The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-17

Ten thousand gross Of steel pens may
De made from ton of the metal
A works at Hyogo has just completed
Japan ~ -
An electric light socket that locks with
KEY mas been devised to prevent theft
OF bulbs
A long series Of experiments has DEM
onstrsted that hollow copper rods make
the best lightning rods
Inc second white rhinoceros ever cap
tured alive in Africa has beer brought to
museum near Brussels
The chief ingredient in a new secret
preparation for filling life preservers is
said TO be common SCOT
A new musical instrument known as
sile 9oleette, IS harp played by a key
BOARD similar tc that Of a piano.
Although much gold. copper and lead is
produced in the Philippines there is but
one notable deposit Of silver
santos Dumont's newest flying machine
= 50 hgnt and compact that he carries
II about with him in his automobile
An experiment station to investigate the
resources or Guam will be established
shere 6y the department Of agriculture.
railing to produce any suitable build
ing lumber herself Cuba imports 10000
% feet of yellow and white pine a year
Inc latest Partisan novelty in watches
Is one set in a ring to be worn on the
glove.
Figures gathered by the government
snow that the average American con-
suInes half his weight, OF SIC pounds of
sugar year.
An electric attachment for rural free
delivery boxes rings a bell in the owner :
house when mail is deposited in the box
Experts in the federal bureau Of ento-
mology have stated that more than % per
cent Of the flies Of a city are bred in sta
bles
The Dutch will celebrate the centenary
of the re-establishment of national indie
q -.~Tf fa4 II at 70 2 rrrfF
in 1915
A savings bank with a clock attached.
which cannot be wound unless a coin be
dropped in the slot in the bank. has ap-
peared in the stores
Detroits medicine factories last wear
produced enough pills to gir6le the earth
three times. If placed together IN a single
line
over 10000 pounds OF peppermint oil
are prepared annually from the product
of the peppermint farms in the vicinity
of Kalamazoo. Mich.
A German gunsmith has patented al
expanding bullet adapted to the destruc-
ton Of dirigible balloons. which may be
fired from an ordinary rifle.
Though apples in storage remain sound
ana firm, they lose more than 3 per cent
of weight each six months by respiration
of carbon dioxide.
A gold mine has been discovered In the
old Chilean gold field from which has
been taken ore containing more than 200
ounces of pure gold to the ton.
The wireless telegraphy plant which Is
nearing completion near Newport. r. L..
at a cost Of $4,000. will have a radius Of
action of 1,250 miles.
knife, the blade Of which curves to
one side at the end and is cut into prongs
to form a fork, has been invented for the
use Of one-armed persons.
The navy department maintains two
schools for the instruction Of its enlisted
electricians. at the navy yards at Mare
Island. Cal. and Brooklyn. n. Y.
As squeaky floors are due to the ends
or sides of boards rubbing together, they
can be cured by separating the boards by
driving screws between them.
A Paris physician successfully produces
artificial sleep by an Intermittent electric
current OF low voltage. the circuit being
interrupted one hundred times each sec
ond.
Japan exported isinglass worth sl52. O63
TO the United States the first eight months
in 1908. nearly seven times as much as in
the corresponding period in 1907.
A patent has been granted on a pool
table in which all the balls roll into re-
ceptaole at one end. from which they are
released only when coin is dropped into
a slot.
More than one-third of the persons ad-
nlitted to the Pennsylvania institution for
the blind in the last eight years owe their
affliction to neglect soon after their
birth.
Memphis board of health will deliver
lectures on tuberculosis. telling how to
avoid it and how to combat it if con-
tracted by means of monographs on
street corners.
The addition of a teaspoonfui of salt
peter 10 a pot of glue will deodorize it
and at the same time help the glue to dry
faster and become harder without impair
ing its strength.
A new machine in a large eastern sew