Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1917 — SOME POSTSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

Mechanism in a German lighthouse that uses electric lights automatically switches on a new lamp and moveS It into focus should the original lamp be extinguished. Instead of an inner tube a new punctureless automobile tire has a removable rubber core that Is solid except for cup-shaped air spaces at each side to afford resiliency. As an automobile fender a Texan has invented a huge rubber ball that is intended to envelop a pedestrian it hlts t the air that he forces out of it setting brakes on the car. A time-saving concrete barn patented by an lowa inventor has a water tank and feed and hay lofts surrounding and emptying into a central space on the ground floor. Operated by clockwork, a Los Angeles inventor’s automatic poultry feeder at set times measures out the desired amount of grain and scatters it over a wide area. According to an English scientist there is an individuality in heart beats affecting the handwriting to such a degree that it can be identified when writing is magnified. The municipal authorities of Lima are endeavoring to enforce a Peruvian law making the metric system of weights and measures the. only official one in that country. s. ~ ’ —w—■ - French scientists believe that carrier pigeons are influenced by magnetism and that, with the spread of wireless telegraphy, much less dependence can be placed in them. Maintaining a speed of 34% miles an hour for four consecutive hours without showing any smoke was a record recently made by a United States torpedo boat destroyer—Houston Post.