The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

4 l. whose legs have turned 10 stone, 4
said to be only the eighth case OF lnIah-
! tile Justification in the history OF neuicai
| science
An entire battalion of the German army
is being trained in the use of airships-,
A British consular report shows ina.
/ Madagascar produced 1907 ounces OF Soio
in leO5 81 S44 in 1905 and u 100 in 1901, prac-
, ticaliy ali from alluyial or placer work
/ ings.
! Sweden's royal forestry commission last
year supplied forest products worth siS--
] 10000 yet accumulated timber resources
/ felled.
A bronze tablet in memory of Andre
| Marie Ampere. founder of the science OF
electric dynaniics, has been erected in the
railroad station of the New Jersey town
/ bearing his name.
Experiments are under way at Calcutta
with a gasoline automobile, driven by an
/ air propeller. A speed of fifteen miles an
hour has been made with a marked alb
sence of wear on the tires.
Plans of the navy department include
so complete a chain of wireless stations
on the nations foreign possessions that
UarshiD NAV be reached from Washington
anywhere in the world.
Tests of man-lifting kites in the British
navy have shown that from heights OF
from 1900 to 5000 feet shoals. sunken
wrecks. submarines and submerged mines
are clearly discernible.
BY the addition Of 20 per cent Of thorium
oxide to tungsten ii Is claimed that the
resistance Of electric light filaments are
increased 30 per cent. permitting the use
of shorter filaments
An envelope that may be turned inside
out and used again has been devised by
an Illinois man. Its advantages for ad-
vertising purposes. or for "A person who
wishes to facilitate a reply is obvious.
A big coal mine in Pennsylvania which
is operated throughout by electricity has
proven that the power may be generated
a zion
at about one-tllird the cost of steam.
A typewriter in which the power is ap-
piled by air when the operator lightly
touches the keys is recent German inven-
ton intended to relieve the user of fatigue
and secure absolute uniformity in its
printing.
Expert dyers can secure more than sixty
shades of red from the root of the Per
sian madden plant. indigo furnishes nearly
fifty varieties of blue. while the shell of
the Domegranate Yields nearly forty
shades of yellow
Experiments are under way in the Phil
ippines with the treatment of leprosy by
X-rays. The bacilli of the disease are
similar to those of tuberculosis which
the rays destroy when present as a skin
disease.
A 2.OOO-pound lens for the Carnegie OBJ
servatory on Mount Washington. CAL
which will be placed in service this month
is expected to reveal 300 001.0o0 more stars
than can be seen with the most powerful
instrument now in use.
Chemically pure iron was obtained for
the first time recently by a German chem
list who used a series of processes TO re-
move the sulphur 1t is said to resemble
platinum and to have many properties diff
ferent from iron as generally known.
The Belgian Royal Society of Medicine
after investigating charges that the public
health was. menaced by the consumption
of unhealthy oysters. recommended that
all oyster beds should be Systematically
inspected and all imported oysters rigOr-
Ously examined.
The inhabitants of the Furneaux islands
northwest of Tasmania. make almost their
entire living by killing the young of the
mutton-birds- which use the islands for
breeding purposes, and selling their oil
grease, flesh and feathers. About mil
lion birds are killed each year.
The German navy is experimenting with
shells charged with calcium carbide which
on reaching the water, produces acetylene
gas. This ignites and burns for three
hours as a substitute for searchlights.
with the added advantage of leaving the
ship which fired il in darkness
To be admitted into Canada after April
all patent medicines containing any of
a long list of deadly drugs will have to
be approved by experts Of the department
OF internal revenue or bear a printed
statement on the outside of the package
that there is such drug In the prepara-
ton and It's name