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Show MUCH IN LITTLE It is proposed to construct a SG.000,-000 SG.000,-000 dam for irrigating 120.000 to 200,-000 200,-000 acres of land In Utah. After being four years tied up In a close coil, a saw of vanadium steel was released and the treatment found to have influenced its shape very slightly. Cobalt Is coming into use for the making of high-speed steels. Titanium Tita-nium is a deoxidizer or purifier of molten steel. Ira Black, aged seventy-five of Palermo, Me., husked out 163 bushels of corn, made 47 long traces, picked nearly all the apples on his farm and gathered the garden vegetables last fall. The tusks of the African elephant sometimes weigh as much as 100 pounds each, and reach a length of eight or nine feet. There are about 35.000,000 fur felt hats made In the United States each year, and about 7,000,000 wool felt ones. Rudyurd Kipling has found that shopkeepers, instead of cashing his smaller checks, sell the autographs to curiosity seekers, always for more often much more, than the face value of the check. The Swedish match factories have decided to reduce the size of matches owing to the fact that Russia has forbidden for-bidden the export of aspen wood. Two Illinois inventors patented a bracket with which it is possible to hang both shades and curtains at windows win-dows without using nails or screws |