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THE JAINA GAZETTE remarked Dr. Jones, “but I don't believe the nations of the world would use it for warfare because they are seeking a gas which will incapacitate, not kill men."
Then he produced a little piece of metal aud smiled, saying, "Here is another discovery."
“This metal is called beryllium, and it will revolutionise the aeroplane industry.
" It is twice the tensile strength of steel and only a fraction of its weight. It is so hard that it will cut glass, but you cannot scratch it.
" Build a 400-h.p. aeroplane engine with this metal and it would be so light that a man could easily carry it away.
" Imagine a nation building aeroplanes of new bakelite metal called aldur, which is practically invisible. Such planes equipped with engine made of beryllium and carrying bombs containing the new gas would destroy armies."
The chemist showed the listeners two types of tear-gas guns which, he said, would be the average man's best protection against burglary. He picked up one which looked like a fountain-pen, saying. I can take this fountain-pen gun and discharge it at a man 20 ft. away, and in a twinkling of an eye he will be blinded for half an hour. You can't miss, and it is not against the law."
Doing without Sleep Michael McCarthy, of Kinsale, is certainly the Record Septuagenarian. “This is what he told me," writes a "Daily Express "correspondent.
The ordinary man sleeps as much in a week as I do a year. I have slept as any man in my time, but I found out that sleep was a waste of time and I gave it up.
At first it was difficult, but I gradually brought myself to go without sleep. I take a short nap now and again, of coursethat is, when I cannot find anything else to do.
Mr. McCarthy devotes the time saved from sleep to enjoy. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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