. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. International S<rr~ice Contestants for Ambassador Jus-serands fencing trophy, entitledthe Fighting Gaul, a bronzestatue which was donated by theambassador four years ago to theWashington Fencing Club. Dentist extracts tooth from tigress, Princess in Cincinnati Note partition drawn up by ropes and holding the patient firmly for the operation. y. R. Schmiit, Cincinnati The late J. Pierpontyacht, Kharget, reported tohave been purchased by theKhedive of Egypt. It isfinest vessel of its kind on theNile. The Khediveis said to have paid$50,00
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. International S<rr~ice Contestants for Ambassador Jus-serands fencing trophy, entitledthe Fighting Gaul, a bronzestatue which was donated by theambassador four years ago to theWashington Fencing Club. Dentist extracts tooth from tigress, Princess in Cincinnati Note partition drawn up by ropes and holding the patient firmly for the operation. y. R. Schmiit, Cincinnati The late J. Pierpontyacht, Kharget, reported tohave been purchased by theKhedive of Egypt. It isfinest vessel of its kind on theNile. The Khediveis said to have paid$50,000 for Underioood& Underwood, N. K AN EXAMPLE OP PITTSBURG STREET LIGHTING An example of the effectiveness ofmodern street lighting with tungsten Lamps—Baum Boulevard in Pittsburg, Pa. The plate was exposed for 30 minutes. The scheme involves the use of 169 units, partly five lamp clusters and the remainder single light standards. WEATHER FORECASTS FROM SUNS SPOTS The Rev. Father Jerome Ricard, amember of the faculty of the Univer-sity of Santa Clara, has startled thescientific world with a series of longrange weather forecasts for the PacificCoast from Southern Alaska to North-ern Mexico. He bases his forecasts,which are given out the first of eachmonth for five weeks in advance, onthe action and appearance of the sunsspots. The apparatus with which hestudies the suns spots is shown in thepicture. TELEPHONES OF THE WORLD At the close of 1912 the whole worldcontained 12,318,000 telephones, ofwhich the United States had 8,357,625,and all Europe only 3,153,000. The cityof New York alone
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