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.sV '..v.. " 'T V" " "?> '%j /' ** , . 0 ? ? ? ? ?< PERPETUAL MOTION AT ZERO? Electric Current Continued Indefinitely In Coll of Lead Wire Immersed In Liquid Helium. A discovery which seems to be the equivalent of perpetual motion was i described by Professor Whitehead at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers held recently in Detroit, Mich. He declared that by subjecting a closed coil of lead wire to praeticallv absolute zero temperature, and starting a flow of electricity therein by some external , means, Prof. Kamerlingh Onnes of l.eyden, Germany, has cueceeded in maintaining a continuous current without tlie expenditure of energy. To obtain the extremely low temperature necessary to make the experi- | ment a success the coil was immersed in liquid helium. The current was j started in the wire by jnagnetic induction, the flow of electricity per- ; sisting, it is declared, for four and ' one-half hours after the magnetic influence was removed. It was stated that if the experiment had not been terminated when it was the current would probably have continued to now indefinitely.?Electrical World. WORK HAS BEEN MAPPED OUT Modern Plane for the Reclamation of Egypt Baeed on Thoae Made by the Earlier Rulers. Egypt has drainage problems as well as irrigation ones. Just at present, the Egyptian government is pumping out Lake Ma root is, a sheet of bhallow, brackish water in the extreme north of the delta, at the back door of Alexandria. About a million acres of cultivable land will be re. claimed by this work, though not all at the same time. Other drainage projects of equal magnitude will be taken up later. Here, as in so many other cases, the Anglo-Egyptian government is following in the footsteps of the more enlightened Pharaohs and Ptolemies of ancient days. Lakes were drained in Egypt 3,000 years ago* Where old-time kings used the shadoof and the unpaid labor of fellahin, modern rulers employ steam and machinery ; but the end aimed at is the same. STUDY TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. . jm The proposed College of Tropical Agriculture, in (Vvlon, will he one of the most imposing institutions of the kind in the world, and already great strides have been made toward its completion. The college is to occupy 40 acres on the left bank of the Mahawell river, opposite the Royal Botanic garden at IVradeniya, at an elevation of 1,6.00 f?-et above sea level. The main buildings, which will cost $200,000, Mre to he arranged similarly to those of the Cornell college of agriculture, at Ithaca, N. Y The lectures will provide for two groups of students. Men with degrees in agrieuhurc who wish to specialize in tropical agriculture may take a one-year course, while courses of two years or more will be given to less advanced students. BIG DOINGS. The Tourist (spending a week in the village, to the oldest inhabitant) ?Well, I don't know what you do here. It's certainly the most dead and alive show 1 was ever in. The Oldest Inhabitant?Ah ? yon j ought to wait till next w?t'k. /.nr. and i see how the place 'nil lx? stirred up then. The Tourist?Whv, what's on next week ? The OlJe.st Inhabitant?I'lowin'. ?liondou Sketch. NO CHANCE FOR HIM. "Ttdl me your honest conviction^" "Never hud any ; every time I have beeu eonvicte<l the judge was crooked." WRONG AGAIN. "There is no elTect without a cahse," ?|uotcd the sage. "How al>out when a woman changes her mind?" asked the fool. PLAIN ENOUGH. * "Are you a man or a mouse?" demanded his better half. "It's easy to see I'm"not a mouse," he replied. "You're afraid of mice." DIDN'T WANT A CHANGE. Bern?Jaek seems perfectly deroted. Why don't you marry him? Betty?Oh, i like to have him devetedtemk , J MARKS WORLD'S PROGRESS Evolution of Matabele Territory From Savagery to Civilization la a Good Example. It is a little more- than twenty years since Lobengula, the Matabele chief, died obscurely a few months after the complete destruction of his military force. The stay-at-home Englishman scarcely realizes the raniclitv and romnlptpnpss of thp change that has taken place in a quarter of a century, says the London Standard. Bulawayo, where hloodv sacrificial rites were performed a little over twenty years ago, is one of the most perfectly equipped towns in the world. It has a mag-! nificent railway stution, many schools, churches, chapels, a museum, a public library, learned and other societies, parks, zoological gardens, first-class hotels, daily and weekly papers. There is a theater continuously open throughout the year; race meetings and gymkhanas are held frequently; and here, where the Matebele name was once heard 1 with a shudder, learned