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GRANTS PAM DAILY (VI Hl MK
WHEN ELECTRICITY CONQUERS STEAM
Novel ttu of war at Erie. l‘a.. lu which two powerful stcaui locomotives
were pitted against an electric locomotive. The former were brought to a
standstill and then gradually forced backward, aud the electric locomotive
was declared the victor in jhe contest.
In-posits of coal have been discov­
INTERESTING ITEMS
ered la Iceland, ami efforts will be
I mndc to develop them.
For easy access an electric delivery
To save life on seagoiug vessel« a
truck has a folding dashlxvard and a
Frenchman has patented beds with
step mounted in front.
An English Inventor has brought out non-sllikable mattresses.
An electrical device has been In­
an automatic electric recording target
vented for measuring the heat that
for indoor rifle shooting.
Boothbuy Harbor. Me., has a minis­ panes up chimneys and is lost.
It cost $8,000,000 to bring the elec­
ter who Just between time« goes fish­
ing. Recently one trip gave him $250 tric power derived from a waterfall.
i ninety miles distant, to Bombay.
foj- his share.
MANY FAIRIES IN GREEN ISLE
Idea
»
That the Gnome* Have Dis­
appeared la Declared to Be
Altogether Erroneous.
There (till are fairies in Ireland, de­
clare* the Ulster Folklore, which ex­
plain* by saying: To many, perhaps,
this statement will be really new«. Of
course, anyone who has never taken
any interest in the matter at all knows
that in the days gone by there were
plenty of them from one end of the
graen isle to the other—are not their
old haunt*, the thorn hushes, their
rath*, forts, coves and souterraines
■till to be found in every corner of
Ireland Just as they have existed
ainee time out of mind?
But it has been the general belief
that the fairies themselves long ago.
in one fashion or another, had for­
saken or been driven from their se­
cret place*, the last hegira being
placed at as modern a period as the
middle of the nineteenth century—the
night of the big wind, in fact when
they were all supposed to have been
blown Into the sea with the exception
of a few that landed in Scotland.
The error of that belief, however,
has been scientifically ascertained in a
series of investigations pursued by
Miss Elizabeth Andrews. F. R. A. I.,
for a decade or so.
“The belief is general,” Miss An­
drew« says, “that these little people
were at one time very numerous
throughout the country, but have now-
disappeared from many of their for­
mer haunts. At Ballynabinch I was
told they had been blown away 50
years ago by a great storm, and the
caretaker at Killevy said they had
gone to Scotland. They are. however,
supposed still to inhabit the more re­
mote parts of the country, and the old
people have many stories of fairy vis­
itors and of what happened in their
own youth am) in the time of their
father« and grandfathers.”
WAS FIONEER IN WIRELESS
James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish En-
gineer, Has Not Been Given th*
Credit He Deserve*.
Little is heard aliout James Bowman
Lindsay, and much about wireless te-
legraph.v. yet the career of the one and
the history of the other are insepara­
ble. says the Christian Science Moni­
tor. Upward.« of sixty years ago Bow-
man Lindsi operated a system across
the River 'J ■ . a distance of one and a
half lu '
just above tile bridge the
«•••t •••••• . n ef which ranks a« one of
th - nu>-t notable teats in engineering.*
His effort* failed to attract attention
at ih<- time, however, because of hi*
retiring disposition, but tile history of
electrlcnl research record« few name«
more deserving of respect than hi«. He
was n pioneer in the application of
electricity for heating and lighting
purposes and bespoke
for It.
Apropos of Bowman Lindsay, as ho
wa* familiarly known, it is interesting
to note that his energies were not
wholly directed to the advancement of
the mechanical arts. He was a lin­
guist and as such started out to trans­
late the Bible into many different lan­
guages. Seven years’ labor was ex­
pended on the task, and the work was
far from being finished when It had to
be abandoned. The Bible, in incom­
plete form, may .«till be seen In the
Albert Institute, Dundee, Scotland. It
lies open in u glass case ar.<l shows
that the method employed was to «li­
vide the book into the requisite num-
her of columns and in each column
place the words in -English ami their
equivalent in encl) Innguuge into which
they were translateu.
