The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-13

A new umbrella, which may be car
ried in the pocket has a telescoping
handle and the ribs are hinged.
Benitoite is a recent addition to the
list of precious stones. 1t is found in
Alexander county, N. c., and is blue in
color
Milk will remove India ink from car
pet. 1t should be applied several times
and Immediately wiped off until the
stain is gone.
The accident death rate OF Pennsyl-
vania's coal mines is s.97 per LOCO in
side employees, against LAP per 1000 in
English mines.
In making room for an extension to
a manufacturing plant at Ampere, n.
j., full-grown trees were transplanted
with railroad crane.
The pope is to be presented with
Marconi wireless apparatus. TO be in
thedral at Rome.
If a human being continued to grow
at the rate he does during his first
year of life. he would be over sixty
eight feet tall at the age of 10.
The Lake Superior district. embrace
ing Michigan. Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin. produces about so. per cent of the
country's iron ore each year.
One hundred thousand willows are
being planted along the line of the
Northern Pacific railroad in North Da-
kota to serve as snow sheds.
An anonymous contribution of over
100000 has been made to the Vienna
Academy of Sciences for the establish
nent. of a radium institute.
Professor Clinton d. Smith has left
the Michigan College and Experiment
Station to organize, equip and direct
BraziPs first agricultural college
Pennsylvania broke her record for
coke last year. producing 40, 56t short
tons. more than 65 per cent of the cut
put of the entire country.
Galvanometers now ere made so deli
cate that they register the current pro-
duced by the pressure of a human fin
ger on a globule of mercury.
A machine for scrubbing, sandpaper-
ing. waxing or polishing floors by pow
er taken from an ordinary electric light
socket is a recent invention.
The Russian government has offered
100000 in prizes for a flying machine
competition to be held in ST. Petersburg
from July 1 to Aug. Is next year.
A billiard table brought out in Eng
land contains a screw jack at each
end, bearing casters, so that it-may be
raised and moved about room read
lily.
at a South Pittsburg, Tenn, cement
plant, grinds an exceedingly tough
limestone at the rate of 500 tons per
hour.
An Austrian government commission
is investigating the use of petroleum. as
a locomotive fuel with view TO adopt
ing it for the railroads of that en-
pire.
An effective screen door check may
be made by hanging a small rubber ball
by string from the door casing 50
that about one-third of 1t extends into
the doorway.
The Oklahoma constitution having
made it obligatory on the legislature to
establish state geological survey, s15,-
| 900 has been appropriated for the first
years work
| In Germany sawdust is being ground
] into flour in the same manner as grain
| for use as an absorbent in dynamite
and as the principal ingredient of cheap
blotting paper.
| To overcome the danger in thawing
| frozen dynamite, a new form OF the OK
plosive has been brought out which
freezes very slowly. making The thaw-
| ing more rapid and safe.
A patent has been granted on pro-
cess for quenching coke when with
drawn from an oven by placing it in
cooling chamber and forcing a cur
rent of cold, inert gas over it.
| An Indiana man has obtained a pa
tent upon a sewing machine stool which
is pivoted to the frame of the machine
in such manner that it may be folded
under it when not in use.
Broken taps can easily oe removed by
pouring hydrochloric acid into the hole
around them and leaving it long enough
to eat away portions of the tap and of
| the edge of the hole.
The Hendrix Hudson memorial bridge
across Spuyten Duyvil creek. New YORK,
now in course of construction, will have
the largest concrete span in the world,
703 feet in length.
| Wireless biography was used in the
great Dieppe circuit automobile race in
France in July to report the progress
made by contestants at various points
to the finish line.
self-styled philanthropist, said to
be an American, has proposed TO King
| Victor Emmanuel that the crater of
Vesuvius be used as a erematorium for
! the dead of all nations
Count Zeppelin, the famous aeronaut
plans to found an institute for the in
vestigation and solution of problems of
air navigatios in the interest of Ger
man industry. defense and science.
To be satisfactory in their operation,
| cylinder oils should not lose more than
one-half of l per cent of their weight
| when heated to a temperature at
which they are expected to be used.
| The greatest iron mine in the coun-
! try, the Hill-Rust, in Minnesota. pro-
duced 2900.e24 tons of ore last year. OF
the ten mines which produced over
100000 tons apiece, nine were in the
| same state
A Munich physician has patented a
camera small enough for a person to
swallow. by which the interior of the
stomach may be photographed on a
| film that is twenty inches long by a
quarter of an inch in width.
A new piece of highway apparatus
for cleaning asphalt pavements is being
| tried out at New York. Water from a
tank is sprayed in front of a roller to
which stiff rubber strips are fastened
| in spirals.