The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-18

OF the SIS locomotives in Roumania
42I use petroleum for fuel.
The first attempt TO steer oailooh
was made in Paris in 1884.
On July 6 the earth is farther from
the sun than at any other time IN the
year
There are over 5000 different Ian
guages or dialects in use by the y races
of the world
The coke production of New Mexico
increased from II $50 tons in lSeS 10
269.1 tons in 1907
The addition of a small portion OF
nitric acid TO melted glue will prevent
II from geletinizing.
Brazil derived a revenue OF N.2l6,5oi
last year from the manufacture OF w.
O4l. 400 boxes of matches
Experts say Pennsylvania anthra-
cite coal viii last 100 years more, her
bltuminous four times as long
Electrically heated plates. operated py
levers, are the principal feature IN
new clothes pressing device
In new electric device for drying
the hair with an air blast a resist
ance can be switched in Tor heatlng
the air
Slate valued at s6,O19,22O was quar-
rled and sold in the United states in
I -e1'F 81 AAANAtdSC ONCi ASoo -
$3.50, SIS
Boston man has patented a net to
catch letters dropped through the slot
in an office door to keep them off the
floor.
When using an acetylene headlight
at night il is best TO tie a white hand
kerchief over the front, both 10 see
and to be seen
The United States has the largest
number of crematories, and incinerates
the largest number of bodies, of any
nation in the world.
The tidal rise and fall on the Pacific
SIDE of the Isthmus OF Panama is
about ten times as mucn as on the At
lantic side.
The longest electrical transmission
line in the world is in California, from
1 De Saba to Sausalito, a distance of 232
miles
The Chinese government has estab-
lished a school at Shanghai to instruct
the sons of fishermen in modern meth
DDS Of fish culture
By sprinkling tobacco during the cur
ing with , per cent soiUtion of citriC
acid the free nicotine. which causes
the bite" is eliminated
| A locomotive company at Richmond
Va, recently completed eighty locOmo-
tives and two steam shCvels for th4
South Manchurian Railway company al
Dalpy.
The consumption of gasoline in Eng
land grew from 10000 tons in 1904 Il
100000 tons in 1907. and ii is EXPECTED
to reach 10000 tons this year.
Lava found near extinct VOLCANOES il
California is so soft that it is cut int.
slabs with common hanIsaws for man
tells and other purposes.
Chinook salmon. introduced to New
Zealand waters from the United States
grow about five times the size they
attain in their native haunts.
Veins of both gold and silver hav,
been found among the bones in the cat
acOmbs of GuanajuatO, Mexico. anC
American mining men are prospecting
Recent biologists have confirmed tn,
statement of Louis Agazziz that tn,
whole of New England vas once GOV
cred with an ice cap a mile thick.
BY new adaptation of the vacuum
cleaning machine horse can b.
cleaned in less than one-sourth the tim
that the ordinary currycomb and brusI
take.
Experiments are under way in Bos
ton With Observation-Disclosures turnStiles il
elevated railroad and subway stations
The idea is to save the expense o
ticket sellers.
BY wireless telephony two French ma
val officers have succeeded in havin.
ordinary converse ton, songs, and evei
whistling. heard perfectly at a distanc
of 80 miles.
The electrical resistance OF the ordi
nary human body from the hands L
the feet is equal 10 that of cope
wire about 1-254 of an inch in diam
eter by 7,710 feet IN length.
After regarding it as a true moIlus
for many years French scientists hav
found that a small snail-;ike creatu~
found on trees is the larva of a spe
cies of fly.
movement is on foot to introduc
ira ckless trolley lines in Ireland. TIL
first probably will be from Donnybrool