The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-11

England makes three pence profit on
every shilling minted.
An ordinary piano contains over a mile
of wire in its strings.
BY sleeping corks in petroleum they are
rendered impervious to acids or chemical
fumes
The United States produced anthony
worth s622. 04e in 1907, and imported Sl,bsb'-
S02 worth.
The average hen will lay 400 eggs in her
lifetime, nearly half of them in her third
year,
A single manufacturing ompan pro-
duced and sold over 5000 electric rat
irons last year.
Shoes can be we'll preserved and kept in
good condition by being wiped daily with
milk or cream.
Germany rewards every locomotive en-
gineer who runs his engine for ten years
without an accident.
The longest spar OF telegraph wire in
the world is 800 feet, across the river
Kistnah. in India.
A 2.oo0-acre farm near Idaho Falls, Ida,
owned by Thomas w. Lee. is operated en-
tirely by electricity.
1t has been estimated that the eyelids
of the average man open and close no less
than 1900, 600 times each year.
Experiments with new machinery on the
Chilean nitrate fields are expected to cut
the cost of production in half.
A patent has been granted on'a go-eart.
the wheels of which are interchangeable
for runners for use on snow or ice.
When the body of a starving animal, in
Guiding man, loses tWo-fifthS of its sub
stance. the inevitable result is death.
A patent mas been granted on a hammer
handle, recessed TO carry a nail punch and
with a clamp on the end to prevent its
loss.
Because of accidents in various navies,
the British admiralty plans to cool all
warships' magazines misunderstanding
apparatus.
The longest clock pendulum in the world
is at st. Chads s. Shrewsbury. England. 1t
is twenty-five feet in length and the ball
weighs 200 pounds.
German military experts are expert
menting with falcons as dispatch bearers.
They are said to be four times as fast
as homing pigeons
A patent has been granted on a syringe
like machine injecting pOisOns around the
roots of weeds without injuring surround
ing vegetation.
Government scientists who have been
measuring them say %raindrops vary in
size from the merest speck of water to
two inches in diameter.
The Automobile club of France has Of
fered a prize of 5000 for a new fuel
which must be cheaper than gasoline and
give as good results.
Genuine ruby glass owes its color to the
presence of PARTICLES of gold too small tc
be seen without the aid of the strongest
microscope.
Under exceptionany good conditions OF
weather and clouds. vessels of the navy
have exchanged searehlight signals at q
distance az siXty-fiVe miles
To take pickles from jars without 'punc
turing them, as is always done witt 4
metal fork. wooden tOngs with cross
grOOved ends have been invented.
At the national electrical show to be
held at New York next month the semi
centennial of the laying of the first At
iantic cable will be celebrated.
The pig iron production of the United
States in 1907 amounted to 25.7S1 ,361 Ions
tons. as compared with 5.307. 191 tons il
1906 and %. 992. $50 in 1905.
Following a practical demonstration o.
its value in that field. the government vii
use concrete buildings in which TO store
explosives in the canal zone.
a noted French aeronaUt has formed Z
company with 800 900 to be ready to NEE
the demand which he says is coming fol
dirigible balloons for pleasure.
A t~hirteen-tOn gasoline weed burner il
use by the Union Pacific railway doe!
the work of 800 men in keeping the tract
clear of Objectionable vegetable matter
There are so few flies in England tina
there is a regular business in importing
dried ones from South America for fooC
for poultry and captive birds and fish.
Paradoxical as 1t may seen. farmers
wives of Berks county. Pennsylvania