The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-28
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

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 This country consumed about S0,0O0,- | 900 pounds of copper last year. New York's newest department store will have a bank of fifty elevators. Of the 400, ,000, 600 persons in China only 10000 are foreigners, of whom 16,- 900 are Japanese.
 Argetina has 36.0O0 900 acres under cultivation, three times the area culti- vated 13 years ago.
 Over 1000 American windmills were erected sin Cape Colony and elsewhere | in South Africa last year. The Tennessee Legislature has pro- vided for the establishment next year of State geological survey. The work planned out for the Pan | anna Canal diggers this year will re- qufre the use of 10000 tons of dyna- | mite.
 Austria believes it has an inexhaust- ible supply of salt, almost the entire
 monarchy beirg underlaid by depos-
 itI, IM,vtboma<< is a term that has been applied to the propensity of persons to
 misstate facts to their physicians. The Carnegie Institution last year
 distributed sS56.3O0 among nearly 800 persons engaged in scientific research. FTen . cents worth of preservative | treatment often will extend the life of | fence post from two to nearly twen- ty years.
 ton of Lord Washington will be trans ferred to the British Museum early | next year.
 Should a person rise above the earth's atmosphere the sun would appear blue. its true color, according to scientists. Aeronauts frequently notice that the l last sound heard as they rise above | the surface of the earth is the bark | ing of dogs.
 The maQufacture of children's feed ing bottles or fittings from rubber con- taining zinc or lead is prohibited by | law in Japan.
 There xxoro l7o r,oiIer axplos;ons ii, | the United States last year, one less than the year before. but they cost PSI human lives. The Rocky Mountain States last year
 produced 21.6s4, ,414 short tons of coal
 and the Pacific coast States SIPS, ,46S l short tons.
 | Within a year the number of electric | light companies and municipal plants | in the United States has increased from | 5,015 to 5,264.
 A mountain of copper in Sweden has been. mined continuously for nearly 700
 years by the same company, yielding Defects in glass insulators, due to
 imperfect annealing. are searched for lsby revolving the insula tors in a beam | of pOl2rized light.
 | and 401 medals were awarded at an
 international exposition of breeding
 horses and asses at Paris last week. | ; The French Aerial League has per- |
 balloons, to carry passengers between | Paris and as many other cities | The only clothing worn by a tribe of Brazilian Indians who inhabit an is
 land at the mouth of the Amazon river I is a. sort of earthenware apron. Mraslin, a new substance used in Bo- | hemia to coat hams, is said to be as pliable as rubber, tasteless, harmless, l easily removed, and a perfect preser-
 vative.
 A patent has been granted resi- ! dent of New Jersey on a dog kennel
 made in two parts, which are hinged together so that it may be opened
 readily for cleaning and airing.
 The feature of new life-saving ap-
 paratus for ships, the invention of a | Seotchman, is a five-foot gun, using
 carrying shot half 3, mile. A taxfnfeter invented by a. Nebraskan
 registers the number of persons who occupy a seat in public vehicle and
 the length of time used and distance | covered by each occupant | To, tear postage stamps from a strip, | moisten and affix them to letters and also to seal the envelopes is the pur- | pose of a compact machine recently patented by California man. | The Krupp firm has appropriated $500 Q, year to enable a German in- | ventor to prosecute his experiments in | aerial torpedo with wireless wave | According to a French scientist, the | rays from incandescent lights are | beneficial to human health. destroying
 bacteria, stimulating circulation and | cellular activity and reducing pain. | The concrete telephone poles with l which a big railroad has been experi- | menting east of Chicago have been so | successful that they have been adopted
 for it's lines west of the Windy City. | The connecting link of a new direct
 route between Berlin and Stockholm. a | steam train ferry between Sasanitz. | Germany, and Trelleborg. Sweden, will be opened by the Kaiser July G. l A Swiss watch maker has succeeded | in turning out a watch less than an | eighth of an inch thick, yet which is | so good a. time keeper that it varies | less than five seconds in A houS. An. Illinois railroad has equipped 15
 of its suburban trains running out of | Chicago with electric lights. the cur | rent being supplied by turbine-driven | dynamos mounted on the locomotives. | Great Britain has forbidden all ves-
 sels, British as we'll as other nationah- l ties, from using their wireless appar-
 .atus in the harbor of Gibraltar except by permission of the Governor. | In connection with a new vacuum
 cleaner is an apparatus which separ- | ates the indrawn dust from the air, disinfects the latter and sends it out
 again, purified, into the room being cleaned.
 | A 2cOO- -kilowatt steam turbine in a | church in England has been mounted on a foundation which includes num-
 Der of rubber spools. four inches in diameter by three high, to avoid vibra- tion.
 A recently patented photograph nee dle, made of fibre, is claimed to pro- duce softer. sweeter tones than a steel
 needle, and to polish the records on
 which it is used instead of wearing | them.
 Pittsburg is planning to spend near ly S. 800. 900 in levelling a, hill which is
 regarded as obstacle to its progress.
 The work will involve a change in ele-
 vation of 30 city blocks
 Played like a violin. a hybrid musical
 instrument patented by Oklahoma
 man produces music through a horn,
 all the vibrations of the strings being
 caught by a diaphragm at the mouth
 piece.
 Chinese ink is made by carbonizing , a mixture of colZa sesame oil, var
 nish and lard and mixing the product
 with gum water and a little camphor
 and musk. The ink is pressed into nlouldS to dry.
 Record ascents recently were made | hoI ha