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Show SCIENTIFIC . AND GENERAL. In the Ocrmnn textile Industry the tendency Is to use female In place of male labor. ' ' In order to handle automobile" cushy cus-hy several railroads have adopted a new style of freight car, having Ooors the full width and helghth of the car. Within ten miles of the city hall, New York, there arc ten suburbs on Long Island, where ngrlculture Is pursued pur-sued on fields assessed at building lot prices. There aro over 9,170 miles of rnll-loads rnll-loads In Spain. Among tho new railways rail-ways In projection Is one from San-(under San-(under to Ilurgos nnd another from Madrid to llllbno. "God tempers the wind to the shorn Inmh" Is not a scriptural quotation. The sentence Is taken from "Tho Sentimental Sen-timental Journey," hy U10 Rev. Lou-rence Lou-rence Sterne. Queen Mary's automobile Is equipped equip-ped with a tea basket. The cor is of Kngllsh make, painted green, picked out with fine lines of lighter green, nnd the mouldings are black. A German scientist has Invented n tiny electric oven, small enough td he placed on the platform of a microscope. micro-scope. Its purpose is to dry objects ' to be examined under the glass. There are ninety-three postofflces In the five principal Islands of Hawaii. These Islands have telephone systems, with rates nhout the same us In the United Stntes proper. , The deuth duties collected In Franco during 1909 amounted to over 52,000,-000. 52,000,-000. The estates concerned numbered ihoiit 375,000, with an aggregate net value above a thousand million dollars. dol-lars. Spain Is now 'the world's greatest producer of olive oil. The production of olives last year amounted to 1,349,-173,620 1,349,-173,620 pounds, against 3,076,247,580 In 1909. Olive oil to the value of 4,'i74,-560 4,'i74,-560 was exported last year. '- 1 The manufacture of cotton seed products pro-ducts on a commerclnl scale had Its bcglnnlg In Knglnpd, nnd as late as 1870 that country, with an annual crush of 200,000 tons, was tho lending cotton seed oil producing country In the world. - . Kmlgrants leaving Germany for other parts of the world are fewer In pumber than formerly. In 1882 their ''number was above 200,000, while that of last )ear was' but 25,000 In round numbers. Of this 25,000 the emigrants coming to the United States were 23,-000. 23,-000. Hermuda will soon have a salt water fishing preserve covering nn nre-i of about five squaro miles. It will bo made hy cons.ructlng a sill ot concrete con-crete ncross .!w ingle narrow opening open-ing which uiitUM Hnrrfngton sound with the ocean, .mil fixing a screen to prevent the exit of the fish. 'One farm ou'Msively for opossums has been started In Glppsland, Victor-la, Victor-la, which eompi-lEPH 2000 acres ot eucalyptus bush lsud. Another I'irm comprising 500 acres has been started In southern Tasmania and another of 150 acres In New South Wale.t, Tho average ui.ut In health has thu material for thirteen pounds ot caudles, cau-dles, one pound 'of nails, carbon sufficient suffi-cient for 800 pencils, bindings to ' sixteen six-teen octavo hooks, GOO knife handles, tweiity-olht violin strings, twenty tenspoonfuls salt and ono pound ot loaf sugar. The Rev. (I. Preston Tongo ot Su Paul's church, Yarmouth, England lu his Parish Magazine, under the heading head-ing of "Acknowledgements," Hays Heventl anonymous contributions of buttons have been received. Wo aio still wondering how to use theso gifts to the best advantage In the district, ns, for obvious reasons, they aro'iin-tuttel aro'iin-tuttel to the needs of tho heathen." Tho perfect fossil of a huge sen tortoise, tor-toise, thirty Inches In diameter has been found In Mt. iluldy, 3,000 feet jibovojtho present son level, noar Los Angclel, CM. It Is thought that this Is u-iulld.of a geologlcui ago 400,000 years ngo, when nil tho western part .of the country was still under tho'soa, mid tho Rocky mcintaliiB were either submerged or only'' showed their Ups JaggedlftloU. ',"" ' ',.,' ', |