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ISTING EVVS ITEMS fidesised For The Careful Reader ' When not in use a new dining table | and seats for several persons can be folded out of the way against the wall of a room. A method has been developed in England for mojding reinforced con crete water mains at the places where they are to be used. A device has been invented for moistening the gummed side of adhe sive labels to just the right degree for attaching to packages. Japan is planning to develop com mercial wireless telegraphy and tele phony extensively through its depart ment of communications. About one-fifth of the money spent in the United States for food is used to buy dairy products, according to government figures. Designed for use over uneven ground, a German tractor is driven by two large front wheels and steered with a small one at the rear. To enable directories printed in small type to be read easily an inven tor has designed a magnifying glass to be mounted on a telephone. French automobile builders are ex perimenting with a car driven by the heavy oil remaining in petroleum af ter the extraction of kerosene. For reaching nuts in difficult places an inventor has equipped a long handled socket wrench with ratchet mechanism that can be reversed. A London underground railway sta tion track end has been given a pneu matic buffer that will withstand a pressure of 200 tons if struck by a train. Neatness of appearance and light ness of weight are the advantages of small eye shades mounted on spec tacle frames that their inventor has patented. According to tests in Germany shal low draft steamboats driven by six paddle wheels set fanwise at the stern develop more power than side wheel craft. When pushed ahead of a flat car on a street railway a recented invented scoop tears up old asphalt paving be tween the rails and loads it into the car. Work is under way on Finland’s largest hydroelectric power station, which will develop nearly 400,000 horse-power, with a possible increase to 680,000. The paper covering the sides of a flat box resembling a suit case in which loads of 50 pounds can be car ried are extended upward and formed into handles. The longest flight by an airplane having an engine of not more than seven and a half horse-power will win two substantial prizes in England for its designer. When a live bait pail for fishermen that a Mississippi man has invented is turned on one side it discharges a single specimen of its contents through an opening. A national wild life musemum has been established in Australia to pre serve specimens of the singular ani mals native to that country that grad ually are disappearing. To indicate the danger point of au tomobile storage batteries a plug that lights a lamp on the instrument board of a car when they become overheart ed has been invented. As seismographs in tracing earth quake waves indicate rock formations Swiss scientists have invented a de vice to locate ore deposits when earth shaking blasts are fired. For convenience in packing without danger of breakage a square tea j>ot has been invented, having a hole in stead of a spout at one and an indented handle opposite it. So successfully have in Germany developed elec tric current for lighting and local power that experiments will be tried in operating a railroad with them. The rapid expansion of a sensitive liquid when heated bursts a thin bulb ' and puts in operation a new head for automatic sprinklers that is said to be proof against corrosion. Italy has been estimated to have water power available equal to the i power obtained from 17,000,000 tons i I of coal, about tenths oi it in the I | .toi vuern pure ■ the country. tvjq i;pyncc-rdinn pctent<"l I by a Kansas r4an are operated in the same mannerAhat a stringed instru ment is fingered, enabling a person ia miliar with the latter to play it. A Europeon scientist has found that j the act of smelling strongly scented j i flowers has an effect on the voice that, i if done to excess, may seriously im- j | pair the voices of singers. The work of 100 laborers is claimed to be done by a South Carolina inven tor’s machine that harvests from 150 to 300 bushels of clover seed in an hour, leaving the hay in the fields. English opticians have suggested that the surfaces of much used roads be colored green to lessen an increas ing number of cases of eye troubles attributed to white or gray highways. A tent to cover a tree and a gener ator for a gas that kills insects has been patented, it being possible to carry the outfit on a motorcycle, the engine of which operates the- genera tor. To reduce automobile accidents France is considering a proposal to subject applicants for drivers’ licenses to rigid examinations of their vision, hearing and heart and nerve condi tions. A small tube fitted with a magnify ing lens and held in place on the ground glass of a camera has been invented to enable sharp focusing to be done without the use of a head cov ing cloth. Much economy of power is claimed for a motor boat invented by an Aus tralian engineer in England that is propelled forward and backward by jets of compressed air expelled be neath its hull. Lacking axles, a chassis for long motor busses has been designed in which the engine drives the front wheels, practically forming a tractor section that can be separated from the rest of the frame. Hydroelectric power developed in Italy will be carried over the Strait of Messina by a transmission line iu which there will be two towers, each higher than the Eiffel tower, more than two miles apart. In United