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

in the suburbs of Dublin, to Bray,
seaside resort
An aeroplane on the principles OF
those which have proven successtui III
very recent times was invented IN Eng
land in 1S4S. but failed for lack OF
suitable motor.
To cure its office boys of loafins,
firm at Beloit, Wis, has equipped tn
push cart they use with devices Tor
registering the distance covered IN TRIPS
and the speed made
What is believed to be the largest
specimen of petrification in the woriu
is a tree 30 feet long, with branch stCos
still intact, spanning a 40-foot canyon
1 in Arizona.
The secret of making the finest
porcelain. known as Dresden china,
was discovered just 200 years ago by an
apothecary's apprentice, who was try
| ing TO change silver into gold.
| In connection with the determination
of rats from Honolulu an official OF
the Marine hospital service is prepar-
ing to develop breed of cats of msh
ratcatching ability.
I Lava from the volcano of Savaii, in
the Samoan islands, which has been
fIn constant eruption for over three
| years, has formed a river eight miles
wide. flowing into the ocean.
An aluminium alcohol lamp, with
cup for heating water or boiling an
egg, the whole to be carried by q ham
die like a candle stick, is something
new for kitchen or sick room.
Under the name of ''lithodern"
Scotch chemist has invented wash
for stone that he claims will preserve
its surface from the effects 9f moisture
for an indefinite length of time.
The United States in 1907 produced
| 1880 short tons of tale and SOAP
stone worth S1.531 ,O47. an increase over
the preceding year of l5.9 per cent IN
quaunty and : per cent in value
The largest static electric machine
ever built is owned by a New York
physician. Twenty 40-inch glass discs
revoIve against 90 others to produce
sparks 80 inches long by q inch IN di-
ameter.
a telephone system will be complet
ed in the near future in the French
African colonies which will permit of
communication with the most distant
posts in the interior of the Dark Con-
tinent.
BY sending up a thermometer on a
kite to height OF 1890 feet, weather
bureau officials near Washington, n.
G.. registered a temperature of % de-
grees. while at the surface of the earth
it was IS.
| III certain RUSSIAN provinces me 3till-
flower is raised for the oil obtained
from the seeds. which is used for cook
ing and in soap, while from the ashes
of the stems and leaves potash is o.
tanned.
The ocean appears blue because deep
water reflects only the blue rays of
light Shallow water looks green be-
cause the blue rays are mixed with
the yellow reflected from the sand on
the bottom.
When a 23-foot python in a Chi
, cagO amusement park became chilled
while Matching 40 eggs the lives of the
mother and her young were saved by
the use of electric heating pads and an
electric radiator.
One-foUrth of the material taken from
the bottom of the harbor OF San Pedro.
Cal. by government dredging opera
, tons consists of fossil shells, which are
ground and mixed with chicken feed to
supply lime.
A prediction of Hudson Maxim. the
inventor. is that the future will see the
air filled with flying machines driven
by power obtained from wireless cleo
trical currents, leading from center to
F center of population.
Experiments by the italian ministry
of agriculture have shown that eggs
, may be kept perfectly fresh for year
by first coating them with lard then
> packing them in fine odorIess shavings
50 that they do not touch one an
other.
Ferris wheel in an amusement park
, at Waterloo, Ia, large enough to carry
"a passengers is driven by falling wa
ter on the old principle of the over
shot mill wheel. The water is pumped
10 the top by an electric motor
The mammoth which a Russian gov
eminent expedition recently found en-.
cased in Siberian ice AMI removed tc
St Petersburg is the finest and most
? complete specimen ever recovered. ever
the trunk being intact. Only two teeth
3, ! are missing