Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-09
BITS OF SCIENCE.

1he voice of man has been known IA
carry three miles through a 2O-foot
trumpet
Rich or highly fortified soils produce
tooacco with high percentage of nice
A resident of Jersey City, \. j.. has
been granted patent on an electric
eggbeater
The British admiralty began .experi-
mentlng with submarine boats in Plym-
outh harbor in 1774
scrap telephone wire seldom is used
contains silicon.
lao is the name of the new universal
language the promoters of which say is
VIII supplant Esperanto.
y hungarian has invented a machine
by which it is claimed 10000 words an
hour may be sent over the telephone.
Ihe state of North Carolina is the
most notable in the country for the va
rlety OF precious stones produced.
One-fourth of the members of the hui
man race die before reaching the age of
years; one-half before 1G.
More than 4OO,000,OOOO gallons of Oil
were exported from PHILADELPHIA last
year.
The annual wear and tear on the cur
! rency of the world is estimated at two
tons OF gold and $50 tons of silver
Len coal briquetting plants i'll the
United States produced 63.153 short
Tons last year, worth on the market
$244 ,942.
The waste products of a nearby coal
mine are utilized to furnish the city OF
Amherst, Nova Scotia, with heat and
power.
Electric railways Of the United States
nave attained a trackage of over 10000
miles, nearly one-ffth that of the steam
lilies.
A company is being formed at Belle
| f0nte, Pa, to manufacture brick the
chief ingredient of which will be furnace
Stag.
The United States in 1907 produced
IGO,O5o,o30 barrels of petroleum. an in
crease of nearly 100000 barrels over
1906.
Berlin's firemen wear water tight jack
cts which may be filled from the hose,
aIording the wearer protection from the
heat.
IN Japan a company is manufacturing
Il product from volcanic ashes which is
Il good substitute for cement for many
purposes.
Tea is a germicide, according to a
Boston physician, who claims it as an
especially rank enemy Of the typhoid
bacillus. .t!
Although the house fly lays eggs, the
flesh fly, better known as the blue bot
tle," produces living larvae, about fifty
at q time.
Missouri led i'll the production of lead
in the United States in 1907, pushing
Idaho. the leader in 1906, back to sec
ond place.
The electrical equipment of the Cunard
liner Mauretania includes over 25O miles
of cables and more than 5000 16-candle-
power lamps.
A $4,000 plant for the production of
ozone by electrolysis, the largest in the
world has hnan cOmOlotpd q Pitts
burg hospital.
A Norwegian factory receives power
for six turbines from water that falls
32S7 feet through a tunnel from lake
seven miles away.
Peru has officially adopted as it's
standard time that of the seventy-ffth
meridian. the same as eastern time
in the United States.
Three parts by weight of boracic acid
to one of powdered borax makes a good
compound for brazing steel. 1t should he
applied as q paste with water.
The United States produces 81. 12O,61o
long tons of iron ore, valued at S131.-
966.147 at the mines, last year, according
to the geological survey.
The addition of three drops of mercury
to each ounce of common solder will
make a solder fusing at a low tempera
ture for united soft metals.
The railroads of the United States
used 1855, 691 barrels of oil for fuel
in 1907, an increase of over 100000
barrels over the preceding year.
The most productive insect known to
science is the termite, or white ant,
which has been known to lay eggs at the
rate of $4,000 a day for a month.
Gold and silver anodes should be re-
moved from the solution when not i'll
use, as the bath will dissolve them even
when no electricity is passing through
them.
For the benefit of outdoor workers
who must have their hands free, Ger
men inventor has brought out tent
shaped umbrella that straps to the shoCI
derS.
WASHINGTON is the only one of tho
Pacific coast states in which coking coal
is known to occur. Its coke production
last year totalled Stops tons, an increase
over 1906 of 63SS tons.
Count Zeppelin, the famous aeronaut,
plans to found an institute for the in
vestigation and solution of problems
of air navigation in the interest of Ger
man industry, defense and science.
A recent English invention is a port
able circular saw resembling the street
outfit of the scissors grinder when may
be moved up, to stationary umoer 10
Wealthy natives of India have formed
a company with 81 100000 capital TO
erect at Bombay blast furnaces ana
complete steel plant lof the utIlAdtion
of native ores.
carried out. all railroads entering Paris
will be electrified for considerable dis
lance into the suburbs of the french
capital.
The greatest iron mine in the country,
the Hiii-Rust in Minnesota, produced =
900. 624 tons of ore last year. 0t d the
ten mines which produced over l,OOo,-
900 tons apiece, nine were III the same
state. -
Diluted ammonia is the best to use to
remove paint from thing. as some tlle eHS
are surfaced with material which VIII
not resist caustic soda. the solvent most
often used Clean water will remove
the surplus ammonia.
Much valuable time can be saved by
covering desk top VITA plate glass.
unoer which data may De spread Ior
ready reference. IL also h"Nes !"
After fifteen years experimenting