The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE


Hpre Of the banana tree
Frussic acid poisons every hNihs thAne'
plants as well as apimals.
Shihese fishermen wear stocA ms
VI human ha1r to prevent Wet Ieet.
| Every time a gasoline motor ni M
IRE a charge of gas has been wasted;
| The Dead sea is one-third soild hiateer'
| the greater part of which IS sait- L.
| Inc average yield Of an orange Tree oui
| ing us life is about 10000 oranges.
| A Norwegian law provides that three
sapinSs must be planted for every Tree
A cheap paint may be made from so
luton of borax and water, mixed Win
| linseed oil.
Although Paris has more than 200 pny-
Slcians. less than half OF them, IL is sald'
make over $1,000 year.
| over 100 miles of SWeden's railways
are TO be electrified. power being sup
| pled from five stations
| A hedge trimmer operated on the prln-
| clple OF BARRIERS clippers, has been pat
4 ehteu by resident of oregon.
raster of Paris, it is said, may De USED
fainin6 1iE I1s, Tor melting scrap metal con
eaInlhg small amounts of iron
Inc horn of the rhinoceros is not joined
90 the skull. as in other horn animals, but
| Is a growth from the skin.
short circuit lasting eight hours Will
rum almost any dry battery and do al
| most as much damage to liquid one.
"A mixture of equal parts of alcohoi and
water is the best for cleaning greasy and
sur AdC6S OF lantern
BY turning an old skate over and screw
ing IL TO the end of step through the
rlyet holes, handy boot-scraper is made.
SAT- is useful as fluX in melting brass
ana otner copper alloy, as it reduces the
oxide that forms and cleans the metal.
Inc Cambridge experimental farm has
begun an interesting investigation of the
sheep.
The Italian army has constructed a dir
is1ble balloon with A capacity Of 300
cubic metres. all parts OF which were
made in Italy.
Sharp angles should be avoided in the
pipes of hot air furnaces. Square turns
oostruct the flow OF air much more than
rounded ones.
The largest volcanic crater in the world
is that Of Asosan, in southern Japan 1t
measures fourteen miles across one way
and more than ten the other.
The emoluments of the officers of the
French Academy of Science were fixed by
Napoleon Bonaparte and have not been
changed since that time.
Cracks in floors may be neatly and per-
mancntly filled with paste made from
Old newspapers, flour. alum and water,
thoroughly boiled together
Acetylene. exploded by an electric
spark, is being used for blasting in Ger
many. 1t does not scatter the shattered
rock as much dynamite
A scaled injector may be cleaned by
soaking in solution of one part muri-
attic aicd TO nine TO twelve parts of water
until the scale is dissolved
BY using barriers of wire, heavily
charged with electricity, the Japanese are
driving the savages of Fornosa back into
the mountains.
According to the federal bureau of ami
MAJ INDUSTRY, 31s per cent of the cattle
OF the United States are afflicted with tu-
berculosis.
The Italian government has established
bureau to deal exclusively with the cleo
trlheation OF the state railways. which is
making rapid strides.
The cultivation of tobacco in Spain is
prohibited, company which has a mo-
nopoly in dealing in it paying the govern
ment about S35,O00,000 a year
Colombia produces platinum second in
quantity only to Russia, washing it from
the gravels of the Choco river. where IL
always is found mixed with gold.
\ patent has been granted on an an
tomato crossing gate operated by com
pressed air, the gate being raised or
lowered by the action of passing trains
A German surgeon has invented an cleo
trical scalpel. which, it is claimed, steril-
ICES as its cuts, and is much more rapid
to use than the usual form of knife
The square of the cylinder diameter in
inches, multiplied by the number of CYL
inders and divided by % will give very
nearly the horsepower of gas engines
A nest for poultry, the door of which
locks automatically to keep out intrud-
pant leaves it, is the invention of an Iowa
man.
Two Cornell university students. John
{. Burkhart and Oscar Crolicht have in
vented heavier-than-air lying machine
which has made several successful
flights.
Within the ten years that Christmas
island. in the Indian ocean, has been in
habited, the native rats have been exter-
minated by the brown rats introduced
from Europe
Headaches caused by harding nitro
glycerin and its products may be cured
by drinking strong black coffee and ap-
plying cold wet bandages to the forehead
and neck.
An automobile street sweeper in use in
HdflS, winch sprays water on the pave
ment ahead of a revolving broom, uses
but a gallon of water to each 100 square
feet OF surface.
The German colonial authorities are
considering the establishment of a forest
reserve in the CameToons in order that
the rare fauna of the tropics may be
preserved from extinction.
A mixture of SuIphuric ether, denatured
alcohol, benzine, gutta percha, glycerine
and alnyl acetate is used to waterproof
paper and textile fabrics by Partisan
scientist
The first steel ingot ever produced in
Denmark, cast recently at Copenhagen,
VIII be used as a pedestal for a bust of
u. A. Hasemann. director of that city's
polytechnic school
An electric rapid transit line is to be
built from Frankfort to Weisbaden, Ger
many, by private enterprise, the govern
ment reSerVlng the right to buy IL after
a number Of years
To save time in restaurants. a Phila-
delphian has patented a spigot for cof
fee ana tea urns which opens valve and
allows the contents to run out when
cup is pressed up against il.
A scientist has succeeded in perfecting
a camera so rapid that il not only pho
tographs flying bullets, but the waves of
condensed air in front of them and the
rarefied air behind them.
In Denmark artificial butter is made
by stirring a little salt and sugar into
cocoanut fat. then kneading it with milk
containing Tactic acid bacteria, yolk of
eggs and coloring substance.
A recent German invention is an auto
matte life belt which is inflated by car
bonlc acid gas generated bS the action
OF water on carbonate Of soda and tar
taric acid, which are contained inside the
belt.
According to a Massachusetts docto'
who recently returned from an African
trip the monkeys and gray squirrels OF
the dark continent use a blue clay which
contains creosote to kill nerves IN oe-
cayed teeth
\ recently patented non-jarring attach
ment for tools that must be held in the
hand when struck. such as chisels and
drills. consists of a sleeve around Which
a coil spring is attached to provide elias
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