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Show MEN AND MATTERS Ever since the year l.'HMi. all I ho fine porcelain used tn Chi nit's roynl palaces has come from (lie King Teli Cheng factory. The factory was partly part-ly destroyed and many of i(H choice designs were divided among certain revolutionists. Ueeently, 1 lie ancient factory has received a grant of $L'0.-000 $L'0.-000 nnd will again produce Ihe ran and heautiful porcelain for which it is noted. The Mount Wilson Solar ohservator? has completed a catalogue of I ho magnitudes mag-nitudes and colors of more than l.otli) stars In the globular cluster Messier 13. Nearly 11 per cent of those Bturn have negative color Indices, suggesting that in this direction there is no marked absorption of light Jn spaco. Of the 400 brightest stars, 70 per cent are redder than a normal solar typo star; of the 400 faintest, 85 per cent are bluer than the normal solar type star. By statistical methods tho parallax paral-lax of tho cluster has been found to be less than 0.0001 second of arc. Five new variables have been discovered In this cluster, making a total of seven. I'.uoys that make a flapping noise as they pass through the water and leave n plainly-seen wake have been Invented Invent-ed in Kngland to be towed behind vessels ves-sels to gold following ones In fog. For meanrlng cloth in a roll without with-out unrolling It there has been Invented H device that passes n thread hetwwri its folds ami at the same time automatically auto-matically measures the thread. I'arebment manuserlpts nearly S00 yea rs old, from which the Ink has faded from view, have been r-ad by a Tier! in seient f st who phot ogra plied them with ultraviolet rays. The ilVz-Mory frame rnlonial style home of William l,oring Andrews. In Oak Ne'k road, two miles eat of Uittt-ylon. Uittt-ylon. L. I., is a rt-pliea of the I,nni;fVl-low I,nni;fVl-low home at C ambridr'. Tt Is set back some distanee from tb highway on ur clevMtioii, which Is beautifully t Mr-raced.. Mr-raced.. New York's bureau of pure foods, with I's corps of Inspectors, claims to have put re-enforced sugar out of thn local market and killed the Industry of ft esheriing stale fish with paint. Btarved chicken, bogus salmon un! doped candies are also chased In' mIu.-Iou.. |