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Frightful Experience.
“What was my moat thrilling expe­
rience?” mused the ex-pilot. “Ah I I
could never forget it. It was a bright
starlight night, but the lurid flashes
around us obscured all else as we
sped through the air. The advancing
enemy was hard upon us. while all
around we heard the weird, savage
music so terribly familiar, and the
thud as of a thousand falling meteors.
We dived, looped, corkscrewed till our
senses were numbed. I felt a sharp
pain in my right foot, a dull weight,
in my side—-I was falling, falling—
and knew no more till I found myself
lying on the ground badly smashed
some hours later.”
“And that was really your record
aerial engagement?"
“No." he replied; “It was my first
experiment with the jazz.”—Pitts­
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
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Paying the War Cost.
Referring to the cost of the war.
Secretary of War Baker told the
finance committee of the senate and
house that the total outgo In round
numbers would he $30.000but
$9.000.000.0(N> of this wa« Imin« to our
allies. Nearly a third of the net cost
has already been paid out of money
raised by taxation. The other two-
thirds was obtained from the five
Liberty loan«. If we pay a billion a
year, besides interest, we can clear
off the war cost In about twenty-one
yea rs.
DEEIl < REEK ACTIVE IX FARM
Romantic Story D*nl*d.
Bl'REAl WORK
There la a ronin title stor.i told of
The women of Deer Creek are the seal which Jules Favre affixed to
meeting ever.' two weeks and helping hl* signature nt Versnlllea on Jan. 28.
rheir hostess with any sewing or 1871. It 1« «aid (lint Bismarck Invited
other work which she may wlah their the French minister to follow hl* ex
help in doing There is a goo« com ample and set his soul ns well ns his
algnitiure to the document. Favre. tin
inunity spirit and this group of wom­
like Bismarck. having no «-oat of anna,
en are bound to accomplish results, made use of n ring engraved with the
working together ns they are.
lilies of France, u gift to him from
At their last rneeMng which was Naundorff In return for profession«!
hold at the homo of .Mrs W. M. Wll- services The man who clulmed to be
liams.
the Home Demonstration the renl lamia XVII atated that the
A «rent was present and demonstrat- ring had belonged to hl* father, Louis
ed the making of a idaster of parte XVI. and hnd been worn by him tn
dress form by maktng one for Mrs the Temple during the Imprisonment.
Th«- anecdote has been denied by thq
Williams. This drees form was made Favre family, ami even If there hud
at a coat of 35 cents, and the women been no denial, the only sea I appear
present were so pleased with the re­ Ing by the side of Favre'* signature oil
sults that eight of the 11 women who the IN71 treaty Is that of the ministry
were Mrs. William's guest* signed up for foreign affairs of (he uallonal
to make forms when the Home Dem­ fetise government.
onstration Agent meets with them on
All Buay.
January 15th.
“
What'a
your
wife doing?”
Hot lunches for the school were
"Preserving watermelon rind.
also dismissed. The women realize
“Ro?"
the need for these lunches as some of, “And the kids are ehthuslaatically
the children are not thriving on cold supplying her with the material."-
lunches Definite plans for purchas-l Louisville Courier-Journal.
Ing equipment and establishing the|
lunches are to be made at the next! Placer location notice* at Courier
meeting.
office
At the meeting last Thursday
plan* for a community Christmas
A
party were also talked ovor.
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Thanksgiving party was given to
raise money to purchase pictures and
Indigestion, Sick Headache, Biliou*-
books for the school and a goodly new, Bloating, Sour Stomach, Gaa on
sum was raised. The Christmas par­ the Stomach, Bad Breath or other con­
ty is to be a social gathering, es­ dition« cauaed by clogged or irregular
bowel», take
pecially for the children.
For Constipation
THE (VOPKRATIVK KNCHANGF FOLEY CATHARTIC TABLETS
The cooperative exchange of Jack* A wholesome and thoroughly clearning
son and Josephine Counties which phytic—mild and gentle in actkxt.
has been in process of development
B B. Haward. Uaadilla. Ga
"I Sod Polar
for several months is about to be­ Cathartic Tablaw «iva u><- qalchcr relict Iron
cooaiipaüoa
than
•nvthinal
arar
triad."
come a realization, while the cooper­
SOLD EVERYWHERE
ative work has been going on for
some time under the efficient man­
agement of Roland D Flaherty. No
organization has yet been formed,
but a committee from each of the
Executive Committees met recent!'
with Dr. Hector Macpherson and au-
thorized the draft of articles of in­
corporation. which will give the ex­
change a legal standing.
