The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

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be frozen solid
Within a year the machinery exports
of Japan have increased five-fold.
The electric furnace is capable of at
tanning a temperature of 1900 degrees.
The voice of man has been known to
carry three miles through twenty-foot
trumpet.
Rich or highly fortified soils produce
tobacco with a high percentage of nico-
tine.
A resident of Jersey City, N J., has
been granted patent on an electric
egg beaten.
The British admiralty began expert
menting with submarine boats in Ply
mouth harbor in IVA
Scrap telephone wire seldom is used
in the manufacture of brass because it
contains silicon.
lido is the name of the new universal
language, the promoters of which say
it Will supplant Esperanto
Hungarian has invented a machine
by which it is claimed 10000 words an
hour may be sent over the telephone
The state of North Carolina is the
most notable in the country for the va
riety of precious stones produced.
One-fourth of the members of the
human race die before reaching the age
of six years: one-half before sixteen.
The annual wear and tear on the cur
rency of the world is estimated at two
tons of gold and 100 tons of silver.
1t has cost one transatlantic cable
company over S125, 600 so far this year
to repair cables broken by trawlers.
As a health restorative, a French
medical expert recommends ten or
fifteen days diet of fruit alone twice
year.
Germany is the principal competitor
of America in the expectation of loco
motives, and Italy is her principal Gus
toner.
England has a lighthouse to every
fourteen miles of coast; Ireland one to
every thirty-four miles, and Scotland
one to every thirty-nine miles.
The average importation of tea into
the United States each year is about
81. 900, 900 pounds, a pound for each in
habitant.
A detachable clothes rack. made of
metal rods. which may be clamped to
the foot of a bedstead, is recent in
VentiOn.
An American photographer living in
Mexico City has invented compound
to remove yellow or brown stain from
photographs.
Bathing machines. used almost exclu-
siveIy on the English coast. were in
vented in 1850, but were not used ex-
tensively until 1903.
CALIFORNIA; output of gold in 1907 fell
off SIC 524 as compared with 1906,
while she produced s66,1S2 worth of sill
yer ore.
There ara over 100000 words in the
English language. about 10000 more
than in German. French. Spanish and
Italian combined.
The karite tree of Africa produces a
fruit that resembles a chestnut which
Yields L cheap grease that can be made
into candles and soap.
The business of a well-known firm of
New York opticians consists largely of
the manufacture of spectacles for
horses to make them step higher
An electric coin counter is recent
inve rtion in England. 1t Sits coins on
a metal plate and stacks those of each
denomination in paper tubes.
The only buildings left standing after
a recent forest fire which swept the
town of Fernie, Canada. were two bust
ness blocks and a residence of concrete.
One of the greatest needs of the pres
ent day. according to British scien-
fist, is for a metal harder than quartz
as a substitute for diamonds in drills.
The whalebone industry, once the
support of hundreds of persons, now
amounts to about $4,000 pounds a year,
most of which is obtained in the Pa
cific.
To aid the man who shaves himself.
Californian has patented a mirror
which may be hung from a frame about
the neck and adjusted in almost any
position.
The largest clock in the world. weigh
ing a ton and a half. is in the tower of
Glasgow university. The hammer
weighs 120 pounds, and the pendulum
800 pounds.
A CLAW tablet has been found in Crete