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One of the latest units in aerial travel between London and Hamburg is a ten-passenger flying boat. It develops a maximum speed of 150 miles an hour, has two motors, aggregating 1,300 horsepower, and when loaded weighs 23,100 pounds. The wing span is eighty-five feet. A crew of three is required to operate the ship, which is fitted with running water, electric lights, and radio-receiving and sending apparatus. It can land or take off from ground or water with equal facility.

 

Roller canaries, with classical musical educations, are giving way to the chopper, a songster with shorter, brisker notes more like those of the jazz melodies and other compositions popular today. According to a bird dealer, the chopper is a twelve-to-one favorite over the roller in the markets. Owners have also noticed that frequently a jazz phonograph record will stimulate their canaries to sing when other means fail. Canaries are being imported into the United States at the rate of several thousand a week, many of the most valuable kinds coming from the Hartz mountains in Germany. Because of their tendency to fight, the males have to be shipped in individual cages, but 100 females can be placed in a single cage.

 



Seconds are precious when the football score is tied and one team is within inches of the goal line. A stop watch, designed to simplify the task of allowing for intermissions, time-out intervals and other irregularities, has been introduced this season. The dial records seventy-five minutes, for four quarters of fifteen minutes each and a fifteen minutes' intermission between halves. There are really two watches, one that records the time of playing and the other, the time taken out. By pushing a lug, the operator sets one mechanism to operating and stops the other. Markings show the official when to notify the teams to get ready to leave the dressing rooms and indicate the number of minutes remaining to play.

