The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-08
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER g. 1908

when the machinery has been perfected.
Three European scientists, a German,
Frenchman and an Italian, who speak
ten languages among them, are touring
the United States on foot, studying eth
biological questions. From here they
will visit the far east and Australia.
The largest submarine yet built, a
208-foot 625-ton craft, will be launched
at Cherbourg. France. in the near fu-
tUre.
The extent TO which the tides retard
the rotation of the earth has just been
figured out at one second in 460.0 900
years.
Superheated steam locomotives are so
highly regarded in Europe that scarcely
one is being built without superheat-
err
pressed and reduced to material re-
sembling garden mould and sold for
By a new printing telegraph ma
chine, from seventy-five to 100 messages
an hour can be handled by a person
with no knowledge of telegraphy.
In a new automobile the dust il Gre
ates is sucked up by pipe into a box
where it is moistened and returned to
the road again.
Department of agriculture tests of
6N
have proved successful, according to the
experts in charge.
An army engineer has reported recon-
mending the connection of Lakes Union
and Washington to Puget sound by way
of Salmon bay by lock canal.
For the first time in over forty years
tobacco of fine quality was raised the
past summer IN Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, few miles from Phila-
delphia-
The waste rock from the zinc mines
of southwest Missouri is becoming
available for use in concrete, and is said
to give better results than sand.
By the use of high frequency electri-
cal currents to reduce the pressure of
the arteries. a French scientist believes
he can delay the inroads of old age.
An expedition from the American
Museum Of Natural History has de-
cided that the elephant originated in the
Fayum desert in northern Egypt in the
tertiary age.
The production of arsenic in the
United States in 1907. 1.T5L short tons.
made new record for the industry,
nearly doubling the. output for the pre-
ceding year. = 49, =
Placed in clay, which was formed into
brick, toad was four times subjected
to a pressure-o of II, 900 pounds without
injury in a series of tests at Bucyrus,
Ohio.
The federal public health and marine
hospital service has found a woman at
Georgetown, d. c.. who had typhoid
fever eighteen yearssago and who still
throws off virile typhoid bacilli
Notwithstanding the enormous emf
grafton from Europe during the nine
tenth century, its population today is
nearly twice as great as it was at the
opening of that century.
A Dutch psychologist has invented an
apparatus by which heart beats may be
photographed. 1t combines features of
the stethoscope, microphone, phono-
graph and galvanoneter.
Exhaustive tests have proved the new
torpedo nets of the navy able to with
stand the attacks of torpedoes fired at
the highest speed of which any in the
world are capable.
The human sense cannot realize diff
ferences in temperature beyond one
fifth of a degree. while thermometers
are made sufficiently delicate to distin-
guish millionth of degree.
The experiment of paving streets with
iron Stag blocks, now under way at
Brooklyn, n. Y, was tried in Philadel-
phia ten years ago and considered a