The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-21
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
BY means of compressed air, water
| can be lifted from a well of any rea-
| Sonable depth without working parts
| of any kind being placed in the we'll
a prize of $500 has been offered by
| the Bologna Academy of Sciences for
the best system or apparatus for pre-
venting or extinguishing fires by chem
| ical, physical or mechanical means.
Some recently granted patents for
weaving machinery have been put
the prediction of an impending revolu-
ton in the economies of the art of
weaving,
Opaline laminee is a new vitrifed
material, which can be made into
plates of any size and used for decor
ative tiles. 1t is made from 81 per
cent of silica, 80 per cent of baryta,
and z per cent of soda.
Standard motors for street railway
work are now designed to give a
lwenty-1oOt car, iOaued, speed OF
from 20 to % miles an hour on a level,
and to develop their full rated ca
pacity at speed of 10 miles an hour.
A new cattle disease has been discover
co among canadian caLtIe about TO be
-
clared TO be tranSmiSSible TO human be-
ings. The experts who are now studying
the disease are alarmed over the fatal re
suits, its contagious nature and the ease
with which it is transmitted TO human
beings.
The new consumption cure, discovered
by a French physician, is 10 be tried In
Chicago. The treatment is the hypodermlc
injection Of a few drops OF serum daily
into the muscles of the patients back.
The serum is obtained fr1m bacili inject
ii .cfrr1 fTaV a
in which the serum for the new diphthe-
ria cure is obtained.
A writer III Texas paper says he has
always been able to drive moles away
cd: He opens small holes III the tunnels
here and there and pours in little cheap
molasses. The molasses gums the fur
of the animals, engenders disgust and
causes il TO transfer its operations 10
more clearly localities
A new use has been found for the
electric search-light. In Connecticut
woman and child recently disappeared,
and it was believed a murder had been
-UrnlniLIed. Two e4eclr4c search-lights
of 5000 candle-poWer are being used IN
the examination of the swamp where
the bodies are thought TO be hidden
One of the latest uses to which paper
has been turned is the making OF tele-
graph poles. The paper pulp employed IS
saturated with mixture of borax, tai
cast in mould with core in the centre,
forming a hollow rod of any desired
length, the cross-pieces being held by
wooden keys driven in on either side of
the pole. The paper poles are said to be
lighter and stronger than those of wood
and to be unaffected by the many wealth
er influences which shorten the life of the
wooden pole.
A recent invention is pneumatic india
rubber boat, shaped like a horse-collar,
from the forward part of which two boots
or leg cases depend. The bottoms of the
boats are provided with collapsing pad
dies, which open on the back stroke and
close on the forward stroke A rudder is
attached to the stern The boat may be
inflated in three minutes, when the space
inside the collar forms comfortable sea
Propulsion is entirely by the feet. WIZ
not inflated the boat loses its character
istic shape and may be packed away IN
a valise.
1t is calculated that if the sun was
gen in the proportion TO form carbon di-
oxide, the heat developed by burning it
up would only last 1868 years at its pres
ent rate of radiation. The energy evolved,
however. by its merely contracting one
ten-thousandth part of its present radius
would keep up its present radiation Tor
21s0 years The condesation OF the solar
nebula from infinity would produce heat
enough to raise the temperature or a
mass of water as large as the sun q
millions of degrees Centigrade.
A new and cheap hydraulic motor re-
Gently invented consists of water
wheel stationed on two boats in cur
rent The separation of the boats gives
a space, in which the wheel revolves.
The velocity of the current is rendered
swifter by a contrivance that directs
the water to the narrow channel be
tween the boats to the wheel. ANY cur
rent from three TO five miles an hour
is ample, and in some currents the
motor will produce power enough TO
operate an electric light plant.
Some of the London electrical supply
firms are taking steps to enable the
public readily to enjoy the advantages
of electrical heating. They are not
only lending electrical cooking stoves
to customers, but are prepared to sup
ply separate meter and charge half
rates for cooking-which they can af-
ford to do, inasmuch as the consump-
ton takes place during the day, when
the dynamos must generate electricity,
and when there is little demand for
lighting purposes.
1t is said that the smallest piece of
painting in the world has recently been
executed by a Flemish artist. 1t is paint
ed on the smooth side of a grain of COM
q miller mounting stairs with a sack OF
grain on his back. the mill is represent
ed as standing on q terrace ana near IL
is a horse and cart. while a group Of sew
eral peasants are shown in the road near
by. The picture is beautifully distinct, /
every object being finished with microsco- |
pic fidelity, yet by careful measurement
it is shown that the whole painting does
not cover the surface Of half an inch
square.
In calculating the cost of electric cook
ing, the cost of the lamp is put at about
one cent per hour. One pint of water
can be brought from 30 degrees Fahren-
heit to the. boiling point at the cost of
two 16-candle power lights for one hour; !
or. by the use of the equivalent of five !
lamps it can be made TO toil in twelve
while. by the use of the equiv
alent of sixteen and one-half lamps it
can be made to boil in 81 minutes. Four |
or five outlets can be fried by employ |
ing the equivalent OF FIVE lamps for
twelve nlinutes: this includes the time |
required for heating the pan When the |
electric oven is used the equivalent of |
eighteen lamps will raise the Temporal |
ture from 50 degrees Fahrenheit to 10 /
degrees in five minutes, to S5e degrees in /
ten minutes and TO 4Sl degrees in twenty /
minutes.