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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION 11 Marvels of Everyday Science Competent Scientists Apply Their Skill to Problems of Agriculture, Houskeeping, Schools, Business and Governmental Activities. Health and Sanitation AK enormous biplane made by the Russian builder, Sikorssky, has succeeded in making a flight of 18 minutes' duration with 16 passengers on board, the weight r .' the passengers and crew curried in this remarkable flight beins 2,640 pounds. Even more sensational was a crosscountry flight made .by the same machine when it had the pilot rnd eight pas;engers on board and maintained an average height of 3,000 ft. for a period of 2 hr. 6 min. This establishes a record both for dur ation and altitude for an aeroplane car rying nine persons. T.is machine is of peculiar construction and u similar to the first one of its type. The span of the upper plane is 114 feet, . whilo tho fore-and-aft length of tho aeroplane is '62 feet. The wings are spaced 0 ftet apart and have a total supporting sun ace of 1,820 sq. ft. The weight of the aeroplane when empty is 8,250 lb. It is fitted with four motors of 100 hp. each, and pro vision is made for installing a fifth mo tor if desired. Vacuum -Cleaner Nczzl, Has Brush In side. Ther has been recently patented a nozzle, for use with va.uum cleaners, which ins revolving urush so arrang ed just within it that, as the nozzle is swept back and forth over the floo, the brush assist! in raising the dust particles, lint, thread s.ni other remov able dirt, and the action of the cleaner is more efficient. Chinese Method of Preserving Eggs, Covering eggs with a thin layer of sea salt and vegetable ashes, made into a paste with water, the Chinese succeed in po preserving them that they do not spoil quickly, and may be shipped long distances. The pasto is put on about a quarter of an inch thick, and the eggs are then piled up and allowed to dry. When required for use, they are placed in water, and the paste dissolves readily. It is found that ii salt penetrates the shell and inner membrane, giving a de cidedly saline taste to the egg, hence they are used for purposes where the salty taste is not objectionable. Automatic Hone Sharpens Scissors. A hono with r.n automatic guide that holds the blado of t pair of shears in the right position by means of a damp ing and pressure spring, has been plac ed on the market and appears to be simple in operation and sure ir results. The base, upon, which the carriage slides, is so arranged that the car riage can move only so far. A clamp ed guide holds the blade of the shear at the rigr t anglo upon the surface of the hone. Once fixed in position, the (hear is moved back and fo-ih until - properly sharpened, as the spring give the requisite pressure and hold the blade rigidly while honing. Motorcycle Saves Explorers. 1 When the rear axle of their automo bile was damaged, a party of English men who are exploring the dark con tinent from the Cape to Cairo were saved from disaster through the posses sion of a motorcycle. One of tho party mounting the "single tracker," started baskward over the jungle paths for an outpost of civilization, where repairs eonld be obtained, eventually returning in triumph with the necessary parts. The party is equipped, in addition to usual supplies, with a motwn-yieture machine with whica to record events of special interest. Motor-Driven Train for Roadless wound. The principal feature of this motor driven train in hauling heavy loads across ertain sections of Australia that have no substantial roads, consists in the -front and rear rail-laying wheels which enable the vehicle to traverse long stretches of deep saud and soft soil without becoming stalled. The wheels of the engine, as nay be seen, are provided with a series of planks which are automatically laid down and taken up when the vehicle is it. motion. The train was .constructed to carry a load of thirty-five tons and weighs sixty -eight tons compKte, of which the engine accounts for twenty-five tonsi A firm believer in the influenco of suggestion, an electric light man in Ohio, turned on his own porch lamp every night during the month of De cember. He gave no reason to his neighbors for so doing, nor did be men tion to them the fact that he was oper ating this lamp continuously. However, by the tenth of the month ten neighbors on both sides of the street were oper ating their porch lamps every night. Tbo fact that this was not a coinci dence was established when on January 1 the electric light man discontinued the operation of his porch lamp and was followed in his example by all of his neighbors. . New Holder for Fly Paper. A novel contrivance for holding sticky fly paper securely, and keeping it in such a position that tablecloths, centerpieces and polished surfaces do not come in contact with the paper has recently been patented. It consists of a hollow box-shaped affair of thin metal, the outer ends of which extend 1 1 4 i-i outward, forming guards which keep the body of the device away from the surface of its support, while a full sized sheet of sticky fly paper is fold ed about the center and kept in place by projecting prongs thrust through the edges of the paper. Newspaper Made for Use as Wrapping Paper. Two days each week a daily paper published at EbeTSwalde, a Prussian town near Berlin, is printed on only one side of the sheet, and on these days the paper is made twice as large as usual so that the public loses nothing in the way of reading matter. The ob ject of this curious arrangement is to make tthe paper useful as well as in structive, as it can then be. used for wrapping op provisions without any touch of printers' ink. Cash Register Bargains Our prices about half other dealers. We pay highest price for second-hand regis ters. We do expert repairing and guar antee our work. Will exchange to suit our requirements. STJNDV'ALL CO., 805 2nd avenue, Seattle. Phone Main 1180. IT IS unfortunate indeed that Toledo, Ohio, has suffered from a smallpox epidemic. Many more of our cities are liable to- meet with dire results in this regard if vaccination is not more extensively done. An epidemic of any contagious disease once started is much more difficult to control than to es tablish the prevention. , ' Why did the French fail to construct the Panama Canal f Because they