The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-26
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

The output Of Chilean nitrate of eotla is expected to. be largely increas- ed becalise of the recent disrupting of the combine of producers.
 Greek chemist has discovered a process whereby the 60 to 65 per cent of sugar contained in entrants may be extracted and crystalized-
 Plates of an aluminium alloy used as electrodes form a new kind Of electric lamp that is said to promise efflcient and economical lighting:
 Many of the olive trees in Syria, still producing full crops every year, are known from existing records to be from 400 to 500 years of age.
 Two French photographers have sue ceeded in getting pictures of the moon ! caearly showing the effect of the light reflected upon it from the earth. v The East Indian Government has sent represntativ tive of its fisheries de- partment to the United States to study the American methods of matching
 On a terrestrial globe of a diameter equal to the height of an average man. 661s inches, one sixteenth of an inch represents the greatest ocean depth.
 MagnaIium, a new alloy of Inagnesi- un and aluminium, is said to be lighter than the latter, but as strong as brass and easily turned, planed or drilled.
 The word ..tungstoiler" has beep coined to define the fixture used to hold a. group of tungsten electric lights in proper position to give the best service been founded at Gottingen University. and schools for training aeronauts are to be established in several German cities.
 Machines have been invented in Aus frfa to shell peanuts. strip the red skin from the seed and extract the bitter germ preparatory to the manu- lecture of oil.
 1f -aY-i,,e about 1000 acres and believed to be very rich, has been discovered on Table Mountain at Cape Town, South Africa.
 will build for the Chilean Govern snent over the Andes from Africa. to La Paz Bolivia, will be the highest in the world.
 reels up the wire within drum by ratchet and spring mechanism simi- lar to that of a shade roller, recently was patented.
 for service a black motor hearse for adults, a white one for children. and three cars for mourners with room for persons
 who examined the Niobrara limestone deposits in northern Colorado have re- ported them eTninently suited for the nanufacture of cement
  can Medical Congress at Rio de Janei- TO in August, international expos ftion of hygiene will be held during the entire month of September.
 The evaporation of all the oceans would leave salt enough to cover the entire globe to a depth of 200 feet, equal to the bulk above sea level, of North and South America.
 The Governments of Great Britain Germany, France and Belgium are working together to find a cure for the sleeping sickness so costly to life in South Africa
 Because of the inability to carry high enough masts automobiles. Experiments with wirless telegraphy from moving motor cars have not been very sa tisfactory at distances over eight miles
 Utilizing the principle of expansion and contraction. New York artist has patented a gas burner that remains open when the gas is burning but Automatically closes should the flame be extinguished-
 A. new electric safety razor consists Of small motor which revolves blades within thin casing. through perfo- raffons which hairs protrude and are <sx1r off as the instrument is passed over the face
 Prof Henry Helm Clayton, for Is rem meteoroloeist at Blue 0bserva-