The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-19

is used to a-lesser extent for pocket
books and card cases.
A registering apparatus to measure
| the number of sound waves that strike
the ear in any given period has been
invented by member of the faculty of
the University of Berlin.
| The human body contains enough fat
to make 100 candles, enough soap to
| keep its surface clean a month, enough
sugar for a family meal. and enough
salt to supply family for a month.
In a recent public demonstration of
the speed of wireless telegraphy, a
message was sent from Glace Bay to
Clifden. Ireland. and an answer was
received in less than five minutes.
Each fifty days, the diggers of the
Panama canal are removing quantity
Of material equal to the Pyramid of
Cheops. which required the labor of
100000 men twenty years to build.
A French inventor has offered to the
French Academy of Science to equip
the Eiffel tower with wireless apparat-
us powerful enough to send the time to
all ships of the world at once.
! An asbestos single roof, when prop
erly made. will cutlive the building it
self, exposure to the elements causing
| the cement covering the asbestos to be-
come more serviceable as time rolls on.
To refute the claim that tuberculosis
is result of civilization, "a German
scientist claims to have found unmis-
taxable indications of the disease in the
| skeleton of man of the later Stone
Age.
Europe has demonstrated that it is
| possible to get along with minimum
amount of lumber. Shingles are rare.
In some cities there is scarcely a frame
| house, and lumber yards are few and
| far between.
The Smithsonian institution will
award a prize of $1,000 for the best
| treatise on the relation of atmospheric
air to tuberculosis at the international
| convention on tuberculosis at Washing
ton in the fall.
A novelty of the coming presid entail
campaign will be cane with a glass
head, modelled to represent candidate
and enclosing a small electric light OPP
Grated by storage battery in the cane.
The double eagles made at the Phila-
delphia mint durirs, the fiscal year end
| ing June go if stac ked, would make a
pile nine miles high. There Were 5,7f4,-
AS of them. worth s144. SSS, 300, and they
weighed 212 tons.
A British scientist. with camera and
| microscope, is trying to count the
stars. He expects the catalogue to
take ten years and to show a total of
over 23.000,000 twinklers above the tenth
magnitude.
At Mitcham, England. there Is a
canine Sanitarium where frequently as
many as 800 dogs are undergoing treat
ment at the same time. Several pa
tients which have lost legs have been
provided with new ones.
An investigation into the frequency
of fires on wool ships from New Zealand
| cd in
a report that the great amount of tai
low in wool rapidly oxidizes, causing
spontaneous combustion.
Despite the belief that arterio- sclero-
sis, or hardening of the arteries, is a
disease limited to persons of advanced
age, recent report to the French
Academy of Medicine declares that it
frequently occurs as early in life as 20
years.
petrified forest. Apparently, in some
remote age, while the trees were in full
vegetation, an upheaval of nature
buried them in sand, which turned them
| to stone in the years that followed.
Because of a lack of expert Jewel set
tiers. it is said that nearly every watch
factory in the country is producing
less than its capacity. Modern first
class watches contain nine more Jewels
than timepieces of a generation ago.
The British admiralty has recon-
mended that all new diving suits pur-
chased be equipped with legs that lace
tight to prevent the risking of divers
lives by suits becoming too full of air
and exploding or causing the wearer TO
suddenly ascend, feet uppermOSt
The health authorities of st. Louis
are experimenting with a new virus
with which they expect to rid the city
of the pest of rats. BY vaccination, q
rat gets fever which drives it into
the open to die. Other rodents become
infected by approaching the infected
one.
In almost the geographical center of
Texas is a remarkable mound known
as Baringer hill, from which are OBJ
tanned more than a dozen kinds Of rare
earth, metal. minerals. including some
needed in electric lights. the supply of
which is growing exceedingly scarce.