The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-16

who have been comparing records for
number of years back.
Rejected by the British war office, an
aerial torpedo, the invention of a Swed-
ish artillery officer. has been purchased
| by the German army.
Although but a few miles from the
| mouth of the river Thames. noted for its
fogS. the atmosphere of Horne Bay, Eng
land, is rarely obscured.
The yellOwest gold comes from Alaskan
placers, the reddest from the Ural. Cal
ifornia gold is yellow in hue, that from
Australia reddish.
A new electrical continuance for hotels
switches on a light in a guests room
when any mail for him is placed in the
box bearing his number.
The sale of land reclaimed by the fed
eral reclamation service is expected to
more than repay the s6O.0OoO00 expended
to date by the government.
Obtaining 81 horsepower from. the
| falls of the Svaelgfos in Norway a French
company is equippins a plant to obtain
nitrogen from the atmosphere.
Cooperating with the forestry service
of the department of agriculture, the war
department is practicing reforestation on
a number of its reservations.
According to DR.. Sven Hedin. the Swed-
ish explorer, the famous Asiatic river
Bramaputra rises from an enormous gla-
cier in the northernmost Himalaya noun
tans.
Seaweed may be planted in the Schuyl-
kill river in Pennsylvania as an expert
is used for drinking purposes in Philadel-
phia.
| After investigating recently a British
official reported the Kenis forest in East
Africa to be PSI miles long by eight wide
and to contain standing timber worth
$l15.000000.
A Kansas carpenter has patented a de-
| vice to be attached to a saw to blow
| away the sawdust. piston. struck by
| the wood being sawed. sends a current of
| air through curved tube.
On the largest tobacco farm in the
| world, a 25,O0O-acre affair near Amster-
dam. Ga, is grown about a third of all
the Sumatra tobacco used for cigar wrap
! pers in the United States.
a Louisiana man has invented a ma
chine for measuring and recording the
measurements of lumber. Planks passed
through it engage a roller attached to
| registering device on the side
| Tobacco was successfully grown under
government supervision in Ireland last
year. but as the crop has not been mar
keted yet. the financial result will not be
| known for some time.
| A quadrangular screen. which opens or
| closes as a door to which it Is attached
at the top is opened or closed. invented
| by Kansas man. is said to prevent flies
and other insects from entering a house
| French scientists are studyingg a pc
| culiar movement of the sands along the
northern coasts of France, Belgium and
| Holland. fine sand originating on the
coast of Normandy has been found as far
| away as Denmark.
Andrew Carnegies present of a replica
| of the diplodocus to the Paris museum has
| stirred up lively row among French sci
| entists over the age of the original ami
NAL, the arguments varying from two to
| six million years.
With view to protecting the soldiers in
| the Philippines from ~ actinic rays of
| the sun. said to be injurious to health. the
| government will send out 5000 suits of
underclothing and hat Innings of an orange
red hue.
| In several European countries fern
| leaves are used extensively to wrap veg
etables. butter. fish and other perisha BILE
food in carrying them to market. the
| high percentage of salt in leaves keeping
the contents perfectly fresh for hours.
4 The difficulties of distilling alcohol
from peat are claimed to have been over