The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-03
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

When a hurricane blows at the rate Of
100 miles an hour the air moves with a
velocity Of $500 feet per minute. or 1856
feet per second. and with q pressure Of
80 200 pounds per square foot.
An association has been formed in Ger
many to establish a national chemical
laboratory. Prussia has rendered a site
free. and the federal government Will be
asked for substantial financial assistance.
An investigation by federal and state
experts, covering three years, has result
ed in a report that Maine possesses i'm
m6nse resources Of peat Of excellent quail
ity for fuel and other purposes.
Careful tests by Canadian government
scientists show that the great Victoria
glacier In Alberta moves about siXty-six
feet a year, the summer movement being
about half again as rapid as the winter.
All clocks in Russian railroad stations
carry four hands, a pair Of black ones to
denote the time by the meridian of st.
Petersburg. the national standard, and
two red ones to mark the local time.
A new English blast furnace for the
manufacture of pig iron is said to utilize
81 per cent of the heat, whereas COM
mon coke crucible furnace employed in
making steel uses but 1.43 per cent.
The tomb and mummies Of Kha. archi-
tect and engineer Of the mighty buildings
al Thebes and Of his wife, recently were
discovered in the Valley of the Queens,
Egypt, by an Italian EgyptOlOgist-
A new insulating material discovered by
an English scientist in a coal tar product,
IS said to be stronger than rubber, to
stand a higher temperature and to be un-
affected by most chemicals.
The first recorded use of the word kero-
sene was in a United States patent issued
in 1850 to a man who claimed to have in
vented and discovered a new liquid hydro
carbon. to which he applied the name.
Because OF its soft character and
straight grain, no good substitute for red
cedar has ever been found for the manu-
facture of lead pencils. 32oo9o.0o0 Of which
are made annually in this country.
French glass workers have succeeded in
making lamp chimneys which viii stand
sudden changes in temperature of great
ma enitude without cracking.
Under the guidance of tho White Cross
society Of Geneva a second congress for
the Repression Of Fraud in the manufac-
ture Of food products VIII be held at Paris
in October
A memorial has been erected in Ken
singtOn cemetery. London. to the memory
Of Admiral Sir Francis I. NcClintock
Arctic explorer and discOverer Of the lost
Franklin expedition
About 900 600 pounds Of aluminium wire
will be used on a 300-miie transmission
line which Will supply various towns in
Ontario with electricity generated by
Niagara Falls.
A solution Of eight ounces each Of sugar
of lead and alum in two and half gal
Ions Of lukewarm water is SAID to rem
der almost any garment waterproof with
out injurng the fabric.
The wilds Of northern Alaska will be
explored during the next two years bv a
partr Of scientists sent out by the Uni
versity Of Chicago and the United States
photographic office
The first scientist tn search for prime
val fossils Of vegetable life in Japan. an
English woman. has returned home with
specimens @hich she asserts are at least
2Cfo DO wears old.
Wax from the carGeliila plant which
grows I'm great abundance ir Mexico. Is
sfid To ho available for candles, varnish.
shoe polish. talking machine records and
as an Insulating material
Tc save wear and tear Of talking ma
chine discs. an Iowa man has patented
a magnet to he placed id such a position
20 take up the particles Of steel ground
off tho point Of the needle.
Cold mining in Georgia. first attempted
by the Spanish explorers. who learned
from the rndiars THAI nuggets were - be
found in the streams. has been carried on
continuously since 1875
An instrument IS being used in South
African mines 20 keep a record on a reel
of pane- OF the trips made by the cages
and Of ;se signals given the engineers.
Chemical analyses Of the bodies Of bac-
teria show that they are made up Of
about 81 per cent water and IS per cent
solids OF the litter more than one-half
! is carbon.