The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-02
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.

! NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.
 Plans are under way for the harness | ing of the tides of the Petitcodfac r1- yer, at Amherst, N. S., which are said | to waste 3,OO0 900 horsepower a day. tn a recent egg-laying contest con ducted by a South Australian agricul- | tural college, six Leghorn hens estab- | lished a worlds record by laying LAY eggs in a year.
 A new Chicago office building. de- l signed with a view to admitting as | much light as possible, is built in the form of letter E, with 800 windows on it's five floors.
 A patent has been granted on a din- ner table ornament which combines battery contained in it's base and a | vase for flowers.
 An English clergyman, Rev. Pat rick Bell, is said to have invented the first reaping machine, in 1927, seven years before Mccormick took out his American patent.
 multicellular aeroplane invented by
 a Frenchman is so formed that the machine will have the same amount of supporting surface whatever its lat eral inclination may be.
 Recent improvements in machinery for spinning asbestos have resulted in the manufacture of thread from the
 mineral so fine that a mile of 1t weighs but a pound and a half. |s According to discussion before the London institute of Marine Engineers,
 the day of electric propulsion for ships by motors connected directly to the propeller shaft is near at hand.
 An American owner of a pig ranch on the site of the volcano of Kilauea, on the island of Hawaii, makes use of the crater's heat to cook for his stock vegetable food raised on his property.
 Experts of the Department of Agri-
 culture have succeeded in raising in this country species Of watermelon indigenous to Roumania- The fruit is
 the size of grape fruit, with thin skin.
 Tests by French scientists seem to show that it is sixth sense that en- aIbles bees to return to their hives from as far away as two miles, the insects depending upon neither sight nor smell.
 Archaeologists are excavating at the site of the ancient Etruscan city of name. Abandoned when the sea re- ceded. the city was buried by river all luviunl.
 The English inventor of new meth claim that he is getting purer water from the Thames below London than is derived from many supposedly in nocuouS sources.
 weed are attributed the loss of 400,- 900 oysters from French beds. The weed apparently attached itself to them, then f1oated away, carrying the she shells with it.
 A German inventor claims to have perfected a non-inf1ammable celluloid by using acety-cellulose, made from acetic acid. instead of nitro-celluIose, and artificial camphor instead of the genuine.
 A Clifornian has patented an at tachment to be attached to the end of a suit case to carry liquid con in danger of injury if placed inside the main receptacle.
 Extensive experiments have shown German army officers that silver gray is the least conspicuous color against rural landscapes and it has been adopted for the field uniform of that nations troops.
 A new substitute for glass for sky lights, greenhouses and other places where glass would be in danger Of breakage consists of a coating of a secret substance in linSeed oil spread on wire netting.
 Experimenters in Mexico with Aus tralian tree cotton have developed two varieties, which may be mixed with wool or silk, respectively, which they so closely resemble as to make detec- tion difficult
 A new British Columbia law prohib- its the practice of medicine after Jan uary 12, 1912, of any person who can not produce a diploma from a college of medicine which requires at least five years of study.
 A new electric water heater, which may be attached to any supply pipe, | consists of carbon electrodes placed inside an iron pipe, the current passing through the water from one electrode to the other.
 A novel alarm clock invented by two residents Of Austria is connected with an electric battery which gives a sleeper a sharp shock through cleo | trodes attached to the wrist, at the | time for which it is set.
 Backed by the Krupps, an exten- sively capitalized company has been | formed in Germany to control the | rights for the Wright aeropIane for | that country and its colonies, Sweden, | Norway, Denmark and the Turkish I Empire.
 According to the Geological Survey, | the United States produced 942, ,570, 721 | pounds of copper last year, the great l est amount on record, exceeding the | previous maximum figures, in 1906, by | 27, ,765, ,039 pounds.
 Australian sugar reineries have | solved the problem of disposing of | waste molasses by first carbonizing it | to a non-fuid consistency and then | burning it in their boiler grates. The | ash from it forms valuable by-pro- | duct in the shape of potash.