The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-11
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

! vented by a Connecticut man to facilitate
the handling OF hose by firemen.
| The deepest bore ever made into the
| earth's surface for Industrial purposes Is
/ said to be the Buyer oil well at Rom
! champ, France, which reaches a depth Of
/ $50 feet
/ are experimenting with street lighting By
| hanging arches of tungsten lamps across
= the highways from the caves of buildings.
/ "Burglar-proof9 plate glass, made by a
I firm at Rheims, France, Is said 10 have
] withstOOd blows from a steel-shod mallet
I and revolver shots, in tests, without
/ breaking.
/ The Chilean congress has abrogated a
/ contract made by President Montt with a
! French company for harbOr improvements
I at Valparaiso, which were to have cost
/ Si9 $1,000.
The production Of all kinds Of cement
I in the United States last year tOtalled
| 81 775. 925 barrels, worth S44,3l6.656. de-
/ crease in value from 1907 of over S11.500.o00.
/ Experiments have shown that Hertzian
waves viii pass through stone walls more
/ than three feet thick. but VIII be stopped
/ by tin sheets no thicker than cigarette
paper.
Pennsylvania led in the production of
slate last year, followed by vermont,
/ Maine Virginia. New York New Jersey
/ Maryland California and Arkansas, in the
order named
/ To economic time in curing hams,
Minnesota man has patented perforated
tube with a sharp point. which can be in
serted into meat for the Introduction OF
| the picking solution
A few years ago 61OO volts was consld-
cred a maximum tension Tor electrical
[ transmission lines. Now an N.VW-Yoit
1 line is being built. and one designed for
/ 600 volts is planned.
The army is testing q three-inch smell
which has the properties of both solid
I shot and shrannel Behind steel mead
/ is a casing containing 30 bullets and a
charge of high explosive.
/ Promoters of an experimental plant at
[ Vancouver for the electrical distillation
/ Of turpentine from resinOus woods claim
/ the resulting by-prOducts more than pay
/ the cost Of operation.
Electrical incubation, with which eN-
periments are under way I'm Europe, IS
said to produce higher percentage OF
chickens which also are materially
stronger and healthier, than the other
methods.
Opalesce7t glass. for use I'm stained
glass windows, as manufactured IN the
United States. never has been duplicated
i'm any other country. and the expectations
of il to Europe are steadily increasing
The government of Argentina IS plan
ming to spend about $1,000 coo in charging
the port of BuenOs Ayres. ana SlOWU,nO
more on a canal to connect the port with
the River de las Palmas.
The Japanese minister Of COmmunics-
tons is investigating the ACCESSIBILITY OF
transporting mail by automobiles in the
larger cities OF that country and 10 re-
mote regions not yet reached by railroad
Ten grains OF pTussiC acid per quart
have been extracted from water taken
from an Edinburgh gas meter. indicating
that the Illuminating gas Of that city con-
tains an appreciable quantity Of the dead
~ poison.
A resident Of New Jersey has patented
a tapering stilletO on which there is a
sliding gauge to regulate the size Of the
holes It may make to save an embroidery
worker from carrying set OF tools OF
different sizes.
The fixed" stars are changing their po-
sitions at an appreciate rate, according
to astronomers, who say that even the
most familiar consultations have changed
their forms since the time of the ancients
who named them.
A peculiar poison. the use of which IS
attributed to English gypsies, has been
Identified as baTium carbonate, known to
mineralogists as witheTite. Although it
kills domestic animals, It does not render
their flesh unsafe to cat
German railroads are experimenting
with an automatic ticket printing ma
chine. which does away with the neces-
sity for carrying q large stock Of tickets
at each station, the tickets being issued
only when required, at a possible speed
of 900 an hour.
A fire extinguishing liquid in which the
chief ingredient is said TO be carbon terra
chloride is a nOn-cOnductor of electricity
and its use is said to save fiTemen from
the danger of severe shocks sometimes re-
ceived by them when streams Of water
touch highlV-Charged wires.