Albert S. Cox, a magazine artist of Grantwood, four miles from Hackensack, N. J., offered the government a cloth of his invention two years ago, saying uniforms made of it would render the wearers invisible, and he told his friends the government was overlooking a great opportunity when it declined to deal with him. His friends sympathized and weren’t particularly worried about Cox, for he didn’t invent anything else until lately, when he confided to some that he had made a paint which, applied to a military fort, would make it disappear. Still, nobody minded much until the other day, when Cox announced that his house was a fort and was being attacked. He appeared at the windows and discharged bullets at foes, who apparently were wrapped in his invisible cloth so far as the neighbors were concerned, but when bullets began to fly promiscuously around Grantwood, Sheriff Heath was notified. He persuaded Cox he was an ally and led him off to the Morris Plains Insane Asylum. Dog Resolves to be His Own Expressman. When Mrs. James Gordon, whose family has just moved to Pitman, N. J., from Indiana, went to the telephone to answer a call from a local expressman who reported the arrival of the Gordons’ dog from the Western State, she was interrupted by a scratching at the back door. As she opened the door, the dog came bounding into the room. He had broken out of his crate in front of the express office, more than a mile from the Gordon home, while the expressman was telephoning. There were three dollars express charges due on the dog, which the expressman gave up hope of ever collecting, until Mrs. Gordon drove into town an hour later and told of the arrival of her pet. How We Have Grown. The population of the United States is more than 100,000,000, and the money in circulation totals $3,419,090,000, while 11,000,000 of the thrifty inhabitants have $4,375,000,000 in the savings banks. Such is the announcement made by Uncle Sam in a pamphlet issued by the department of commerce. The pamphlet is entitled “Statistical Record of Progress of the United States, 1800-1914.” It gives a “half-century retrospect” and a “clear perspective” of the nation’s quadrupling of population and multiplying a hundredfold of industrial values. “Since 1850, the population, then 25,000,000, has more than quadrupled,” says the bulletin. Commerce has grown from $318,000,000 to $4,259,000,000, and the per-capita value of exports from $16.96 to $23.27. National wealth has increased from $7,000,000,000 in 1870, to $140,000,000,000, and the money in circulation from $279,000,000 to $3,419,000,000. For the entire country, bank clearings have grown from $52,000,000,000 in 1887, to $174,000,000,000 in 1913. Improved social conditions among the people are shown in that 19,000,000 children are enrolled in public schools and 200,000 students in colleges. The total expenditure of education approximates $500,000,000 a year.