The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-21
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

l The average man attains his maxi | mum weight in his 4Oth year.
 Vienna will draw it's new water SUD-
 ply from a point 120 miles away. | Botanists record 752 kinds of flowers indigenous to the Arctic regions. l An electric sandpapering outfit is one | of the newest devices along that line Valuable deposits of gold, copper and coal in Haiti are to be developed when a projected railroad is constructed. Fourteen mining companies were or ganized with English capital last year to exploit the mineral resources of Russia.
 The preventing of the sprouting of potatoes in storage by packing them in
 layers of coke is being tried out in Germany
 The tides of the Bay of F,undy will
 be harnessed to produce electric power if experiments now under way are successful.
 Nearly 10000 infants under year
 old die every year in England, over 100, 900 of them victims of ignorance or carelessness.
 The French Court of Appeals has ruled that the bleaching of flour is an improvement and not injurious to pub lie health.
 In the last 20 years Germany has spent S150 OOO. 900 on her waterways and now has S,27s miles of navigable rivers and canals.
 A horse can pull at a speed of three miles an hour on a level road two tons. on a railroad 15 tons, and on canal 80 tons.
 Wireless telegraphy has been sue cessfully carried on between trains running from Cleveland to Chicago at high speed, and both cities.
 Of the timber imported by England, S7 per cent. is pine of fir, ten per cent. magohany and other furniture woods, and three per cent oak.
 In the last six years the worlds an- nuaI production of can sugar has in creased 2,2OO, GOO, 900 pounds and that of beet sugar 660, 100000 pounds.
 King Leopold of Belgium has offered a prize of 1000 for the best work on the progress of aerial navigation and the best means to encourage t.
 At the beginning of the present year Canada was sheltering 3S,25s Orientals. including 17,239 Chinese, 15,4S4 Japan csc. and 5,171 East Indians.
 Experiments with system of wire less telegraphy to be used along the Atlantic coast as a fog signal have been successful, even in heavy weath- CT.
 The inventor of melinite has offered the French Ministry of War a new high explosive, which he claims is equally as-powerfuI and safer to han dle.
 Six thousand feet below the level of the ocean the water is of a uniform just above the freezing point irrespective of the latitude.
 French glass workers have succeeded | in making lamp chimneys which will l stand sudden changes in temperature l of great magnitude without cracking.
 The French Ministry of War has of | fered a 1000 prize for an aerial cruis- | er'', capa ble of a speed of 31 miles an hour for 15 hours with six passeng- srS.
 The Mexican government has con- -racted with the Krupps to build a plant for the manufacture of bullets. smokeless powder and gun cotton near Vera. Cruz.
 An instrument is being used in South African mines to keep d record on a ages and of the signals given the en- ,ineerS
 Chemical analyses of the bodies of bacteria show that they are made up If about S4 per cent. water and Is per .ent. solids. Of the latter more than 'ne-half is carlson.
 Under the guidance of the White Cross Society of Geneva a second Con- rress for the Repression of Fraud in he manufacture of food products will ,e held at Paris in October.
 A memorial has been erected in Ken ny of Admiral Sir Francis l.. McClin- ock. Arctic explorer and discoverer of he lost Franklin expedition. About 1.000,G GOO pounds of aluminium 7ire will be used on a 3GO-nlile trans 1ission line which will supply various owns in Ontario with electricity gen. rated by Niagara Falls. l ]! A preliminary survey of the route of 1 he proposed Hudson Bay Railroad has L. between 250, 00O, ,0GG and SO0- 30 GOO feet of timber immeiiatsly- along ne right of way, with untold amounts Iitable- for structural material and l 'ood pulp within easy reach.