Show WORTH KNOWING dickinson college carlisle pa la Is years old this year one now new england statistical office the proprietor believing in fresh air has baa offices that are practically out of 0 doors making it necessary tn in winter for the typists to wear gloves and as these causo frequent errors through striking two keys instead of one small curved have been put in anft with which instead of the fingers tha keys were struck safely one at a time the dent death hiate rate from wounds in ahe the war Is less than one halt half as great a as s it ft was a year ego ago dr jacques Ber bernillon Bertl tillon llon y t medical statistician in the frehm army declares that by hardship and exposure the men have become so 30 toughened that they can now stand twice as much as they could last year then 45 out of every 1000 wounded died while now less than 20 succumb A process has been perfected in france for applying colors to glass hy by heat so mat stained glass windows cnn be made without fastening many pieces of glass of different hues together two pennsylvania inventors havn have patented a slingshot with a sight to aid in aiming it telescopic spectacles have been invented by a german for persons with extreme near hear sight while searching the ruins of tho the homo home of dr C U H barton in spencer mass which wat wan desi destroyed royed by fire firemen found a pocketbook containing span in bills concealed between mattresses although everything else in tho the room was burned the bills were wera undamaged consul harry G seltzer at breslau germany reports that one of the dres bres lau tinfoil factories has succeeded in providing IL a substitute for tinfoil by producing zinc toll foil the new product Is 19 not to be from tinfoil and ts la supposed to render the same service |