The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-12
NOTES OF ART AND SCIENCE

Milk may be sterilized says the Scien-
tific American. by passing through it an
alternating electric current.
A German contractor has recently re-
ceived a concession to build electric rail-
ways in the suburbs of Teheran, Persia.
White lead for paint is now produced by
electrolysis, and is said to be very much
better article than that produced in the
old way.
In Germany a high-grade butter has
been made from sterilized milk by the adj
dition of pure cultures of the proper bac-
terra to produce coagulation.
A cubic foot of air at the pressure used
In firing the Fort Point dynamite guns
1000 pounds per square inch-weighs
something over 10 pounds.
The dust and small chips from turquoise
polishing can be made up into artificial
stones by means of hydraulic pressure
that puzzle the best experts
Antitoxin shortens the time needed for
the retention of the tube in the larynx in
cases of Group and diphtheria. according
to Dr. Bokai of Buda-Pesth.
Electrical sewage publication is a very
promising solution of the sewage prob
lem. 1t is calculated that one electrical
horsepower will purify 1900 gallons of
sewage i'm 10 hours.
The ETHEREAL of oil which gives to the
rose and to aatar of roses their peculiar
odor. is called rhodonal, and is about the
only essential oil for fiavoring or perfum-
ing purposes that has not been made arti-
ficialy.
Ashphalt in large quantities has been
found in the region of the Dead Sea- and
ii is assumed that petroleum also will be
found in that vicinity The Turkish au-
thorities are planning extensive prospect
ing in the Jordan valley.
Hermann Moedbeck, a German sayant
discussed the Andree project of reaching
the north pole by balloon recently, and
came to the conclusion that in our pres
ent ignorance of Arctic wind currents II
is impossible to decide as to the probable
ity of success.
A Frenchman claims to have discovered
method of successfully converting ne
troleum oil into "A hard mass, which is not
explosive, and which is absolutely smoke
less and odorless. The inventor states
that his new fus costs about $40 n ton.
and that one ton equals 80 tons of coal.
A valuable contribution to the existing
literature of water bacteriology has been
made by M. N. Van Der Seen The au-
thor has identified and described no less
than 10 varieties of water microbes some
of which he regards as new, whilst 9th
ers are identical with those already dis
covered by other investigators
The distinction between metals and min
erals Is not always easy to make Nom
metals may and often do. possess some
one or more of the characteristics of lus-
ter toughness, fusibility. opaqueness. con-
ductNity and rust, but none possess them
all. Most metals may be bent. twisted
hammered and drawn to an extent far he
yond any mineral
Electric heating on a probably larger
scale than has yet been adopted anywhere
else is TO be used in the Carmelite monas-
terry at Niagara Falls where a plant for
that purpose is now being installed. 1t is
not intended to heat the entire institu-
ton In this way, but. at any rate. a suffi-
cienty large part to make the undertak.
ing a decidedly noteworthy one. As might
be supposed all the power used in the
building will be electrical