Mr. Flaherty has been very busy
handling the live stock and fertilizer
shipments. So far. he has shipped
in two car loads of superphosphate,
six car loads of sulphur, one car load
of nitrate of soda and he has more
on the way. He has had so much to
do that it has been necessary for him
to ■ecurt) the services of a helper. -
Bureau
Josephine County Farm
News.
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Queer Treatment of Infant*,
Many are t he qm er remedie«
plied to tlie Greek baby when l-.e 1« III.
The workings of the medicine man of
our American Indians Is not more fan­
tastic. A lied of colii cinders lx very
generally used as a lust resort. When
the buby Is almost beyond ho|>e the
cradle Is filled with old ashes and the
tiny tot is burled in them. The wel­
fare nurse who told the writer tills
Big Contribution to War.
was never able to discover what the
One of the most striking contribu benefit to be derived was sup|«osed to
tlons <>f the United States to the war be. Had the ashes been warm we
was the enormous quantity of smoke­ would have explained the custom as
less (Minder high explosives produced, a primitive form of creating artificial
says the Scientific American. From heat. Among the gipsies who wander
April 1. 1917. to November fl. 1918. we over Greece progress, for the present.
produced C32 million pounds of «moke Is absolutely hopeless. It will take
less (Minder, which was almost exacth years «if preparation and education to
eqmil to the combined output of France etiabl«* th«*m merely to begin to under­
and Great Britain.
stand the idea of «oclal betterment.
For the moment “Kismet” and “Allah
wills It” ml«- their Ilves and kl?l all
Dangerous Counterfeit.
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The most expert means of counter­ initiative.
feiting American greenback* lias been
discovered by the state police in the
Didn’t Knovz Order of Letter*.
Adirondack« lumber camps, where >20.
“I had an ’odd experience looking
$50 and $100 notes were being dupli­
cated. Banking experts have pro­ for a book." said n v'-tiitui. "The clerk
nounced them the most clever counter­ said the book was not In stock and
she would look tip the publisher and
feit* In existence.
The information now In the hands send for It. She look up the publish­
of the state police Is to be turned over er's directory and began to hunt. The
title of lhe book I asked for began
to the United States .department of Ju«
lice. The secret of the device Is a ma­ with K but she was turning th»- [«ages
chine which i* capable of splitting the way over to the Vs. I stood it for a
thin note paper on which American few minutes than I «aid. 'What'* the
notes are engraved and permitting III«- trouble? Don't you know your alpha-
face and back of the note to be bet ?’ 'No. I don't.' «he confessed, vvlth-
stripped from each other. Waxed pa­ out a blush, ‘they didn't teach it when
per is then laid over each half of the I went to school. Of course I know
note and a solution applied to trans- all the letters In the alphabet, but 1
fer enough of the original Ink to the don't know in what order they couie.
—Springfield Union.
waxed paper to make an exact dupli
cate of the note. The waxed sections
On- r|a«.-'-ve«l
to which the Ink has been transferred
are then pasted to the opposite half
of the good note and in this way two
bank notes exactly alike are produced.
Malines Carillons Busy.
The carillons of Mnllne« have never
been heard so much and to such splen­
did effect as of late. The truth is tl
M>ilines Ims undertaken to get tog<-ti,<
!. sufficient ‘¡a <■ '
: <-y v.lth vvlm •
ni present to St. Quentin a new citi-t.-
I: the Germans having seized the
bolls of the French town. Ko every
carillon of Malines ha« been ringing
and pealing. There have been cnrillon
concerts,- one of the performers on the
bells of the cathedral of St. Kombaut
being the bell rinVer of St. Qm-ntin
himself. The hymn which he played
embodied the motifs of the "Marseil­
laise" and the “Brabançonne.
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