The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-28
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE


France produces more than twice as
much wine as any other country.
BOston's city chemist and bacter1olOgiSt
Is a woman. Miss Z. Marion Wade.
An envelope or package sealed with the
white of an egg cannot ne steamed open.
About one gallon of fuel alcohol can be
distilled from three gallons of mOlaSSeS.
Iliiteracy among the negroes of the
United States is seven times as common
as among the whites
Yakutsk. the commercial emporium of
eastern Siberia. is the coolest city In the
world.
More anthracite coal is shipped from
| Swansea, Wales, than from any other
/ port in The world.
/ German railroads are experimenting ex-
tensiveiy with cars operated by electric
storage batteries
The first alarm of fire given by cleo
tricity was sounded at Boston on the
| evening of April %, 1852.
The manufacture of oleomargarine and
other artificial buffers is one of the lead
I ing industries of Holland.
| The largest gold nugget in the world
was found in Australia. weighing 2,l95
/ ounces and was valued at 1890.
/ Meerschaum, when freshly mined. Is so
soft that il may be used for soap. giving
/ a plentiful. cleansing lather-
The government of Uruguay has appro-
priated $500 for an investigation of the
I countTy's supposed coal deposits.
! The largest proportion of negro popuia-
ton in the United States is in IsaQuens
county, Mississippi, where it is "a per
/ cent.
Steam dredging for gold in the bed Of
the Salween river in Burmah, from
which much was expected, has proved a
failure.
4 balloon fight Of 11e3 miles. from
Nincennes, France, to Korostychew. Rus
STA In 1900. has never been surpassed.
King Leopold of Belgium has offered a
+ $500 prize for the hest treatise on aero
nautics to be brought out this year.
/ Manhattan Island is the most densely
I populated place in the world. having an
average of 5000 persons per square mile
/ The first warship fitted with turbines
I of German design and construction. q
small cruiser, was recently launched at
I Stettin-
A monkey wrench. with a pivotted han
! die, so that il can be folded and carried
/ in the pocket. is the invention of an In
/ diana man. A lock nut keeps it rigid
when opened
/ A Kansas City company is experim snt-
/ ing with a view to operating boats with
concrete hulis on the Missouri and Mis-
/ sissippi rivers.
/ Heat. although capable of making IL
] Guild or solid incandescent, cannot make
/ a gas fncandescent. merely increasing its
pressure
The use of the flesh of dogs for food
/ is increasing in Germany, over 5000 car
/ cases having passed the government in
/ spection last year
| Hydrochloric acid should be used to
clean the porcelain surfaces of spark
plugs, as emery, so often employed,
| scratches them.
/ India grants to Americans each year al
most as many patents as to residents of
ali other countries combined. Great Brit
| ain alone excepted.
California ranks first among the Pacific
coast states I'm the amount of electric
/ power generated. with Washington sec
| ond and Oregon third.
Austria's first submarine. 300-ton. Ger
man built boat, is so constructed that q
crew OF seventeen men can remain half a
dav below water in safety.
So far as federal health statistics ex-
tend. they indicate that the Heath rate
among negroes is 30.2 per 10000, while
among whites it Is 173 per 10000
The German government has offered q
substantial prize for an effective method
OF combating the injurious effects of fac
tory gases upon vegetation.
The electric motor is put to a novel use
bv a resident Of Nevada, Ia. who uses
one TO drive a revolving brush with which
he cleans his chickens feet
During 1908 more than -three-fifths of
tn material removed since the United