The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-24
NEWEST NOTES
 OF SCIENCE

OF SClENCE;
 France produces more than twice as
 much wine as any other country. Boston's city chemist and bacteriolo- gist is a woman, Miss E. Marion 1 Wade.
 An envelope or package sealed with the white of an egg cannot be steamed open.
 About one gallon of fuel alcohol can be distilled from three gallons of mo- lasses.
 Illiteracy among the negroes of the United States is seven times as com mon as among the whites. ] Yakutsk, the commercial emporium of eastern Siberia, is the coldest city 1 in the world.
 More anthracite coal is shipped from 1 Swensea, Wales, than from any other port in the world.
 German railroads are experimenting extensively with cars operated by elec- tric storage batteries.
 The first alarm of fire given by cleo tricity was sounded at Boston on the evening of April 29, 1852. | The manufacture of oleomargarine and other artificial buffers Is one of the leading industries of Holland. l The largest gold nugget in the world was found in Australia, weighing 2,195 ounces, and was valued at $43,5 ,500
  so soft that it may be used for soap, giving @ plentiful, cleansing father.
 Steam dredging for gold in the bed of the Salween river, in BurmaE, from which much was expected, has proved a failure.
 A balloon flight of 1,19S miles. from l Vincennes, France, to Korostychew, Russia, in 1900, has never been sur passed.
 King Leopold of Belgium has offered 1 a $5,000 prize for the best treatise on aeronautics to be brought out this year.
 Manhattan Island is the most densely populated place in the world, having an average of 80,000 T>rsons per square l mile. | The first warship fitted with tur- pines of German design and construc- tion, a small cruiser, recently was launched at Stettin.
 Previous to the establishment of Pas teur institutes in India there were over 100 deaths a year from rabies in the Punjab alone.
 | A Kansas City company is expert menting with a. view to perating boats l with concrete hulls on the Missouri l and Mississippi rivers. l Heat, although capable of making ! liquid or a. solid incandescent, cannot make a. gas incandescent, merely in creasing it's pressure.
 The use of the flesh of dogs for food l is increasing in Germany, over 5000 carcasses having passed the Govern ment inspection last year. Hydrochloric acid should be used to clean the porcelain surfaces of spark plugs, as emery, SO often employed, scratches them.
 India grants to Americans each year 1 almost as many patents as to residents of all other countries combined, Great Britain alone excepted California ranks first among the Pa cific coast States in the amount of electric power generated, with Wash ington second and Oregon third. Austria's first submarine, 3o0-ton. German-Ibuilt boat, is so constructed that a crew of IT men can remain half day below water in safety. So far as Federal health statistics extend, they indicate that the death rate among negroes is 30.2 per 10000, while among whites it is 17.3 per 10,- 0OO
 The German Government has offered a substantial prize for an effective method of combating the injurious eff fleets of factory gases upon vegetA- tion.
 The electric motor is put to a novel use by a. resident of Nevada, Iowa, who uses one to drive a revolving brush with which he cleans his chick ens' feet.
 During 1908 more than three-fifths of the material removed since the United States took hold of the work was taken out of the route of the Panama canal.
 The largest pontoon bridge in the world is in India. connecting Calcutta with Howra, am important railroad ter minal and cotton and manufacturing center.
 But three days elapse between the time the salmon leaves the Pacific ocean to ascend the Washington rivers and the time that it is neatly canned, ready for shipment.
 A monkey wrench, with a pivotted handle, so that it can be folded and carried in the pocket, is the invention of an Indiana man. A lock nut keeps it rigid when opened.
 To aid horses to keep their footing on slippery streets, a Massachusetts veterinary has invented @, chain tread, which may be buckled upon their hoofs without the use of tools. A Russian engineer claims to prevent scale in boilers by introducing a small amount of 1inseed oil in a perforated tank, from which the oil percolates to the surface of the water. The damming of the river Nile has conferfed such benefits upon Egypt that the capacity of the Assouan dam will be doubled to Ibring 1000, 900 more acres or IdnO uIlO0T CulClVcDLlO1L. Pure butter will not melt under a temperature of 95 degrees, when it will leave sweet and wholesome liquid, but adulterated butter naelts at 38 in- to a. liquid with @. repulsive odor. Experiments in Germany to show the effects of magnetizing steel, by rolling, | show that it becomes more highly magnetic at right angles to the direc- tion of rolling than parallel to it.. The residue from the garbage incin- 1 erating furnaces of several of the | smaller English cities is mixed with | quicklime and water and made into a fair quality of briclxs and building l blocks. The United States Steel Corporation | is about to install at Duquesne, Pa., @ 1 special bureau for scientific research, | at which systematic experimental work 1 will be carried on with a view to inn 1 proving the processes of steel manu- fracture.