The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-14
NEWEST NOTES OF sCIENCr

Al large deposit of manganese ore has
 been discovered in the Australian
 States of Victoria. The lode is about
 miles long by 400 feet wide, and has
 been proved to a. depth of 70 feet. The use of rat skins in various in dustries has created a demand in Lon don alone amounting to nearly $2OO,OOO
 a year. Among other things, they are
 used for the thumbs of womens gloves Carbon dioxide may be liquifed at a pressure of a ton to the square inch. Liberated at a low temperature it crys- talizes into a snow that is said to be cure for certain skin diseases. The prize offered by the University of Jena for the best essay on the con-
 dition of the interior of the earth was awarded to a writer who argued that it's density was about that of steel.
 A French chemist claims to have sue | ceeded in obtaining an oil from the,
 residium left by turpentine manufac- turerS which has the same chemical ural oil.
 More than 30 snow gauging stations have been erected in Colorado by the Weather Bureau with a view to fore casting the amount of water the rivers will receive each year after the snow melts.
 France produced 37622, 55S tons of coal last year, an increase over 1907 of S68,929 tons, and smelted 3,412,393 tons of iron from native ores, a de- crease of 177,S42 tons from the year be- fore.
 In a new type of field gun adopted for the German army, the wheels swing together under the barrel and lock, giving greater stability when fired and furnishing more room for the soldiers handling it.
 To make the gathering of swarm
 of bees less hazardous than usual, an Ohio man has patented a funnel snap ed affair which may be placed about a
 swarm and closed without any of the bees escaping.
 For ten years after he is licensed to practice, a Japanese physician is re- quired to keep books showing the names, ages and addresses of patients, their diseases and the treatment given them
 By administering subcutaneous injec- tions of tuberculin to the monkeys at the Philadelphia Geological Garden, the
 officials have not in IS months lost one from consumption, to which disease
 Simians are much subject. To dry shoes in hotels clubs and oth- CT places where they accumulate in numbers, there has been devised a cyl finder with a gas burner at the base,
 from which radiate a number of tubes
 on which the shoes are hung to re-
 ceive uniform heat.
 Previous to 1875 there was not a CO.,
 coanut tree in Florida. In that year
 some nuts that washed ashore from
 wreck we're planted, with the result
 that the shores of Lake Worth and
 
 itab1e groves.
 Each female oyster lays from 16,
 000, GOO to 60,000, 900 eggs year, of which only about one in each 2,0OO,-
 GOO reaches maturity, according to Dr.
 Charles R. Bacon, president of the Ma tional Association of Shell Fish Com missioners.
 The first person other than a Peru vian to visit ChoQquequirau, the Lost City of the IncaS," in over 400 years, pr. Hiram Bingham, of Yale Univer- sity, recently returned to this country with a glowing account of trip en- compassed by almost insurmountable difficulties.
 With a view to lessening the destruc- ton of crops by locustS this year the Turkish Government required every rural resident of Northern Syria to deliver to a commission at least 55 pounds of eggs deposited by the in sects of last year, and 630,000 pounds of eggs were thus destroyed. xyn,, woht tn feel well 1OOl well