The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-04
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

Siberia averages sixty days Of rain each
year.
Limestone, which is low in magnesia,
makes the best cement
Concrete is made from the refuse of a
soap mill at Calcutta.
An airship for the Turkish government
recently was completed in Paris
Not a single passenger was killed in
train accident by any British railroad
last year.
The volcano of Purace. in Colombia.
elects on an average Of thirty tons Of
| hydrOchlOric acid a day.
A salt-shakeT so formed that it will
right itself If upset, is novelty in table
silVeTWaTe
Hydraulic presses are used in the navy
to store clothing in compact bundles to
economic space.
A powder composed Of equal parts Of
alum, sulphur. amber and saltpeter will
erase fresh ink stains.
Germany has become the greatest pro-
Queer Of cocoa butter in the world, turn
ing out about 1000 tons a year.
Inc best turkish tobacco is grown in
a low mountainous region bordering the
south shore Of the Black sea.
The paper on which Bank Of England
notes are printed has been made by a
secret process in the same mill since 1719.
The entire fire department of Frank
fOrt-On-the-Main. Germany. is TO be
changed from horse to motor traction.
To prevent frauds i'm weighing the gov
eminent is having self-registering scales
built for use in customs warehouses.
Holland has a new law forbidding the
adulteTation of butter, under penalty of
Imprisonment. which may reach one wear.
The United States government main
tains ttty-seven wireless telegraph sta
tiOns, and has ninety-six vessels fitted
out with the apparatus.
OF the worlds average. annual. emery
production of about s. 900 tons about o 600
tons come from the Greek island of
NaxOs.
The briIliancy of d IimeIight used in
a demonstrating lantern. can be increased
oy slipping over 1t an ordinary gas man
Arkansas leads among the states in the
production of bauxite. her outDut being
more than 60 per cent Of the total last
year.
What is believed to be valuable de-
post Of coal recently was discovered i'm
Augusta county, Va, by a fisherman
after trout.
The recent shaekleton Antarctic expe-
duon found that the prevailing winds in
that region were from the direction of the
pole
Work has been begun on Mount Wilson
CAL, on the Carnegie solar observatory
Whlch VIII be the largest Of the kind in
The main doors in a leading New York
Motel are operated by an electric motor.
c9hTolled by a push button in the hands
OF dOOrman.
North Dakota is to establish bioIoei-
cal station on the shore of Devils lake
a large body Of brackish water with an,
parently no outlet
One part formaldehvde to forty Of wafer
makes an excellent cleansing medium for
cellars or other places from which sun
light is excluded.
The output of Chilean nitrate OF soda
is expected to be largely increased be
cause OF the recent diSrupriug of the
combine Of producers.
A Greek chemist has discovered a pro-
cess whereby the 20 to 65 per cent Of
sugar contained in currants NAV he ax
tracted and crystaIized.
Plates Of an aluminium alloy used as
electrodes form a new kind of electric
lamp that S said 10 promise efficient and
economical lighting.
Many of the olive trees in SYRIA still
producing full crops every year. are
known from existing records to be from
400 to GO years Of age
Two French photographers have sue
ceeded I'm getting pictures Of the moon
clearly showing the effect OF the light re-
Elected upon It from the earth.
The East indian government has sent
a representative Of its fisheries depart
ment 10 the United states 10 study the
American methods Of Matching fish
For hot weather comfort an electric fan I
has been patented which is operated bv /
battery enclosed in its stand doing away /
with the necessity for wiring
on a terrestrial globe OF diameter !
equal to the height Of an averag &c man.
SSH inches. one sixteenth Of an inch rep J
resents the greatest ocean depth.
MaEnaIium. a new alloy Of MAGNESIUM I
and aluminium. IS said to be lighter than /
the latter. but as strong as brass and I
easily turned. planed or drilled
Utilizing the principle of expansion and /
contraction, New York artist has pat /