The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-06

or forestry in KwantunE Province which it leases from China.
 A new life-saving apparatus for ships includes sand anchor to be Tired ashore to fasten the line to which It Is attached, regardless of the pres ence Of persons to lend aid.
 Andrew Carnegie has offered to King V1ctor Emanuel for the Bologna Uni versity a model of the fossil diplodocus similar to the models he has given London, Berlin and Paris
 The United States imported S65 O21, = o66 worth of raw silk in 1908 as against over T3,OoO,O00 the previous year. Most or IL came from Japan, with Italy in second place each year.
 The distribution of samples of pat ent or proprietary medicines from door to door, in a public place or by mail is prohibited by a new Canadian law which went into effect April l.
 Calcutta is to spend nearly half a million dollars for a 5000, 900 gallon tank for its filtered water supply. The tank will be elevated 100 feet above the ground on steel columns.
 An electric wagon with a platform which may be elevated by a. telescop- ing tower is used by a. New York cleo tr1c light company for trimming and repairing lamps high above the street level.
 In a. recently-paten+ed tape measure teria1 is inserted in one end to make 1t sef-supporting nd facilitate the making of short measurements with one hand. Of the value of tungsten in electric lighting, a patent for incandeScent lamps making use of the metal having been granted to a resident of Harri- son, N. J., in 1887.
 It is claimed that the new forged steel carwheels. 10000 of which have been ordered for Chicago's street rail- ways. will stand 10000 miles of travel as against 40, 900 miles, the life of the average cast wheel.
 The Austrian War Office is requir- ing a number of its army officers to study skiing and other methods of travelling over snow in order that they may instruct enlisted men to become proficient in scouting in winter
 The Mexican Academy of Medicine has offered a. prize of $10.0oO for a cure for typhus fever. a like prize for a serum that will kill the germ in the blood, while $5, 900 will be distributed among persons aiding in solving the problem.
 To save rural mail carriers leaving their wagons at every stop, an Ala mounted on lazy tongs, which permit its being set out from the post within the carriers reach, and by which he can push it back to the post
 After filling the chair of zoology in the University of Jena 46 years, the eminent scientist. Ernst Haeckel, who recently passed his seventy-fifth birth day, has resigned, and will devote the remainder of his life to studying the evolution of species.
 The Arabian desert between Oman and the Red Sea is believed to be the hottest place on the earth. Scarcely any life is known to exist in the inter for. and even on the coast temperatures have been recorded higher than any where else in the tropics.
 At cost of about s53,660 per mile there has been completed the last link of the railroad that connects Singapore with the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements on the Malacca Peninsula, most of it through swamps and dense jungles.
 Of vast importance to all branches of the textile industry is said to be the discovery in Australia of an almost lfmit1ess quantity of a. new sea grass fibre. which can be woven with almost any other material, takes dyes readily and is practically non-inf1ammable.