The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-27
NEWEST NOTES
Of SCIENCE

There are ten medical colleges in
Japan.
Ammonia is an effectual stimulant for
falling hair.
The foreign population of China is
estimated at 10000.
Nearly 200 POUNDS OF salt can be
evaporated from a ton of Dead sea
water.
, Michigan leads the states in the salt
industry, with New York close sec.
ond.
The United States uses nearly one.
third Of the world IS production of cocoa
each year.
Venezuela IS government cigarette
monopoly has been abolished by execu-
tive decree.
The electrical equipment of modern
first class battleship entails an expense
of 100000
1t costs about So 100000 to lay a
modern telegraph cable across the At
lantic ocean.
Australia produced 3,0S0,535 fine
ounces of gold last year and New Zea-
land 471,790.
Tobacco is almost the only agricul-
tural product, fruits excepted, exported
from Paraguay.
Extensive deposits of abestos of good
quality have been discovered in India
and Afghanistan.
The geological survey estimates
Maryland s store of unmined coal at
7,716,000,000 tons.
The diminutive hog fish, swimming
down a cod s throat, kills its host and
eats its way out.
India is expected to export 1900, 900
tons of linseed this year, 100000 tons
more than last year.
The government of Uruguay is about
to establish its first wireless telegraph
station at Lobes island.
According to an English Orientalist,
the taxicab was known to the Chinese
at least 1900 years ago.
For privacy while telephoning there
has been put on the market desk booth
which just fits the face.
Because of the high rate of infant
mortality, Calcutta has appointed wo-
man as sanitary inspector
Almost every serious epidemic Of
: cholera in the history of the world has
travelled from east to west.
A recently opened section of the
Picking Kalgan railway in China rises
1900 feet in the first 10 miles.
Over 1850 miles of new electrical rail
roads were built in the United States,
Canada and Mexico last year.
During 1908, 75s,s12 Russian settlers
migrated to Siberia, of whom, for va
rious reasons, 121, 204 returned.
Work has began at Cleveland on a
bridge which will have the longest con-
crete span in the world, $50 feet.
A patent has beea granted upon a
solder for joining aluminium, consisting
of tin, zinc, antimony and phosphorus.
Peroxide or hydrogen will strengthen
the background color of blue prints that
have faded through exposure to sun
light.
spring clips, have been invented for the
use of horses on marshes or other soft
ground.
By placing the stems of cut flowers
in a weak solution of sal ammonia they
may be kept fresh from fifteen to thlr'
ty days.
There is more steel in the hull alone
of the newest American battleship than
in an entire vessel of the cruiser Brook
Ign type.
frances cider. crop last year totaled
445, 750,932 gallons, as against 72,S05,-
600 gallons in 1907 and 574, $4,000 gal
Ions in 1906.
The Nile flood of 1908 was the high
est since 1898, reaching height of BOG
feet above sea level al the Assouan dam
in September.
The term ''acre-foot,' used in min
ing is that volume of water which GOV
ers an acre to the depth of foot, 43,
$50 cubic feet.
The Lake Shore Railroad is expert
menting with dispatching fast trains
between Buffalo and Chicago with wire
less telegraphy.
Cream is separated from milk in a
new machine which alternately subjects
the milk to positive and negative elee
trical currents.
New York has about 10000 passenger
elevators and about 10000 for freight
service, 5000 of the former being in
office buildings.
A three-cornered drill that cuts