Big Words

In Paris a chemist went insane, smashed his laboratory, hurled into the street test tubes filled with billions of deadly microbes.* At Bayonne, France, during a bull fight a bovine tossed his head, knocked a sword out of a matador's hand and into the grandstand, where it pierced the heart of a wealthy Cu ban spectator, who died. Near Philadelphia the Baldwin Locomotive Works established a world's record by turning out locomotives/- at the rate of one per hour for 31 consecutive hours.

In Scandinavia was held a long-word competition of words in actual use. Some of the monsters:

Hyresregleringslagens: refers to a Swedish rent-regulating act.

Vapenstillestansvillkoren: stands in Swedish for the conditions of the armistice.

Egnahemslaneverksamheten: refers to Swedish " own home " loans.

A a s t e dsforlikelseskommissöoumrssup-pleantvalgoerammelsen: " fixing the date for the election of the vice commissioners of a local conciliation assembly." (This word is Norwegian and has 52 letters.)

* According to the Pasteur Institute, one hour's sunlight is sufficient to kill any known species of microbe./- Weight 170 to 200 tons each.