States government tests screw jointed pipe in which lead filings were used on the threads with stood higher pressures than those In which white lead paste or paste and filings together were used. Argentina has about the same popu late nas Canada on one third of the area. Arms adjustable to both height nad width of plant rows feature a new spraying machine. Automatic prepaying telephone* will be tried in France under control jf the government. It has been estimated that there are 120,000,000 fish to every square of the oceans. There are nine plants in Germany obtaining about 30 per cent of coke rom locomotive slag. An electrically operated machine las been patented for smoothing butchers’ chopping blocks. In England several old stage coach ;s of historic interest have been mo torized and restored to service. A recently invented spark plug can be taken apart and cleaned without listributing the porcelain or packing. The French government is promot ing the use of a new motor fuel that s a combination of alcohol and benzol. A light but efficient machine gun has been specially designed for banks to use as protection against bandits. An Italian company has been form 'd to conduct commercial air trans portation between Italy and the Near East. Extending from the shank of a new screw driver at right angles is a ratchet mounted lever to increase its power. Os English invention is a machine -hat opens cotton that has been com pressed and cleans it with a current scoop under the control ; Hp’ivcr feature- a new ira for expeditious grading of and. An incandescent lamp producing an esthesia by the peculiar blue light it produces has been invented in Swit terland. For making practically permanent •igns in street pavements an inventor has patented rubber bricks of several colors. Subscribe to The Record, $1.50 yea*. * THE ZEBULON RECORD, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1925 r-*- - * '•Vr tv.fVv fcamt HI .gfc jTWsst <M vXJK. ■ WARNS PLAGUE IS EVER A MENACE Public Health Service Gives Out Some Figures. Washington.—lt is estimated that beings have died of the are 'he current of ’><- United States estimates that hundreds of of people have died of plngiwin ages past and says thnt the present pandemic of plague began in China in 1804. The report continues: ‘‘During the calendar year 1923 plague was reported to the surgeon general of the public health service as being present in the following countries, namely : Algeria, Australia, Azores, Brazil, British East Africa, Canary islands, Ceylon, Chile, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Greece. Ha wall, India, Indo-Chlna, Iraq, Japan, Java, Madagascar, Mauritius island, Mexico, Palestine, Peru, Portugal. Por tuguese West Africa, Russia. Siam, Siberia, Spain, Straits Settlements. Syria, Tunis, Turkey, Union of South Africa and Venezuela. “Some of these countries have been plague Infected for many years and no doubt will remain so for many years to come, possibly for centuries even. The most common way a which plague spreads from one country to another, from one city to another, is by means of rats on hoard ship. “When the rats of a large city be come Infected with plague it often take* many years to eradicate the dis ease. The fact that there are no hu man coses does not mean that there may not be rat Infection. In at least one city there Is a record of rat In fection extending over a period of 10 years without the occurrence of a hu man case during that time. “As Is well known, the pneumonic form of plague may, and sometimes does, spread with great rapidity among people who live under over crowded and other Insanitary condi tions, that Is, where there is close per sonal contact. Under favorable con ditions pneumonic plague spreads along the lines of travel hy human be ings. by roll or by Rny other mode of travel, but this is not generally true of the bubonic type, which goes where the rat goes and readies hdman beings from the rat. South American Birds Act as Sheep Herders Husum, Wash.-—A South American bird, called the yakamik, is just as efficient a sheep herder as the collie, declares August Boeller, owner of large flrtcks near by. A cousin shipped two young yakamiks to Boeller last summer from Venezuela and now, ma tured, they are inseparable from the sheep. The yakamiks are a sort of crane, long domesticated in Venezuela, and, dog-like, showed marked faithfulness and intelligence regarding sheep herd ing. In the day the long-legged birds wobble around the edge of the sheep bands, keeping watch for foes und wanderers. When darkness comes they fall In at the rear until the sheep are corraied, then seek a roosting place on the highest object found. Like geese, they eat forage with the sheep. The yakamiks are adept In at tacking and beating off eagles, coy otes,, foxes and will even go after bears and wolves, 'mating them with wings and stabbing with needie-llke beaks. Mistaking Roeller'a dogs for foes the two yakamiks have kept the collies in a state of fear for several months. Kanakas Plan to Show Sailors Their Volcano Hilo, Island of Hawaii. —Every sailor of tho United States fleet, which is to visit the territory next spring for maneuvers, will be given an opportu nity to visit the volcano of Kllauea. thirty miles up the slopes from Hilo, the greatest continually active crater In the world. Avalanches and earthquakes now compose KUaueo's activities almost solely, 47 earth shocks having been re tarded at the volcano observatory In the week ended December IT. Since the volcano's latest violet eruption, in May, 1924, there baa been slight activity at the fire pit of Hale maumao. The dimensions of the crater, increased greatly hy last May s activity, are approximately 8,600 hy 3,000 feet, with a dapth of about 1,300 feet. Safety Drive Reduce* Auto Deaths of Kiddies I,os Angales, Cal.