The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-16
NEWEST NOTES or SCIENCE


 For the first time in many years tthere was a decrease in the number of Hatents issued by Great Britain last
 ear.
 The new municipal laboratory at St. Petersburg is to be named for the eel ebrated Russian biologist, Netchnikoff.
 Nearly all the saphires mined in the United States last year came from a single deposit in Fergus County, Mon tana.
 Starch will efface the stain of iodine
 In flesh, and, ifsused promptly enough
 Twill prevent the liquid blistering. The seat of new dining room char
 fits with lazy tongs to form a hlgh
 FEafr scs' a baby, complete with sea' and tray.
 The publication of a little oil to the kpiyoted ends of umbrella ribs Will pre-
 vent them rusting, and will lengtnen
 heir life.
 Just about twice the quantity of gas was used for cooking and heating Tn kthe United States in 1908 and was useo
 n 1902.
 sn, the five largest office buildings In
 New York there are about 2,30O miles of
 Telephone wire and nearly lo,ooo m lFtruments.
 T-ne GIaseow fire department uses
 bur motor driven and operated en- Zines, one truck with 35-foot ladder hnd first aid hose wagon.
 The British Government IS anout 10
  HChannel to facilitate business between London af1d Paris.
 When milk has been cooled to a tenn perature of 35 1-2 degrees it may be kept for; several days at any tempera- ture less than 53 degrees. England prohibits the, use of wire 2 less telegraph apparatus except under and in accordance with the license granted by the Postmaster General.
 To relieve the transportation conges- tion of New York city it has been pro- posed to build nonorails over the present elevated Hines there. New York ranked first, Alabama sec kond and Pennsylvania third in the pro- tduction of natural graphite last. year, both as to quantity and value. Vancouver's new dry dock, when will be able to handle 10,000-ton ves- sels, will be built in England and snip ped to British Columbia in parts.
 For finishing concrete floors a WaXy substance has been invented in Ger
 many which is applied with hot irons'
 giving durable, dust-proof surface. The United States imported rl7S,2o5 tons Of manganese ores, mainly from India and Brazil last year, and pro- duced 6,144 tons, entirely from Vlr- ginia.
 The exterior walls of the new Penn sylvani railroad station in New York are nearly half a mile long. and con- tain almost 49o. 900 cubic feet of gran I The French Academy of Science has decided to confer a gold medal each year upon the aviator, French or for eign, whose achievement is most not able. A street railway company at Brook lyn. N Y. is saving it's corroded poles by inserting reinforcing rods within them and filling in the bases with ce- nent.
 The Cape-to-Cairo railroad in Africa, when completed, will be the longest in the world, about 5000 miles, and will have cost almost a billion of dollars. The Department of Agriculture is experimenting with the manufacture of oil and alcohol from four varieties of heavy. starch-producing potatoes from Russia. A short. stout saw bearing a chlsel at the end Of the blade, and pick at ! the back, is a handy ice cutting uten-
 ed. ed TOT n0oseno'1 use is
 Sanitary conditions in Berlin have been so much improved in the past St years that the average life of a resi- dent is now nine years longer than 1t was in 1879.. ForIaaic acid obtained from crystal lized oxalic acid and g1ycerin, heated
 together. is coming into extensive use fgin Germany in place of acetic acid in the dveing trade. s-''' '< Al German firm will work the oil fields of Sakhalin Island, erecting 3
 plant with a capacity of 1,00o,0O0 cases
 of Kerosene and 100000 cases of crude oil a year.
 Electric, light globes may be cheapls frosted on colored by dipping in a thir solution of white she1lac and alcohol to which may be added dye of any de. sired hue A fan recently patented in Paris i:
 arranged to receive either real or arti ficiaI flowers in holes at the ends O. the sticks, which make it resemble { bouquet when closed.i