The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-28
microscope scrapings from his own

microscope scrapings from his own
 teeth.
 Horns with adjustable bells which
 control the volume of sound and throw 1t in any desired direction are a novel,
 ty in the musical instrument line. i Experiments are under way in GOr-
 many with more than 30 different p,o-
 cesses for removing iron from dril k
 ing water. most of them forms of
 filtration.
 ] The recent discovery by a French chemist of simplified method of wood
 distillatfon. it is said. will greatly
 cheapen the production of nacetone. ] Government prospector who was
 searching for coal in the south of India discovered valuable deposlt of tansa- lite. the first found in that country. : The brown coal of the Australian state of Victoria has been found to be rich in ammonia susphates and to be well adapted to making producer gas 1 Magnesium is now being employed as ! a deOxidiZer in brass manufacture having that advantage over phosphor- us that an excess may be used with out harm.
 | Steam trawlers. similar to those used ] in the northern waters of Europe. are to be introduced in the fishing indus try of the coast of British Columbia In the centers of population alone rate damage property worth $20 000 10( year in the United States. according to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. The serri-centennial of the estab- lishment of the Kingdom of Italy will ! be celebrated at Turin in 1911 with an international exposition of industries 1 and labor. N
 A deposit of strontium near Bristol, England. has become the chief source of the worlds supply of that material i so largely used to impart a red color 1 to pyrotechnics.
 1 Sir Oliver Lodges theory that fo<s l may be dispelled by passing e1ectl ic currents of nigh voltage through the atmosphere is to be tried on an exten- sive scale at London.
 Alter ten years Of unsuccessful test boring oil has been found in immense
 quantities on the island of Sakhalin l ing will soon begin. AS excavations at Herculaneum dc not promise important results. the Italian Archaeological Commission has recommended that the Government continue the work at Pompeii instead 1 Airtight steel cylinders. having a combined lifting force of $50 tons were used to refloat the British cruiser Gladiator. sunk in collision with the | American liner St. Paul.
 l A big fortune awaits the man who redlscovers the lost art of the Sara eehs. who made sword blades so keen mat they could cut in two the best Sheffield blades of the present day. An estimate by the Geological Sur vey places the country's production of Portland cement in 1908 at A O90 COG
 barrels. a decrease from the 1907 out Iput of nearly 20 per cent
 A gun for throwing a life line to a wrecked vessel by the use of air com pressed by hand in an attachment to the gun is recent English invention which has worked we'll in tests. The recipe for Worcester sauce .whie h has made an English firm both wealthy and famous. was a secret in an oAd English family for generations until a butler sold it for a small amount. cotton picking machine on the principle of the vacuum cleaner. it Is claimed gathers 76o pounds of cotton per operator in ten hours at a cost averaging less than three dollars
 Residents of the cork regions of Spain heat the bark in kettles with spouts. through which issues a gas that is used as an illuminant. The re- fuse is sold as the Spanish black" pigment.
 of Bosten's shopping district is the most expensive mile of underground railroad in the world. having cost with eqtaipment. about $10 0O00. .0a0 to build. Chemists in Europe are trying to re- discover the method of dye,ng the col or known as Tyrian purple with secre- tions from certain forms of mollusk The secret was lost in the Middle Ages.
 A patent has been granted in Ger many on a starch. insoluble in hot wa ter and unaffected by strong alkalies, which is useful as a filler in plastic compositions and in the manufacture of paper.
 |. A New York company promises to establish regular airship service be- tween that city and Boston on May 1. Two dirigible balloons. each carrying an oDerator and three passengers. will be used.
 A Government estimate places the worlds production of gold in 1908 at $96. 313.256 as against s90435.7G0 in 1907. South Dakota. Alaska. California and Colorado showing the largest increases.
 Concrete. when brought into contact with water. steadily acquires compact ness and resistant power until 1t at tains it's maximum in those qualities. which it retains indefinitely and with out deterioration.
 There are said to be 137 ingredients in chartreuse. the formula for which, written in a parchment book of more than 100 pages, was carried about in a steel box by French monk until it was sold for $1.s00.0o0.
 A Swedish geologist has explained to his Government the reason for his pre- dfction that all the worlds supply of iron will be exhausted in 50 years Lit tie more than one-tenth of the deposits he says. are in the United States.
 Whttefish fry. matched by the Unit q States hatchery at Kingston. N. r.. when liberated almost. invariably ex- patriate themselves immediately by swimming to their natural feeding grounds along the northern shore of Lake Ontario.
 The possibility of planet outside of the orbit of Neptune. since it's discov- erv in 1847 considered the outermost of the solar system is indicated by cal culations at Harvard Observatory of certain irregularities in Neptune's or bit.
 Although Italy has had much success with some forms of boats made of re- inforced concrete. it's lighters con- structed of that material have failed because of their liability to cracking in the rough service to which they are subjected.
 Almost any desired color is inparted to agate by German lapidaries who warm the dressed stones in a solution of s1ear than caaf them with color