The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-14
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE


Genuine Morocco, leather is made of
SEASONS, tanned with pure sumach.
Rdoium is contained in greater or less
amount IN every sort Of igneous rock.
| N each - lunar months there are s
| SClpSes OF the moon and Al Of the sun
zoe NE OF a silver dollar in constant
| circulation is only four OF FIVE years.
II requires about 10000 lemons to make
s one pipe, about 81 pounds Of citrate OF
Under average forest conditions it takes
ns5 man 40 years to grow thirty-foot
Seven hundred billion matches year. it
/ mas been estimated are consumed by
/ american smokers
A new English steam launch. though 70
-sss long, draws but - inches when car
Tying tsn-ton load
DuTlng 1905 topOsraphers of the geologi-
al survey mapped 1884 square miles In
tn1llrty-two states and territories.
crest fires last year depleted the for
ests OF the country 10 a greater extent
1hah numbering operations
a state law in Victoria requires that
seventy cubic feet Of air per minute be
supplied to each work. in a mine
Inc distribution Of hot springs in the
United states comedies very closely with
that or the mountain uplifts.
according to a Cornell university pro-
Iessor. insect pests cost the farmers Of
me country over 800. O0o 600 per year.
A German physician declares that red
haTeG persons are more susceptible to
consumption than those with darker hair.
Halt OF Colombis's miners are women.
working in the hydraulic operations up to
tnslr waists in water beside the men.
government experts estimate that the
mississippi river carries of ons-tenth Of
the total rainfall OF the United States.
Two Wisconsin men have been granted
patent on device to be attached to a
laws.
Since gold was discovered in the Klo1-
dlke, about a decade ago. sl25Ooo,0o worth
OF the precious metal has been taken out
The worlds entire supply OF the oil of
bergamot comes from a small section Of
Calaoria, fronting on the Straits OF Mes
Eina
A new electrical machine in the treasury
at Washington counts 900 coins OF any
denomination minute and packs them IN
Rich diamond fields recently were dis
covered in German South Africa. bearing
gems less than foot from the surface of
the ground
The nations supply Of stone suitable for
the manufacture Of cement and concrete
mixtures Is regarded as practically mex
haustible.
Nine-tenths Of human energy expended
in muscular movement goes out as neat
but One-tenth being utilized mechanically |
as work done.
box IS lifted and dumped by the same
motor that drives the vehicle. are being /
tried out In Berlin.
II has been estimated that II the flea 1
obliged to stop between jumps he could /
cover ten miles in a minute
Inc second largest masonry arch IN /
Austrian railroad Is rs feet S inches 1
long and has a rise Of IS feet.
During severe storm at Hackettstown. 4
\. J., lightning struck the street light /
ing system. passing through thirty-thTee /
tungsten lamps, without burning them
out.
New York electric light company Is
using a rotary pump, mounted on the rear
OF an automobile and driven by its fly
wheel, to pump out flooded manholes.
IN training its cavalry recruits, the Ger
man army Is making use Of a machine,
driven BY electricity, in which all the
movements Of horses are simulated.
A recently invented life-saving raft for
use on Paris lakes frecuented by skaters
IS supported by small balloons. so it will
rot sink should the ice break.
For some unexplained reason 60-inch
have proved unsatisfactory !
in the navy and they have been aban-
doned in favor of the 20 and S6-inch
ones.
Incsndeseent lamps can be colored BY
dipping them in a solution OF white shell h
lac and denatured alcohol. 10 which has /,
been added aniiine dye Of the desired
hue.
The largest room under a single roof II
in the world is the passenger conccurse
Of the new Union station at Washing II
ton. having an area OF 96 800 square feet II
whalebone locked up in a single Massa-
chTsetts storehouse, held for the better
prices which are expected in the near fu-
ture. II
The town Of St Adams. near London.
uses no fuel except the towns refuse in
It's municipal electric plant, which con-
tainS four 15-kilOWatt direct current gene
ratcrs.
Tur gsten electric lamps are more Ell
ficient than those with carbon filaments
for the reason that they can be operated
at higher temperature, producing great
er brilliancy.
a government geologist has estimated
the free water in the earth's crust as
equal to sheet over the entire surface
about 80 feet deep, or about 81 that con-
Lsined in the oceans.
In new musical instrument, an Austrf-
an invention, the pressure of piano keys
brings strings into contact with a re-
volving band, producing music very much
Ike that Of a violin.
Artificial grindstones. made Of equal
parts OF Portland cement and quartz
sand, have been satisfactorily used for
1 year in Wisconsin and Ontario glass
works for grinding glass.
The aborigines OF Australia Of whom
about 1000 remain, are apt students of
reading and writing in English, but ap-
parently cannot be taught even the sim
Dlest forms Of mathematics.
Teak wood is given its extraordinary
durability by barking the trees two years
before they are cut. causing the oil to