The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-09

oy liiiiilS tueIl WIFI mercury ana dilOW-
| ing 1t to stand for twentyfour hours.
| BY the use of a helium filament for in
| candescent lamps light will be given after
| the vacuum is destroyed.
| Light travels at the rate of lS6, 400 miles
| a second, electricity, when unimpeded at
| the rate of 80, 500 miles
Russia produces about seven tons OF
platinum a year and it is planned to make
a government monopoly of the business
| Stove pipes, boiler tubes and flues may
be kept free from SCOT by occasionally
throwing a scrap of zirc into the fire.
| The first coal was mined in 300 b. c., but
| the centennial of putting anthracite 10
practical use was celebrated this year.
The largest naval dock in the world. that
| at Bremerton, Wash, is expected to be
completed by the close of next year.
| An inventor in Algeria has patented e
| porous tube which is inserted among the
roots of a tree to give them air and
moisture
| A Photographic negative completely
protected from and unaffected by sun
| light will receive an impression from the
moons rays.
An English expert on bees. after a long
| series of experiments. came to the con-
fclusion that they lack the sense of hear
| ing.
English motor-boat builders are making
| hulls of pressed steel, forming them with
enormous hydraulic presses, at a single
operation.
A portable machine by which farmers
is recent invention. Heat is supplied
by kerosene.
A new bullet-proof coat. with which the
Russian army is experimenting, mush-
rooms Mauser bullets fired at such close
| range as two PAGES.
A French scientist has a collection of
| 800 human heads. representing every
known race in the world today, and many
| of prehistoric peoples.
The longest single span lift bridge In
the world. go feet in length and contain
ing 10000 tons of steel, is nearing compile
ton at Los Angeles.
The British armys new airship, which
seems to be giving perfect satisfaction.
uses a motor invented by an American,
Captain F. S. Cody.
| A French publisher prints his news
paper on the dry side of folded flypaper,
ito reduce the pest of insects to its read
ers,'' he says editorially.
A railroad train travelling at the rate
of sixty miles an hour would require
nearly LOO years to accomplish the jour
ney around the earth's orbit.
Automatic danger signals have been In
stalled i'm front OF Detroit fire houses.
When an alarm rings light flashes up
TO stop approaching trolley cars.
A good linoleum may be made from an
old Brussels carpet that has not been
worn through by stretching it tightly and
giving it several coats of paint
Alcohol will remove the pain of carbolic
acid burns if promptly applied. II too late
to use alcohol, saturated solution OF
picric acid will afford relief.
An electric alarm, operated by float
similar to those used in water tanks. has
been devised for bakers use. When rising
dough begins to fall bell is rung.
The second largest diamond ever found
in the western hemisphere, 20 carat
GEM was discovered in the earth below
her home by poor woman at Patrocinia,
Brazil
Concrete piers for the ocean pier at
Santa Monica, Cal. are cast with an iron
al, ha fhrnuOh which
water is forced in sinking the piles into
position.
Great Britain is equipping its cavalry
with swords to thrust instead of to cut
the South African war showing that the
style of weapon long in use was of little
value.
There passes through the adult human
body each year about a ton and half OF
solid and LIQUID matter only small per-
centage of which is utilized in rebuilding
wasted tissues
England. France and Germany each
consume about 80 per cent OF the manu-
featured goods produced at home. while
the United States exports only about per
cent of its products.
The federal geological survey keeps
separate laboratory busy trying TO ind
new uses for petroleum and its products.
especially some products now deemed
practically worthless
A scientific expedition Is searching west
ern Nebraska for complete fossil remains
of the three-toed horses of the Miocene
epoch, the ancestors of the horses of the
present day
Despite all the efforts OF modern aero
nauts the speed record made by Mrs
Carl Myers of Frankfort N. Y. in 1886.
when she Travelled ninety miles in ninety
minutes. has never been beaten.
In 1907 France was the worlds chief wine
producer. as well as the greatest con-
sumner, the output being 6s,0o00o0 hectoli-
tors of the $4,000, 900 hectolitors made in
the entire world.
According to insurance statistics the
average life of a woman has increased
from AZ years to nearly 46 in the past
twenty-five years. while the average life
of man has increased from nearly AZ
years to about "a.
Using centrifugal force alone. without
a grain of powder. New York inventor
claims to have perfected gun that will
fire 10000 bullets a minute at distance
of 5000 yards. and which is absolutely
noiseless.
When a steel drill point broke off 1000
feet deep in a bore in a German silver
mine it was removed by making tenn
porary magnet of a bar of soft iron,
around which was wound insulated wire.
through which a current was sent
There are four commercial processes for
applying zinc to iron to prevent oxidation:
hot or molten galvanizing. electro or cold
galvanizing. sherardizing or dry galvan-
izing, and cowperizing or vapor galvanlz-
ing.
In the battleship Michigan. building at
CamOen. N D.. the HldStS VIII uOt NC III
line fore and aft. the mainmast being
to port of the center of the ship and the
foremost to starboard to give the guns
greater range of fire.
The power of Niagara falls has been es-
timated at 1000 900 horsepower, that of
the Upper Mississippi and its tributaries
at 1900 O00- horse power. and that of the
streams of the Southern Appalachian dis
trict at 1905. 00O-horse-power.
The now despised Koreans invented
three things which have had great in
fluence on the worlds history-printing
with movable type. in 1924. and the mortar
and the ironclad war vessel. both of which
were used in the war against Japan In
the war of 1592-9S.
TAFT ON TARIFF AND TRUSTS.
Chicago Journal. Ind Rep.)
Mr.. Taft's long speech of acceptance