The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-11
NEWEST NOTES OF so1ENCE.

Pearls decay when buried in the ground. more than 80 flights.
 Aluminium dust or powder burns at an exceedingly high temperature.
 It takes 14o, ,000 candlepower tung- sten lamp filaments to weigh pound
 New York city is to spend $100, 900 for improvements to it's fire alarm system.
 The chances of sudden death among men are eight times as great as among women
 piles in the United States are driven by electricity.
 The Chicago & Alton Railroad is testing automatic stokers on 36 of it's largest engines.
 to lower the transatlantic record by a single day.
 Buenos Ayres is to have an inter national railway and transportation ex- position next year.
 There is about 75 per cent. more gold money in the world now than there was ten years ago.
 A cubic foot of gold weighs 121o pounds, almost twice as much as the same quantity Of silver.
 Turkey has more aged persons in proportion to her population than any other European nation.
 An experiment by an Ohio company of curing tobacco by heat from nat ural gas stoves has proven success full.
 The United States, Germany and Great Britain produce four-dfths of the worlds supply of pig iron each year.
 Over s1s. oOo, GOO worth of gold was produced in Alaska last year, to less than $1 ,O00, 900 worth of other miner als.
 Al wealthy English automobile en- thusiast uses a seismograph to regis ter the jolts imparted to his car by rough roads.
 Although the winters of Montreal are noted for their severity, that city is REQ miles nearer the Equator than Lon don.
 The Shoshone irrigation dam in nor thern Wyoming, which will be BIO feet high, will be the highest masonry dam in the world. e
 During the whole of last year Lon don's famous clock, "Big Ben. never varied more than four seconds from the correct time.
 Although aluminium can be welded to other metals with a blow torch, two pieces of aluminium cannot be joined in that manner.
 The discovery in Maine of a natural alley of tin and bismuth is said by metaHurgists to be the first of the kind on record.
 From eight to ten thousand of coal slack and pitch briquettes are man. ufactured and consumed in the city Of Belfast, Ireland. each year.
 Eminent French medical men are engaged in an extended discussion ov- CT what constitutes the most health ful position in which to sleep.
 There are over 1000 bee keepers in this country, and the product of their hives last year was enough to fill a train of cars over 400 miles long.
 English farm lands that have been titled continuously for centuries still produce an average of 30 bushels of wheat to the acre every year.
 The half century of the drilling of the first oil well in the world will be celebrated on the 18th of this month at the site, near Titusvi11e, Pa.
 A Cincinnati man has patented an electric air heater for barbers' use, air passing through a cyl finder containing a resistance coil.
 In connection with Argentine's cen cent tennial celebration next year an a agricultural and live stock exposition will be held at Buenos Aires.
 The Forest service has turned 800 An- gora goats loose on mountain slopes in Western States as an experiment
 The identification of the street rail- ways of Rio do Janeiro as a develop ment of the ydro-electric power sys- tenn of that city is progressing rap idly.
 Eaectro-ma gnets in use in English hospitals to remove. metal particles from patients eyes can be made to exert a pull of 30 pounds to the square inch