NEWEST NOTES
OF SCIENCE
Oil cloth when used to cover tables
will lust much longer if the tables first
be covered with paper, well rubbed
with machine oil, to keep the under
side of the oilcloth moist.
French scientists have decided that
carrier pigeons are influenced by mag
netism and that, with the growth of
wireless telegTaphy, much lesd depen
dence can be placed upon them.
A well in Pennsylvania that already
has been bored to a depth of more
than 7,000 feet may become the deep
est in the world, Germany now holding
the record with one 7350 feet deep.
A French Inventor’s process for tele
graphing pictures uses a system of
hollows and reliefs, the passage of
stylus over which determines the in
tensity of the current transmitted.
A Flordia inventor’s cigar box hu
midor has two thicknesses of wood on
the top, front and bottom, the inner
layers being perforated and a moist
ening pad being inserted in the bot
tom.
A test by a Swiss city of the rela
tive efficiency for street lighting of
arc and metallic filament lamps was
decided in favor of the latter, chiefly
because more agreeable to the eyes.
Grease stains can be removed from
kitchen wall paper by covering them
with a paste made of pipe clay and
water and allowing it to remain sev
eral hours before removal with a clean
brush.
If plans for standardizing the guage
of the railways of Australia as re
commended by the chief engineers of
the different lines be carried out it will
mean an expenditure of $180,000,000.
Experts of the Department of Agri
culture have estimated that the sea
weeds of the Pacific coast of the
United States can be made to yield
fertilizers worth more than $150,000,000
a year.
To cool the air far under ground
and thereby permit the miners to work
longer shifts the owners of a German
coal mine compress air at the surface
of the ground and pipe it through the
workings.
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GUN WOMEN NOW
It’s the gunwomen now, as well as
the gunmen, who is a menace to life
and limb, according to Police Commis
sioner Woods, of New York.
This is a new field of "usefulness”
for women in the feminist movement
that is prevading the country, but a
field that does not need aspirants. It
is the gunman and the gun woman in
labor disputes that has come to light
since “Dopey Benny” disclosed the ex
tent of the operations of his clan. To
break a finger or an arm or destroy a
life was a common contract.
Commissioner Woods testified the
other day before the Federal Indus
trial Relations Commission that the
New York gunman has branched out
as a labor threat, and has been em
ployed by labor leaders in several
cities during strikes.
“He is used as a repeater at election,
a capper for gamblers and a seller oi
habit-forming drugs,” declared Com
missioner Woods.
“Do you know whether gunmen from
New York have been employed In in
dustrial disputes outside of New York
city?” asked Commissioner Walsh.
“I can’t say as to that, but we have
found out that New York gunmen have
been taken to Chicago, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Boston, Baltimore and
Philadelphia. Not only gunmen, but
in strikes involving women workers
gunwomen have been used,” Commis
sioner Woods replied.
STRANGE DEATH MESSAGE.
It may have been a strange and
tragic coincidence. Some will believe
there was more in it than that. The
husband of a Paris woman violinist,
himself a musician, left for the front
shortly after mobilization. His Chris
tian name was Remy. At parting he
told his wife: “If I go under I will try
to let you know directly before the of
ficial news reaches you.” She scarcely
played any music during his absence.
But the other day she took up her vio
lin, feeling Impelled to play one piece
which he liked above all. She opened
the case, and two strings o( the violin
suddenly snapped, the D and the E
“Re” and “Mi,” she at once thought,
It was the warning he had said ht
would give her. The next day a tele
gram informed her that her husband
Sergt. Romy, had been killed in action
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Ingenious mechanism in a new Ger
man lighthousa that uses electricity as
I an illuminant switch on a new lamp
'and moves it into focus should the
original lamp he extinguished.
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The Department of Agriculture re
cently announced that It had been
demonstrated that fibre flax equal to
the best European can be successfully
grown in the United States.
The latest British Admiralty list In
cluded 13,226 lighthouses, 290 light
vessels and 1586 fog signals throughout
the world for the guidance of sea going
craft.
A combination of hammock and cot
has been patented by a Cincinnati in
ventor, one end of its mattress being
raised to form n pillow when It is used
for sleeping.
The graphite deposits of Bavaria,
the only ones in the world outside of
Ceylon which yield graphite suitable
for making refractory crucibles, are to
be developed.
For washing dishes without wetting
the hands a California woman has in
vented a mop which may be connected
with a sink spigot, the water passing
through a soap container.
An English scientist believes there is
an individuality in heart beats affect
ing the handwriting to such a degree
that it can be identified when the writ
ing is magnified.
CABLE EXPERTS HAVE TROUBLE.
VALDEZ—The government cable be
tween Valdez and Sitka is working
very poor,ly because of ‘‘earth cur
rents" which cause tile instruments
that record the messages to Jump about
in such a manner that it is almost im
possible to read the tape and the mes
sages are being repeated back and
forth.
Cable experts have tried for years
to locate the causes for the "earth
currents,” which are similar to "static”
disturbances in the air interfering with
wireless operations. The cause of static
troubles are said to be electrical cur
rents in the air. which interfere with
the wireless currents ad it is presum
ed that currents of electricity In the
earth are the cause of the trouble on
the cable lines. The certainty of this,
however, has never yet been fathomed.
RURAL FRANCE BRAVE.
That the Parisans calmly and confi
dently await the outcome of this dread
ful war, all the world knows, hut what
do the French country people think of
it and how do they bear the dreadful
strain that has been put on them?
The French farmer and villager is
really the marrow of the French na
tion.
Everywhere among these people the
same patience and determination is
found to hold out to the end as Is found
among the French soldiers at the front.
What first strikes one on entering
these country districts Is the great ac
tivity everywhere. The French peas
ants love the soil on which they live ns
they love their own children and they
would just as soon let a child of theirs
starve as they would think of neglect
ing their dear fields, vineyards and or
chards. Of course, there are unculti
vated fields here and there, but the
presence of these is explained by closed
cottages and the many fresh graves in
the cemeteries.
Everywhere, however, can be seen
women, old men and children, who had
been taken away form the school work
ing silently and spending their energies
on tasks to heavy for their hands.
They are underterred by the fact that
they lack horses as well as oxen. The
work must be done, the people must be
fed and there are no shirkers.
In the villages there are now only old
men, orphans, widows and wives, who
will be, perhaps, widows tomorrow.
You might expect to hear complaints,
or reproaches, but you hear nothing of
the kind.
All class distinction has disappeared,
the people, rich or poor, noble or hum
ble, are one great family. As an old
peasant woman said:
“My son is in the trenches, hut I have
no right to complain. The noble and the
rich are there, too."
Want, that is to say material want,
is unknown in the country. The state
does its duty toward those left behind,
but the wealthy go further and share
everything with those less fortunate.
Some weeks ago those left, behind in
the country- were worried; the harvest
mush bo provided and the old men and
women were afraid of falling In their
efforts with the soil, but the minister ol
war felt what was going on and sol
diers from agricultural districts were
sent home temporarily to work.
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