The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-11

An average half-pCund roe herring con-
tainS 5000 eggs
More than 500 different kinds Of insects
make their homes in oak trees
In the production Of olive oil. AsiatiC
turkey leads, with Spain second and Italy
third.
Great Britain imported more than 402
U0OD pounds Of frozen beef from Argen-
tina last year
Paper is being made from the prickly
pear III an experimental way at Port
Elizabeth, South Africa
Java coffee crop this year is estimated
by the Dutch colonial government Of
uclals at ZOO O0C pounds
For the housewives benefit a recently
patented dishDan carries on one side a
craining rack for wet dishes.
sewage screenings are compressed into
blocks and burned under the boilers Of a
Boston sewage pumping station.
Ihe Greek Currant crop Of lyS exceeded
ltvru0O tons, ranking second TO the record
1903 crop Of 1620U0 tons.
dered six dirigible balloons and six aero
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planes in Europe for experimental pur-
poses.
A New Yorker has been granted a pat
ent on a simple but effective holder 10
prevent spoons from falling into tail
glasses.
An Italian physician has found that
vaccine virus may be rendered absolutely
pure by exposing it to radium carnations
Official figures place the country pro-
oucuOn Of salt last year at 4.O33,Oo9 tons,
a decrease from 1907 Of 4S9 tons.
Scientific efforts TO combat the South
African sleeping sickness" already have
cost the lives Of seven European physlc-
ians
According To a professor Of the French
Academy Of Science all the elements Of
food NEEDED by man are contained in Cru
we're cheese.
Corn cobs. compressed into blocks.
used to build houses in some parts OF
Germany and Russia.
Fossil remains of a mammoth, includ-
ing a tusk Of prOdigiOus size have been
unearthed in a railroad cutting near Ma
Nearly twice as many persons travel
vertically by elevator every day in New
York as horizontally by elevated, surface
OF subway car.
The latest estimate Of the population Of
the world placed the figures at I46l, 100000,
an average Of about thirty-One inhabitants
per square mile.
The residue rejected by Greeks who
smelted lead where IL was mined as far
back as 800 b. G. is being worked over To-
day by modern methods.
In an actual test a new style steel coke
car adopted by the Pennsylvania railroad
dumped its load of 10000 pounds in a
minute and As seconds.
As a part of a national movement LOT
better preservation Of the teeth, several
German cities are providing Tree dental
treatment for school children.
Oak gals, heretofore thought to be Of
purely vegetable growth. have been de-
termined to be due to insect attacks by
COterie Of British scientists.
Delegates from thirty-three countries at
tended the recent international congress
of refrigerating industries at Paris and
formed a permanent association.
The importation of CeylOn elephants TO
work I'm the Philippine lumber camps IS
proposed to make up for the scarcity Of
draft animals in the islands.
To create a greater demand for its cur
rent during the daytime, a Chicago cleo
trio company recently loaned 10000 electric
irons to its feminine customers.
A pineapple cannery IN FOrmOSa. man
AGED bv Japanese. also extracts the long
fibre from the leaf Of the fruit for use
in the manufacture of grass cloth.
Natural gas from certain wells in KAN
sas is found to contain per cent of he
Iium and scientific experts are working on
the problem of extracting It
House cleaning is made easier by new
vacuum cleaner. IN which bellows, OPP
Grated by two long handles, suck the dust
from carpets or walls through nozzle.
The 6S2-pound Guffey meteorite, found
near the Colorado town of that name in
1907. has been acquired by the American
Museum of Natural History at New York.
That many cases of color blindness may
he CURED. OF at least rendered less serious.
nv DracticinC CONGRATULATIONS. is as
serted by an eastern acUlist of note,
Resembling ice tongs in appearance, but
without sharp ends, are the new tools IN