The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-17
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

1 ing machine factory takes IN a sheet of
metal at one end and. after twenty-eight
operations, elects finished ped plates saw
ing the work Of thirty men
Excuses IN the use of alcohol dancing
and autOmobiling are declared 70 aid IN
the. breeding Of tuberculosis germs IN
man BY State Health commissioner DIXON
of Pennsylvania
s,,lnFfde pitch obtained in the process
Of manufacturing sulphide ceilulose. IS
proving a successful binder In me making
OF coal briquets in the Rhenish Westpha-
4 church organ with bamboo pipes. built
nv a priest near Manila in 1898, still is in
daily use the bamboo having been pre-
served by a process the secret of which
died with the priest
/ A solution of four ounces each OF hypo-
suPphite of soda and sugar of lead to a
gallon of water used boiling hot, viii i'm
part blue color. similar TO mat OF piueu
steel to most metals
A 1 ondon medical authority gives the
credit for the decrease in the death rate
of that CITY to the fumes of gasoline from
automobiles which he says. are anusepuc
and act as a health tonic.
A Glasgow ferryboat practically is a
floating elevator. as its deck, with tuil
load of sixteen wagons, may De raised OF
lowered seventeen feet to reach the dill
ferent landings at which the boat touches
There is nearing completion for the gov
eminent at Newport News Va, vessel,
the sole purpose Of which viii be to de-
stroy dereliets and other menaces TO nav
igation along the Atlantic coast
Apparatus for the inhalation Of oxygen
will play an important part in the equip
ment of the aerOnaut whom the Aero cluD
of France plans to send in a balloon to a
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 forty-three and
half miles hour. Though only an
!. SOO-ton vessel. 1t cost 81, 81, 40 to build
and equip her.
German cities are experimenting with
roads built OF crushed basaitic rocks,
mixed with a small proportion Of cement.
They are said to be equally durable with
concrete or granite roads and much less
costly.
The 100 SQUARE miles Of phosphate lands
in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, recently
withdrawn from entry by the president :
order, are said TO constitute the greatest
known deposit Of phosphate rock in the
world.
Chinese incense includes the following
ingredients: Elm bark, cloves. olibanUs,
putchuck, sandalwOod dust. CARGO, laka,
aniseed. muck. orange peel, galango, gin
ger. sapanwood, rhubarb, myrhh, cassia
and camphor.
Experiments in Sweden with using
buoys lighted with dissolved acetylene,
stored in steel tanks, have proved a great
success. the lights being both brilliant and
constant. and needing no attention for
months at a time
Thirty-five men are kept constantly en-
ployed cleaning and painting the great
Forth bridge in Scotland. which presents
twenty-five acres of surface to the &C
ton of the elements. Two hundred and
fifty tons of paint are required to cover
From present indications the projected
all Russian railroad through Eastern 81
btia will not be opened for traffic before
1912 II will tap five cities on the way
east from Moscow and develop vast tracts
Of agricultural land
According to a French authority. 20 per
cent of the cannibals eat their dead to
honor them, 10 per cent eat their warri-
ors TO obtain their courage, p eat human
flesh to punish their enemies, and only g
per cent because they enjoy its flavor.
A German army physician, who has been
experimenting with balloons, denies the
often repeated statement that germs do
not exist in the upper atmosphere and
terra at elevations of more than 1900 feet.
DR.. G. A. Dorsey of Chicago who re-
Gently returned from a trip through the
Orient. found in one Of the Solomon is
lands a tribe of hitherto unknown natives
so uncivilized that they wear no clothing
and live in hollow tree trunks and holes
in the ground.
An examination Of nearly 1000 pupils in
London's elementary schools showed 1.3
per cent more or less seriously afflicted
with pulmonary tuberculosis. Should this
percentage be carried out through all the
schools. London has over 1000 tuberculo-
sis children.
The Bavarian government has discon-
tinued the construction Of self-contained
motor cars on its stage railroads and is
building instead light but powerful four
wheeled locomotives to haul single cars
to obyiate the difficulty of the entire car
being idle when its motor needs repair.