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Show WORTH KNOWING. Electricity Is the only agent that will thaw frozen water pipes without disturbing the ground In which they are buried. Peat covers about one-seventh of the area of Ireland, and deposits are estimated esti-mated to contain 40,000,000 tons of fuel. A process has been invented in Germany Ger-many for tinning small articles by ' placing them in a centrifugal machine ma-chine which Is revolved In molten metal. Operated by current from a light locket, a two-fan electric ventilator has been Invented for offices and residences resi-dences that, when set In a window, draws in fresh air and expels that already al-ready in a rooin, Seventy-eight gold watch fobs have been awarded employees of the Southern South-ern Pacific railroad who did efficient safety-first work during the last year. The prizes are won under a point system, sys-tem, credit of so many units being given for suggestions which are classified classi-fied as to value and the number of prize points merited by each. Mohammedans are supposed neither to drink wine nor to eat pork, but All-ben-IIamoun, dethroned sultan of Zanzibar, who now lives affluently in Paris, has a bold and original way of doing both. At the table he places his Koran beside him, urges "Oh, holy prophet, may thy Koran protect me," and falls to with a will. In the first nine months last year the United States Imported 18,500,000 pounds of sugar-beet seeds, mainly from Russia. What Is belle-ed to be the most durable highways in the world have been made In France of a concrete composed of Iron shavings, cement and sand. More than 8,000 persons signed the visitors' book at Shakespeare's birthplace birth-place at Stratford-on-Avon In 1914. Last year the total number was 254. The miners of Spltzbergen are apt to get their mall only at intervals of eight months, but they get the news of the world twice a day by wireless. A waterproof electric motor has been Invented by an Australian to drive brushes against the hulls of ves-sels ves-sels to clean them without dry-docking. Apparatus with which photographic plates can be loaded into holders or removed and developed In daylight has bn invented by a South Dakota mar.. |