The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-11
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

keep sweet corn perfectly fresh all winter
by sailing it down in stone crooks OF &C.
dar tubs.
Pennsylvania leads in the slate industry
with Vermont. Maine, Virginia, Marylanu,
New York. California. Arkansas and Ne"
Jersey following in the order named
A San Francisco wharf builder mas
found that teredoes may be driven from
piling or other water timber by passing
weak electric currents through the WOOD
A Pennsylvania has invented a ma
chine which scrapes, cleans and trims thS
heads and tails from fish at the rate Oh
200 to 800 a minute. according 10 size
One of the largest pieces of concreIs
work in this country is a fence a mue
long by four feet high, extending from
the Wabash river to West Terre haule'
Ind.
The British army authorities are ex-
perimenting with an electrical machine 20
tattoo Identification marks on horses
gums instead of branding their hides ana
hOofS.
Dust in our atmosphere. according TO
SCIENTISTS. helps TO retain the heat OF the
earth at night, and without IL the ground
would freeze like that of the airless moon
What is said to be the heaviest cnalh
in tue world has been built IN EnSldhu Iol
thu il ~ nesc navy. The common HIM
weigh aD pounds each. and the end c-ies
ESpci 'ments made in compressed air BY
two nsIish physicians demonstrated that
divers can work at least 40 rect u.huer "d-
lHI khIOuI hdAAeCA VI
&-sfronomers of note are inclined to the
! theory tha the eighth satellite OF Jupiter
/ discovered last winter. is the MISSING
Lexell comet, last seen in 1Il9, close 10 the
planet
Patents have been granted in Germany
and the United States for a machine that
| makes glass telegraph poles, Which are
being extensively used in several sections
Of Europe. where wood is scarce.
According to II French expert. IN ths
water courses of Europe there are 'oo.Cr
horsepower available for France. the sdtue
for Italy, 1000 for Norway, 10000 for
Sweden, and 100000 for Germany -.
Because of its high fire test, whale OIL
is best for temperins metal IL also +
used largely in wooden and cotton mills
as a lubricant. as a spot of II can be re
moved from the goods without leaving 4
stain.
As an advance on the typesetting ma
chine, a patent has been granted on a
Vienna mans invention that produces
matrices ready for the stereotyper by the
manipulation of a keyboard similar to
In a test of the explosive power OF
various forms of dust when mixed with
air. il has been learned that the explosion
of two ounces of flour in two cubic feet
of air will raise two men standing On the
| testing machine several feet
At a cost of nearly S,0O0,g coo. the British
admiralty will construct q line of hIGe
concrete blocks at Spithead to force YES
sells TO use A defined channel Naval
| maneuvers have shown that it is posi-
BILE for small craft to creep up to the shore
at night.
An investigation by the state geologist
of New York found much more important
deposits of iron than had been generally
supposed. and in his recent report that
official expressed the opinion that the
state one day will be prominent in the
/ production of the metal.
A French metallurgist has succeeded in
coating steel with copper by first weld
ing the metals together. then relocating
the two and putting them through the or
binary rolls used in steel mills. He has
drawn the rods thus formed down TO wire
as fine as No. 40.
Resembling certain fossil quadrupeds
more than any living animal, a few speci-
mems of the solendon. al insectiverous
animal, have been seen on the island OF
SantO Domingo for the first time in sew
eral years. 1t had been supposed that the
animal was extinct
Although the name of PdSteur generally
is associated with the treatment of by.
~drophobia which he discovered. he also
discovered the way to kill the micro-or-
ganisms which sour new wine and an Of
fective remedy against the parasites
which kill silkworms before they spiI
their cOcOons.