The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

The fruit of the male fig tree is neve
eaten.
Australia has but a single beast of prey
the dingo or wild dog.
An international colonial exposition vii
be held at Algiers in 1872
A recent government estimate placed IN
population of France at 80 et0.t-9-
New York. Maine and Wisconsin rans
in the order named in the production
paper
Vegetarians claim that an acre of lan'
win comfortably feed family of four per
sons.
Chemically pure oxide of cobalt is use'
to give the famous blue color to Sevre'
porcelain.
siIverware may be kept bright by leav
ing 1t for several hours in hot solution
of borax.
Italy's rice crop this year is estimated
at 100000 bushels, the greatest for sew
eral years.
The first piano factory in the Australian
state of Victoria is in course OF erection
at Melbourne
Yellow soap and whiting. mixed to Z
thick paste with water, win stop leai
as effectually as solder
OF the 65.44l,215 gallons of alcohol man
ufactured in France last year more thar
100000 were made from beets.
A Pennsylvania farmer has begun tC
breed ladybugs TO combat the attacks OF
plant lice and the San Jose scale.
The coal mined in the United States
each year. If piled together. would make
cube having sides of IA yards.
The German cruiser squadron in eastern
Asia has been experimenting with Chi
nese coal with satisfactory results.
Although the sand in the Sahara desert
averages only thirty feet in depth, it has
been found 200 feet deep in places
According to well known anthropolo-
gist the influences Of city life tend to-
ward the reduction of the human stature
The most recent models of electric mine
af,ff hrarr1 H.. 81
mule team i'm two-thirds less time.
But three states produced quicksilver
last year. California. Texas and Utah, the
first named about 80 per cent of the total
The United States buys nearly 90 per
cent of the mica exported by Canada,
which industry has grown to nearly 1000
000 pounds a year.
The Pennsylvania railroad has adopted
the third-rail system of electrical trans
mission for its tunnels in the vicinity of
New York City.
A French physician claims to have found
many disease germs in medicines. partic-
ularly in pills, many of which do not con-
tain antiseptics.
A Philadelphia woman has devised a
nightgown opening down the back. for use
in hospitals or to be put on person too
i'll to rise from bed.
During October, under the operation of
penny postage the weight of the mails
from Great Britain to the United States
increased p per cent.
An exposition of means and appliances
for safeguarding against accidents from
machinery will be held at Copenhagen in
January and February.
An OklahOman has been granted a pat
ent on graphing tongs for Selling pigs
and other elusive small animals, without
loss of the pursuers dignity
The nations annual consumption Of pa
per would make a roll $50 feet high by 337
in diameter weighing about 100000 tons
and costing $S5. 100000.
The immense hydro-electricaI plant of
the Canadian-American company which
has a light and power monopoly at Rio
Janeiro. was recently completed and put
into service.
Ferro silicon and other alloys of the lat
ter metal have remarkable resisting pow
ers, nitric, hydrOchlOric and other power
full acids having no effect upon them.
To perfect the process of the Oxford pa
per used for Bibles required twenty-five
years of steady work. The syndicate own
ing the formula values il at over 81 coo 900.
A Connecticut inventor has patented a
spigot which he says prevents splashing
in sink by directing the flow so that
il strikes at an obtuse instead of a yerti-
cal angle.
The fuilers' earth industry in Great
Britain is practically controlled by a COM
bine. which intrusts the secret of its final
preparation to less than half a dozen per-
sons.
A six weeks old baby at Jersey City. N.