An ingenious tool has been invented to enable jewelers to remove stones from settings quickly and without injury to either stone or setting.
So that wheelbarrows can be used over snow and ice, a Wisconsin inventor has patented a runner attachment.
A new sled that can be steered has three runners, the odd one being in front, where it is controlled by a handle.
Peruvian petroleum is said to rank next to that of Russia in its suitability for producing high-grade lubricants.
With but three horses to each 100 residents, Switzerland has the smallest equine population of any nation.
The head of a new thumb tack is a clip to hold paper without puncturing it.
There were 1,220 accidents, causing 1,753 deaths, in British coal mines last year.
Powdered borax sprinkled on a garbage can or refuse pile will drive away flies.
In Our Great Melting Pot.
Nearly seven million white, foreign-born males over the age of twenty-one years are now in the United States. About 400,000 of these are English and 600,000 Irish, the total from the United Kingdom being about 1,300,000.