The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-10
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

The Brazilian cocoauut paln1 Frequently
LIS 70 an age Of 20 years
mere are $50 counties Of agricultural
ID DO 7goFtance IL the United States
ne present system OF punctuation was
usNlsec IN the fifteenth century
ne German army is experimenting with
mattresses filled with paper in some Of
An exposition Of butchers. and meat
pa KING interests viii De held at Berlin
from March TO Is
Warts will be cured by wiping them
several times a day with castor oil ana
allowing it to dry IN.
Ihe cfoP-reporting service Of the de-
PdrtfnsnJ OF agriculture costs the govern
ment SO .f99 a year
seamless steel barrels formed By q sin
gle process by powerful hydraulic presses
are something new
The volcano Of Kflaues. on the Island Of
Hawaii, Is more active than il has been
before IN eighty years.
The Chinese claim music was invented
by the Emperor Fuhst some 9.oe0 years
before the Christian era.
'4eroscsphe" has been coined IS the
word that signifies the 5eToplane with
phililOgical correctness.
The tower Of the Metropolitan Life
building in New York. which is 100 feet
nigh, weighs about SOP tons.
AUTOMATIC egg boilers in the galieys Of
the liners LUsitania and Mauritania have
Capacity Of so eggs at a time
France has more than 217 miles Of pneu-
vided between Paris, Lyons and Mar
settles.
There are about twelve generations OF
flies year. the sexes being about equally
divided. each female laying about leJ
eggs
Pennsylvania New York and Ohio. in
the order named. have led in the coun-
try's sandstone industry for the past
An English ornithoiosist has success
fully bred the black swan. one OF the Tar-
est Of birds, In every country except Aus
tralia.
Cuba's first textile factory, for the man
ufacture of hosiery at first and cloths lat
er on. IS soon to be started at Mstanzas;
Straw will yield 20 per cent of its weight
in paper when made into that commonly
Corn stalks will yield a per cent
The government made profit OF SlV--
al 80 on its coinage OF silver, Hlchel am
bronze coins during the fiscal year ending
The line Of perpetual frost at the equator
IS at an altitude of 1890 feet; in the north
ern states OF this country at an altitude
Of about 400 feet.
Kitchen soap is the most reliable tenn
porary repair for illuminating gas leaks
but should not be depended upon 70 mona
for more than q few DAYS at time.
Tests Of small arms by the Swedish gov
eminent have shown that three inches OF
pasteboard will stop a bullet that easily
penetrstes five-inch wooden plank
During the thiTty-seven years that the
German TeuATdl government has betlle ~
existence. 2. 707, 676 natives have emigrated,
nearly five-sixths Of them TO the United
States
The Russian ministry of trade and in
dustTy will organize a floating exhibition
of manufactures and industries to visit
the ports of other European countries.
The French navy is experimenting with
shells containing in their bases q chemical
combination which ignites and leaves q
luminous trail to mark their flight.
A recent invention Of q Canadian is a
brick-laying machine which is claimed to
DO the work of six or seven skilled brick
layers when operated by two men and a
boy
Fortifications have been photogrs phed
by an automatic camera. the invention Of
German. so light that Il may be sus-
pended from the neck Of a carrier pigeon
A Texas congressman has introduced a
bill appropriating $4,000 for the use Of the
department Of agriculture in experiment
ing in the manufacture Of paper from
CoTnstalks-
The new method of cutting steel plates
by an oxygen jet is based on the fact that
when the metal, At a high temperature is
so treated. the resulting oxide is more