Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — Things That Arc New. [ARTICLE]

Things That Arc New.

A Massachusetts inventor’s automatic fire alarm can be attached to the electric lighting circuit In a building to* utilize it to ring a bell. To water trees on city streets a German forester has invented a perforated metal ring to be buried in the ground above their roots, and opening extending above the ground to receive water. A German patent has been granted an American inventor of a talking machine connection for dairy machinery, the noises of which, he claims. Is so monotonous it impairs the efficiency of butter makers. In a new desk calendar the dates are carried on a reel in such a manner that 13 weeks are visible at a time and the background eapses the figures for any week desired to appear more prominent' than the others. A-method for freezing fish, patented In Denmark, by immersing them in a cold liquid, is claimed to preserve them in more perfect condition than air freezing as the fish is not dried nor broken by ice crystals.