The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-25

The best beet root yields about u pei
cent of sugar.
Children brought upon goats mill
are said 10 be immune from trbercu-
losis.
A force that will move a ton along
a highway will pull a 32-ton canal boat
No receptacle has ever been made
strong enough to resist the freezing
power of water.
At the present rate OF increase the
population OF the United States in 1915
will be 10000, 900
At cost of 500. 900 a fog horn has
been erected on precipitous Bass Rock,
in the Firth of Forth.
The highest telephone station in the
world will soon be in operation 1921
feet up on Mount Rosa, in Italy.
The deepest hole in the world, in ST.
lesia, has reached depta OF 800 feet
penetrating SO strata of coal
Nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammo
mia and cotton seed meal are the three
fertilizers most rich in nitrogen.
Cotton mittens. much used by wom-
en- when handling plants, can be water
pr0ofed by dipping them in melted par
afine.
Stockholm. Christiania. Berlin and
London, in The order named, have the
lowest death rates among the Euro
pean cities.
The average cost for fuel for a rail
road train is 10 cents a mile. and the
average fireman burns $500 worth a
year
The Argentine ant, which has
wrought havoc with the Louisiana sug-
ar plantations. has now appeared on
the Pacific coast.
pint of crude carbolic acid mixed
with gallon of kerosene makes a
cheap and excellent spray for poultry
houses.
In round numbers 2,5O0,G00 ounces of
gold and 60,0O0,000 ounces of silver are
produced in the United States each
year.
A Pittsburs man has invented ma
chine by which he claims from 1000
pounds to>a ton OF coal can be mined
and loaded into car in a minute.
a monument will be erected near
Titusville. Pa, i'm honor of the man
who drilled the first oil we'll there fifty
years ago next August.
Germanys first electric ferryboat re-
Gently was launched at Dulsburg. 1t
has capacity for 645 passengers, be-
side horses and vehicles.
British inventors have succeeded in
hardening tantalum by an oxygen pro-
cess, which adds To its strength with
out adding to its brittleness.
BY vote of PAS to 217 the members
Of the Royal Geographical society of
England favored the admission of wom-
en- 20 membership recently.
A company of 100 picked soldiers from
the German army recently in 40 min
utes built a bridge of steel boats and
plates los feet long by 10 wide
A single London gas company lost by
leakage last year enough gas to fill
800 balloons such as Count Zeppelin
used in his recent record-breaking
flight.
The tobacco leaf normally contains
considerable quantities of citric and
malic acid. the former the acid of the
lemon and the latter the acid of the
apple.
The nations production of abrasive
garnet in 1907. 7.O5S short tons. was the
greatest on record, exceeding the pre-
Vious years production by - per cent
In the manufacture of coke in this
country last year scarcely more than
an eighth was made in retort ovens.
so that the by-prcduc could be re-
covered.
The construction of a canal for large
barges between Stettin and Berlin has
been begun by the German govern
ment. II is planned to have it COM
pleted by 1912.
All the domestic pumice marketed IN
the United States comes from Harlan
and Lincoln counties. Nebraska, though
several other western states have de-
pdsits
The world-famous Stracker collection
of butterflies and moths, including
nearly 100000 specimens, has been pur-
chased by the Field Museum of Natu-
raj History at Chicago.
In the government tests Of tobacco
a mechanical smoker is used which
draws the smoke through TASKS of
sulphuric acid 10 absorb the nicotine.
which may then be measured.
Two German scientists have had re-
markable success in the prevention of
bacterial diseases by the use of Ii
quid prepared by the addition of caus-
tic soda to Javelle water.
The German Academy of Science at
Berlin will receive 3O,0O0OOO marks
tabOut s7,000.OOO) under the will of Herr
Samson, the Berlin banker who died
at Brussels recently.
A Danish explorer who has returned
from two years spent in the north Of
Alaska has reported the discovery of
mountains heretofore unknown, from
10000 TO 1900 feet high
A pair of French army dogs have
drawn light ambulances with loads of
$50 pounds each for $40 miles with
out a breakdown, showing their avail
ability for such purposes in time of
war
y Brooklyn man has secured a pat
ent on spiked driving wheel and run
ners 10 replace the ordinary wheels
To convert an automobile into a motor