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KING TAXED A
MILLION.
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Under
the
lialian
law
establishing
a
tax on patrimony
the king’s tax has
been
. calculated
to amount
to
§51,000,000.
His
i
‘estates
were esiimated
at 92,000,000,
lire,
which at the present
rate of exchange
is
!
approximately $3.500,000.
The
value
of
the queen’s
estate
was estimated
at 1,000,
000 lire.—The Pathfinder.
A TALKING CLOCK.
A
Philadelphia
man
has
a
unique
'
clock
whienh* instead
of
ringi
g
a dis:
[
cordant
alarm
bell
sreaks
right
out
in
the
morning
and
announces
that
it
is
“Time
to
get up.””
The clock also
calls
out:
‘‘Breakfast s
ready,””
‘‘Tine
to
‘go to work,”
“‘Time
to
go
to market”
f
etc..
at
predetermined
hours.—-Ibid.
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NEW USE FOR POISON-GAS.
|
At
the
closelof
the
World
war the
.!
question:
'‘What shall
we do with stocks
|
of poison-gases?
proveda puzzling
one
|
in
most
Dbelligerent
countries.
Indus-
i
trial uses
were found
for some
but large
gauntities,
represent
enormous
outlays
of money
for raw
materials,
labor ete.,
were thrown away
because
no-one
Knew
*
how to make
them
serve
any useful pur-
pose
and they
were
too dangerous
to
be
kept
about.
The
French
have
discovered
away
to
utilize such
gases,
particularly
c'.lorine,
for
cleaning
and
disinfecting
clothes.
The
garments
to be
treated
are
placed
inside
anair-tight steel
chamber
whose
|
aoor
is closed-hermetically.
Yalves
are
]
then
opened,
permitting
the poison
gas
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288
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EVENING
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“The
Great
Radium
M
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Lreat
hadium
Mystery.
Featuring:
EILEEN SEDGWICK.”
Episode
No.
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“Perils 0f Doom”’.
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No.
12:
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Episode
No
11 opens
with the
rescue
of Gloria and
Rob
from
the
wmine
shart
by
means
of a rope
ladder strung
down
the side of the mounrain.
Nada,
who has repeatedly
assisted
them,
proves
her loyalty by restoring
the radium,
th2 sheepskin
and
the deed.
Performance
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Children
20
and
10e.
and
compressed
sir
(0 fiow into
the tank
in
the proportions
which experience
has
taught
gives the
best
results.
An elec-
tric heater
installed beneath
the ¢"am»er
and
sc arranged
that it is completely
un-
the
control of
th2
operator
raises”
the
temperature
of the
gaseous
mixiure
as
high
as
possible
without
burning
the
clothes.
.
After the
gas
has
acted
on
the
gar-
ments
for
a
few
minutes
an
exhaust
valve is
opened,
the
gas valve
is
closed
and
compressed
air
blows
the
gas
out.
through the exhaust
pipe into
a
neutra-
lizing tank
a safe
distance
away.
The
~garments,
thoroughly
disinfected
and
cleaned,
may then
be taken out.
The
use of such gasin
the
new
clean-
ing and disinfecting
chamber
is
expect-
ed
to prove highly
advantageous
in
hos-
pitals where patients suffering from
com-
municable
diseases
are
treated.
Hereto-
fore it has
beer.
the practice
to burn
dan-
gerously
infected linens because
satisfac-
tory
sterilization
was
impracticable.—
Ibid.
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WOMAN FOR HOUSE OF LORDS.
Viscountess
Rhondda,
called the world’s
most famous business
woman,
has
raised
1
a gréat
deal of excitement
in England
by
i
her appeal
to
the
King
to
ke
allowed
to
take
her
seat
in
the
house
of
|
lords
as
a ‘‘peeress of the
realm.’’
Fol-
lowing the
sex
disqualification
act,
and-
influenced by the elec
lon of Lady Astor
to
the
House
of Commons,
Lady
Rhondda,
one of the 34 peeresses
in her own
right,
.
is seeking
to establish
a momentous
pre-
cedent.
She has teen
told
by
the
most
expert legal
talent
in
the
country
that
there
is nothing
to prevent
her
sitting in
the upper
chamber,
and
she
confidently
"
expects
to win her point-
Violent onpposi-
tion
is
expected
and
it is vrobable
that
the matter
will be fought
cut on
the floor
of the House
of Lords.—lbid.
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