The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-04
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.

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 England has over 500 women doc tors, of whom about 200 practice in London.
 Twenty-seven great reclamation pro- jects are now under way in the Uni ted States.
 Gas engines are now in use for au- xiliary purposes on a dozen British pattleships.
 A mixture of 15 parts of formaline, of milk and 65 of water makes an effective fly poison.
 Algeria prohibits the importation of medicines not authorized by the Paris Ecole de Pharmacie.
 The mills of India turned out 656,- S3O,279 pounds of spun yarn during the year ending March 31.
 Alabama produced 11,604,59 short tons of coal last year, 2,645,S61 tons less than the year before.
 The roofs of about 99 out of every 100 buildings in British South Africa are made of corrugated iron.
 The waste in coal mining, according to the Geological Survey, loses for ever one-half as much as is marketed. British Guiana produces over S1,65O,- 900 worth of rice year, r1valllng the | colony's output of gold in value It takes a volume of 400 pages to contain the Geological Surveys pre- liminary report on the mineral re- SourceSs of Alaska. A new swedish dirigible tropedo, operated by electricity, has a range of 5000 yards and a speed of 30 knots at any depth.
 Attendants in a New York Geological Garden successfully filled F cavities | in the teeth of the institution's larg- est crocodile.
 China has taken up the manufacture l of window glass. and the product, which is novelty to the natives, | is becoming popular. A completely-equipp first aid hos pital will be added to every passenger | train operated in Prussia and Hesse | by the Government. | The engineering department of the | University of Michigan plans to add a course in navigation, provided enough interest be shown. The Spanish river Guadalquivir is | being widened and deepened to per init large vessels to reach Seville, 72 | miles from the coast. | An Oklahoma carpenter has been | granted a patent on an oil reservoir to be attached to a saw to slowly lubr1- | cate while in use. Gold, silver and copper have been discovered on the Fiji Islands, where there never has been mining of any | sort on commercial basis. The work of construction on the first | steel plant in the Western Hemis- phere south of Mexico is progressing rapidly at Corral, Chile. A physician connected with a hos' pital at South Bethlehem, Pa, uses his electric automobile to operate K ray apparatus almost every day. A London veterinary hospital has new ambulance for dogs in the form of a kennel, mounted on bicycle wheels and drawn by a motor cycle | A quick-witted amateur photograph | CT in Philadelphia recently snapped an aeronaut as he was falling from his parachute, which had failed to | open.
 | Several electric companies are be- | ing formed in Pennsylvania and other of the more densely populated Eastern l taf farms.
 | Florida produces more phosphate than all the rest of the States put l together, and only recently another extensive deposit, of high grade, was | discovered.
 The amount of petroleum produced in the United States in the last half | century would fill the Panama Canal over.
 The dripping of brine from refri- gerator cars is said to cost one Vest ern railroad s400 per mile per year in damage to steel track and bridge | equipment.
 | The largest electric transmission line in the world is that from Niagara Falls to Syracuse and Auburn, N. Y. miles.
 The Institute of France has award ed the s2OOOO Osiriss prize to Louis Bleriot and Gabriel Voisin for their
  aerial naviga ton.
 An English firm is making salt by l a patented process whereby the brine | is refined before it is crystalized. The product is claimed to be 99.95 per cent. pure.
 Philadelphia's street cars are to- haul
 trailers in the rush hours, the rear cars being controlled by air brakes
 manipulated by the motorman on the
 head cars.
 A gasoline tractor, operated by one
 man and capable of doing the work of six horses is being offered to farm CTS at about the cost of a good pair of horses.
 As rivals to or substitutes for the
 potato, efforts are being made to in-
 troduce the tropical vegetables yau-
 Southern States.
 A canal across Scotland, large enough to accommodate the largest
 warships, is being advocated as
 cost in the neighborhood of s90, GOO, 900.
 There are 132 American educational
 and { charitable institutions in the Turkish Empire and the use of the language is rapidly extending into the
 interior especially in Asia Minor.
 The largest order for radium on re-
 cord recently was placed in England
 It called for about one-quarter of an , Institute, at a cost of about s150,000.
 The, new wireless electric far
 which is driven by a battery enclos-
 ed in it's base, making it independent
 of the usual sources of current, was invented by Philadelphia physician. | Although Alaska covers nearly 6OO,-
 900 square miles there are but little over 300 miles of railroad 45
 miles of wagon road 397 miles of sled
 road and 255 miles of improved trail
 Steel car wheels turned out by g
 Pittsburg company are called noise. lless'' because they will last three and | hal ones, and are guaranteed not to wear
 flat.
 Engineers are figuring on piercing
 Mont Blanc for double track electric
 railroad. The tunnel would be eight
 miles long and would shorten the dis tance between Paris and Genoa over 30 miles.
 A plan for worldwide weather re. !. ports by wireless. to increase the in ; forma tion available for forecaSters g will be discussed at an internationa meeting of meterorologists in Lon don next month.
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