Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-05

rowed by u Frankfort inventor for
patented dry barrel or box for preserv-
ing vegetables and other substances
The new apparatus Is simply II box
with a. false bottom of stats. under
which is placed metallic tray contain
ing caustic potash. The vegetables.
fruit, etc. are placed on the false bot
tom. and the air-admitted only
through the hottom~-is dried before
reaching them by passage over the
potash. one charge of the drler Is
claimed to last six months.
An indestructible ink for writing
labels on glass bottles Is thus prepared,
according to n German chemist: Into
q solution of 90 grammes OF brown
shollac In $50 cubic centimeters of lamp
spirit Is slowly poured solution of "
grammes of borax In 25O cubic cent?
meters of distilled water, suitable
! colorinE mntter-such rs one gramme
OF methyi violet--being then added.
Typewriters' cramp. 1t appears. has
| come to take the place of writers
| cramp. We are told. however. that the
| discomfort of such II disease la more
| than offset by the enforced relief from
| the corset that the use OF the type
writer is bringing to female operators.
Hidden flaws In guns, engine cranks.
railway wheels. propeller shafts, and
| ther steel castings. are prevented in
the process of Mr.. Ellis May by. an
| Ingenious use of vacuum chambers.
The mould is placed in an air-tieht
chamber from which the air Is eN-
| hausted This chamber Is surrounded
by n series of other vacuum chambers.
each connected with the central cham
| her by alve-controlled pipes, and in
! this way n reserve of vacuum Is pro-
| duced At the moment when the
steel liz poured. the controlling valves
are opened, and the residue OF air In
! the casting chamber Is sucked into the
surrounding chambers. The air and
gases In the fluid metal rush out and
diffuse themselves In the vacuum, ana
the result is flawless, homogeneous
casting.
The Russian province of Kursli
| lroves to be one of the most remnrka-
BILE areas of magnetic disturbances yet
known. NJ. Moureaux reports that
the difference between theory ana OBJ
servation are so great that 1t Is not
possible to draw isomagretic lines. ard
81. magnetic force IL as great as IL
-nujd he In the Immediate vicinity OF
the magnetic poles The dip of the
needle ranges from rs degrees 70 ~ de-
grees. At two points about 400 yards
apart the destinations are minus II de-
grees and plus 40 degrees. and the Vari,
alton at two places about mile ano
quarter apart is from minus "a de
grees to plus SO degrees. Nothing neal
the surface to cause these anomalies Il
known to exist.
1t sa remarkable fact that of over lOt
finds of iron meteorites only nine nave
been seen to fail. while of over iO'
finds of stony meteorites more thar
one-half have ban seen to fall. MT
ri. l.. Preston finds several reasons fol
believing that the iron meteorites are
mere the crystalized metallic nodules
contained in the larger and more con
spicuous stony meteorites.
From 1913 answers to questions pub
lished two or three years ago, Messrs
V. and C. Henri find that persons
first memory may be of an event oc
curing as early as the age OF si'
months or as late as eight years-tw'
to four years being the usual age.
A ht-blocming leguminous plan
Of Trinidad is pollinated by the agenc!
of bats.