The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-21
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.


The foreign population Of China is es-
timated at 40C00.
Nearly 200 pounds Of salt can be evap-
Grated from d ton Of Dead sea water.
Venezuela's government cigarette mo-
nopoiy has been abolished by executive
( decree.
Tobacco is almost the only agricultural
product. fruits excepted, exported from
/ 4Saraguay-
Because of the high rate of infant NOR
/ tally. Calcutta has appointed a woman as
sanitary inspector.
According to an English orientaiist the
| taxicab was known to the Chinese at least
( 1,609 years ago.
The government Of Uruguay is sboUt
( to establish its first wireless telegraph
station 1T LObes island.
over L250 miles OF new electrical rail-
roads were built in the United States
C;1aca and Mexico last year.
\ patent has been granted upon a solder
for joining aluminium, consisting of tin,
zinc, anthony and phosphorus
by placing the stems OF cut flowers in
a weak solution Of sal ammonia, they
may be kept fresh from fifteen to thirty
days.
Peroxide of hydrogen will strengthen
the background color of blue prints that
have faded through exposure 10 sunlight
Tie Lake Shore railroad is expe Timent-
ing with dispatching fast trains between
Buffa.o and Chicago with wireless teleg-
raphy
cream is separated from milk in a new
machine which alternately subjects the
milk to positive and negative electrical
currents
Melbourne university plans to require
five years of study by a person before
granting him diploma as veterinary
surgeon.
Wooden sandals. to be attached with
spring clips. have been invented for the
use OF horses on marshes or other soft
ground.
Tsr-eoated water pines must be shell
laced before they are painted. or the tar
will make stains that viii show through
the paint
into the trade school at Liege, Bel
GUM. there has been introduced course
in eicarmaking. fostered by government
subsidy.
Chicago's telephone exchanges are the
busiest in the country. with an average
of twenty-five calls on each of the $780,
COO lines each day.
A three-cornered dri1l that cuts square
holes and can be used on a lathe. drill
press or milling machine, is a recent in
velton.
The Nile flood Of 1903 was the highest
since 1883, reaching a height of sos feet
above sea level at the AssoUan dam in
September.
New York has about 10000 passenger
elevators and ABOUT 1900 for freight ser
vice.. 5000 of the former being in office
A new English electric oven can cook
four articles at the same time, yet is so
compact that it IS but 1Sx14x15 inches in
size.
Frances cider crop last year totaled
f45. ,s22 gallons. as against 12.St5.05G gal
Ions III 1897 and 57L63ho00 gallons in 1916.
There is more steel in the huh alone
Of the newest American battieship than
in an entire vessel of the cruiser Brook
Ign type.
a record for long distance direct tele-
gIaphy recently was established between
London and Karachi, India, distance Of
5,5S2 miles.
Under new British law the expression
child refers to person under a years
OF age, while ''yourg person" is over Il
but under 10.
The first class OF Filipino physicians
educated under American rule recently
was gradu ltcd from he Philippine medi-
cal school at Manila.
A process Of butter making by electro
Iytie action on cream has been patented
by two Ohioans. The positive eiectrode
gathers the butter slobules.
Over coo tons of steel recently were
moved in four minutes at Chester, Pa, by
a Chicago engineering form who replaced
an old bridge with new one.
vast prehistoric forest. buried under
400 feet of sand. recently was discovered
by army engineers boring an artesiar
well as Sandy Point, y. J.
The rounding noise of steam pipes can
be obviated By attaching to the pipes a
small check valve, set to admit air, but
not to release any pressure.
If the government permit the construc-
ton of a $a0.0o0.0O0 drainage and power
canal at Buffalo, \. Y, the currents of