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Show CONDENSATIONS The huge revolving light which ha been placed at the lighthouse on th Island of Heligoland, in the North sen Is perhaps the most powerful flash light in the world. It Is equal to 40 000,000 candlepower, and In calr weather can be seen for a distance of 30 miles. The tower in which the light is stationed is 272 feet above tho sea level. It costs $8,000 a year to maintain the light. Shears for trimming grass, mounted mount-ed on wheels and with the handles so extended that they can be used by a person standing upright, have been patented by a Canadian woman. According to the naval critic, Hector C. Bywater, so far as building ways and construction plans are concerned, there Is no reason why Germany could not have 25 battleships or battle cruisers under construction at one time. Though he admits that this figure fig-ure may be astonishing, he shows that an examination of the various yards, governmental and private, in Germany, justifies the estimate. In fact, he says that, simultaneously, a program Including Includ-ing light cruisers, destroyers and submarines, sub-marines, could be put through, sines there are many German yards which, although they cannot build capital ships, are well equipped to produce the lighter craft. He estimates the total working force in all these yards at 100,000 men. Far off the coast of Maine Is a Jagged ledge of rock, known as Saddleback Sad-dleback Island, on which the only means of landing Is by derrick to which a sort of chair Is attached. A lighthouse is maintained on this ledge, managed by a keeper and two assistants assist-ants with ten men on duty at all times. Holland's mines are now producing coal at a rate of about 2,000,000 tons a year. It is estimated that 30,400 plants of Easter lilies, representing a value of more than $24,000, were sold In Seattle, Se-attle, Wash., on last Easter Sunday, and that the Easter price of lilies In that city averaged about 2 cents less a blossom than In aoy other city of the United States. The first street railway In the United Unit-ed States was built in New York city in Fourth avenue, between Prince street and Harlem, In 1842, and horse cars were introduced into the principal American cities between then and 18S1. when the use of electricity wa 'iegun. |