The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-06

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BY heating a worn coin on a red hot
iron illegible inscriptions frequently
may be deciphered
A new heavier than air flying ma
chine. a German invention, is shaped
almost exactly like a bird.
A patent has been granted Penn
sylvanian on a reed basket mounted on
long handle to pick fruit.
A modern fireboat can supply twelve
fulI-sized steam engines with water at
distance Of 1,200 or more feet.
A complete portable blacksmith shop,
filling two box cars, is in use by the
Missouri Pacific railroad
The use of muslin instead OF glass in
dairy windows is said to lessen the
danger of tuberculosis germs.
One ton of mechanical or half ton
Of chemical pulp Is obtained. on an
average, from each cord OF wood.
A practically permanent paint,
rich brown in color. is made by grind
ing the bones of mummies with btu
men.
Although iron ore is found in almost
every state and territory In the Union,
it is mined profitably in only twenty
nine.
The island of Formosa exported A.
III, 566 pounds of camphor last year. of
which 1.635300 pounds came TO the
United States.
Contracts have BEEN awarded for al
most 10000 tons of dynamite for use
on the Panama canal within the next
twelve months.
A combined pickle fork and tongs.
the latter operated by a ring In the
handle. has been patented by Louisi-
ana man.
A Pittsburg firm is making special
ty of glass grave stones" which show
portraits of the deceased blown in the
front.
BY a recently patented movable
mould, a well-organized force of Ia
borers can lay two feet OF cement side
walk per minute.
The United States produced 1904 long
tons of manganese last year, worth
$24,76 more than any previous year
except 1902 and 1906.
Over s225O 600 has been subscribed TO
the Koch endowment, to be applied to
a crusade against tuberculosis, under
the direction of DIR. Koch
A Philadelphia foundry makes spe-
cialty of breaking up old steel cannon
and remelting the metal for more than
half hundred purposes.
A compressed air buffer has been
patented for locomotives, which, ii is
claimed. will prevent serious wreck
in the event of a collision
A company is being formed at St.
Louis with $4,000. 900 capital to operate
line of steel grain barges between
that city and New Orleans.
Wax obtained by boiling crude ozo-
cerite. obtained from the bftuminous
shales of central Poland and Hungary
Is used for candles by the peasants.
The result of observations of double
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servatory of Cambridge, England, soon
will be published I'm book form
More than 100000 Holsters were
propagated and set free by the fish
commission last year. with the result
that the price was cut almost i'm half
Native trees being too slow of growth
10 meet the demand for lumber, Ameri
can, European and Australian trees are
being introduced in New Zealand
A Russian inventor has brought 10
the United States a motor boat which
he claims will make speed of thirty
one miles an hour, with a twelve horse
power engine.
Inside the remains of a mammoth re
Gently found in northeastern Siberia
were relics of the animals food in the
form of vegetables hitherto unknown
to science.
roasting pan which automatically
''bastes'' meat while cooking by means
of a percolator which collects the
juices and sprays them over the meat,
has been patented.
For the benefit of strangers In the
city. London county council has had a
number of enormous charts, showing
the points of interest, displayed in
prominent places.
All the movements of the earth are
shown by a clock recently completed
by the director of the Museum Of
Natural History after several months
of patient work.
Among the recently elected senators
of Italy were two professors of surgery,
one professor of comparative anatomy.
one of pathologic anatomy and one of
physiology.
Left-handedness. according to Phil
adelphia doctor, is caused by persons
being carried, when infants. in such n
manner that they are unable 70 use
their right arms freely.
The decline of Canada's shipping,
which has been in progress for thirty
years. apparently has been arrested,
for last years shipping register shows
the first net gain since 1878.
There are about g. 500. 900 telephones in
use in the world. over 100000 of them
in the United States. 100000 in Eu
rope and the rest scattered through
nearly every country.
The director of the municipal wood
paving bureau OF Paris has invented
lumber piling machine along the lines
OF the familiar endless chain device
used to hoist ice into ice houses.
After other photographers had failed
for twenty years. an eastern man. T.
o. Boisen has perfected an apparatus
which has taken some remarkab BILE sub
marine photographs of Santa Catalina
island, California.
Louisiana. Nevada, Wyoming. Utah
and Colorado all produced sulphur in
paying quantities last year. the first
named leading the output. which to-
tailed 293, LOG long tons. worth s., 142. $50
Winnipeg is trying to lessen the citys
supply of sewer gas by leading pipes
from the sewers through the street
lamps. which, when lighted. destroy
vast quantities of the noxious fluid
each night.
The British-built but German owned
ship Columbia. dismasted by hurri
cane off Cape Flattery. has been pur-
chased by Americans and converted
into the first six-masted barkentine in
the world.
A bridge on which the Great North
ern railroad plans TO spend 81 600 900 or
more will cross the Columbia river at
Vancouver and will be over mile and
a half long. Forty-eight concrete piers
will support it.
For telephoning from a moving
trains, an Iowan has patented a device
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