The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-06
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.

Spirits of camphor will freshen soil- ed playing cards.
 From coal are produced more enan 100 different colored dyes.
 An exposition of musical instruments will open at Rotterdam in May.
 Spain buys more than one-quar1er or it's tobacco from the United States.
 Electric devices now are successfully employed in branding cigar boxes.
 There is an average of one physician to each 709 persons in the Un1teo
 At the present rate the excavations of Pompeif will not be completed De- fore 1870
 matches in Great Britain has been pro hfbtted by Parliament
 During the present year the entire street railway system. Of Budapest VIII be electrified
 Ohio. Vermont and New York have led in the production of maple sugar Continuously since 1850.
 There are sa40 to be 2.oo0. 900 horse power available in the unharnesseo waterfalls Of Wisconsin
 washing Hnoleum with a weak solu- ton of glue and allowing it to dry thoroughay will restore It's gloss. S.. ,,, treating the fibre with sulphuric acid and fermenting with a special yeast.
 Last winter was the dryest on rec ord in Tasmania, sheep dying by thou sands, while many rivers entirely dried
 The Swiss Government spends more on it's commercial schools than for all other educational purposes put to- gether.
 It is claimed that silicide and boride of titanium, products of the electric furnace, are as hard as the diamond Dutch west Indies, the material is ex- tracted from the leaves by a chemd- cal process.
 Electric street cars, built in Phi1a he frefr- private company in the Turkish city of Salonild
 The Japanese Cabinet recently re- pealed an ordinance enacted in 1876 official documents.
 Serious experiments by bevy of French scientists resulted in figuring out the average speed of snail at 14 days to the mile.
 Lead is the purest metal which is made commercially. many good brands Of commercial lead containing S9.95 or more per cent. of the metal.
 A new hook for hanging up mems hats catches them by the brim in such a manner that they cannot be knock ed off, besides economizing room. The port of Havre is to be improv- ed at cost of 16.7oo. 900, which will be shared by the nation, department and local chamber of commerce.
 The majority of Australia'S schools are owned and operated by the State Governments under the supervision Of the Federal Minister of Public Instruc- ton
 furnace for the production of steel brought the total number in service in the United States and Europe up to B.
 The spraying of diluted alcohol over calcium carbide produces a new gas known as aIkoethine, which is said to be a better and cheaper fuel than gasoline.
 fr, 0 the best supplied with surface water of any of the States. having a square mile of lake to every 14.3 square miles of land.
 One of the largest car building com panies in the country has decided to = abandon steam as a motive power and has begun the erection of a mammoth electric plant
 BraziPs budget for this year includes an appropriation of over $50,000 to aid various institutions which are fighting the spread of tuberculosis in that country.
 A Michigan company is trying out a Horizontal smelter for iron ores, which is said to utilize all the heat, while upright smelters are said to lose over
 More than 7,5oo, 900, 900 telephone mes sages were sent in the United States last year, the number of instruments in service having grown to exceed the 100000 mark.
 new weed destroyer for gardeners combines a narrow spade with a pair of jaws. operated from the handle in such a. manner as to lift weeds which the spade has 1oosened-
 In the Tuillieres hydro-electric works, the largest in France, which are near ing completion, nine 2,700 horsepower turbines will produce 23,000 electric horsepower.
 A Nebraskan has been granted patent upon rings bearing pronged plates to enable a baseball pitcher to fnpart a. twist to balls and increasing his ability to pitch curves
 The first of four 5000 horsepower alternating current motors, the largest in the world, recently was successfully put into service in a steel rail mill at Gary, Ind.
 The French chamber of deputies has decorated with the Legion of Honor all aviators, foreign as well as native, who have conducted flying machine trials in that country
 The Japanese Government is plan ming to establish an engineering high school. . middle echool and a bureau