The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-25
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

/ ing completion. nine 27O0-hOrsepoweT tur-
bines will produce 5000 electric horse-
+ power.
! \ Nebraskan. has been granted a pat
{ ent upon rings bearing prOnged plates
I 20 enable q baseball pitcher to iurDart a
/ twist TO balls and increasing his ability
J to pitch curves.
/ The first of four 6009-horsepoveF alter
mating current motors. The largest in the
world recently was successfully put into
/ service in a steel rail mill at Gary, Ind.
The French chamber Of deputies has
decorated with the Legion of Honor all
I have conducted flying machine trials in
that country.
The japanese government is planning to
establish an engineering high school. a
middle school and a bureau of forestry
IN kwantung province. which il leases
| from China.
\ new life saving apparatus for ships
includes a sand anchor to be fired ashore
to fasten the line to which il is at
/ tached. regardless Of the presence Of
| persons to lend aid.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to King
I victor Emanuel Tor the Bologna uniVer-
sity a model Of the fossil diplOdOcus SINH
lar to the models he has given London.
Berlin and Paris.
The United States imported So. 0z1. O66
worth OF raw silk In 1903. as against over
$4,000 600 the previous year Most Of IL
came frcm Japan, with Italy in second
I place each year
The distribution Of samples Of patent or
. proprietary medicines from door to door.
/ in a public place or by mail. is prohibited
/ by new Canadian Law, which goes into
/ effect April l.
I Calcutta is 20 spend nearly half a mil
I lion dollars for a 9.t4J. 0GQ-gal lion tank for
{ its filtered water supply. The tank will
be elevated 100 feet above the ground on
/ steel columns
An electric wagon with platform
which may be elevated by a teIescOpng
/ tower, IS used by a New York electric
| light company for trimming and repair
ng lamps high above the street level.
In recently patented tape measure a
snort piece or flexible. springy material is
/ inserted in one end to make itself support
: ing and facilitate the making Of short
measures with one hand
An American was the first 20 learn Of
the value or tungsten in electric lighting
a patent for incandescent lamps. making
use OF the metal having been granted to
a resident Of Harrison. y. J.. in 1851
1t IS claimed that the new forged steel
car wheels, 1000 Of which have been or
dered for ChiCagO's street railways. will
stand 1900 miles Of travel as AGAINST
1900 miles. the life OF the average cast
wheel.
The Austrian war office is recurring a
number OF its army officers to study ski
ing and other methods OF travelling over
snow i'm order that they may instruct en-
listed men 10 become proficient in scout
ing in winter.
The Mexican ACADEMY OF Medicine has
offered prize OF $1,000 for a cure for
typhuS fever. a like prize for a serum that
viii Kill the germ IN the blood while & on
Will be distributed among persons sfdinp
in solving the problem.
To save rural mail carriers leaving their
wagons at every stop. an Alabama man
has patented a mail box mounted on Isz.,
tOngs. which permit ifs being set out from
the post within the carriers reach ana
BY which he can push il back to the r,osf
After filling the chair OF zoology ia tn
University Of Jena foTty-six years tn
eminent scientist Ernest Haeclel. Who
recently passed his seVeutv-fffth bfrff7dss-
mas resigned, and viii devote the remain
der OF his life 10 studying the evolution
Of species
The Arabian desert between Oman and
the Red sea is believed to be TIE horres-
place on the earth. Scarcely ans, rfe =
known to exist in the interior. and 49,
on the coast temperatures have been re-
corded higher than anywhere else in me
tropics.
At a cost Of about sss.ss5 per mile. there
has been completed the last link Of fre
railroad that connects Singapore with the
Federated MALAY states and the S+rafts
settlements OF the Malaccs Peninsula
most Of it through swamps and de0se
jungles-
OF vast importance To al branches If
the textile industry IS said TO Be the dis
covery IN Australia Of an almost limit
less osuntity % new SEA grass ffb-s
which can be woven with almost ans.
Other material. takes dyes readily md s
practically nen-infiauHra bic