The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.

able airShipS to assist it in its summer manouvreS, while a year from now it will have 40.
 The recent earthquake in Mexico made the harbor of Vera Cruz so shal- low that vessels drawing "A feet touch bottom in places.
 Once profitable zinc mines in New Jersey, idle for years, are about to be modern methods.
 The University of Helsingfors has rejected the proposal for an inter change of professors between the Uni- ted States and Finland.
 Artificial eyelashes. made from veg etable flores upon a strip of fish skin, are attached by glue made from secret formula.
 The crater of the extinct volcano of Diamond Head will be utilized as powder magazine by the army in it's defences of Honolulu.
 For handling heavy rails, an eastern railroad has equipped a flat car with pneumatic hOiStS, operated from the air brake system.
 A stethoscope, with tubes of extra length, is valuable to the user of an internal combustion engine to locate the cause of unusual noises.
 Swedish electricians are experiment. ing with 8 transmission cable in which a hemp core is inserted to take up the strain more uniformly.
 A German law forbids the habitation
 
 it has been completed because of the unhealthfulness of damp walls.
 An English woman has patented jeweled sunburst in which one set Of rays is made to revolve over another by clockwork inserted in the setting.
 The slipping of cartoons in arc lamps which are subjected to the jarring of Buildings may be prevented by sus-
 A device that turns the lamps of automobiles with the wheels, so as to illuminate the oath when rounding curves, has been patented by an Ohio man.
 Every building in Kobe, Japan, is thoroughly cleaned, both inside and out, twice a year, under the supervfs- ion of the city's sanitary authorities.
 Wireless telegraphy has driven the carrier pigeon out of the French navy, the Government having decided to cease supplying the birds to war ves- sells.
 the Boring Sea, which was born at the time for the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, has sunk beneath the sea again.
 If Yellowstone Park be left out of consideration, California ranks as the first State in the Union in respect to the number and variety of it's springs.
 It is estimated that in the Kaieteur waterfall, in British Guiana, which is five times as high as Niagara, nearly 2,50O.0 600 horsepower is going to waste.
 There recently was discovered at Buenos Ayres a species of spider which ming web between stones in shallow water.
 The Identification of a substantial section of the Swedish railroads will follow an exhaustive search for the most economical method of operation.
 One of the highest bridges of the world is to cross the Snake River Cam yon, near the Shoshone Falls in Idaho. It's LAO foot span will be $50 feet above. the water.
 By the electro-chemical production of fertilizers containing atmospheric nitrogen, Germany expects soon to largely decrease its inportations of
 What is claimed to be the largest lump of pure copper ever found, a 5000 pound nugget, recently was found in the Chittina district of. the Copper River valley, Alaska
 Under Turkeys new regime the re- strictions upon all classes of electrical apparatus have been removed, and the Government is planning to establish a telephone service.
 A patent has been granted upon 8 device to strengthen the hand mus cles, consisting of weighted rods, con- sistance when the fingers are moved.
 The oldest tree in the world, it is believed, is a plantain on the Island of Cos, off the Asia Minor coast, un- der which Hippocrates taught his pu- pills over twenty centuries ago.
 A recently patented anti-snoring de- ivce consists of a soft rubber ball to be fastened to the sleeper's shoulders in such position as to waken him if he turns over on his back.
 A new incandescent gas light brought out in England uses a cluster of rods which glow when the gas is lighted instead of a mantle. Greater durability and brilliancy are claimed.
 Records for ship-building recently were broken when a company at Cam den, N. J., launched a 34S-foot steam boat for use on the Hudson river in less time than ten weeks after the keel was laid.
 The Vienna Academy of Sciences has decided to collect three series of pho- nographic archives for the benefit of future generations, to record present. day European languages, music and oratOry.
 A handle may be fastened upon steel umbrella rod by filling the hole with powdered sulphur and inserting the rod while red hot. The sulphur readily fuses and in cooling makes a tight joint.
 Quartz tubes for mercury vapor lamps are made by unloading carbon rents through it until the quartz is fused around the carbon, which may be removed easily.
 A new dry battery is inactive unless
 
 a circuit through a vacuum tube be- tween a platinum electrode and one composed of an ama1gam of potassium and sodium.
 For the benefit of masculine theatre goers an inventor has brought out a woman'S hat with detachable brim, which may be removed, with the trim ming, more easily than the entire hat can be taken off.
 More than 5000. 0O0. 900 gallons of waste liquors, containing more than ten per cent. solid matter, are annually discharged into the streams of the United States by paper pulp mills us- ing the sulphite process.
 Patents have been granted on an all- rubber automobile wheel, vulcanized hard at the hub and with the hard ness diminishing gradually until near the surface, which is soft enough to yield to the pressure of fingers.
 The great burning gas well of the Caddo district of Louisiana, which has been blazing since 1906. has formed a r,r>1 fnr~ fno in, 1,a-