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Show COMMITTED. Wife You believe in being prepared, pre-pared, don't you? Husband I certainly do. TVifeThen I know you'll approve of my getting my complete outfit for summer before the hot weather seta in. Judge. , , , "What Is the meaning of the word purchase,' Tommie?" "Don't know, pop." "Why, suppose I was to give your mother ?10 to go and buy herself a bonnet; what would sho do?" "Have a fit, I guess." New York Sun. A businesslike man stepped into a butcher's shop. "A piece of beef for roasting,1 he ordered, bibkly. The moat, mostly bone was thrown on the scales. "Look here," remonstrated the man, "you're giving me a big piece of bone." " "Oh, no, I ain't," said the butcher, blandly, "yer paying fer it." New York Times. Maud Have you ever had your flower garden look as you wanted it to? Beatrix No; you sec we've only lived here twenty-five years. Life. STRANGE FACTS OF SCIENCE FROM MANY LANDS German lithographers have found they can electroplate paper for use in M their work without danger of an ab- , H sorbing the plating bath liquid by first M coating the paper with varnish. ' H For lessening automobile headlight glare there has been Invented a set of H spiral plates so mounted on tho outer H rim that they can be swung across the H lens as much as is desired. H The government of Now Zealand Is I M building a five-mile railroad tunnel at M a cost of nearly $5,000,000 to give close . connection between the east and west H coasts of South Island. ! H A German scientist has substituted ) M other metals for mercury In a vapor H electric lamp and perfected a device i H ot that character that gives a white H "Sht. ; Official figures put Russia's petro j fl leum production last year at about H 60.000,000 barrels, n gain of 2,000,000 ' 1 barrels in a year. H Around the central tube of a new antiseptic telephone mouthpiece iB a M container for disinfectants that gives j H off fumes in such a way as to kill H all germd that enter tho device. i M I Using an artificial eye featured by , M selenium cells, a New York electri- M clan is developing a typewriter which ' H he expects to copy automatically any H reading matter placed in front of it. H According to an Italian physician H the channel fiom the mouth to tho M stomach is the sat of the senses of H hunger and thirst, which he claims to I H have suppressed by cocaine injec- I H tions. j 11 The markings on a graduated meas- t H uring glass invented in Germany are H made along a zigzag lino instead of a , H vertical one, and, having wider spaces i H between, are said to be read moro I jH accurately. l A United States government engi- H neer has patented and dedicated to ill the public easily transported appar- IH atus for mine rescue work in cases where the regular hoisting apparatus 31 has been damaged. IH In model form an English inventor i iH has succeeded in operating a railroad jl fH car that is raised above the track ' ii) by the lepelllng force of electricity , H and drawn forward by magnets above i flH I 1 |
