The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-03
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Newest Notes OF Science


Madrid has the highest altitude of
any city in Europe.
Despite its great size, an elephant
has but eight teeth.
A caterpillar each month eats food
weighing 5000 times its own weight.
Oats are said to be the best flesh
building food for domestic animals.
The steam power IN use in the world
today is estimated at 100000 horse
power.
Ireland devoted nearly one-fourth
less land to fax raising last year than
in 1907.
London, Paris, Munich and Berlin
each has an ice skating rink open the
year round.
The largest wooden building in the
world is the Parliament building at
Wellington, New Zealand.
Some of Norway's glaciers are so
rapid in their movement that they ad-
vance twelve meters a year.
A Russian woman has invented a
rudderless dirigible airship, which ex-
perts declare is practicable.
Except for a small area in Missouri
| and Kansas, there are no hardwood
trees west of the Mississippi.
Columbia University, New York,
hereafter will give degrees for stu
dents who complete course in aero
nautics.
Pencil drawings may be rendered
permanent by brushing them with a
mixture of equal parts of SKINNED
milk and water.
German steel works are beginning to
use electric furnaces on an extensive
scale for handling large quantities OF
metal.
The so-called Chinese cement fol-
Joining wood, earthenware, glass, etc.
is simply solution of shellac in al
eohol.
Constant exposure of mirrors to the
direct rays of the sun is apt to crvs
tallize the amaigam and destroy the
brillancy.
OF the 100 diseases to which the
human body is liable, according to a
German physician there are forty
CASilt IVtdildt W TIC S.N
The wood of the ailanthus tree, de
! spised because of its odor. resembles
white ash and is capable of receiving
a high polish.
The introduction of japanese hand
looms in China promises to greatly in
crease the importation of foreign yarns
by that country.
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a number of years have proved thai
some of the Alpine glaciers are re
ceding instead of advancing
The seeds of the parasite plant, jim
kungo, a native of Mozambique, yielt
an that is said to be superior Il
the salad oil of commerce.
A solution of an ounce of saltpetel
in ten of sulphuric acid will remove
the silver from plated goods without
affecting the other metal.
1t is an established fact that an elec
tric locomotive can haul heavier train
and at a faster speed than a steam
locomotive of equal power.
Korea s rice crop this year is ex
pected to be 80 per cent. greater thar
for several years past. The yield i
estimated at 2,72O,000,OOO pounds.
Switzerland already has obtained
100000 horsepower from its waterfall,
and expects TO make use IF thre'
times as much more within the mex
few years.
Broken pieces of amber can be re
joined by coating the fractured sur
face with linseed oil and bringing
them together while warmed until lie,
feel sticky.
1t has been officially denied that tn
157 900 models in the Patent Office a
Washington are to be destroyed, as ha
been published in some quarters.
A housekeeping machine, operatin,
on the vacuum principle, and suppiiet
with power from a spigot, has beer
perfected by German inventor.
The only living blue bird of para
disc in captivity recently was brough