en deavored to treat disease after it oc curred, rather than attempting to pre vent it. ' If is much more difficult to treat any preventable- disease than te administer the prophylactic and far more expensive. Toledo numbered 139 eases ia December. Portland had five, but the latter city did at escape be cause vaccination is so thoroughly done in fact laxity in this respect is con stantly increasing. In .Montreal, dur ing nine -months in 1880, "3,163 persons succumbed to smallpox. Saginaw, Michigan, a few years ago, was quarantined as a whole against the surrounding country. What a terrible calamity to any city from a business standpoint, if nothing else. There is no recognized standard text book on the science of medicine that condemns vaccination as a preventive against smallpox. There is no school of science medicine in the world that does not advise it THERE is, of course, the person who will contend that the fly isn't half so dangerous as advanced sanitary science contends. But such a person is a rara avis these enlightened days and his ideas fly in the face of proved facts. No doubt the same individual would see no i.ar.ger in a contaminated source of water supply and would make light of the whole scheme of community and INDICATIONS of a dangerous forest fire season, unless June brings heavy rams, are reported by State, Federal and private lorest forces to the Western Forestry and Conservation As sociation, which serves as' a clearing house for all forest protective agencies in the Pacific Northwest.. The early season, with little snow in the hills and inflammable vegetation well advanced, is considered to cause increased hazard if hot, dry weather is prolonged. For the next few weeks, before care less campers and hunters become most numerous, slashings and uncleared rights of way are the greatest source of danger. Settlers, loggers and road crews are urged to clean these up as long as it remains safe to do so, but reminded to take evcr- precaution and that from . une 1 to September 1 burn iLg withou'. permit from a firo warden is punishable by law, besides carrying liability for heavy damage if destruc tion results. Both private and official agencies report, however, that public sentiment in these ma' ters has greatly improved, there being much less care lessness than in former Tears when the injury' from forest fires to all members A FRENCHMAN staying at a London hotel, when presented with his bill, paid it without formal protest, but was indignant at its amount. "I wish to see ze proprietaire," he said to the clerk. In a minute the proprietor ap peared. The Frenchman was all smiles, "Ah," he said, "I must embrace you." "But why should yon embrace met" asked the astonished hotel keeper, "I do not understand." "Look at see bill I" "Yes, your receipted bill. What of itt" "Whatofeett Simply Eces, saire. It means zat I shall nevairo, no, nevaire, see yon again." individual cleanliness that is yearly robbing the graveyards of tho country of a tremendous harvest. Take no heed of such a carper. AVOID, as far as possible, handling flies with the bare hands.- But if you do toucb them, wash the bands thoroughly and avoid possible danger. BATHING, as well as other good prae tices of our daily life, is largely a matter of habit and convenience. Bathing is an agreeable thing provided it is convenient and comfortable, and the necessity is great i.f having a bath room that is cheerful and warm so that the habit : .ay become a fired one with the children as well as their elders. The Modern Sanitarian emphasizes this point in the following succinct argu ment: ' "It is all very well to take a morn ing tubbing when we can slip from a snug bed into a bright warmt inviting bath room when the morning dip is a luxury, but how many of us v ould in sist on such scrupulous cleanliness if, like our less fortunate dwellers of the slums, we had to carry our water from a distant hydrant, bathe without priv acy in a cold room and then carry the water to a dictant receptacle to bo emp tied. Not many,, w - enture. Which goes to show that bathing, like most isrsonal hs-bits, is greatly r matter of environment and convenience. . ''It. the- slum dwellers were suddenly enrtcnea ana enangea to tne dwellings of the wealthy, while 'he wealthy peo ple were impoverished and transferred to the slums, condition.: would soon be come entirely reversed; the former slum dwellers would become esthetics, de voted to the daily moving bath, whilo esthetics would slip back '.o tho level of the great unwashed." of the community was less realized. Be sides the danger to the life- and prop erty of settlers, every loss of timber re duces the return from ferest industry, which is the greatest source of com munity revenue in the Northwestern states and contributes to every other in dustry. Settlers are beginning to recog nize it as the greatest support of a market for farm products. Method and expenditure for patrol and fire-fighting have been carried fur ther in the Pacific Northwest thai, any where els in America. The chain of allied timber owners' associations ex tending from Montana to California protect nearly 2o,000,000 acres, employ ing several hundred patrolmen, besides emergency help, and spending large sums for telephone and trail construc tion. These systems dovetail under co operative rgreements into those of the states and the government, making a triplo alliance which covers the entire field. Preparation for more effective patrol than ever befor9 is being made this year and the public is urged to reciprocate by exercising unusual care with slashings, camp fires, matches and tobacco in the woods. MRS. PANKHTJRST, as the Majestie a sailed from New York, talked to a reporter about the. comparative deceit-, fulness of men and women. "Women," said tho reporter, "are the more deceitful," "No," said Mrs. Pankhurst, "men are the worse. Look at the way they deceive their wives." Mrs. Pankhurst smiled and tossed her bead. "Oh, no," she said, "now could the average man ever get a wife if he didn 't deceive hcrf " A California firm Is selling eucalyptus charcoal at $2 a ton, aa afainal t'id a ton for oak charcoal. Since most of the Cali fornia grown eucalypti do not malo jooil lumfcftr, met for other product ft! rym are teiag toufht, Dangers of Fire Season Explained Western Forestry and Conservation Association Eeports Pro gress in Preventive Work.
