The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-02
NEWEST NOTES
OF SCIENCE

| A little kerosene oil will remove the
| squeak from hinges.
The first international congress of
/ administrative science viii be hello at
| Brussels in 1910
The addition of little soda or an&
nonia to water in which glass is to
| be washed viii have very beneficial
| effect.
A cube containing 100000 building
bricks, if laid without mortar, would
| be about forty feet in each direction.
| In the great London hippodrome,
number OF small machines have been
installed to generate sea air in the au-
| ditorium.
France has about three-fifths of an
| acre of forest for each inhabitant. and
annually imports xS0,000,00O worth of
wood.
| The worlds wealthiest inventor was
| Cyrus Mccormick, who devised the
| harvester, and died leaving an estate
| of S20G00,000.
! The increase in volume Of cast iron
| from alternate heating and cooling in
some instances amounts to as much as
| 10 per cent.
| AS the human body is about seven
eighths water. an average man con-
| tains about eighteen gallons, or more
| than half a standard barrel.
| A wire continuance to hold spoon
/ in the neck of a medicine bottle is
California invention of value in tfss
| sick room.
teaches are killing fish in the princi-
pal Swiss rivers by thousands, and so
| far scientists have been unable to
abate the strange plague.
| Recent tests have shown that a one
candie-power red light is visible mile
on a clear night, and one of three-can-
dle-power two miles
At St Augustine, Fla, the owners
Of hotel are able to heat its rooms
with water which rushes, almost boil
ing. from an artesian well.
A German scientist has proposed to
the king of Italy TO eXtinguish the
fires of Vesuvius by flooding the vol
cano with sea water through tunnels.
What is claimed to be the tallesu
chimney in the world, sos feet high, is
being erected for the Amalgamated
Copper company at Great Falls. Mont.
The string of beads of light that
sometimes are seen for as long as a
minute after a fash of lightning are
due to the incandescence of the air.
Recent experiments have proven that
the sea water of the coast of Ireland
is exceedingly rich in radium, as is the
water of the Arabian sea
Over 1000 operations without a sin
gle accident have been performed by
Paris surgeons with the use of a new
dntSlHttlC hllOWii do DONOeoiHt-
Sulphuric acid allowed TO drip slowly
upon a heated bearing until it cools;
then removed and oil applied, is said
TO work a permanent cure.
Russia will use many of the public
contributions for rebuilding its navy
toward equipping eighteen wireless
telegraph stations on the Baltic coast
line.
A faint scent of violets may be i'm
parted to clothing by adding a small
piece of orris root to the water in
which they are boiled when launder-
| ing.
The smallest healthy adult human
brain was that of a New York coach
man, who died recently at the age of
| 46 years. 1t weighed but twenty-four
ounces
In New Zealand there is an island
almost constantly enveloped in steam.
| Its waters appear green to the eye, but
anything dipped into them is coated
red
| The energy stored up in a gram of
radium is said to be sufficient to drive
a fifty-horsepower automobile around
the world at the rate of thirty miles
an hour.
OF value to tailors and seamstresses
is pin cushion, invented by Tonnes
| seean, which has a spring clamp for
holding it on the arm of a sewing ma
chine.
A very weak solution of muriatic
acid will remove perspiration stains
from clothing. Alcohol is recommend
ed for green vegetable, grass and most
medicine stains.
| A bit brace that will bore hole in
any corner and at any angle has been
patented by New York carpenter 4
supporting bar holds the rotating
driver.
In the new scout cruiser Salem the
United States navy has the fastest
warship in the world, torpedo craft
excepted. In a recent trial the vessel
made 1888 knots an hour
! In the most modern locomotive boil
| er, about 90 per cent of the energy de-
rived from each pound of coal burned
| goes up the stack in smoke or is other
| wise wasted.
To make paper stick to metal, insert
the metal, hot, in strong solution of
washing soda. Wipe dry. then apply
onion juice, and the paper will adhere
as though glued.
Carnotite, mineral recently found
in paying quantities at the foot of
Blue mountain, Colorado, contains the
rare elements of uranium and vana-
dunn, with traces of radium.
Vienna plans to connect its sixty-four
postoffices with each other and with
the principal railroad stations by forty
seven miles of tunnels to facilitate the
movement of mail.
An electric railway is being built up
the Zugsoitze, the highest of the Ba-
varian Alps, to its summit. 10000 feet
above the sea. A hotel will be erected
at the 7.000-fOOt level
The production of precious stones in
the United States more than doubled
last year over 1906, according 10 the
geological survey, the greatest gain
A disease similar TO leprosy has been
found among the rats of San Fran
il the rodents can communicate the
disease to human beings.
Spains most valuable forest product
is cork, the annual output being
about 10000 tons. This is growing
gradually less, however, because of the
wasteful methods employed.
cisco, and experts are trying to learn
being in Montana sapphires.
The tonnage of the worlds merchant
shipping is estimated at 37.554.0l7 tons,
of which $1,744904 tons are steam YES
sells. OF the whole, 1871 ,09e tons are
under the British flag.
Il France is Systematically reforesting