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 Ir 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." 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 POPULAR · SCIENCE 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 It is a Swedish invention. BLANCHE SCOTT. THE INTREPID GIRL AVIATOR, WHO ATTRACTED CON- 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, AT the age of fifty 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. 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 living. Not so as regards Mr. Brink- summer season. WHAT'S COMING 'ROUND "WHAT'S COMING 'ROUND To see 'round a corner is usually reck- Like the majority of towns in Devon- HUGE DOME COSTS LIVES. Wisconsin's new $6.000.000 state house is rapidly pro gressing, although it is estimated that fully five years more will be necessary to finish the structure. The illustration shows the perilous nature of the work on the dome, the steel structure of which has all been erected. One man was killed by falling from the apex. while two other men lost their lives in the building of the two wings. HOW STREET CAR TRAF- By means of towers at street crossings a semaphore system is operated. The man in the tower sets the signal to guide the ap proaching motorman. SUNFLOWERS FROM RUSSIA THESE are not ordinary sunflowers. They are a superior and cultivated variety, fetched from Russia by our Department 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. |