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THE JAINA GAZETTE. cooling on a large scale is to be provided for the comfort of the workmen there. Gold is mined for here, and contrary to the rule of deep mines, there is no sign in a decrease of gold content.
A PAGODA OF PURE GOLD. The Great Shway Dagon Pagoda, in Rangoon, Burma, is covered with pure gold. The golden cupola is 370 feet high, !n an underground chamber below cupola rests the hairs of Buddha's head, which draws thousands of worshippers from all parts of the east.
MARVELS OF OCEAN DEEPS. Among the marvels of life in the Ocean deeps are various kinds of fishes that carry their own torches and lighting plants to illumine the dark waters and help them seek their prey. They can turn the lamps on or off at will from mysterious internal "dynamos." One specimen found three miles deep in the Pacific ocean is a sort of hinged lantern that could be swung over its back or in front of its mouth and, at the end, is a luminous lure of searchlight. Other varieties have rows of lights one either side and look not unlike small steamers passing in the night. Further study of these mysterious "Electrical Engineers" is one of the objects of the recent expeditions at work in the Sargasso Sea.
TYPELESS PRINTING. Messrs J. R. C. August and E. K. Hunter have devised a new printers, machine which does away with metal type by substituting for it a photographic film upon which letters, figures etc., have been photographed. It is claimed by experts that it will revolutionize principles of printing that have been in use since Caxton's time 450 years ago. The printers composing rooms of the future, instead of occupying great areas filled with costly machines, will consist of offices of the fraction of the size housing only the camera composers. Millions of pounds will be saved to the printing industry by the reduction of capital outlay, inasmuch as the bulk of the composing plant of to-day will become unnecessary;
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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