The Washington herald., 1908-08-30

The human body contains over 200
miles Of tubing
The best beel root Yields an average of
. Z per cent of sugar
Russia's death rate IS the highest IN
Europe. Il per lgJ each year
Seventy per cent Of the gold in the pos
session Of man is in the form Of coin
So powerful are the jaws Of a wasp
that the insect has been known TO pune
Cure a seasheu
( japan has thirty-two timepiece factories
which annually produce $4,000 worth OF
clocks and watches
4 100000 hvdro-electric plant is % be
. established by the japanese prefecture OF
Shizueka-
. In q recent test Of Paris rainwater bac-
terra were found al the rate Of about
hfty-seven 20 the cubic inch
. Drying fruit by the suns rays is being
f scientifically done on an enormous scale
at san jose. Cal
Humming birds are disappearing from
Trinidad In 1856 there were eighteen
species; now there are only five
+ a Danish expedition has gone TO Green
land 10 teach the Eskimos how 10 fish
E prohtably by modern means
Twelve au-steel sprinEling cars recently
4 were completed for use on the Chicago
F City Railway Company's tracks
The aged inventor Of the Mauser rife
I has now perfected a new weapon which
/ fires twenty-five shots at single loading
. In the world last year there was pro
dUced 964.slG metric tons cf lead, as CON-
/ pared with Ia tons in 1906
/ a new type Of torpedo. with which the
4 navy IS experimenting. bores its way into
+ the hull Of a snip before exploding
Many excellent voices are ruined. sc-
+ C0rding 10 the French Academy of Medi-
. cine. by practicing in too small rooms
/ The human lungs exhsle each Gay an
amount Of carbon which. If solidifed
would equal a lump cf coal weighing nat
a ton
; Some Of the finest French tapestry IS
. manufactured so slowly that an artis'
+ cannot produce more than two square
feet in a year
Two hundred and forty thousand wood
. en- paving blocks a day are turned out by
a machine owned by the municipality Of
Paris
A Western Nebraska farm IS being sue
cessfully irrigated by a homemade wind
mill. the fans Of which were originally
tin boxes
a new supply Of rubber. believed TO b.
practically inexhaustible. has been dis
covered IN a never-before-explcred sec
ton Of Brazil
At the rate that work is now going on
the tunnel through the Cordilleras, L
connect Valparaiso and Buenos Ayres
will be completed in 1910.
a Photographic process which gives botl
perspective and relief is the invention o
Prof Lippman- Of Paris, a pioneer Il
color photogrsP ply
The second largest masonry arch in tn
world, having an arch OF s feet and
span Of Z7Sg feet. recently was complete,
on an Austrian railroad
Already electric power generated b,
Niagara Falls IS distributed rs miles
and the Canadian government Is planning
10 more than double the distance
Berlin is having great success with It
experiments with q suspended Hnonorsi
railroad. which IS operated advantageous
y fl extremely narrow streets
Wireless telephony records recently wer
broken when an invention Of three Frencl
naval heutenants was operated success
fully for a distance OF SO miles
) The American Museum OF Natural HIS
tory and the Canadian geological depart
nsnt are working together IN the coIlec
, ton Of an immense amount OF data abou
the Eskimo.
Over 10000 rubber trees have bee
planted on the Hawaiian Islands, II
experiment proving so successful as Z
make a thriving industry certain With
| a few years