The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-31
NEWEST NOTES or SCIENCE.

tices are grown IN Liberia.
Three score languages are spoken by the
natives Of the empire Of the czar.
In France alone rats and mice damage
/ property worth $40 .00o. 90 every year.
There are over S.eoo students in Eu-
ropes Is universities. nearly 1890 Of them
women
Claus spreekles. the sugar magnate. who
died in san Francisco recently. vas the
inventor Of cube sugar.
/ A Stockholm inventor claims to have de-
Vlsed a method Of Transmitting pictures
| BY ordinary telegraph apparatus.
Egg shells are being used In Germany
as ncandescent gas nantes. giving a
clear light and proving very durable.
The proposal 70 hold an international
deFopiane competition in Russia this year
/ has been abandoned for lack of funds.
The British Ornitholcgical society will
send an expedition TO explore the little
known mountains OF Dutch New Guinea.
machine that cleans old bricks Of
/ their mortar automatically is a recent in
vices.
The pressure Of water Is well illustrated
[ by the fact that so light an article as
/ cork viii not rise il submerged twenty
/ feet.
The river EIbe is being tunneled at Ham
burg at a cost OF & 900 to facilitate
travel between the two sections Of the
1 city.
recently was completed at Belfast. Maine.
It is four shive affair, Weighing $40
pounds.
Brazil has granted a concession TO a
| German company for a telegraph cable TO
Europe and South Africa by way of Ten
eriffe island.
There are at least three species Of dogs
which DO not bark-the Egyptian sheep
/ dog, the Australian dog and the lion
headed" dog Of Tibet
| A peculiar kind Of stone found in Fin
/ land is natural barometer It is white
in clear weather, but darkens on the ap-
/ proach Of a storm.
| An arsenic smelter at Everett. Wash,
/ makes enough of the poison each week TO
/ Kill every man. woman and child in the
western hemisphere.
An entOmoIogist has figured out that.
/ 70 make pound OF clover honey. bee
must make $4,000 trips between the bios
some and the hive.
/ An extensive deposit Of coal on the ISL
/ and of SpitzbeTger, which lies within the
Arctic circle. Is being developed with
American capital
Aluminium is now being rolled thinner
/ than tinfOil, which it is expected to re-
place by reason of its being lighter and
/ cheaper to manufacture
MIX may be kept fresh for a month by
| adding to it at temperature Of ia +. i-3
l per cent by volume Of a per cent solu-
/ ton Of hydrogen peroxide
! To construct an egg a hen gathers and
| combines approximately go grains of wa
/ ter, 10 Of fat, 100 of lime. 50 OF albUmsn,
IS OF sugar and 10 OF ash.
/ 4 ne former homestead OF AteAdHGtT
Graham Bell at Brantford. Ont. will be
! acquired as a public park, in which will
be erected a $500 memorial monument.
! Mining has been followed in the British
islands for more than 209G years, the Eng
/ fish coal mines Of today representing the
I highest development in that industry
/ Surgeons of the Rockefeller institute
claim to have successfully replaced an
! injured knee with one taken from another
man who died as a result Of an accident.
/ The japanese government IS waging
! successful war on rats by paying for every
| dead one brought in. and given each rat
! slayer a ticket TO lottery with valuable
| prizes.
To secure a perfect balance. a new re-
/ Hecting telescope Of large size at Harvard
( university observatory has been mounted
4 upon a feat in a tank Of water instead Of
/ upon a pedestal
| A dredge that is being built for use about
1 the docks in the river Mersey viii have
I two suction pumps. each forty-two inches
| in diameter. which viii be able to work al
depths of seventy feet.
! A French scientist has mac the dis
| quoting discovery that disease germs can
| be transmitted by breadmskers through
! their product the heat OF baking being in
/ sufficient to kill them
/ The United States mined almost exactly
one-thirrd Of the lead produced in the
world in 1907. Spain. its nearest rival,
! produced 49, per cent of the total, and
! Germany AS per cent
| BY means OF extremely delicate instru-
! TflElltS II i AfU-SlIit 10 measure TIE neat
| transmitted to the earth by the moon or
| the temperature Of the body of fly walk
ing over the instruments.
| Chicago's coroner Is arranging to use the
! monograph to take the last dsnials OF
confessions Of condemned murderers and
! the dying statements Of victims OF foul
play for use as evidence in court
! The British navy includes Is armored
! ships exceeding 3 knots in speed, in adj
| dition TO IS unarmOred ones Three Of the
/ former are rated at better than a knots,
and three Of the latter at .
| A st0pe drill Of American manufacture
recently won the prize offered by the
johannesburg chamber Of mines for the
best all-around invention for use IN min
ing. II is said to save the labor Of four
men.
The blue paper upon which ''magicians''
write in white with a steel pen dipped in
/ water is prepared by rubbing il with finely
powdered persulphate Of iron and feTro-
cyanide Of potassium
| A popularity Of the devil fish is that it
Goes not lay thousands or millions OF eggs
at a time. but normally produces a single
young one at birth and nouTishes il in
| the fashion Of mammals.
In the interest Of economy. a new six
Il cylinder gas engine Is so constructed that
two, four or six cylinders are automatic
ally thrown into service OF discontinued as
the load increases OF dimi1ishes.
\ long series Of experiments has demon
strated that the air of cities is more hu-
mid than that of surrounding suburbs, de
I spite Lre FdcN Ln1t IifE neat OF Alit AtEnftT
would be supposed to dry the atmosphere
At the home of Torrieelli. the inventor
4 Of the barometer, in Italy a novel monu-
ment has been erected in the form Of a
huge barometer. In which a column Of
olive oil normally stands at a height Of
thirty-seven feet
A clock may be thoroughly cleaned
without taking apart BY laying on its floor
I a piece Of cotton saturated with kerosene,
the fumes Of which within three or four
days viii loosen the dust and lubricate
the bearings
An egg-beater. which can also be used
as an ice cream freezer and a churn, mas
been patented. To the lower end Of the
dasher Il attached perforated tin cone
Through the holes Of which the matter TO
De beaten il forced
! A permanent national exposition at Mad
rid. for the pTon3itiOl Of which an organ
izstion has been formed in Spain, will
have for one Of its chief objects the stiHu-
lation of scientific methods in agriculture
and manufacturing
On the basis Of a bushel of corn produc-
ing % gallons OF alcohol. it has been fig
ured out that last years corn crop in the
United States was sufficient 20 furnish
100000 horsepower for ten hours a day
for the entire year.
| Louisiana is estimated to waste 500 90
cubic feet Of natural gas daily. more than