An underground moving pathway for Paris is the subject of investigation in that city. Thirteen plans were submitted and five were retained for further experiments. Of these, four work on the principle of parallel bands working at graduated speeds, and the remaining one slows down for each step.
A toothbrush which rotates briskly ok a spring being pressed is the latest device for the . care o ftlie teeth. It can be carried in the vest pocket. Tho brush, which is the invention of a Canadian, is fitted with a spring handle which, when preslscd, causes tho rotation of a double arehimedenn schew.
A bottle containing a slip of paper on which was recorded/the fact that it was dropped from a ship in latitude 12 degrees 7 minutes north, longitude 76 degrees 53 minutes west, which is in the Caribbean Sea, about 300 miles north-east of Cristobal, was recovered at Galatea Island', seven miles northeast of Cristobal. It had travelled 200 miles in 12 days, about one mile an hour.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11661, 27 October 1923, Page 12
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