Show Today oday EMPEROR IJ FOR FOE ITALY HUSBANDS ANT AND WIVES SILK FROM 1 SHELLS SMELLS FOR YOUNG GENIUSES By fly ARTHUR J BRISBANE I Copyright 1027 1927 by y The Th Star Still Co Mussolini's l reported intention to tomake tomake tomake make the Italian king an nn emperor the Italian empire and was called absolutely fantastic Why Is Isit isit it preposterous preposterous' There Is a II British IS empire nobody laughs at that It now calls It There was a Roman empire and a great one when I Ithe the ancestors of ot those that now run I Ithe the British empire were dancing round the swamps their stomachs painted blue from the strange pirates Danes Danca Norwegians Norwegian Scandinavians and Germans that were everlastingly planning to t carry them away as slaves Italy has first class material for a II modern emperor in Mussolini If It he prefers to wear a silk hat last and hand handan an m Imperial crown to the king why not Disraeli did it for Queen Victoria What should a husband do if I his wire wife threatens to commit suicide and vice Ice versa A man Is accused of oC mur mur- murder murder murder der because his liLa wife showed him a bottle of ot poison polson said ne ne was going to drink it It and he not interfering she did drink It U. Michigan l convicted a husband of ot I f at her t he hf mixed nIed the th poison I n and put it within her reach rench That plainly w was s murder although It was her idea not his Justice convicted of ot homicide the husband that survived a suicide pact with his wife Illinois says s that if It a wife kills her her- herself herse herself self se and you know all about it it you are not a murderer unless you rou ac actually ac- ac actually goaded encouraged or drove her to suicide This case has import import- importance importance ance although fortunately the aver aver- average average average age wife does not mean it when she says that she will kill herself It is the husbands husband's business how how- however however ever to take an interest in the state state- ment mont The department of ot commerce an announces an an- announces that shells of crabs and lob lob- lobsters stars can be made into Artificial silk and the process yield commercially profitable results The great creat John Tyndall walking home at dusk seeing crayfish in a ditch mused If U I 1 fell into that ditch the crayfish would eat cat me and the brain of John Tyndall would be become be- be become become come part of the brain of ot the cray cray- fish But I shall take home a few of oC the crayfish and eat them and the I crayfish will become part of the brain of ot John Tyndall A woman in a night club as she eats her lobster boiled alive will muse The inside of or the lobster goes into my inside whereas the out out- outside outside outside side of the lobster can be made Into silk stockings for my outside Science is marvelous Marconi has produced a wireless short beam that will send telegraph messages from England to Canada at athe atthe he the rate of 1250 letters a minute How Howong Howlong Howlong long ong will it take the Western Union Telegraph company to perfect some mechanical method m thod of sending tile tile- t le grams at a II speed worthy of an clec- clec electric trio enterprise The current carrying your our mes flies message message sage goes gos at the rate of 0 miles milesa a second And lack of ot enterprise car car- carries lea ries the message mes age down to the slow speed of ot a man picking at a II key The right machines could send or words per minute and one well-protected well wire might do all nil the trans c nf nt ft Vi try Spending ten millions has convert convert- converted ed the old Chesapeake and Delaware canal anal Into a sa spa level waterway the minimum depth twelve feet ninety feet wide at the bottom It has been made deep enough for ocean steam steam- st am- am ers rs The canal will soon be open for or public use Digging canals gives this his government the greatest opportunity for useful home work Gen Gen- G General n. n eral ral Taylor said recently I I look for for- forward forward ward to the time when it will be possible for a a. boat to go from New York to Florida across Florida and along the gulf coast t to Corpus o Christi without 1 ever going into the ocean This nation ought to be building Inland waterways from New York Y rk to tJ t. t New Jew Orleans and from the Great Lakes to New Orleans vIa la the MIs- MIs Valley The French Germans or British would do It It if It they ran this thu coun court try ry What Is electricity We know how low it works we have ha no idea Idro of or what it is It will run your electric el lan fan an cook your bread or toast you ou if I you wi sit in the electric chair A selen scientific scientific itic German has discovered that th t current of oC electricity passing passin through water containing your fish makes the he little nine otac themselves parallel with the current Turn on onn onan onan an n alternating current and the fish place ilace themselves at right angles to that hat current curs Good ps-as' ps with their heir their faces fa es to the east cast and think they do it because Mecca Is in that di- di direction An old custom older than Mohammed Is that of oC placing and worshipping l the rIsing sun Some Bome fussy ussy individuals want to 10 sleep with their heir heads to tn tho the north because the compass needle points in that Ion tion The little fish would indicate that there here may be something in that idea although It Is hard to understand what difference it makes whether the earths earth's electric current goes In at athe atthe the he feet and out at the head or orvice orvice orvice vice versa What is electricity That Is the interesting question |