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A Lightning Change

A CHICAGO banker was dictating a letter to his stenographer. "Tell Mr. Soandso," he ordered, "that I will meet him in Schenectady." "How do you spell Schenectady?" asked the Stenographer.

"S-c, S-c-er-er-erhim in Albany."-Argonaut.

Too True

Tell him I'll meet

"THINGS might be worse," said the man who tries to be cheerful.

Reform Too Pronounced

It was on a street-car the other morning that a passenger, whose general get-up suggested a clerical calling, was overheard saying to a companion:

"I realize that women are by nature and instinct bound to go in for adornment in the matter of dress, but they are getting more and more recklessly extravagant. I believe in temperance in dress."

"Temperance is all right," was the reply. "I believe in temperance myself, but what with the hobble skirts and cobweb stockings it looks more to me as though the women were going in for total abstinence."

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THIS was the note which was handed to one of the grade teachers the other day:

"Dear Mum-Please ixcuse Johnny today. He will not be at school. He is acting as timekeeper for his father. Last night you gave him this iximple, if a field is 4 miles square how long will it take a man walking 3 miles an hour to walk 21⁄2 times around it? Johnny ain't no man, so we had to send his daddy. They left early this morning, and my husband said they ought to be back late tonight, though it would be hard going. Dear Mum, please make the nixt problem about ladies, as my husband can't afford to lose the day's work. I don't have no time to loaf, but I can spare a day off occasionally better than my husband can. Resp'y yrs. Mrs. Jones." -Miami News.

Why, the Idea!

MAN (at the phone; to man at the other end of the wire)-"How dare you talk to me

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POPULAR SCIENCE

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ဖာ MECHANICS SUPPLEMENT·

TO RESTORE LIFE

THIS apparatus reduces the work for artificial respiration considerably and has been tried at the physiological department of the "Karolinska Institutet" in Stockholm by Prof. Dr. J. E. Johansson, also by the directors of the Association of Swedish physicians, and also by the life-saving bureau.

The apparatus can be managed by anyone and adjusted to different

sizes. It is said to give better results as to the ventilation of the lungs than any other method, it is easily transportable and ready for use at all times when it is desired to put it into service.

It is to be kept at places where there is danger of life, as on boats, in mines, places where high-tension electric currents are utilized, and of course at hospitals, life-saving stations and bathing resorts, at which latter places drowning accidents are very frequent.

The work of respiration is begun by bringing the levers as far backwards as possible (inspiration) and then upwards and a little forwards and downwards to

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THIS RESTORER OF LIFE CAN BE OPERATED BY ANY ONE.

It is a Swedish invention.

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BLANCHE SCOTT, THE INTREPID GIRL AVIATOR, WHO ATTRACTED CON-
SIDERABLE ATTENTION RECENTLY BY HER AEROPLANE FLIGHTS

wards the patient's breast (expiration). The ropes are taut when the lever is standing at right angles to the board. A further forceful drawing forwards, downwards towards the breast presses it together in order to produce a powerful expiration. The movements are executed in time with the operator's own breathing or regularly about sixteen times a minute.

The invention is one that, in all likelihood, will bring many a person back who would otherwise pass to his grave. Life, especially human life, is being held today at a high valuation, as is attested to by the efforts of scientists to prolong it.

T the age of fifty years Mr. S. G. Brinkley, of North Carolina, finds himself with the longest beard of any man in the world. The chin adornment drops to the length of five feet four inches, which to most men would appear too much of a good thing, when it comes to earning a

HIS BEARD IS HIS
FORTUNE.

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living. Not so as regards Mr. Brink-
ley, however, for in his case the
extraordinary "lace curtain" adornment.
has been made useful as well as orna-
mental, as he earns a good salary by
exhibiting in connection with one of the
country's leading circuses during the

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summer season.

'WHAT'S COMING 'ROUND THE CORNER?"

"WHAT'S COMING 'ROUND
THE CORNER?"

To

see 'round a corner is usually reckoned as one of those things which come under the category of physical impossibilities, and more street accidents are due to the limitation of our vision in this respect than from any other cause. The simple device shown in our photograph, however, has been adopted in the town of Teignmouth, the popular Devon winter resort in England, to prevent street-corner accidents.

Like the majority of towns in Devonshire, Teignmouth has many hills, and at one spot, that where the road from Dawlish a steep decline and very narrowenters the town, a large mirror has been set upon a post in such a position that motorists and others coming into the town can see round the corner, and thus avoid accidents. This is one of those "good ideas" which might well be emulated on a large scale, for the mirror is in no wise unsightly, and is indeed serving a most useful purpose.

HUGE DOME COSTS LIVES.
Wisconsin's new $6.000.000
state house is rapidly pro-
gressing, although it is es-
timated that fully five years
more will be necessary to
finish the structure. The
illustration shows the peril
ous nature of the work on
the dome, the steel struct
ure of which has all been
erected. One man was
killed by falling from the
apex, while two other men
lost their lives in the build-
ing of the two wings.

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HOW STREET CAR TRAF-
FIC IS DIRECTED IN
LOS ANGELES.

By means of towers at street crossings a semaphore system is operated.

The man in the tower sets the signal to guide the approaching motorman.

SUNFLOWERS FROM RUSSIA

THESE are not ordinary sunflowers.
They are a superior and cultivated
variety, fetched from Russia by our De-
partment of Agriculture.

In that part of the world sunflowers
are grown on a vast scale for their seeds,
which are utilized in the manufacture of
oil for table and other purposes.
Also
the seeds are roasted and eaten in Russia
much as we eat peanuts.

A kind of bread is made from sunflower meal. Indeed, it is a valuable plant, and, now that these new and improved varieties have been secured, it may be that our farmers will take to growing sunflowers extensively.

HUGE RUSSIAN SUNFLOWERS GROWN FOR THEIR SEED.

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