The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-01-17
NOTES OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

England's potato crop this year was me
greatest on record
Seventy thousand persons are employed
in the linen industry in Ireland
India exported ~. .657 pounds Of tea
57rinr the fiscal year, ended March 81.
worth So. 934. 40
An experimental road Of sand and saw
dust. well mixed. has proven successiu
at Cambridge. MINI
Ninety. per cent Of the forest fires IN
New York state this year. were charged
TO locomotive sparks.
Alabama produced 1855 ounces OF
gold and 40 ounces Of silver last year OF
q total value OF S26-ZTZ-
The French ministry OF marine IS con-
templating an order for fifty aeroplanes
for the coast guard service
German inventors have succeeded N
producing a tar-free power gas from o.
luminous coal. economically
From s724Z72.S4. in 1895. the value Of
the mineral products Of the United states
increased 10 S2.059. 2Ss 1S6. in 1856
Germany and Brazil are 70 be linked
BIZ a new cable that viii have a branch
10 the German West African Colony
In Norway hay is largely cured BY
hanging 4 on wooden and wire racks,
much as a woman hangs out her wash
Concrete barges. built for the Italian
government. have proven so successful
that many more we're ordered recently
4 test has proven that a diver can re-
main conscious for three and a half min
- hos heaar7
The Belgian ministry Of railways is
considering the question Of abolishins
al railroad grade crossings in that COun-
tn.
Japa1 has succeeded IN reducing the
number Of drug fends materially by re-
curing individual licenses for the use OF
opium.
An artesiau well recently was driven
20 a depth OF 1.155 feet at Cliffe. England,
before a sufficient supply Of water was
found.
A new implement OF warfare Is a shrap-
neI grenade. weighing over a pound, which
may be fired from the muzzle Of an or
binary rife.
In 1907, the Roumanian government re-
ceived s. s.. So from its State monopoly
on salt. which Is extensively mined in
that country.
The nut trees of the world are capable
Of supplying food all the year around
% all It's inhabitants, according TO the
vegetarians.
By a European invention, -four is CON-
pressed into blocks for preservation The
method kills laval life and prevents IN
sect ravaSes.
r. his rr1r
found unsatisfactory, as the moisture
from the wearers' breathing soon short
circuits them.
The British navy has succeeded in Pro
polling a 70o-ton gunbOat economically
with gas engines No high speed was
made, however.
Solid glass toys for babies are a recent
invention II is claimed that they are
more sanitary than the older forms, and
are Unbreakable.
The consumption Of lumber in the
United States has reached 40 feet per
capita per year, as compared with only
50 feet in Germany
Antwerp plans 10 get a larger share
OF the trade with Germany by the con-
structiOn Of a ship canal to give direct
access 10 the Rhine.
There are FIVE Of the Chilean nitrate
fields. all within a north and south dis
lance Of so miles. Iodine is an important
by-product Of the deposits.
IN a new Alpine hotel. advertised as
a rest cure, all the table ware is made OF
PAPER mache. 50 that the guests viii
not be annoyed by the clatter-
San Francisco IS contemplating a new
municipal water plant that viii, IL con-
strUcted, drain the Sierra Nevada Noun
tainS, at a cost OF about 100000
Tears give relief from sorrow, accord
ing 70 a French physician. because they
decrease the blood pressure on the brain,
benumbing il for the time being.
To economic space. an Indiana woman
has patented a garment hanger. which
grips several skirts or pairs Of trousers
with a single pair Of toOthed jaws.
Trains on the new railroad between
Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador. run only
in daylight. requiring passengers TO spend
two days making a 2g7-mile journey.
The national conservation commission
is considering the possibilities Of sawduSt
and other waste lumber products. in view
OF the Increasing scarcity Of timber
BY tagging birds in Eastern Prussia.
the migration Of lake fowl has been
traced to TuniS. while a tagged stork
was shot near Fort Jameson, Rhodesia-
A machine has been designed to show
the actual working time of any or all
machines in a shop so as 10 give an ac-
curate record Of the cost Of production.
A Union Pacific Railroad electrician
has equipped a locomotive with wireless
telegraphy 70 enable train dispatchers 10
keep in touch with trains which 1t hauls.
A British shipbuilding firm is making
specially Of light draught vessels. with
a bow rudder. 10 maxi them more easily
steered when going sstern in shallow wa
ter.
wind gauge has been erected at
one end Of a high railroad viaduct in
England, to signal trains to stop when
the wind blows so strongly as to be
A Pittsburg hospital uses 1e0,eo0 gal
Ions of water, sterilized by electrically
generated ozone each day. Instruments
and bandages are also sterilized by the
same method.
In Connecticut town the main indus
Try OF which IS the manufacture OF