The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-10
Boston Mining Stocks.
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.

Pearls decay when buried IN the ground.
Few balloons are serviceable for more
than eighty flights.
Aluminium dust or powder burns at an
exceedingly high temperature.
1t takes 10000 siXteen-candlepOwe
tungsten lamp filaments to weigh pound.
New York city is 10 spend 100000 for
improvements to its fire alarm system.
The chances of sudden death among men
are eight times as great as among women.
Nine of the eighteen expeditions in
search of the South Pole have been of
English origin.
About 10000 of the 10000 automobiles
in the United States are driven by cleo
tricity.
The Chicago & Alton railroad is testing
automatic stokers on thirty-siX of its
largest engines.
1t has taken eighteen years for steam
ships to lower the transatlantic record
by a single day.
Ruenos Ayres is to have an international
railway and transportation exposition
next year.
There is about rs per cent more gold
money in the world now than there was
ten years ago.
A cubic foot Of gold weighs 1910 pounds
almost twice as much as the same guam
titY of silver.
Turkey has more aged persons in pro-
portion to her population than any other
European nation.
An experiment by an Ohio company of
curing tobacco by heat from natural gas
stoves has proven successful.
The United States, Germany and Great
Britain produce fOur-fifths of the world s
supply of pig iron each year
Over 100000 worth of gold was pro-
duCed I'm Alaska last year, to less than
81 100000 worth of other minerals.
A wealthy English automobile enthusi-
asst uses a seismOgraph to register the
jOlts impaired to his car by rough roads.
Although the winters of Montreal are
noted for their severity, that city is $50
miles nearer the equator than London.
The ShOshOne irrigation dam in northern
wyoming which will be 80 feet high, will
he the highest masonry dam in the world.
During the whole of last year LOndOn's
famous clock, big Ben" never varied
more than four seconds from the correct
time.
Although aluminium can be welded to
other metals with a blow torch, two pieces
of aluminium cannot be Joined in that
manner.
The discovery in Maine of natural al
10y of tin and bismuth is said by metal
| lurgists to be the first of the kind on
! record,
From eight to ten thousand of coal slack
and pitch briquettes are manufactured and
consumed in the city of Belfast, ireland,
each year.
Eminent French medical men are en-
gagged in an extended discussion over
what constitutes the most healthful posi-
| ton in which to sleep.
There are over 1900 bee keepers in this
country and the product of their hives
| last year was enough to fill a train of
| cars over 400 miles long.
| English farm lands that have been titled
continuously for centuries still produce
an average of thirty bushels of wheat
TO the acre every year.
The half century of the drilling Of the
first oil well in the world win be ap-
| propriately celebrated on the 18th of this
month at the site, near Titusville, Pc.
| A Cincinnati man has patented an cleo
| trio air heater for BARRIERS use, COM
PRESSED air passing through a cylinder
| containing a resistance coil.
| In connection with Argentine's centen-
nal celebration next year an agricultural
and live stock exposition will be held at
| Buenos Aires.
The Forest Service has turned 300 An
CORA goats loose on mountain slopes in
Western states as an experiment to keep
f! the weeds from the fire breaks