The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-14
NEMEsTANoTEs OF SCIENCE

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 For the storage of torpedoes the French Governnient has constructed andA sunk in the, Mediterranean near Tou1on an artificial island of concrete and steel.
 The first attempt to ship Swedish esEn ore to the United States for sme1ting was made recently when a ship ;loaded with 5.oo0 tons sailed for Phi1adelphia.
 A fish, found for the first time re- gently in Bahama. waters. passes much of it's life within the shell of a large moIlusc without apparently disturbing the latter.
 The American record for rock tun- neliing was broken when 476 feet of the Los Angeles-Owens river aque- duct, nine by eleven feet, was bored through solid rock in March. native in every part of the world ex- cept New Zealand and the southern portion of SoIth America.
 A Canadian Government expert has poo, 900 tons Of marketable fuel in the Crows Nest Pass coal field of Alberta and British Columbia
 A German scientist claims to have discovered the germ Of trachoma in the eyes of apes and to have demon strated that the disease is contagious only in its first stages.
 About 10O, 900 tons of tin plate scrap, AKkC1uO1uS uSoO cans, are QGIInnGQ III Europe each year. and about 6O,o00 tons in the United States, for the re- covery of the tin and iron.
 That fish may carry typhoid and cholera germs from contaminated streams into hitherto unpolIuted trib- utaries has been proven by experi- ments by the French Biological So- ciety.
 A Government physician at Manila has, succeeded in cuftivating the lep- rosy bacillus and will experiment fur ther with a view to establishing a specific treatment for the disease.
 JapaRese waterproof paper is made from bamboo and eucalyptus. mixed with flores of the gampi and other shrube and treated with a solution containing camphor. caoutchouc and resin.
 The diamonds produced by the re- Southwest Africa are of the first qual- tty, but almost uniformly low in weight. averaging one-third of a ydt fs proposed to erect a monument by public subscription in honor of Marcy, the Frenchman, who is termed the father of the moving picture" !" because of his inventions along that line.
 The Adelskiold gold medal, awarded but once every ten years, has been given by the Swedish Royal Academy to Thomas A. Edison for his inventions
 
 electric light.
 Vine growers in southeastern France claim to have prevented enormous losses to their vineyards by hail storms by firing into the clouds explosive rockets to prevent the formation of icy particles.
 An experts studies of earthquakes in the United States, India. and Japan almost always draw the banks of riv- CTS nearer together and open Assures parallel with them.
 German scientists expect to get 600 horsepower-hours of work from each ton of peat which will be taken from immense bogs in that country and con- Eered into gas, together with much ammonia as a by-prOduct.
 A wealthy lumberman has offered the University of Minnesota a 2,200 acre tract for experimental purposes by it's School of Forestry, conditioned on the purchase of about 5000 worth of other land now held by Indians.
 Experiments by the Aeronautfcal So- Horizontal thrust of from 20 to P pounds per horsepower can be ob- tained with Tapping wings, about six pounds more than with the best airship propeller yet devised.
 After a series of experiments rela- tive to the effects Of tin taken into the human system. a Scotch physician has announced that canned goods con- metal to the pound are potentially de4eterious to the health.
 Although the Heraclea coal fields extend along the shore of the Black Sea 40 miles and extend 200 miles in land, the coal contains so many inn purities that mining is unprofitable except at one point, from which only GOO 900 tons a year are taken.
 Hudson Maxim, the expert on explo- sives. recently declared that the drop ping of dynamite from airShfpS upon Notifications, vessels or buildings would not necessarily be effective, as the powerful stuff must be confined to do it's dead1ieSt work.
 Fo1ey's Honey and Tar is safe guard against serious results from spring colds. which inf1ame the lungs and develop into pneumonia. Avoid