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Show WORTH KNOWING Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., Is 132 years old tills year. One New England statistical ollice, the proprietor believing In fresh air, has ollices that are practically out of doors, making it necessary in winter for the typists to wear gloves, and as these cause frequent errors through striking two keys instead of one, small curved sticks have been put in use with which, Instead of the lingers, the keys were struck safely, one at a time. The death rate from wounds In the war is less than one-half as great as It was a year Ego. Dr. Jacques Ilertlllon. medical statistician In the Frcnefc army, declares that by hardship and exposure the men have become so toughened that they can now stand twice as much as they could last year. Then 4a out of every 1,000 wounded died, while now less than 20 succumb. A process has been perfected In France for applying colors to glass by heat, so Unit stained glass windows enn be made without fastening many pieces of glass of different hues together. to-gether. Two Pennsylvania Inventors have patented a slingshot with a sight to aid In aiming It. Telescopic spectacles have been Invented In-vented by a German for persons with extreme near sight. While searching the ruins of lbs home of Dr. C. II. Burton, In Spencer, Mass.. which was destroyed by fire, firemen found a pocketbook contairiimj $.'155 In bills concealed between mattresses. mat-tresses. Although everything else lu the room was burned, the bills were undamaged. Consul Harry ',. Seltzer, a( Breslau, Germany, reports that one of the P.res-biu P.res-biu tinfoil factories has succeeded In providing a substitute for tinfoil by producing zinc foil. The new product Is not to be distinguished from tinfoil and Is supposed to render the sa'ug service. |