The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-18
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.

Sweden for sipnning yarn from paper.
 Fifty thousand tons of soot are talk en from London's chimneys every
 Berlin's fifth International dental congress will be held the coming week.
 Muscles to the number of 4O61 have been counted in the body of a single moth.
 A loaf of bread will keep much longer if placed in covered stone crock than in a tin box.
 Despite the advance of steam, there in use in. the world.
 Lake Superior. the largest body of fresh water in the world, is about equal to Ireland in area. Gun barrels can be Drowned by rub ping them with beeswax and turpen- tine on a flannel cloth while warm.
 Following an American example, English specialists have organized an Illuminating engineering society.
 China's postal routes cover Ss,00o miles and there are 3493 postoffices, as compared to 176 in 1901
 Equal parts of turpentine and kero- effective and chaep furniture polish. The Austrian Government owns about Il, 1S5 miles, or more than two thirds, of the railway lines in the Em- pire.
 The Transvaal has produced over $1. 100. GOO GOO worth of gold since min ing was begun on a serious scale in 1881.
 Ohio is the leading clay-working State. her productsoeach year being about one-fifth of those of the entire country.
 Man is the only animal whose nos- trils open downward. Even in the highest types of apes, the nostrils face <. A novelty for rifle galleries closes a circuit and sends an electrict car around a track every time a bulls eye is hit.
 pat ented into pockets of which balls may be driven by a player in search of accuracy.
 More than ninety per cent. of Amer ican cities with populations of 10000 or over are equipped with electric fire alarm systems.
 A very useful litle hand wise can be made by inserting a bolt with a wing nut through the. center hole of a fast joint hinge. S.0
 A Swedish engineer plans to tunnel an arm of the Baltic so as to connect Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden, ten miles distant
 A recent invention supplies compress sed air to musical instruments in such a manner that their tones are enrich ed and strengthened
 A rubber handhold which may be clamped to bathtub rim has been ~ vent awkward and painful falls. The addition of a pound of alum and four ounces of arsenic to every 20 pounds of copper while the latter is being melted will harden it.
 Sandals and a saddle, thickly stud ded with sharp steel points. are a new convenience for persons working on roofs and other sloping surfaces
 The equipment of a new passenger steamer operating between European ports and the Orient. includes com plete laundry, operated by electricity.
 A Hungarian engineer has patented a device for registering letters which affixes the proper stamp and gives
 Probably the most notherly wireless telegraph plant in the world will be the one shortly to be established by an American coal company at Spitz-
 Seventy-ffve per cent. of the hay crop of the United States, emitting al- falfa, clover and grain cut green for the purpose, is produced by ten States.
 A breastplate to be strapped to a person has been placed on the market to carry umbrellas for letter-carriers and others whose hands must be free.
 A paste that will polish most metals without scatchfng is made of pumice stone, 50 parts; paraffin 80 parts; ker- osene. Is pars; banana oil 5 parts
 The United States has a greater supply of gold money than any other nation, with Germany, France, Rus sia and Great Britain following in the order named
 What is expected to be the finest institution of the kind in Europe is the s4,0 900, 900 insane asylum being constructed by the Bohemian Govern ment at Prague.
 Resembling the brims of the hats now in vogue is @ shampoo shield in- vented by a New Yorker to prevent in the hands of barber
 What was planned to be the most powerful locomotive ever built prov ed to be too heavy to pull a load when given a trial by the Canadian Pacific Railroad at Montreal Photographic films frequently are injured by the electricity generated by the friction of the cGluloid which forms their bases and the paper which surrounds them- tsss A revolving fan attachment. for, a rocking chair provides a current of cool air for the occupant of the chair with no more exertion than is re- Quired to rock the chair. A special socket containing a rheo- stat has been put on the market for electric lamps by which their brilli- ancy can be regulated by three de grees or netirely cut off. A Government bureau is trying tc rid some of the Southern rivers o1 the troublesome water hyacinths by spraying them with mixture of white arAenic. sal soda and water. Photographs used by the army wfl be tried out by the Forest Servict for reporting fires or transmitting other messages over areas where thers Is no quick methods of communica ton.
 A resident of New Jersey has beer granted a patent on a sanitary mouth piece for public drinking cups o1 glasses, consisting of spring clir holding a piece of paper over the rim that touches the lips
 The latest official calculation of the | area of the United States by Govern ment experts places it at 3,743, ,344 square miles or 3036,7 square miles exclusive of Alaska, the Canal Zone and island possessions. 1 To aid miners to crawl around slip pery places in safety. an inventive genius has patented a knee pad, con- sisting of a concave piece Of steel with two sharp points turned out ward. to be clamped to the wearer's leg.
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