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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. They all called
him an idiot.?Smart Set.
WHY, OF COURSE.
"I bite. Why do motorists talk of
taking a spin?"
''Because they go at top sjieed."?
Yale Kecord.
THE BATTLE CRY.
"I notice there has been fighting
at Limburg."
"And the cry of the retreating
ones was probably, 'Cheese it I'"
HIS MERIT.
MI like the way that man looks.*
"Why, he's positively ugly 1"
"Yn, hut ha'a looking at na"
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