The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-15
NOTES or SCIENCE

Three pounds of salt and one and
half pounds of sal ammoniac, dis
solved in a gallon of water and kept
in any convenient receptacle, makes
a handy and effective fire extin-
guisher.
Among It's many trade schools. Bel
GUM supports one in which boys over
IL years of age who have passed
through certain grades in the primary
schools are taught al! branches Of gun
For overhead firing againss airships
n German inventor has brought out a
shell with range Of 10000 feet. giy-
ing off light by night and a smoke
by day so that it's course may be
traced. -
"A German inventor has taken the
comic supplement artist seriously and
patented an umbrelli which may be
turned into n boat. with rudder, sail
for the stick and seat to be placed
across the ribs.
Though ii is estimated that the
rivers of the country remove only
about an inch of land surface in each
10 years. the total is 1s3.on0.0 900 tons
OF matter transported To tide waten
each l.; months. n
The interior of new addition to Il
big Baltimore hospital will be made as
homelike as possible to relieve the pa
tients Of the feeling of restraint usu-
ally experienced in institutions OF that
character.
tEpf 1,Fag fan III
cass splitting machine for packers, con-
sisting of two circular SAWS. one oper-
attng above and in front of the other.
To bisect an animal as 1t is moved
along an overhead track.
To stop runaway horses, II Michigan
man has patented \ brake. consisting
Of pointed rod. IL be hung under
vehicle and attached To the reins in
such u manner that unusual pressure
upon them will force the rod into the
road &c.,.
An automatic book vending p,aehine
either sells or rents its contents. The
price of the book. dropped into the
Slot. releases it, and when the book
Is returned the difference between the
price and the rental is given back to
the renter.
The new iI-inch gun building al
Philadelphia for the navy is expected
tn develop mnzzle energy equal tn that
required To move 5000 tons a foot In
one second and To pierce more than Il
inches nf armor with one Of its leo
pound shells fivs mica away.
The work OF construction on the
first steel plant in the western
hemisphere south of Mexico is prog
ressing rapidly at Corral. Chile.
As rivals To ar substitutes for the
potato, efforts are being made To in
troduee the tropical vegetables yautia.
dasheen and taro ia several of the
southern states.
There are 49, American educational
and charitable institutions I'm the
Turkish empire. and the use of the
language is rapidly extending into the
interior. especially In Asia Minor.
The new wireless" electric fan.
which is driven by battery enclosed
in its base. making ii independent of
the usual sources Ut current. MAS in
vented by Philadelphia physician.
Florida produces more phosphate
than all the rest OF the states put to-
sether. and only recently another eS
tenstve deposit of high grade Was dis
covered.
TIL" amount of Petroleum produced
in the United State in the last half
century would fin 'he Panama canal
twice. with Il considerable amount left
over
Gold. silver and upper haze been
discovered ON the Fiji islands, where
there never has been mining Of any
sort on commercial basis.
An oklahoma cArrenter has been
granted a patent OF IN oil reservoir
Ia be attached tn saw To slowly
iuhricate ii while In use.