The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-14
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

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 NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE
 Pure tungsten is hard enough to scratch glass.
 There are now over TO- 900 members in the French Aerial League.
 A forestry list credits California with 125 different species of trees.
 Electric frons are now used largely to give the higt finish to fine leather.
 Reading aloud is one of the most h. althfm exercises for the throat and lungs.
 being driven into hard wood it will enter without splitting.
 Oilicg Tile used on soft metals will make 1t cut more smoothly and pre- vent 1t frcm clogging.
 W9shiugton'S coal output last year of 3,016.55 sEor1 tons was the smallest for any year since 1905.
 Italy is to build four "Dreadnoughtsi' and several swift scout cruisers at a total cost of s52, 800, 900.
 More deaths were caused by tuber- culosis in the Philippines last year than by plague, dysentery or cholera.
 The average height of a sea wave in feet is half the velocity of the wind causing it, in miles per hour.
 Shellac will be more pliable and will spread more easily if small amount of gum camphor be added to it.
 The city of Munich has given the Austrian Alpine Club a fine building in which to house it's Alpine museum.
 North Carolina, South Dakota, Colo rado. Alabama and Virginia, in the order named, lead in the production of mica.
 Paris dog catchers are using auto mobile trucks, fitted with well venti- lated cages into which to put their captives.
 In their writings the Chinese use at least PA groups of signs each con- taiping from five to 1854 separate char acters.
 An international moving picture ex- hfbition, including apparatus and at tachmentS of all sorts. is being held in London.
 France has followed the lead of the Ccited States in the establishment of a laboratory for the investigation of mine accidents.
 New Mexico produced 2467, s37 short tons of coal last year, a decrease of a trifle more than six per cent. from the output of 1907.
 Illinois has the greatest number of electric plants of any State, 39S; New York is second with S5S, and Pennsyl- vania tkird, with 34s.
 A sagging door may be raised so that it will not scrape the floor by insert ing a small washer or two on the pin between the hinge halves.
 A feature of a new electric brush for grooming horses is a pneumatic attachment which blows the dust and dirt away from the operator.
 The project of linking India and Ceylon by a, 3S-mile railroad bridge that will have coral reefs to support it's piers, is again being agitated.
 There are 52,827 wheels turned by the waterpowerS of the country, general ing 5,357,O00 horsepower, according to the latest figures of an official re- port.
 Unloading ships at night by the light of acetylene flares. mounted on the masts and along the sides. has been
 If some holes are punched through a coal shovel from the back, dust and slack will sift through and the rough ened places will prevent coal sliding off.
 A scale which accurately measures the weight borne by each pair of wheels of a locomotive has been in stalled in a locomotive works at Schenectady, N. Y.
 Twelve geo1ogists, seven topograph- CTS ana three engineers, divided among 14 field parties, are exploring the mys- teries of Alaska for the Geological Survey.
 A cigar lighter and incandescent lamp, mounted on the same handle and operated by the current from ignition batteris, Is a convenience for automo- bilists.
 Work has begun in Germany on al University professors airship of the general plan of Count Zeppelin's, but larger and having wooden instead of aluminium frames.
 Skee-ball bowling, in which balls are same manner as a, Skee-jumper rises from a bump in his flight, is recent ly invented game.
 A wire screen, supported al the ends by curved metal springs has been pat ented by an Illinois man as 8. pillow, | which is claimed to be cool comfort 1 able and sanitary.
 Artificial truffles, made of an infer | for sort of IndRrPT01nd Sfa ed black to resemble the genuine arti- cle, have appeared in French markets to- worry epicures.
 To rob the burial of a loved one of | vented an apparatus that covers a | grave with a blanket of flowers as the l casket is being lowered.
 South of the Cape of Good Hope and | Cape Horn, where there is neither | windward nor leeward shore, the wind | frequently causes ocean waves 1,200 | feet long from crest to crest.
 A new device flor scrubbing floors | contains a, set of brushes which are revolved within a stationary circular | brush by a small motor driven by the | water used for cleaning.
 A part of the education of English | naval divers is to teach them to allow their suits to become filled with air, | which floats them to the surface, in | case they become exhausted. Typhoid fever dySentery, cholera | morbus, tuberculosis. Asfatfc cholera | and certain infectious eye diseases are | the maladies known to be dis | trituted by the common house fly. I
 Features of new French aeroplane | are two wings and a tail that make | it resemble a dragon fly and the fact ] that it carries the motor and operator l above instead of below the wings.
 Geo1ogists have decided that the pre- historic horse whose skeleton recently | was found in England was coeval with | paleolithic man, therefore is the oldest | fossil of the kind extant.
 A novel toy for children on which a | patent recently was granted, repre- | sents a circus wagon, gearing in which | causes an image of an animal to roam | around a cage in a life-like manner.
 A recently patented self-watering | box for flowers contains a reservoir | fo- water which is drawn to the soil | by a sponge should the owner neglect | tie growing plants for a day or two.