Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-21
DEsERET EVENING NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY - 1909

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III F 20 ately awarded the grand
( prize prize alta rencli exhibition. seems at
hrs, ,fst 70 furnish energy from nothing.
| over g slla 1low vessel Ii mounted hori-
aonttaiiy an axle. Will, "a heavy. loose
i,t1ting rod passing at right angles
through ~, and the ends of axle and.
roo are connected by cords Of hemp.
sNhen LIQUID is poured into the vessel
The two lower cords are soaked and
SHRINK, forcing the rod up. This raises
the center of gravity, and the upper end.
Oh the rod falls, turning the axle and
immersing the other pair! of cords.
+ evaporation srelaxessthe top cords, so
that the rod Is again pushed up. SLOW
rotation ean be thus kept up, and with
several rods and sets of cords, 1t can
"A De made fairly regular and continuous.
"a Late CANCER research has shown that
q the disease exists among all races of
4 men, as we'll as in domestic and wild
Il animals and that liability to It Is great
4 eat IN the last third of the life span.
4 Nickel having come into extensive
use In the Kitchen, it is Important to
Know what action food substances
have on It, and how. its compounds
may affect a person eating food con-
4 taining them. Late Russian expert
Substances boiled IN snickle vessels
i took up "A small amount of the metal
i from 0.0003 with some foods to as:
4 much as 2 Fer cent when the acid pre- i
Igsent Is excessive: but solution. con-
tanning a per cent OF citrc acid and
3 per cent of common salt had only
4 0.144S per cent of nickle after boiling
three hours in a nickle vessel and
then standing A hours in r1e same
3Nessle. The physiological effects of 4
Il ,fnl
was no tendency to accumulated in the
body after repeated doses. Nickle In
Quantities up to quarter fla gram
daily, in the form of lactate or buty-
rate, was given to two dogs for 203
days, with no result; and dog that
died after taking o. grams (about
a third of an opnce) in 40 days had
no nickle In its body. its death having
been due to some other cause Doses
as large as one to two grams daily
We're necessary to give any symptoms \
of poisoning.
The leather substitute Of Jules Pros
per Gauthier, a French chemist, Is a |
combination of rubber Will, vegetable |
animal or mineral flbers. and is claim |
sd to give q material Of high quality
& and low price. With so per cent of
flbers and 20 per cent of pure or mix
ed rubber good results are obtained, |
the propositions being varied to give
different Pliancy and tenacity. The
afibers may be spread out In bands |
and glued together with, melted rub I
Der. or hey may be impregnated with
rubber and compressed In nolds or
consolidated under rolls. If desired I
the product Gamble vulcanized
Instead OF being. obsolete and simply
anGinteresting relic, the hour-g glass In
various. forms is a! twentieth century
necessity. "A nachinist authorftyS}3
points out that for such purposes az !.
timing hardening and tenlpering heats
in twist drill manufacture, where
seconds or minutes must be gagged ac-f
understanding serves like the hours
glass with the right amount of sand,
Accuracy to frac tons Ola second can
he had much more seasilysby watching L
the hands Of a watch.
i Thegart4 Of the dyer Is one OF great
lii Persia, and the secrets
of special colors are efullY guarded
in certain families and have been
handed down from father to SON for E
many generations. A warning to 4
would be buyers of high grade oriental
rugs has been given by U. s. Consult
w ~. r. Doty.sof Tabriz. A proper guar
anty that only vegetable dyes and fixa-
tives have been used should be secured L
for unknown vendors are almost GER
tain to sell rugs colored with chemical
dyes. all of whch-though there are.
different quail ties--are liable to change
on the first exposure to bright sunlight.
Since their first introduction. about 1860,
the use of coalstar preparations has
been Increasing. the cost being onlysl
one-thrd or one-half as much as that
of the vegetable dyes. The cultivation
of the madden plant which yields more Il
than so of the finest shades of red and Il
yellow, has greatly declined in Persia, +
and the demand for the root is now
small Between 30 and 40 shades OF
yellow are given by the shell Of the
polnegranate. Perhaps so varieties of
blue are given by indigo and for the
best blacks and other coloring matetial#l
it is said that there are employed huns T.
dreds Of herbs and varieties of bark,
yegeta bles and even some animal mat
ter. Iron filings are used foISa cheap
and fugitive black.
The treating of skin diseases by
light rays is ranidly becoming
popular in Europe and Ella borate equip
ments. costing UP to $4,000 are being
provided. a motor-carS fitted With S-#l
ray apparatus is to make .reguar5tou
over q large district In Belgium. a
London expert has distributed so X
ray machines in English hospitals and f
1nstitutions.fand leading physicians are
finding it desirable to give attention.
to ht-healing. Besides the rays
and the electric$light baths. there is tie
inferred" light, which. producing in
tense heat, issused to draw the blood
to some particular part OF the body.
The perpetual lamp. of Prof Mo-
lisch is glass flash of gelatine sup
porting q colony of pl,osphorescent bac-
terra. The light is less than that OF a
candle. but is sufficient for photo
graphy. and terminating peas and
lentils turn to 1t as source of en-
ergy. Being without heat rays. it |
represents the much-sought cold light.