anthropologists discuss at scientific meetings the habits and customs of that fierce race. It is hard to realize that 21 years ago not a stone of the modern city had been laid. Itjiodesia has made marvelous progress during the; quarter of a century to be completed ; this year. But it has been sound and sober progress, auguring well for ! the prosperity of the country in that 1 not far distant time when many millions of white men will exist in health and comfort in one of the few tropical countries where, owing to peculiar conditions, the climate is not inimical to the health and vigor of men of Kuropenn race. VACANT "Yep; 1 may say that 1 have my office under n?y hat." "Yes, and 1 s'pose you have a lot of desk room to rent in it, too." WARNING TO VACATIONISTS. The state commissioner of health calls typhoid "an inevitable accompaniment of the vacation season" and tells how sffid why the vacationist icutuTs uimscn vulnerable i? tuts dread disease. "There is a common but erroneous idea," says the commissioner, ''that clear water is pure water. . . . Many a stream which to all appearances is uncontaminated carries the germs of typhoid and dysentery." Whether he chooses a country hotel, a farmhouse or a summer camp the vacationist invariably prefers to he near a stream of water. Sometimes he drinks from such a stream without the slightest concern as to the purity of it? source or as to the contamination to which it may he subjected along its course. Almost invariably he bathes in it. Ituthii?g in polluted water has I wen found to he almost as dangerous as drinking.? Philadelphia Press. WHY THEY CHECKED BULLDOG. "Where's the bulldog?" "In the baggage car." "On account of his grip, 1 aupIUISK " J""" BEYOND HOPE. "Don't keep pestering inc.** "Then you won't marry me?" "1 wouldn't even l?e engaged to you at a summer resort." THE BRUTE. She?Before we were married you railed me an angel. He?1 know I did; hut it was a case of mistaken identity. CHECK AND MATE. Molly (angrily) ? I can't tell you what I think of you! Polly?No; but you have told everyone else. % JUST WHY NEED HE WORRY? Lighthouse Keeper Seems to Have the Laugh on the Respected Courts of California. Living a solitary existence on a barren island, far removed from all the pleasures and gaveties of the great throbbing city of San Francisco. does not keep one George \V. Graves from whistling merrily, "Thi9 Is the Life." Graves, who is the chief lighthouse keeper at the Farallones of San Francisco, was made a member of the Alimony club by Judge Morgan in December, 1H13. In grunting an interlocutory decree of divorce to Airs. Isabel Craves. the court at that time ordered Craves to pay his wife $30 a month. Swallowing this medicine smilingly. Craves repaired to his lonely station. where, according to Mrs. <Jraves, he forgot all about alimony. Last January Judge Morgan issued an order citing Craves to appear and show cause why he had not obeyed the mandate of the court. The order could not be -served, however, for the reason that the federal government will not permit anybody to land on the islands unless on government business. On the other hand, Craves, when he did visit the mainland, failed to mention his trips in advance notices. When Mrs. Craves called on Judge Morgan the judge had to admit that he was powerless in the circumstances. The woman declared that she would uppcal to President Wilson. Meanwhile Craves, in the security of his island stronghold, is politely tolling the superior court of California that it should worry?not he. NO MORE ROMANCE TJF Summer Hoarder?Oh for a drink from the old oaken bucket! Where ia it? The Farmer?The old oaken bucket was unsanitary. We have supplied individual drinking cups instead. MAIDS REPLACING VALETS. Men's maids are gradually taking the place of the valet. The stringent money market has brought about the chantre. "There's morn mnii'a i....i.la than men's men or valets," asserts a Xew York employment agent. "Visit any of the fashionable hotels and you will see maids changing the studs in evening shirts, pressing trousers with patent alcohol irons, brushing the i coats and putting fresh laces in boots. The average well-to-do couple travels with a maid, but not with ft maid and valet. For, after all, a valet is very expensive and his duties occupy only a few hours a day, and a maid can get through all of them just as well. So the average lady's maid is a man's maid as well?maid to the wife, valet to the husband. She likes her letter duties. They are, you see, simple and easy, and they draw forth the most generous tips." UNANIMOUS. Kriss?Who stood up for him when he married? Kross?Nolnxly. 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