The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-07-31

In the business heart.
mated several times a day to maze them
eat more frequently than they would Or
dinarily.
Austria believes it has an inexhaustible
supply of salt almost the entire mon
archy being underlaid by deposits.
Mythomania is term that has been
applied to the propensity of persons to
misstate facts to their physicians.
The Carnegie Institution last year dis
tributed $685., 800 among nearly 500 persons
engaged in scientific research.
Ten cents worth of preservative treat
ment often will extend the life of fence
post from two to nearly twenty years.
The famous natural history collection
| of Lord Washington will be transferred
to the British Museum early next year.
Should a person rise above the earth s
| atmosphere the sun would appear blue,
| its true color, according to scientists.
Aeronauts frequently notice that the
last sound heard as they rise above the
surface of the earth is the barking of
| dogs.
The manufacture of children's feeding
bottles or fittings from rubber containing
zinc or lead is prohibited by law in ia
pan.
United States last year-one less than
the year before-but they cost PSI human
lives.
The Rocky Mountain states last year
produced 1854 Ala short tons of coal and
the Pacific Coast states 3,12S46S short
tons.
Within a year the number of electric
light companies and municipal plants in
the United States has increased from 5,Ol5
to 5,264.
A mountain of copper in Sweden has
been mined continuously for nearly zoe
years by the same company, yielding 5OO.
eco tons of ore.
Defects in glass insulators, due to i'm
perfect annealing, are searched for by
revolving the insulators in a beam of
polarized light
Cash prizes totailing about $4,000, and
4O1 medals, were awarded at an inter
national exposition of breeding horses
and asses at Paris last week.
The French aerial league has perfected
plans for four lines of dirigible balloons
to carry passengers between Paris and
as many other cities.
The only clothing worn by a tribe of
Brazilian Indians who inhabit an island
at the mouth of the Amazon river is a
sort of earthenware apron.
Marslin, new substance used in Be-
hernia to coat hams, is said to be as plia-
bic as rubber, taSteless, harmless, easily
removed and perfect preservative.
A patent has been granted a resident of
New Jersey on q dog Kennel made in two
parts, which are hinged together SO that
it may be opened readily for cleaning and
airing
The feature of new life-saving appa-
ratus for ships. the invention of Scotch
man, is fiVe-foot gun, using compressed
air, which shoots line-carrying shot
half mile.
taximeter, invented by Nebraskan,
registers the number of persons who oc-
cupy seat in a public vehicle and the
length of time used and distance covered
by each occupant.
To tear postage stamps from a strip.
molsten and affix them to letters and also
TO seal the envelopes, is the purpose of a
compact machine recently patented by a
California man.
The Krupp firm has appropriated $500
a year to enable German inventor to
prosecute his experiments in controlling
the movements of a speedy aerial torpedo
with wireless waves
According to a French scientist. the
rays from incandescent lights are bene-
Ilcial to human health, destroying bac-
activity and reducing pain.
Inc concrete telephone poles with which
a big railroad has been experimentiner
east east Of OF Chicago have been so successful
west of the Windy City.
me connecting link of a new direct
route between Berlin and Stockholm
steam train ferry between Sasanitz. Ger
opened by the Kaiser July 6. '-' &c
Swiss matchmaker has succeeded In
turning out watch less than an eighth
OF an inch thick, yet is so good a time
heSpeI tIat IL varies less than five sec
onds in twenty-four hours.
An Illinois railroad has euuipped Fifteen
OF lts suburban trains running ont of
Snlcago with electric lights, the current
pelng supplied by turbine-driven dynamos
mounted on the locomotives.
Great Britain has forbidden all vassa,s
BRUSH as Well as of other mathematics
from using their wireless apparatus n, tbee
haf6or OF Gibraltar, except by permissi,n
of the governor.
In connection with n ,,a,,, ,,
cleaner is an apparatus which senarates
the indrawn dust from the air. disin fects
the latter and sends it out again, purified
INTO the Eoo room ,ot, being cleaned.
church in England has been mounted on
foundation which includes & number Vt
rubber spools, four inches in diameter
by three high, to avoid vibration.
-, "A Iecefltiy patented monograph needle.
made OF fibre, is claimed to produce
sotter. sWeeter tones than a steel needle
ana TO polish the records on which If is
used instead Of wearing them.
20 F 5d6 $50 IS planning to spend nearly
ga as an obstacle to its progress
The work will involve a change in eIeJ,o
ton of thirty city blocks.
Piayed like a violin, a hybrid musical
produces music through a horn. all the I
of the strings being cauebt
by diaphragm at the mouthpiece.
Chinese ink is made by carbonizinq n
mixture OF COLA or sesame oil, varnisb
and lard. and mixing the product VIII, |
gum, water and little camnbor 90
musk. The ink is pressed into monIds
20 dry. iua
Record ascents recently were made Nv, |
balloons sent up from the Royal Obser- |
ng instruments which recorded heigbts /
If about eighteen miles and temneratST,I 80