The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-11


 Entomology have stated that more | than 95 per cent. of the flies of a city are bred in stables.
 The Dutch will celebrate the centen- nary of the re-establishment of na- tional independence by a Worlds Fair 1 at The Hague in 1913. A savings bank with clock attach l ed, which cannot be wound unless a coin be dropped in the slot in the bank, has appeared in the stores. l Detroits medicine factories last year produced enough pills to girdle the earth three times, if placed together l in a single line.
 Over So0,00O pounds of peppermint oil are prepared annually from the the vicinity of Kalamazoo, Mich. A German gunsmith has patented an expanding bullet adapted to the de- struction of dirigfble balloons, which may be fired from an ordinary rifle. Though apples in storage remain sound and firm, they lose more than three per cent. of weight each six | idle.
 l A gold mine has been discovered in the old Chilean gold field from which has been taken ore containing more than 200 ounces of pure gold to the 1 ton.
 The wireless te1egraphy plant which | is nearing completion near Newport, R. l., at a. cost of $4o,oOo, Will nave a radius of action of 1,250 miles. A knife, the blade of which curves | to one side at the end and is cut into prongs to form a fork, has been tI1- vented for the use of orle-armed per- sons.
 The Navy Department maintains two schools for the instruction of it's en- AA YT7S at Mare Island, Cal, and Brooklyn, N. '.
 As squeaky floors are due to the ends | or sides of boards rubbing together, they can be cured by separating the l boards by driving screws between | them.
 A Paris physician successfully pro- duces artificial sleep by an intermit- | tent electric current of low voltage, the circuit being interrupted 100 times each second.
 l Japan exported isinglass worth $152,- 1 063 to the United States the first eight 1 months in 1908, nearly seven times as l much as in the corresponding period | in 1907.
 | A patent has been granted on a pool | table in which all the balls roll into l receptacle at one end, from which | they are released only when a coin is dropped in a slot.
 | More than one-third of the persons admitted to the Pennsylvania 1nstitu- | ton for the Blind in the last eight years owe their affliction to neglect soon after their birth. l Memphis Board of Health will deliver lectures on tuberculosis, telling how l to avoid it and how to combat 1t if contracted, by means of photographs on street corners.
 The adcition of a teaspoonfu1 of saltpeter to a pot of glue will deodor- ize it and at the same time help the glue to dry faster and become harder without impairing it's strength. 1 A new machine in a large Eastern sewing machine factory takes in @ sheet of metal at one end and, after 2S operations, elects finished bed plates, saving the work of 30 men. | Excesses in the use of alcohol, danc- l ing and automobiling are declared to aid in the breeding Of tuberculosis germs in man by State Health Com missioner Dixon of Pennsylvania.
 Sulphide pitch, obtained in the pro- cess of manufacturing su1phide ce1lu- lose, is proving successful binder in the making of coal briquets in the
 Rhenish Westphalian coal field.
 A church organ with bamboo pipes,
 built by a priest near Manila in 1793, still is ir daily use, the bamboo hav-
 
 secret of which died with the priest. A solution of four ounces each of hyrosulphite of soda and sugar of lead to q gallon of water, used boiling hot,
 will impart blue color, similar to that of blued steel, to most metals. | A London medical authority gives the credit for the decrease in the
 death rate of that city to the fumes of gasoline from automo piles, which he says are antiseptic and act as a health tonic.
 A Glasgow ferryboat practically is a floating elevator as it's deck, with a full load of 16 wagons, may be raised or lowered 17 feet to reach the diff ferent landings at which the boat touches.
 There is nearing completion for the Government at Newport News, Va, a
 vessel the sole purpose of which will be to destroy derelicts and other man.
 aces to navigation along the Atlantic coast.
 Apparatus for the inhalation of oxy- gen will play an important part in the equipment of the aeronaut whom the Acre Club of France plans to send in
 a balloon to height of more than six miles.
 That speed at sea is costly is shown in the case of the British destroyer Swift, which holds the record at 431A miles an hour. Though only an 1,800-
 ton vessel, 1t cost $1,251 ,46O to build
 and equip.
 1 German cities are experimenting with roads built of crushed basaltic
 rocks, mixed with 8 small proportion of cement. They are said to be equally durable with concrete or gran ite roads and much less costly.
 The 7,500 square miles of phosphate lands in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, recently withdrawn from entry by the Presidents order, are said to consti-
 tute the greatest known deposit of phosphate rock In the world.
 Chinese incense includes the follow ing ingredients: EIm bark, cloves, oli- banus, I'utChuck, sanda1wood dust,
 garoo, laka, aniseed, muck, orange pee1, galango. ginger, sapanwood, rl1u-
 barb, myrrh, cassia and camphor l Experiments in Sweden with using buoys lighted with dissolved acetylene