The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-07

As excavations at Herculaneum do not
promise important results. the Italian
Archaeological commission has recommend
ed that the government continue the WORK
at Ponpeii instead.
Alright steel cylinders, having COM
bined lifting force of go tons, were used
to refloat the British cruiser Gladiator
sunk in a collision with the American liner
a bic fortune awaits the man who re-
discovers the lost art of the Saracens,
VINO made sword blades so keen that they
could cut in two the best Sheftieio blades
of the present day.
An estimate by the geological survey
pisces the cOuntry's production OF Port
land cement i'm 1875 at <0to0,U0 barrels 9
decrease from the 1907 output Of nearly 70
a gun for throwing life line to a
wrecked vessel by the use Of air COM
pressed by hand In an attachment to the
1 gun is a recent English invention which
has worked well in tests.
/ The recipe for Worcester sauce which
has made an English firm both wealthy
and famous. was a secret In an old En-
giish family for generations until but
/ Ter sold it for a small amount.
A cotton picking machine on the prin-
chile of the vacuum cleaner, it is claimed
gathers 700 pounds Of cotton per operator
/ in ten hours. at cost averaging less
than g.
Residents of the cork regions Of Spain
heat the bark in kettles with spouts.
through which issues a gas that IS used
as an iiuminant. The refuse Is sold as
the Spanish black pigment.
The new subway through the heart OF
Boston's shopping district is the most eN-
pensive mile of underground railroad IN
| the world. having cost with equipment.
about 100000 to build
Chemists in Europe are trying 10 ledls-
cover the method of dyeing the color
known as Trrian purple with secretiOns
from certain forms Of mollusk. The Sc
cret wsE lost in the middle ages.
A patent has been granted in Germany
- a starch insoluble in hot water and
unaffected by strong alkalies, which Is
useful as a filler In plastic compositions
/ and in the manufacture Of paper.
A New York company promises 10 es-
tablish regular airship service between
that city and Boston on May J. Two dir
/ fsible balloons, each carrying an operator
and three passengers, viii be used
! A government estimate places the
I worlds production of gold in 1908 at $50,
/ 3I3255 as against so. $500 in 1907, South
I Dakota Alaska California and Colorado
showing the largest increases.
! Concrete, when brought into contact
with water steadily acquires compactness
and resistant power until it attsins its
maximum IN those qualities which II re
tsins indefinitely and without deteriora-
| ton.
There are said to be 1877 ingredients in
chartreuse the formula for which. writ
ten in a parchment took of more than 100
pages. was carried about in a steel box
| by a French monk until it was sold for
| 8, coo, 600
his government the reason for his predic-
ton that all the worlds supply OF iron
will be exhausted in fifty years Little
more than one-tenth OF the deposits, he
says are in the United States.
Whitefish fry, Matched by the United
States hatchery at Kingston. N Y, when
liberated, almost invariably expatriate
themselves Immediately by swimming to
their natural feeding. grounds along the
northern shore of Lake Ontario
The possibility of a planet outside OF
the orbit Of Neptune, since its discovery
In 1877 considered the outermost Of the
solar system is indicated by calculations
at Harvard observatory of certain irregu-
larities in Neptune's orbit.
Although Italy has had much success
with some forms Of boats made Of rein
forced concrete, its lighters constructed
of that material have failed because Of
their liability to cracking in the rough
service to which they are subjected.
Almost any desired color is impaired
to agate BY German lapidaTies VINO warm
the dressed stones in solution Of sugar
then coat them with color SOLUTIONS IN
acid which carbonize the sugar, the color
being absorbed by the more porus strata
A Single electric lamp. containing fifty
pairs of carbons. will be used or top or
a railroad terminal at jersey City. y j.
To avoid the troubles besetting COM
passes on steel ships the metal Of which
defects the needle, g German inventor mas
devised a nesdleless one, in the form Of a
gyroscope. the axis Of which always ad-
! justs itself parallel to the earth's axis.
Corsets made of steel rings, Weighing
eight pounds. and which are said to be
buliet-proof, are being tested by the Ger
man army They are the invention of a
Munish, engineer, who refused an offer
from Russia until his own country had
had a chance to try them.