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Show POSTSCRIPT? Into the bottom of a now traveling bag is folded a watertight union suit so that a person can use tho affair us a life preserver, tho has being huoyaut enough to hold him up in water. Tho Norwegian government will send a scientific expedition to tho Pacific Pa-cific coast from Oregon northward to study corgroon trees with a view to reforesting its owu barren coast and islands. For more- accurate timing of foot races electrical apparatus has been invented in-vented that starts a stop watch as tho starter's pistol is tired and stops it when the string at tho tinish is broken. One of the objects of an Australian antarctic expedition will be the establishment estab-lishment of a meteorological station to give warnings by wireless of the severe storms which sweep far southern south-ern seas. Of German invention is an electric night lamp in the base of which is a transformer so arranged taat the current cur-rent can be used at four different voltages, volt-ages, the illumination vary ing accordingly. accord-ingly. A bolt has been patented that la oquippoJ with a double spring toggle which folds against the bolt as it is being thrust through an opening and then springs outward and forms a solid bearing. |