The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-03-07
NOTES OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD

The escapement wheel OF a watch
makes ~, $50 revolutions a year
Gas and gasolene engines are gradual
" driving windmills out OF Holland.
To eye defects are attributed 50 per
cent Of so-called neuralgia headache
A combined carbon hlament and mer-
curry vap0r lamp Is being introduced IN
Germany.
A single body OF iron ore in Lebanon
County. Pa. las been mined almost with
out interruption since 1870
Government railroads in India are ex-
perimenting with cast iron cross ties
made in the form OF boxes
France has Withdrawn her objection 10
a proposed wireless telegraphy service
between England and Italy
A Connecticut paper mill has succeeded
in making a tough paper with me
grain from Texas sugar cane
Under favorable circumstances the pro-
duct Of a single bacterium VIII total IS
10000 bacteria IN twenty-foUr hours.
The Michigan Central Railway will
electrfy its Detroit terminals and its main
line for thirty miles 70 Ypsilanu, Mich.
The first living walrus to be exhibited
in England 10 nearly forty years recently
arrived az the London Geological Garden
Az easy way 10 convert a measure
ment IN Inches into centimeters is 10 use
this proportion: Inches; centimeters
160-63.
Briquets Of compressed calcium car
bide. which the maker AYERS viii keep
Indefinitely, are a recent invention In VI
emma.
A peculiar feature OF Tibetan incense
Is that its smoke ascends for a considera-
bic distance before il IS affected by air
currents
Worms, the product Of butterflies which
were brought from Venzuela by recent
south wind. are destroying the corn crop
Of Curacao.
To secure a patent IN each Of the sixty
four countries issuing them would cost
an inventor $1,000 exclusive OF the at
tOrneys' fees.
The year 1875 viii long be known IN
Great Britain as the potato year" the
record crop Of almost 4O00,0 900 tons having
been produced
The .country's production Of blister and
lake copper in 1Q0S exceeded that OF 1907
by 100000 pounds. being more than
100000 pounds
Flesks or other vessels made OF fused
silica may be heated white hot and
plunged into water without being cracked
or otherwise injured.
A single pair Of rats, Il allowed TO
breed unchecked and suffering no losses
| from death. would produce more than
/ %, 10000 IN three years
New dump cars ordered BY the United
States Steel Corporation Will discharge a
ffty-tOn load with the labor OF one man
| in less than two minutes.
A new electric barometer depends for
! It's operation upon the shOTt-circuiting
I OF a U-shaPed flament by an ordinary
barometric mercury column
A young French chemist has succeeded
| IN producing artificial sapphires from
melted alUmina in much the same manner
as artificial rubies are made
A company has been formed in Connec-
ticut 20 exploit typewriter which IS
held to be nOiseless. printing by pressure
/ Instead Of the hammer-strOke-
4 month-old baby with a full set OF
perfectly developed teeth caused a sensa-
ton when exhibited at a recent meeting
/ OF the Vienna Medical Society
An international exposition Of clocks.
watches. jewelry. mechanical, and optical
apparatus will be held at St Petersburg
I
I The Aeronautic Society OF Great Britain
has acquired a tract Of ground half q mile
! square. which viii be completely fitted I'D
/ for experimental work with airships-
The government Of the British East
Africa Protectorate has prohibited any
person experimenting with wireless tel
/ egraphy without license from the gov
] ernor.
( One OF the biggest electrical companies
4 in Germany is considering the erection
OF a separate plant for the manufacture
Of aeroplanes and other forms OF air
ships.
| An English company which has sunk
/ S5e0.000 in the past eight years in trying
10 mine gold in the West India island OF
| Aruba, has sold out for $4,000 TO local
capitalists.
While the seeds Of the dOrowa. an East
African leguminous tree, are extensively
used for food, the pods and leaves form
an excellent cement when mixed with
crushed stone.
The Bank OF England IS experimenting
with a new Swiss counting machine,
which Is said 10 sort and pack money
into bags or tubes at the rate OF 1900
coins per hour.
One-ffth Of the sugar used in the
United States is produced at homo. one
fifth is brought from our own islands.
and the remainder is imported from for
eign countries
Though II is estimated that a programme
OF radium contains energy equal 70 one
horsepower for fifteen days. II parts with
II so slowly that It would take 1900 years
10 exhaust itself
Alaska's mineral output for 1908 Is es-
timated at S9.600O00. more than 100000
I less IN value than In 1907. The decreases
were in gold and copper. all other indus
tries showing gains
/ The August meteOrs, according 20 q
/ leading astronomer, form a stream 50
broad that the earth, though It travels
faster than eighteen miles a second. takes
seven weeks 10 cross IL.
] Asia is believed to hold in reserve more
/ coal than is in all the coal fields OF Eu-