The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-14
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

| I.ondon's newest fireboat can pump go
/ tons Of water an hour.
Gasoline can be used as a soldering flux
/ for very neat work on tin.
| The average cost OF railroad mileage
| throughout the world is $4,000.
| New Zealand boasts Of death rate of
only 800 per l,00o population last year
/ In a muffls furnace the temperate
at the center is lower than near the
walls.
| II paint be strained before using it will
/ cover more surface and wear better.
! The Wisconsin state militia is consider
I ing the formation of an aerOnautic corps.
I Pure milk, when froSen- preserves its
original properties unchanged for weeks.
I a mixture of powdered sulphur and oil
viii facilitate the cooling Of hot bearings
Mosquitoes are said to have DANA ged
I tea planta tons in India by biting the
/ young leaves
The purity of Norwegian iron is large
/ ly due to the fact that it Is smelted with
[ charcoal.
1 Britons send on an average two teIe-
I grams apiece each year; Americans. IL,
and Germans. 0.9
Coating the inside Of 4 show window
with glycerine will prevent the fonna-
ton Of frost.
Experiments in southern Burma with
Virginia and Havana tobacco have proven
a practical failure.
Oklahoma is the only state which re-
Guires the teaching IF agriculture in all
its country schools.
Russia is rich in asbestos and steadily
is increasing the production of the Ural
mountains
A three-ton motors truck recently was
/ hitChed to pillow to open the streets of
Springfield. Mass. for gas mains.
An electric device for bakers allows
dough TO rise to the limit, then sounds an
alarm when it begins to fall.
The tonnage of the United States battle
ships and armored cruisers totals co.,.
al to Great Britains l.395e30.
Soaking a cheap lead pencil In iinseed
oil will improve its writing qualities and
make its sharpening more easy.
If cold water be poured upon grease
spilled upon floor Immediately II will
prevent it from soaking into the wood.
In Texas alone prairie dogs annually eat
enough grass TO feed l,562,500 cows, &C
coTding to the federal forestry service.
Diseases of the eye may now be watched
and their courses recorded by a new pho
tOgraphio apparatus, a German doctors
invention.
Furniture with a matt finish can be
renovated with a thin solution of white
paint In tUrpentine OF by rubbing it over
with linseed oil.
Field telephones. provided with a spe-
ctalty light wire, are to be added TO the
equipment Of every infantry subdivision
of the Austrian army.
Qualified authorities have estimated the
standing timber in the United States all
the way from s22, s62, oOoO05 to ZOO, 900 600.
900 board feet
After being worked steadily over sixty
years, emery mines near Smyrna, Asiatic
Turkey, once the most important in the
world. have become exhausted.
A French physician has devised a plain
less method of Strengthening animals by
the use of electricity, electrodes being
placed at each end of the spine.
A novel device, by which a street car
motormsn can announce the streets tc
his passengers, consists of a speaking
tube leading to a megaphene within the
car.
More than 100000 pounds of coca
leaves are annually harvested in South
America. q vast amount being brought to
this country for manufacture into Co
caine.
Cholera is being successfully treated in
India by a new method. which consists
of hypodermic injections of morphine and
copious draughts of water and hot tea.
A turbine pump for fire engines, driven
By gasoline. in tests in England. has
proven it's ability to throw 459 gallons of
water a minute with steady, even pres
sure.
THE growth OF the cement industry in
this country is shown by the fact that
representatives Of plants valued at $50
600 attended a recent Chicago cement
show
Some Detroit engineers have figured
that, to duplicate the Pyramid of Cheops
in that city, at the present cost of ma
terials and labor. would require nearly
800, 600, 900
a new invalid's bed. a Californians in
vention, is so devised that the occupant
may be changed to almost any position
or lowered into bath by the operation
of cranks.
The French government has begun its
first coinage of aluminium fractional cur
rency, to take the place of the old copper
coins. which will be Withdrawn from
circulation.
Frsudenstadt. a German town Of 100.
pays all it's municipal expenses by ium-
bering from a publicly -oNned forest.
which is Systematically replanted as the
trees are cut.
The japanese government will ask the
next diet to appropriate $4,000 year to