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50,000 Wishbones In Collection

Discovery of electric currents, that shoot out from bright spots on the sun in the form of lonized rays, and flow to the earth carry- ing enough electricity from a sin-

The things people will collect!...... gle spot to light, the city of Chi-

A Middlesex man has collected cago, were reported to the Ameri- 10,000 different railway tickets, is- can Association for the Advance-ued by 243 different railway com- ment of Science at Denver.

panies, and dating back over 100 years! He has the ticket of th Great Western first-class single, from Plymouth to London, which bears the inscription, "Issued board the White Star liner, Titanic.”

These bright spots are flare of flame about as big, as the earth They last only a few minutes Their ionizing rays are 10 times stronger than the rays from the rest of the sun.

The electricity they carry does not reach the earth surface, "but there is so much of this "snn- juice that for a few minutes it circles round and round in the air about 30 miles above the earth's surface.

These extra electric currents, discovered in the last few months by the department of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Insti- tution of Washington, were des- cribed by Dr. A G. McNish. They are important for radio and fluc- tuations of compas

A Forest Hill, London, collector has 24,272 autographs of famous people and he has never seen one of the writers The Postal An- thorities gave him permission to send out his requests at the d rate He holds the autograph of every English Premier since Dis- raeli

A Leeds man collects menu cards used at public dinners and

func- tions

One man in England has actually amassed the amazing collection 50,000 wishbones!

A London man owns over 1,000- match-box tops; a solicitor has 20,000 train, tram and bus tickets, and an- other London professional man col- lects the names and scores of every cricketer who makes more than 100 in a county or Test match.

They were detected by combin ing radio observations and mea- surements of intensity of the earth's magnetic currents. The magnetic currents flowing in the earth's soil and in the air show, said Dr. McNish, that ordinarily,

Perhaps the most extraordinary during daytime, there is a whirl-ease is that of a navvy who collects pool of electric currents flowing miniature musical instruments He counterclockwise above the North owns the smallest banjo in the ern Hemisphere.

world. It is only 8in. long, but al most any tune can be played upon it

This electrical vortex covers the face of the hemisphere between sunrise and sunset lines.

Its counterpart whirls about the Southern Hemisphere, turning clockwise. Normally the Southern Hemisphere currents, Dr." ^ Mc- Nish said, equal about 150,000 am- peres of electricity. The Northern Hemisphere currents rim about 75,000 amperes.

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Alleged Arson Attempt

“B'S" BUZZ

BUSILY IN

INVENTIONS

“B”

“W” and "M" are lucky letters for faventors. The "F Wilsons" and the Scottish seem to be the nation's men of ideas.

So many suggestions pour in every day, that Morris Motors now have a special inventions department, under the control of a patents experts, and every invention properly covered by patent is carefully investigated.

A census of inventors' names, tak When Victor FW. Moody, 36, of en this week, reveals that the "B's no fixed address, was charged at lead with nine per cent, the "W's Middlesbrough with office breaking are next with eight and a half per and attempted arson, it was alleged cent., and the "M's" third with eight that he attempted to set fire to the per cent Between them, they ac- Royal Exchange, Middlesbrough, count for one inventor in every four. one of the largest buildings in the to wa

Many Too Complicated

The inventions, which cover an enormously wide range, include de-

Chief Constable Heald declared that Moody had lived in the clock tower of the Exchange without food for two days. Late at night he told vices to stop splashing or to prevent la police constable he had broken skidding, and controls for cripped

into several offices at the Exchange

drivers.

COASTWISE and, it was alleged, added: "I broke Inventing, however, is a thank-

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into the caretaker's room and built less task. Most of the suggestions á fire, as I intended to set fire the building"

The police found a large pile combustible material ings and blocks in t office the bu

are impracticable, as they over no advantage over existing ideas,

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