The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-13
NEWEST NOTES
 OF SCIENCE

l OE OO1GN OEk 1 Plant life seldom thrives under ash 1 or yew trees.
 | Japan'S average death rate is be-
 tween 17 and IS per 1000. l More than a score of varieties of 1 rubber trees are grown in Liberia. l Three score languages are spoken by
 the natives of the Empire of the Czar. In France alone rats and mice dam age property worth $40,000,000 every l year.
 There are over 22s,OOO students in Europe's 125 universities, nearly 5000 of 1 them women.
 1 Claus Spreckles, the sugar magnate who died in San Francisco recently, 1 was the inventor of cube sugar. l A Stockholm inventor claims to have l devised a method of transmitting pie lures by ordinary telegraph appara- | tus.
 l Egg shells are being used in Ger many as incandescent gas nantles, giving clear light and proving very durable.
 The proposal to hold an international arepolane competition in Russia this year has been abandoned for lack of | funds.
 l The British Ornithological Society will send an expedition to explore the l little known mountains of Dutch New 1 Guinea.
 A single electric lamp, containing 50 pairs Of cartons. will be used on top of railroad terminal at Jersey City, N. J.
 A machine that cleans old bricks of their mortar automa tically is a recent invention in the line of labor saving devices.
 The pressure of water is we'll illus frat to1 tLo fc hot ,o Icyh+ ticle as cork will not rise if submerged twenty feet.
 The River Elbe is being tunnelled at Hamburg at a cost of $2000,0 900 to facil- itate travel between the two sections of the city.
 The largest pulley block in the worlc recently was completed at Belfast, Maine It is a four-shive affair, weighing $40 pounds
 Brazil has granted a concession to a German company for telegraph ca ble to Europe and South Africa by way of Teneriffe 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 Finland is natural barometer. It is white in clear weather. but darkens on the approach of 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 entomologist has figured out that, to make a pound of clover honey, a bee must make 3,750,000 trips between the blossoms and the hive.
 An extensive deposit of coal on the island of SpitZbergen, which lies with in the Arctic Circle, is being developed with American capital |
 Aluminium is now being rolled thin ner than tinfoil, which it is expected to replace by reason of its being both lighter and cheaper to manufacture.
 Milk may be kept fresh for month by adding to it at a temperature of 124 F. 1.S per cent. by volume of a 8 per cent. solution of hydrogen perox- idle.
 To construct an egg, a hen gathers and combines approximately $50 grains of water, 120 of fat, 103 of lime, 80 of albumen, 26 of sugar and ten of ash.
 The former homestead of Alexander Graham Bell, at Brantford, Ont, will be acquired as a public park, in which will be erected a, $25,000 memorial monument
 Mining has been followed in the Brit ish Islands for more than 1000 years, the English coal mines of today repre- senting the highest development. of that industry.
 claim to have successfully replaced an injured knee with one taken from an- other man who had died as the result of an accident.
 The Japanese Government is waging a successful war on rats by paying for every dead one brought in, and giving each rat slayer a ticket to a lottery with valuable prizes.
 To secure a perfect balance, a new reflecting telescope of large size at Harvard University Observatory has been mounted upon a float in a tank of water instead of upon a pedestal.
 A dredge that is being built for use about the docks in the river Mersey, l will have two suction pumps, each 42 inches in diameter, which will be able to work at depths of 70 feet
 A French scientist has made the dis quieting discovery that disease germs can be transmitted by bread-makers through their product, the heat of bak- ing being insufficient to kill them.
 The United States mined almost ex- actly one-third of the lead produced in the world in 1907. Spain, it's nearest rival, produced 1S.7 per cent. of the total, and Germany 14.5 per cent.
 By means of extremely delicate in- struments it is possible to measure the heat transmitted to the earth by theI moon or the temperature of the body of a fly walking over the instru- ments.
 Chicago's coroner is arranging to use the photograph to take the last de- nials or confessions of condemned mur- derers and the dying statements of victims of foul play for use as evidence in court.