The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-10

, fusfble than the metal itself and passing
away. Iaves a fresh surface TO be acted
a cash prize amounting 90 5000 has
I been Offered FOR the first ki1e Of French
I construction which viii lift a man 90
metres and keep him suspended n the air
siinperv streets in MadgeburE are made
safe By the use Of wagon that sprays
orer their surface sand or fine gravel.
much as the streets OF American toWns
are sprinkled with water
The British army sn February viii hold
a competition for mOtor-driven tractors
capable Of drawing eight-ton loads. and
will buT the winner II u proves sullaoie
for military work.
is considering a bil fer the creation of q
common wealth bureau OF asIlcaitlFe- 4 ne
various state bureaus viii be continued as
HoT restaurant use an automatic sauce
nan has been invented which al the end OF
a given time pours the contents on plate
and turns off the eiectEic current winch
does the cooking
a written language. invented by 4 ma
tive OF the west coast or Africa ASSISTED
bv five friends is said TO be successfully
competing with EngtisH IN that portion o.
the dark continent
A preliminary estimate by the depart
ment OF agriculture Of the countrT's pro-
auction OF tobacco in 1905 places the crop
at 60 s34 90 pounds decrease OF nearly
70 per cent since 1917
The largest three pumps Of their type
in the world are being built for Balti-
more sewerage system. Each viii have a
capacity Of I-5eosWo gallons every twenty
four hours against head OF seventy-two
feet.
Having made paper from oornstalks. the
laboratory OF the forest service is expert
menting with rice straw OF which nun
dreds Of thousands Of tons are wasted in
the Tinted States each wear
The volcancir0s OF Colombia. tracts OF
land whence exude oil and natural gas
from many openings are 70 be developed
for the OF BY an American company.
which already has its machinery on the
ground.
A professor Of the University Of Berlin.
who is lecturing IN this country. believes
that the Alps have been moved twenty
miles south from their original location
and carved into their present form by
glacial action.
Three surgeons. assisted by half dozen
attendants. recently removed q twenty
ffve-pound tumor from = uOuess in the
Cincinnati geological gardens. one Of the
rarest operations in the history OF vet
Urinary science.
Mrs. Catharine Green Of Rhode Island
widow OF General Nathaniel Green OF
revolutionary fame, is said TO have in
vented the cotton gin, but 10 have allowed
Eli Whitney TO take out the patent,
through modesty.
piling sunk in the Rideau river and lakes
in Canada eighty years ago. when lum-
beTing operations in that vicinity were be
ginning, viii be raised and converted into
paper pulp
Tests by German psychologists have
demonstrated that when a person is de
prived Of sleep IT is the brain that suffers
most, while when the body is deprived of
food the brain holds its own the longest
Of all the organs
Experiments with the new army rifle
show that the erosion with nitroglycerine
powder is three OF four times as rapid as
with nitrOceliulose powder. nOtwithstand-
ing the fact that the charge Of the former
powder is much less.
The geological survey has formally de-
MED the statement going the rounds that
its experts had decided that one-f fourth
Of Alaska was 2 coal field. The latest
official estimate is that theer are about
1890 square miles Of coal areas in that
country.
A Danish inventor has brought out q
wireless teleEraphy outfit which uses a
machine like typewriter for sending and
which receives on a machine that writes
the message.