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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3275, 21 July 1911, Page 4

Considerable interest lias been roused in agricultural circles in France by an invention for preventing tlie formation of bail. It takes the form of rockets, or hail-dispelling petards, which, exploding at altitudes varying from 1.300 ft. to 1,600 ft., break up the hail clouds. Eighty firing stations have been set lip for the protection of 59,00 acres of rich land at Limagne. Gas pipe;; were severed by lightning at Hitchin Police Station, and the current also fired the house of the captain of the local fire brigade. Telephone wires were twisted into a variety of shapes. The health officer of Aurora, Illinois, has taken a drastic step to compel cleanliness in the town. "With the consent of the police, he issued an order to the residents that they must take at least one bath per week, or be locked up. A remarkable motor car accident occurred at Farnborough, two motor cars coping into violent collision in the High street. It is stated that the driver of one of the cars was temporarily blinded by a vivid flash of lightning. Electric carpets are the latest invention for the heating of rooms, the cost for one room being estimated 1 at a halfpenny an hour. At a Perthshire village a Miss Smith was married to a Mr Smith by the Rev. Mr Smith. They have gone to live in a house where their only neighbors are a Mr and Mrs Smith ! If a large lump of soda is kept in the sink, and the water allowed to run over «it, the pipes will never become choked with grease. The present German house-key weighs on an average about one-eighth of a pound, and it has been estimated that as a result 2,695 tons of iron are carried in pockets and hand-bags by the people of Germany, The. electrical process which has resulted in the commercial production of pure copper has been applied to iron in an experimental way at the University of .Wisconsin, with the result that almost chemically pure iron has been obtained.

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