The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-27

A four-foot coal seam yields 5000 tons
| per acre.
| Vinegar VIII successfully clean a dirty
powder-caked gun barrel
American turbine engines will be used
on two of Japan's new battleships.
To make carbon ink dissolve genuine
India ink in common black writing
fluid.
More than 400, 900, 900 gallons of oil
were exported from Philadelphia last
year.
| The human eye can discern an object
as small as 1-625 of an inch in diam
eter.
| white tiger, the first ever known,
recently was killed by some hunters
! in Assam.
| A pound of cork is sufficiently buoy
ant to support an average sized man
in water
| Mexico plans to spend SIS. 100000 i'll
the near future in experiments in irri-
| cation.
A telegraphing typewriter that may
| be attached TO any typewriter is a re-
cent invention.
A new motor boat is propelled by an
aerial screw Under favorable condi-
| tons high speed is attained.
| A neC German explosive. the inven-
| ticn of a man named Gehre, is said to
| A patent has been granted Chi
| cago man on an electric piano that pro-
duces music from bells instead of wires.
Spirits of bitre will remove ink stains
from hard woods. which should be
washed with clean water after 1t Is
used.
The city of Warsaw. Russia. shares
I'm the profits of its first electric street
car line, recently put into operation.
l - 81
materials In 1907 was valued at $3.50
757, an increase over 1906 of $207,344.
A French invention, consisting of bulb
thermometers, predicts at shutdown
whether there will be frost during the
night
Ten coal briquetting plants in the
! United States produced SO, 1873 short tons
last year, worth on the market S244,-
949
The waste products of a nearby Goa
mine are utilized TO furnish the city OF
Amherst, Nova Scotia. with heat and
power.
Electric railways of the United States
have attained a trackage of over 40 COZ
miles, nearly one-fifth that of the steam
lines.
company is being formed at Belle
fOnte. Pa, to manufacture brick the
chief ingredient of which will be fur
mace Stag.
Berlin's firemen wear watertight jack
cts which may be filled from the hose
affording the wearer protection from
the heat.
In Japan a company is manufacturing
a product from volcanic ashes which j:
a good substitute for cement for many
purposes.
Tea is a germicide. according to &
Boston physician. who claims il is al
especially rank enemy of the typhoid
bacillus.
Although the house fly lays eggs. th'
flesh fly. better known as the blue
bottle" produces living larvae, abou
: fifty at time.
Missouri led in the production of LEAD
in the United States in 1907. pushins
Idaho. the leader in 1906, back to SECOND
place.
The electrical equipment of the Gu
nard liner Mauretania includes over 25'
miles of cables and more than 5000 10
cendlepower lamps.
A $4,000 plant for the production o.
ozone by electrolysis. the largest In Tho
world. has been completed at Pitts
burg hospital.
4 Norwegian factory receives powe
for six turbines from water that. fails
2 2S7 feet through a tunnel from a LAKE
seven miles away.
Japan is building 1.1l0-ton TORPEDO
boat to have speed of 80 miles an hou
and TO carry heavy gun in addition L
four torpedo tubes.
Peru has officially adopted as it
standard time that of the SeVenty-fiftl