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Show oo SOME FACTS. For the aid of cripples a Texas In ventor has patented a crutch with a folding camp stool between its sides. According to a French physician spinach is "the broom of the stomach, as It cleanses and purifies that or. gan. An Ohioan has invented a machine which vulcanizes new soles, heels and patches on worn rubber boots and shoes. Small amounts of borax frequently sprinkled on substances on which flies breed will kill their eggs and young. Important deposits of potash have been discovered in Spain, and that nation may become an exporter of the product. A device which quicky chaTk-B the tip of cueB and which can be suspended suspend-ed over a billiard table has been invented. in-vented. Where the soil has permitted wells have been bored to a depth of slvty feet with a new hand-operated post K hole digger. F ' The germ causing gangrene has f ; been discovered by two surgeons in m,i-'-aris, who have prepared a serum to counteract it. I The University of Maine has inaug- m": urated a four years' course to train f1""-, men to become specialists la paper K manufacture. E" . In Brussels a belt conveyor trans- m ' I ferB barrels of flour from a mill to a ' railroad station through a tunnel un- E. der a ship canal. E 1 ' |