Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-11-19 | Page 3 | Interesting Bits

INTERESTING BITS The American mountain sheep are the greatest leapers in the world. The British government Is establishing establish-ing a very powerful wireless station in Jamaica. Virginia Is the leading state In the production of soapstone. Vermont ranking second. ' The United States bureau of Stan dards has developed a delicate thermoelectric thermo-electric test for the purity of platl-sum, Resembling a large tracing wheel is a German Inventor's device that accurately accu-rately measures irregular lines. A muscle from a frog's leg la utilized by a French inventor In a device that receives and records wireless signals. Peat, compressed and formed Into sheets, is replacing cork in Germany as an Insulating material against heat and cold. England and Wales together have 40 special schools for the blind. 51 for the deaf and 245 for otherwise defective I childre Sydney, N. S. W., now has a benzol plant. The relative values of various kinds of coal are determined by X-raya with a method invented by French scientists. Statistics have shown that American Ameri-can telephone operators answer calls two seconds quicker than their English Eng-lish cousins. Experiments in rice cultivation la Porto Rico gUe promise or the island becoming a& Important producer ot that grain-