A Minnesota inventor has patented a self-adjusting pail, with which grain can be automatically weighed and measured.
A camera operated by electricity has been invented for lowering into oil wells to photograph the conditions surrounding broken tools.
Taming Rockefeller Deer.
John D. Rockefeller’s deer, at Tarrytown, N. Y., are becoming as neighborly as their owner at Pocantico Hills. Every morning six or more of them follow the mail man to the post office and to the railroad station, where he goes on Mr. Rockefeller’s business.
The deer roam about the street, unmolested, and often allow people to pet them. Mr. Rockefeller delights in seeing them on his estate.
Spy With Four Sets of Clothing.
A German spy, captured near Paris and shot, had on four sets of clothing—the British uniform, the French soldiers’ garb, his own, and a woman’s dress over all.
McGraw at His Desk.
Manager John J. McGraw, of the Giants, is back at his desk in the New York club’s offices. Mr. McGraw had little to say when interviewed about his plans for next season, but he announced that he had given up the idea of training in California. He now has on his hands the biggest baseball squad that a major-league club has ever carried, and in the next few weeks he expects to let out much of his surplus talent.
Manager McGraw plans to go to the training camp in Marlin, Texas, earlier in February than heretofore, and will have his eye on pitchers and a third baseman. He[Pg 61] would not say anything about any contemplated change in the outfield, but it is quite probable that if some of the youngsters come up to expectations, there is likely to be some changes in the Giants’ line-up for next season.