Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-07-21
ODD AND INTERESTING

We toast bread not merely to brown
| 1t. but to take out all the moisture
| possible, that it may be more easily
moistened with the saliva and thus
easily digested; then we brown 1t to
| give it better flavor.
The English postmaster general is
| considering u penny-ln-the.slot ma.
| chine by which the purchaser Will
be enabled to obtain stnmps at all
hours
Fresh air tablets are a preparation
discovered by French scientist.
He discovered that he could combine
certain chemicals into tablet,
which on being dropped into water.
dissolved and gave forth pure oxy
gen.
The best dye for blue was formerly
furnished by the indigo plant, but
chemists and scientists have been
OF petroleum an aniline dye which
for almost all ordinary purposes has
supplanted indigo
With two exceptions there have
been no young men elected to the
office of yice-president of the United
States. These two exceptions were
John C. Breckenridge. who was sc
when he became vice-president. and
Theodore Roosevelt, who was 43.
A specie of natural soap tree is
found in Japan, China and India
By using water of alcohol the sapo-
naceous ingredient of the fruit is ex-
tracted. The soap possessing no al
kaline qualities is claimed to be sup
erior to the ordinary soap of com
merce.
While the production of beet sugar
has decreased about IS per cent.
during the last two years. or from
- 20 h7etffenVsSvVg
ric tons. that of cane suger has in
creased during the same period from
4 .063 600 metric tons to 4, 437 900 met
ric tons or about . 1-2 per cent.
Massachusetts scientist are making
collections of rain water for testing
purposes. The plan is to analyze
the rain that falls in any part of the
state and then compare 1t with the
spring water. This shows whether
there is anything in the soil that
contaminates the supply.
The New York legislature in Febru-
ary. 1895. passed bill prohibiting
the display of foreign flags on any
public building in the state. In the
same year and month, Colorado by
act OF the legislature forbade the dis
play of any foreign flag in the state,
except on the buildings occupied by
foreign consuls.
Tests have been made recently in
the Mediterranean of the microscope
invented by the Italian, Giuseppe
Pine. A volume of water over 10000
square yards of surface at the Dot
tom of the sea was so brilliantly
illumed that everything could be dis
tinctly seen
The microscope may render use
less torpedo boats and mines. Should
the captain of cruiser see the SUB
marine prowler or projectile he could
destroy 1t before any damage was
done. In navigation the instrument
should also be serviceable, as rocks
and sandbanks will be clearly seen
Last March the San Francisco mint
turned out coin to the amount OF $32,
900 900. This broke the record OF the
outputs of this mint for one month
On March 81, the mint was able Ia
turn over TO the government 53. 900
900 in gold. all of which had been
coined since February J. rms es
| tablshed a worlds record.
A pianist has to cultivate the eye 10
| see about 800 signs in one minute
| the fingers to make about 1000 move
| ments and the brain TO receive and uh
derstand separately the l,5oO signs
while il issues 1000 orders. In play
/ ing Weber's Motto Perpetuo planis'
has to read 4.54l notes in little uh
der four minutes.
The western genius who discovered
| that there Is market for canned
| lackrabbit has probably sounded th'
deathknell OF the longlegged creature
of the prairie. The first canning lac
| tory has been established at Echo
| Ore. and thousands OF jackrabbits are
slaughtered in that vicinity every
month.
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