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It is the opinion of wireless anci scientific experts that one of the next" great developments of wireless will be in the fascinating field of television. In support of this view, and to encourage British inventors, Wireless Review is offering a prize of £SOO to the British subject who.invents .apparatus which in the opinion of competent judges best demonstrates the practical possibilities of wireless television, s ' - • Nothing is sacred nowadays, for here is a doctor holding forth in con-, tempt of the toothbrush, that timehonoured trophy of our race! "Whatever else he may omit when going a journey, the Englishman's' toothbrush is certain for a place in his kit. When the Empress Eugenic fled to England she wrote to a friend, " I have nothing, not even a handkerchief." An Englishwoman would have written "not even a toothbrush." If the invention of Mr., :i A.-Gefferies is successful the holiday resort of _ the future may be suspended from giant airships "anchored" in the clouds. The lifting and sustaining power of aircraft will be increased to such an extent that a girder-strengthened platform, on which a miniature city has been built, could easily be supported. Visitors would be brought to and from the earth by aeroplane. . Great secrecy, it is stated, surrounds the details of the invention. ( The Jaint Commission on Agricultural Inquiry in America has been investigating the various factors of the cost of a loaf of bread on its travels from the wheat fields to the family table. It illustrates the fact that the weak point in our economic life is the matter of distribution. Of every the householder pays for bread £fc6 cents goes to the farmer, 8.4 cents is required to get the wheat j ready for baking, and 10.16 cents is i consumed in manufacture. Fifty cents or one-half, is- absorbed in the expense of distribution. A demure young librarian in a rural town up Bay of Plenty way— Opotiki, to be precise had closed library on a cold, wet Saturday "evening at the usual time, and later j had to pass the institution rafter transacting a little' business further up the street. Great was her astonishment to see through the window flames lighting up the entrance room of the library she had but shortly left She had certainly carefully sees on departing that the fire in the grate . was extinguished and that all the lights were out! After searching for a stray man in the apparently deserted country street, she hesitatingly unlocked the door and out upon her rushed a man whose face she j could not see. This enterprising one had taken all the illustrated papers and magazines off the table in the adjoining room and had made a very eosy blaze before making himself Comfortable for the night Certainly an original idea on the part of a vagrant for spending a comfortable night, but great must have been his anger on having his fireside meditations so quickly disturbed by a timid, blondehaired young lady. For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

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