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NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

To determine the temperature of a pile of coal, an auger has been pat ented, carrying a maximum thernome- ter near the point, which may be a few minutes.
 A steamship APO feet long by 50 feet beam has been converted into float ing slaughter house and refrigerator by an English firm for use in Aus tralia, to save inland shipping charges on meats.
 Meteors prove that the atmosphere is sufficiently dense at a height of 100 miles to make them incandescent through friction, but man has been able to partially explore only about Is miles of it.
 Louisiana alone produces almost as much sulphur as the whole United States consumes each year. The only other States in which it was commer cially produced last year were Nevada, Utah and Wyoming
 Tests made by one of the big rail- roads of the Northwest seem to show that the intensity of the rays of cleo tric headlights inpairs the power of locomotive crews to distinguish the color of signals
 A jack consisting of a cage which travels on a rack and is moved for ward by a socket lever and pawls has Eeen put on the market to lay lines of small pipe through the ground with out disturbing the surface.
 The earliest known mention of coal in the United States is in the journal of Father Hennepin. who, in 1879, re- ported . ~cole" mine along the Illin- ois river, near the site of the present city of Ottawa, H.
 The output of electrical power de- yeloped by any one of six turbine gem erators being installed in a Chicago plant is equivalent to the work of lifting modern battleship to a height of 400; feet in one hour.
 Wood literally is 1Tnined in Upper Tonlxin. A forest believed to have been buried by an earthquake within comparatively modern times has been discovered which yields timber which practically is indestructible.
 The total production of coal in the the Geological Survey. was 415,S42. .6ss short tons, of which 83,26S,7 short tons were anthracite and 332, ,944 short tons were bituninous or lig- mite.
 The biggest rock crushing machine Jersey. With it it is possible to break up twelve to fourteen ton boulders in to six inch rocks suitable for smaller machines to crush into road-nakfng material.
 Comparatively simple typewriter telegraph, which prints the messages on the receiving instrument without any intermediate process is in sue ceSSful operation over regular rele- graph circuits for short distances around New York.
 Features of a pile driver recently put into service by a railroad in the Southwest are cylinders which raise it clear of the trucks and turn it around, an ability to travel without the assist anee of a locomotive, an all-steel construction.
 Tracks of the Indian State Railways are laid to a gauge of five. feet six inches, while some Spanish railways are only three feet, three and three eighth inches wide, and there is one in Finland with a width of two feet five and a half inches
 Making use of an electric spark to take each picture, a German scientist has perfected the most rapid moving picture camera known. A bone being penetrated by a rifle ball and a bull let entering bladder filled with wa ter are two of his successes s Tn Denmark farmers are compelled by law to destroy all weeds on their land, and in France a farmer may prosecute and secure damages from nefghbor who allows his weeds to go