The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-14
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

Individual fleas have been known to l live six years. t | Spain's fastest railroad trains make | only about g miles an hour. i .. Oil was used for illumination more | than 19 centuries before Christ ! There are more than 1000 distinct operations in the assembling of a high grade watch,
 | No one language employs even a majority of the sounds of which the human voice is capable. | According to the estimate of Brown University professor, the world is 72,- Cc0.OO0 years old. Within 13 years every Japanese city of importance has established an cleo | trlc street car line. The value of the known mineral out put of Alaska to date is in the neigh borhood of $148 900, ,O0O An automatic burglar alarm recent ly patented by a Russian army officer fires two hundred shots automaticaI- ly.
 F'ormosa's canphor output last year was more than million pounds be- hind that of the previou year.
 The first international aeroplane race for the Bennett trophy will be held at Rheims, France, in August. Europe has about 107 inhabitants to the square mile. North America about IT, and Australia less than two.
 The Russian Government has for bidden the use of strong narcotics, CO., SdlHS, cIC, ny u0HllSlS III Cn6lr prdC- tice.
 Simple but effective clamps to hold rugs in position polished floors have been patented by two Oklahoma men. The United States consumes over 40 Der cent. of the worlds output of tin, but contributes an almost inappre- ciable amount.
 The wettest known place in the world is Cherrapongee, Southwestern Assam, which has an average rainfall of 61O inches.
 St. Petersburg is to have a modern system of drainage and water supply by compulsory construction under Gov ernment supervision.
 The sensitiveness of photographic films is said to be increased by a pre- linainary exposure, too brief to produce a latent image.
 The electrolisiS of water and gas mains in Boston and vicinity is said to be proceeding at greater rate than ever before known.
 A valuable deposit of tin has been discovered in RhodeSia, at a point which experts declare to be the site of an ancient working.
 The worlds gold production last year was the largest in history, s409, 900 900, against $4OO, GOO, GOO in 1907 and s39O OO0,- 900 in 1eO6.
 Salt is mined in nearly every DOT tion of the German Empire in such quantities that only about two per cent. of the salt consumed is import ed.
 A machine that automatically weighs or measures a medicine and fills eight capsules at the same time taken to fill enc by hand is a recent inven- tion.
 The rebuilding of New York city's Catskill water system will require 5S, C00,0 cubic yards of excavation. 23,- GOO 900 more than the Panama Canal.
 The lowest point of dry land in the United States is in Death Valley, Cal, PTS feet below sea level; the highest, Mt. Whitney, Cal, 1A ,501 feet.
 Inks in which iron is an ingredient keen better if kept in earthen jugs than in glass bottles. as the exposure to light hastens their decomposition.
 For the German army's new gun, designed for use against airships, there has been developed shell that will burst inside a balloon and ignite the gas.
 More than TO tons of human hair, most of it from China. are annually imported into France, where it is made up for use in all parts of the world.
 Of Pennsylvania's 15,0O0, 900 acres of timber, about one-half are in mature trees. one-fourth in second growth, and the remainder in stripped or bush land.