os lessons In hygiene. More than 2,r.0,000 electric flntlronn hnvo been sold within a yenr In the United States and Canada. The pi'odticllou of sugar emu In Cuba for the crop year ending with Septomb-jr exceeded I,I,"!,0iVi Ions. Of all the world's production of :17I" tons of quicksilver Inst yenr, the 1'nlted States produced but 7711 tons. An attachment for ordinary elovn-tors elovn-tors bus boon patented to raise fire hose quickly to any floor of a building. build-ing. Automatic valves which sound a whistle when an automobile motor becomes overheated nro a New Yorker's York-er's Invention. To lessen tho labors of a wlndoti cleaner u Massachusetts man has it: vented a long handled brush with a magazine foi heap on Its back. Combining two household conveniences conveni-ences In one, u Washington investor has mndo an Ironing board serve ns the back support of a steplndder. , A combined silencer and bajouei , for rifles has been Invented to save j a soldier currying both implements mil having to chiiligit one Tor lh- other. i To a I'eiiusylviiulaii has been gram ' eo a patent on a nail puller, tho Jaws, ot which havo a graduated series or j serrations to engage nails of dlffo-, enl size. , j An Iowa Inventor has patented . -i bedstead' that holds a mnltre'Js ' on' rollers' and pivots so that It 'can bo tin ned around or over with u minimum mini-mum effoit. w As a rival to the usual typo of mo torlst's goggles an Oregon man has patented a face shield that may be attached to a cap and with a largo opening for the oyos Instead of two small ones. w m A man In I'ennsjlvanla rati for tho offleo of mayor on tho promise, It elected, to compel all women to wear harem skirts hold up by suspenders, and flno all women wenrlng n dress that has a train. By oftlclal record tho men Hwvlim lis tho union army and navy during tho civil war numbered '2,2l3,'Zi:. , There tiro now on tho pension rolln r.29,881 ot this number. Tho. deaths i among them last year wero :iS,'J-1u. Tho averago ago of tho survivors at present is seventy years. C, Hindu's lobs by flro within .h-i .h-i lust wo years was $47,U0O,UOu, a per I capita lax ot $3.05 per annum. This i Is u loss far greater than that of nn i other country, lit Austria the per i capita loss per annum Is 'Z'J cents, m Denmark 20 cents, in Franco 110 cents in llormnny l'J cents, in Italy 12 r cents mid In Switzerland lit) cents. i Leaves tall from trees at tlrts hou- son becauso thoy are actually cut off from tho ptircnt stem by u layer or cork that forms across tho baso of the stalk. No nourishment Is lull in tho dead leuf, but only tbo wasto products pro-ducts of vitality, of which tho tre is best rid. Such at least Is tho teaching of modern nature study. l'eoplo In Kuropo dlslllto Now Hoa-laud Hoa-laud butter becauso It tuts a fishy tasto. A chemist has recently discovered discov-ered tho cause. It is not due to any contact with fish, hut to u certain kind of bacteria which forms on the bagging in which the butter salt is shipped. If tho salt Is storlllzed before be-fore use It is claimed the taste ot flslilnest- disappears. A French army surgeon claims to huve found it way to remove tattoo marks, a thing hitherto doomed im possible. You uro to sandpaper the skin until the outer cuticle is rubbed off, and then npjly n mlxturo of fleshly slaked llrao and powdered phosphorous. This poulalcc,-lf left on for forty-eight hours, causes a soro which quickly heals, leaving no scar or trace of the tatoolng. A statute of Mmo. do Sovlgno was unveiled today at Vitro In Drlttany not far from Les nochcrs, whero she lovcdto llvo and thc-sccncry of -which sho exquisitely described in her let-tors. let-tors. M. Paul Deschanel, tho academician, academ-ician, dellvciyd tho inaugural address, and the company paid n visit to tho Chateau des nochors, In which tho Netumltres family preserves' many idles of Its' famous ancestress. London Lon-don Times. |