The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-23
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

There are forty-eight kinds of house
flies.
The first steel pens were invented in
1920
The first balloon was made by a
French priest in 1920.
A Hungarian washing machine makes
use of electrified water.
There are about $4,000 square miles
of coal fields in England.
There are thirty-nine miles of books
on the shelves of the British Museum.
At an elevation of 1000 feet the at
mosphere is free from microbes.
In a month a caterpillar eats food
weighing 5000 times its weight.
An inch of rain is rain falling at the
rate of about 100 tons to the acre.
With modern antiseptic surgery but
6 per cent of amputations result fatally.
Alessandro di Spina, an Italian as
tronomer, invented the first spectacles
in 1885.
So tiny are some of the screws used
in watches that an ordinary thimble
will hold 10000 of them.
The stream of blood leaving the hui
man heart covers a distance equal to
81 900 miles east year.
over 1000 tons of asbestos have been
mined from a deposit discovered last
The United States produced 29,704, 12S
barrels of salt, each of $50 pounds, in
1907, leading the world in the industry.
Reinforced concrete has been found
successful as a facing for wood levee
banks on the lower Mississippi.
There are over fifty groups of Esper-
Artists in the cities and larger towns Of
Spain, studying the new language.
A patent has been granted to Cali
fornia man for a poison bottle with the
sides covered with sharp points.
The first striking clock in Europe was
sent to Charlemagne as a present by
Abdella, king of Persia, in 500.
California produced less coal last
year than in any year since In has been
mined, the output being but 1880 tons.
There are nearly fifty clocks on the
giant ocean liner Lusitania, controlled
by master clock in the chart house.
The largest flower in the world is the
raffesia of Sumatra. 1t is composed of
five petals, each a foot wide.
According to a recent report of the
Smithsonian Institution the mammoth
was no larger than the elephant of the
present day.
More than $4,000 employees of the
Pennsylvania railroad have been in
structed in first aid to the injured at
the company's expense.
An air gun of large size, working on
the principle of the pneumatic ham,
mer, has been devised for killing ami
mails in humane manner.
The pyrotechnic or decorating toy in
dustry has developed to great extent
within a few years at Salaise, France,
on the River Rhone.
A thousand mulberry trees have been
planted at Seville, Spain, in an attempt
to revise the silk industry, for which
the city was once famous.
Eau de Cologne, invented by Johann
Maria Ferina, over 200 years ago. is
composed of oils of neroli, citrOn, ber-
gamot, orange and rosemary.
According to a report of, the United
States geological survey, the country's
production of mineral paints last veal
was 143, 1854 short tons.
A German chemist has invented &
substitute for celluloid which is claimed
to have all it's advantages, but freedom
| from combustibility!
| According to the national opticians
convention in Philadelphia this month
women's eyes are weaker than men:
| and more of the fair sex wear glasses.
An Englishman has invented a BIZ
cycle for the blind. In reality, ii is Z
| multicycle, carrying twelve riders, lee
| by a seeing person, who does the steer
! ing.
| An Indiana inventor who realized how
| tiresome it is to hold a telephone re
/ ceiyer to the ear for any length o
time, has patented a bracket TO do TIL
work.
A 7-year-old child which recently die'
| in a New York hospital, had lived it
short life with absolutely no brain. tn
only case of the kind recorded by sci
I ence.
A new method for welding steel pipe
at high speed, German invention, ha
been adopted by the japanese navy TO
forming masts, and an English firm
has secured the right to use the process
7 in that country.
The constant inhalation of cigarett
smoke nearly cost the life of a Phila
delphia real estate broker from form
of paralysis heretofore unknown t.
medical science.
/ The smallest electric motor in tn