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PAGE FOUR Annapolis and West Point Fort Severn, still standing In the Naval acaderiy grounds, was glvpn by the W ar department as the site of the Naval academy, founded In 1845 by George Bancroft. Under the superin tendency of Commander Franklin Bu chanan and his distinguished succes sors, aided by a corps of extraor dinarily able professors, this institu tion hes grown In extent and useful ness, writes Bear Admiral Goodrich in the North American Beview. The late Professor Lounshorry of Yale placed himself on record in holding the Naval academy and West Point to be the best schools in the whole country, since In them and nowhere else is education backed by discipline. Its graduates become line officers In the navy or the marine corps, or pass into certain staff corps. Even If they re sign in the course of time, they bring to the careers they adopt trained minds and habits of Industry, veritable national assets. When meat is shipped long distances by steamer, it is often frozen to pre vent spoiling. Thawing it out by nat ural means usually takes three or four days in summer and longer in winter, and affects the quality to such an ex tent that frozen beef, for Instance, commands lower prices than that which has been merely chilled while in storage. These disadvantages are said to be eliminated in a simple elec trical "defrosting” process developed in Australia, says the Popular Mechan ics Magazine. It thaws the meat with electric current The apparatus con sists of a self-regulating transformer and a set of electrodes with connec tions which are set in the meat in such a way that more current pnsses through the solid portions than through the thinner rib parts of the carcass, thus insuring uniform thaw ing throughout American capital flowing Into for eign fields for investment is estimated by the Commerce department to have amounted to $551,591,000 during the first six months of the calendar year 1925. This brought the value of pri vate American Investment abroad to a total of $9,500,000,000, says the Pitts burgh SUn. The acceleration of the foreign Investment tendency in the United States was illustrated to some extent by the department's showing that the total for the first six months of 1924 was only $379,700,000, al though during the latter half of 1924 the records placed the total value at $880,067,000. All of the figures were baaed on the public offerings of for eign securities made for United States investors. (The regulation forbidding Jay walk ing is regarded in Britain as an inva sion of the rights of the pedestrian.) You never know how far an encroach ment may go when once you let it be gin. says the Manchester Guardian. If we were only suffered to cross the street, like a railway, at certain level crossings, the next thing might be that coroners would call level cross ings dangerous, and all foot passen gers might be required to "cross by the bridge." Eventually the very presence of pedestrians in the streets, en any conditions, might be con demned as dangerous or provocative to motorists, and persons unprovided with cars might be prosecuted for wandering without visible means of continued existence. Although John Singer Sargent has been dead only a few months, he has already become an “old master,” and art collectors In London are scurrying about the shops and salons of that city and Paris eagerly snapping up any bit of drawing or painting that may be traced to his hand, says the Philadel phia. Record. That this is true should not occasion very great surprise, for It will be remembered that even before the death of the late Joseph Conrad, that supreme novelist—an old master In his own line—enjoyed the distinc tion of seeing bis manuscripts and first editions fetching the fancy prices that usually come only after the au thor has been long dead. CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926 aquanai plants uraw most of some unusual performance to his sirauie W. G. TRILL F. F. BURK— FOR AUTO TOPS their nourishment from the water and credit Opposite S. P. Depot require merely an anchorage. In order Attorney-at-Lnw— Notary Public to Insure an abundant air supply, ! Central Point . . . 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Minerva and climbed to the balcony of his Is said to have originated the art of toku palace saw a little smoke rising pictorial needlework. Many books on from the and chimneys the city. He at A»J» about lace-making and embroidery have once exempted the of people from tax CIRCLE TOUR been traced back to the Middle Ages. ation for three years. Later he o f ihr The Greeks are thought to have climbed to his roof again und saw brought it from Egypt, and the (ihal- smoke rising from almost all the UNITED STATES deaus, whose civilization was earlier chimneys. Whereupon he committed than that of the Egyptians, had de these lines: —Southern Pacific’« veloped it to a fine degree also. France On my root nrw C lim b in g , w h en I lo o k ou t gave it wide popularity after the travel bargain I • • • s m o k e r is i n g Christian era. The p e o p le 's k itch en s Deodorizing Cigar Box If the cigar box is made from Spanish cedar, as the good ones are supposed to be made, it would be rath er difficult to deodorize it completely, since the odor is due to a resin in the wood which is fairly well distributed throughout the wood structure. If the box is made from some other wood which does not have much natural odor, but which may have taken up some odor from the tobacco, it night be that a thorough airing or perhaps washing with gasoline would remove the odor. The odor of Spanish cedar is due to a volatile oil in the resin, and this oil can be removed at least from the surface of the wood by steaming. Since, however, a very little steaming might warp the box or discolor It, or soften the glue, this method is not practical. Probably long-continued ex posure to the air and sunlight is the most practical method. Seek More Nicotine Nicotine, not less of it, but more. Is wanted by tobacco-breeding plant scientists at the state agricultural ex periment station at Geneva, N. Y. This reversal of usual tobacco requirements is being nought for the benefit of the insecticide Industry, which makes large use of nicotine in the manufac ture of Insect poisons. Certain “wild" tobaccos are being found more prom ising than the cultivated varieties and are being experimented with to learn ways of increasing their already high nicotine content. Square Receptrcle for Goldfish Always Best According to a bureau of fisheries bulletin, because of Its narrow neck, the so-called fish globe is not adapted to keeping goldfish In a comfortable and healthy state, Its small amount of water surface not permitting the proc ess of absorpt'on of air on a scale sufficient for the well-being of the fish. Another objectionable feature of the globe lies in its reflection and re fraction of light rays, which tends to make the fish nervous and uneasy. An aquarium with straight sides is the most suitable for goldfish. It should be of rectangular shape and of equal width at the top and bottom. The rectangular battery Jar, which may be purchased In the 5- gallon size, will give good results. The depth of water should be about the same as the width of the aquari um, and the bottom should be cov ered with clean sand and gravel to the derth of one and one-half Inches. Ordinary washed sand and pebbles are best for this purpose, as the more de CITY CLEANING AND DYEING CO. “ WE ARE NOT SATISFIED UNLESS YOU ARE” Man of Great Strength It is difficult to compare strong men Each has his own special tesU. at which be la superior to the rest. A recent newspaper article stated that unquestionably the strongest man of Modern times was Louis Cyr of Can ada. who was considerably stronger than 8endow. Breitbart. who died in October. 1926. is said to have come nearer emulating Sandow than any of the letter's many Imitators. 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