—A reduction of 21 per cent in child fatalities due to motor vehicles has been made through systematic teach ing of safety in the public schools of Los Angeles, It has been revealed In a check made by the Automobile Club of Southern California. The safety curriculum in Los Angeles public schools wag be gun about three years ago through the co-operation of the board of education and the pub lic safety department of the au tomobile club. Children are given practical In struction, and. in addition, they compete In designing posters and verses for bulletins used In the safety movement. Diplomas are Issued to students completing the course. Poor Litle Rich B :>y Has His Trciubles, Too Though there never Is a second's let-down in making ehivalrie manners second nature to tiie boy of society parents, there are two schools influ encing ids education, suys the New York Times. One, predominant, is the school to make u man of him; and this school sees that the boy has a competent box ing Instructor and frequent lessons in the art of fisticuffs. The other school emphasizes danc ing and music lessons for recalcitrant young heirs who would rather be tum bling about in athletic fun. There was one hot summer day— one of the biggest town houses on Fifth avenue—the family at home for a day or two, between summer flit tings—and the ballroom opened for a ten-year-old boy’s dancing lessons. He wept, but his mother was ob durate. Here was the beautiful big reception room, a blaxe of sunlight coming in the windows. A young wom an, specially engijMd, played the piano and the duncltw Instructor, slso a young woman, Monotonously demon artrated steps, called out “one, two, three,’’ and led the suffering, perspir ing boy In doleful jazz dances for an hour another In the And Ragtime j to 1 Military b music except of the dram military ban marching spli An Industrial effect of a bara found that tfl work to a danfl Singuiarhjfl ragtime wJB Both begiMpfl when- lift ri,«-.»i)t %o§S The' agiPm sing anything butmuslc of a lilting, galloping nature, to which their hands ' would naturally keep time. In this motion at the hands of the cotton pickers lies the origin of ragtime, and It was presented to the public in the first place by purely negro choirs; Name of a Knight „ The calling of knights by their Christian names dates to the early creation of knights’- surnames did not come Into common use until long after k.nighthpsd was established. In the very old days, a man was known only by his Christian name— the surname was added later as a means of distinguishing different peo ple of the same Ciiristlan name. But all the time the Christian name was the real name. Just as for some pur poses It remains so today, the Chrts tlon name only, for Instance, being used in the marriage ceremony and other services of the church. So when John was raised to the dignity of knighthood he became Sir John, the title being given to the Christian or real name, and not to the surname, which was only added as a distin guishing mark. Aik! this custom is •till adhered to. —Family Herald. Famous Writer*s Relatives Thomas Scott, the favorite brother of Sir Walter Scott, is buried In a Quebec cemetery. Thomas Scott came to Canada In 1814 as paymaster of the Seventieth regiment, which was even tually transferred from Kingston to Quebec. Having for some time been suspended by his superior officers, he was confirmed in his position by Lord Palmerston In 1817. He was such a good writer that he was supposed by some to be the real author of the Wavovley novels. He died to 185 ft, and left three da lighten, Jessie, Ann and Eliza. The eldest married Lieutenant Colone-l Huxely and the other two went back lo Scotland with their mother.— Wlnnljieg Free Pres*. Long Memory Old people often take great delight ha reverting to the scenes of child hood, and vie with on.- another t» early recollection a. Somwtlmoo they assert confidently that they can re member things tha£ occurred In their in fancy. One remarkable instance of This aort of memory Is recorded In an old fam ily Bible in a New England household. The Blblo was published hi, 1860, and on on# of Ita family record page* there may be road the following entry, made In a trembling hand: •'Man Anne Taylor, bora of January. 17.82 a -ordlrigM Be. of her recollection." Early Street Lifl The first street lighting was In 1558, when the peH| France, were ordered to |H candle* In front of their V 1788. pitch or resin bowls tuted for the candles. The a illuminating gns for street lig in London In 1809. In 1821, 1 Mil.. us'“<! lliuininntiuK gas fS lighting. The first electric aAH made their appearance In New city In ISBI. while gas mantle ligoH did not appear for street lighting untiff 13 years' later, in 189 C. Wo. k and Happineaa Happiness loves to see men at work. She loves labor, weariness, self-sacrl- | flee. She Is found not In palaces but j on farms. In factories, and mines. If I one looks up from hard work bo will i Bee her. but if he looks too long, ab* wiii fade away.—Grit « SERVICM e Arc Equipped to (Jive . Service” at (he 01 R WORK GenuMMawTarts ized Deal dr s HKn FORD FORDSON k Zebulon, North Carolina RENT I I * HI HI I i a i B a - §1 Two Rooms, partly furnished or Unfurnished. ( All Modern Conveniences. f Call at J . 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