The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-29
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

Ihere are practically no reptiles in
Newfoundland
Seventy thousand persons are en-
pioyed in the linen industry in Ireland.
An experimental road of sand and
saNdust. well mixed, has proven sue
cessful al Cambridge, MINI.
Ninety per cent of the forest fires IN
New York state this year were charged
70 locomotive sparks
England's potato crop this year was
the greatest on record
German inventors have succeeded in
producing tar-free power gas from
bituminous coal economically.
| The French ministry Of marine is con-
templating an order for fifty aeroplanes
for the coast guard service
In Norway hay is largely cured by
hanging II on wooden and wire racks.
much as woman hangs out her WASH.
| Germany and Brazil are to be linked
by new cable that will have a branch
to the German West African colony.
Concrete barges. built for the Italian
government, have proven so successful
| that many more We're ordered recently.
! A test has proven that a diver can
remain conscious for three and a half
minutes after his air supply has been
cut off.
From $724272.S54 in 1898. the value OF
the mineral products of the United
States increased to s2.O69. 2S9, 19e in 1907.
| The Belgian ministry of railways is
considering the question of abolishins
all railroad grade crossings in that
country.
Japan has succeeded in reducing the
number of drug fiends materially by re-
quiring individual licenses for the use
of opium.
An artesian well recently was driven
to a depth of 1,O53 feet at Cliffe, Eng
land, before a sufficient supply of wa
| ter was found.
/ A new implement of warfare IS Il
| shrapnel grenade, weighing over :,
pound which may be fired from the
muzzle of an ordinary rife.
| In 1907 the Roumanian government re-
ceived 81 .257.967 from it's state monopoly
| on salt. which is extensively mined III
that country.
In Connecticut town the main indus
try of which is the manufacture OF
watches a birds rest recently was
found, made entirely of discarded ends
of watch springs.
| The British navy has succeeded In
propellinS 700-ton gunboat econom-
ically with gas engines. No high speed
was made, however.
Telephones i'm divers helmets have
been found unsatisfactory. as the moist
short circuits them
! The nut trees of the world are capa
BILE of supplying food all the year around
to all its inha bitantS. according to the
vegetarians
By European invention flour is COM
pressed into blocks for preservation.
The method kills laval life and prevents
insect ravages.
The consumption OF lumber in the
Unit ua &c
capita per year. as compared with only
sixty feet in Germany
! Antwerp plans to get a larger share
of the trade with Germany by the con-
struction of a ship canal TO give direct
access to the Rhine.
San Francisco is contemplating new
municipal water plant that will. if con-
structed. drain the Sierra mountains, as
a cost of about S42 000. 200.
In new Alpine hotel. advertised as
a rest cure, all the tableware is made Of
papier mache so that the guests will
not be annoyed by the ciatter.
! BY tagging birds in eastern Prussia.
the migration of lake fowl has been
traced to Tunis. while a tagged storA
was shot near Fort Jameson, Rhodesia.
There are five of the Chilean nitrate,
| fields, ali within north and south dis
lance of 500 miles. Iodine is an impor-
ldni DN-pfOuucl OF tue uSpOSitS-
Trains on the new railroad between
Quito and Guayaquil. Ecuador. run only
in daylight requiring passengers To
spend two days making a 297-mlle jour
ney
To economic space. an Indiana wo-
man has patented garment hanger
which grips several skirts or pairs OF
trousers with a single pair of toothec
| jaws.
machine has been designed to show
the actual working time of any or all
machines in a shop so as to give an &C
curate record of the cost of production
Tears give relief from sorrow. ac-
cording to a French physician. because
they decrease the blood pressure on the
brain. benumbing it for the time be-
ing
A wind gauge has been erected at one
end of a nigh railroad viaduct in Eng
land TO signal trains TO stop when the
wind blows so strong as to be danger
Gus.
The national conservation commission
is considering the possibilities of saw
dust and other waste lumber products.
in view of the increasing scarcity OF
timber.
A British shipbuilding firm is making
speciality of Iight-draught vessels.
with a bow rudder to make them more
easily steered when going astern in
shallow water.
A Pittsburg hospital uses 100000 gall
Ions of water sterilized by electrically
generated ozone. each day. instruments
and bandages are also sterilized by the
same method
Miniature electric trains. running ar-
tomatically in tunnels. are being tested
by the Berlin postal authorities as bet
ter in many ways than the pneumatic
tube for carrying mail.
Solid glass tops for babies are re-
cent Invention 1t is claimed that they
are more sanitary than the older forms,
and are unbreakable.