Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-11

In trec-felling by electricity In French
forests, only an eighth OF the time OF or
binary saving Is required. A platinum
wire, made white-hot by the current, Is
while the slight carbonzation tends 10
preserve the wood,
"Meteort' IL the name given 10 the
new metal of W. Rubel. German chem
list, which Is said to be aluminium hard
ened by 4 chemical process, The specific
gravity Is practically the same az that
by weak acids, the atmosphere or sea
water II can he cast like Iron. and has
\ per cent greater tensile strength tnan
cast iron: and II can be recast Indefinite
ly, IL can be rolled cold, is nearly as
conductive as copper, retains a high pol
ish. and can be plated.
Oysters are examined By X.rays for
pearls by Raphael Dubois. French in
vestlgator, The oysters are not injured,
and those containing pearls too small TO
be OF value are returned alive for fur
ther growth.
The ostrich Ia being acclimiatized In
southern Europe by NJ. Octave Justice,
whose 80 specimens from South Africa
are thriving on farm near Nice.
The automatic compass OF NJ Heit
which has been brought 10 notice In Mar
SELVES after tee, OF several months, Is
claimed to Offer an important new aid
10 navigation. The / IN II divided into
isolated sections, and an electric circuit
II so arranged that flexible wire moving
over small silver index attached 60 the
card gives record minute by minute OF
the angle OF the needle with the meri.
dian, thus supplying n complete register
Of the ships course and OF tho time OF
the helmsman's changes. Certain sections
are connected to call.bells, which signal
TO the commander any unusual deyla.
lions. The apparatus shows the speed
OF the vessel by registering the revolu-
lions OF the screw, and II also indicates
the time OF departure and OF every stop
and start
A novel microscope for viewing melted
| or Intensely hot substances has been des-
cribed TO the Vienna Academy Of Sci
| eEces by Prof G. Doelter, An electric
oven two inches high IL mounted on the
| object stand and yields temperatures up
| 10 100 degrees e. In Use the lens Is
separatci from the heated object by
| about one ilch Even ~ tho highest tenn
| peratures Of the substance under exam
| nation. however both microscope and
/ OnlttllNf 7ut htlt lAAF wv ny Il eN'Nltl
| arrangement ct asbestos plates and a
| spiral tube carrying i,o cold water,
Tough Neagh. covering liJ square niles
| IN northern Ireland, has twice shown a
| remarkable phenomenon, as exported BY
| Mr. W. s, Smith OF Antrim. On Feb.
| %, 1896, most Of the Ice In the lake broke
| IN, leaving intact strip n third OF
mile wide along the southeastern shore,
and a milo Of this ttrip was raised at In
tcrvals Of few yards into bridges oy
tunnels from which large. and small
forming ridge to II feet hish An
| aged woman recalled similar recurrence
| OF the cold winter OF lslt.i5. Where the
| ice--mIxed with bouiders-0ame from, ami
what shot the blocks upon shore, arc
| problems awaiting solution.
| Radium's rays arc Of three klnds-Dol.
! Ia rays, hardly penetrating solids at all;
| Beta rays, moderately absorbed by sol
Ids and powerfully DETECTED by the mag
net and Gamma rays, difficult Of absorp-
| ton and not TO be DETECTED. Radlo-tellu-
| rum, the very active new substance that
Prof Markwald Of Berlin has found IN
| exceedingly minute quantity In pitch
! blende, gives of only Alpha rays. These
We're stopped by a sheet OF paper. but
| they passed through very thin sheet OF
aluminium, and they showed In hlgh de.
| gree the power OF making air a good con-
ductor Of electricity An eeotrOlytlc pre-
| clpitatlon OF some hundred.thousandth
| Of q gramme Of the new substance was
| placed on copper plate, With this Prof
| Markwald stopped n set Of electric
chimes. caused n Leyden Jar TO discharge
through the air without sparks, and
| rang an electric bell by current passed
| through the air from o condensing ma
| chine TO the copper plate A sheet OF pa
per between the plat and the machine In
terrupted the current and stopped the
bell.
watching the pulse adds seriously to
| the strain upon the surgeon during an
| operation under chloroform, cocaine or
| ether. This liz done automatically by the
| new pulse register OF Or Gartner, Of
| Vienna, which consists Of watch.lke
box to be attached 10 the patients fore.
arm, the hands upon graduated dial
| being made by an elastic spring TO reg.
| ister very precisely the pulse and blood
pressure vibrations. Tho Indications arc
much more sensitive than the physicians
finger.