The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-08
Newest Notes Of Science


operated by the current from ignition
| batteries, is convenience for auto
mobilists.
| Work has begun in Germany on
university professors airship of the
general plan of Count Zeppelin s but
aluminium frames.
Skee-baH bowling, in which balls are
skeed or jumped into pockets in the
same manner as a skee jumper rises
from bump in his flight, is recently
| invented game.
wire screen, supported at the ends
by curved metal springs, has been pat
| ented by an Illinois man as a pillow.
! which is claimed to be cool, comfort
able and sanitary.
Artificial truffes, made of an inferior
sort of underground fungus, stained
black to resemble the genuine article,
| have appeared in French markets to
worry epieures.
To rob the burial Of loved one of its
| sadness, a Pennsylvania has invented
an apparatus that covers a grave with
a blanket of flowers as the casket Is be-
ing lowered. 4
South Of Cape Of Good Hope and
Cape Horn, where there is neither wind
ward nor leeward shore, the wind fire.
quentiy causes ocean waves 1900 feet
long from crest to crest.
new device for scrubbing floors
contains set of brushes which are
revolved within stationary circular
brush by small motor driven by the
water used for cleansing.
part of the education of English
naval divers is to teach them to allow
their suits to become filed with air,
which floats them to the surface in case
| they become exhausted.
Typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera
/ morbus, tuberculosis, Asiatic cholera
and certain infectious eye diseases are
among the maladies known to be dis.
tributed by the common house fly.
| Features of a new French aeroplane
are two wings and tail that make it
resemble dragon fly and the fact that
! it carries the motor and operator above
instead of below the wings.
Biologists have decided that the pre-
historic horse whose skeleton recently
was found in England was coeval with
paleolithic man, therefore is the oldest
fossil, of the kind extant.
a novel toy for children on which
patent recently was granted represents
circus wagon, gearing in which causes
an image of an animal to roam about
| a cage in a life1ike manner.
A recently patented self-watering box
for flowers contains a reservoir for
water which is drawn to the soil by a
sponge should the owner neglect the
growing plants for a day or two.
A new automobile tire is made in II |
separate sections, each of which is in, |
flated independently and may be re- |
placed by another section in event of |
damage without removing the entire |
tire.
Although asbestos is mined in nearly |
every country, Canada supplies about /,
80 per cent. of the world IS demand. |
that from her Black Lake region being |
the whitest and having the finest fiber. |
The free distribution of antitoxin
for diphtheria among the poor of Penn
sylvania by that state has reduced the !
death rate from ~ to 6.32 per cent in /
four years, according to official figures.
A hand electro magnet, operated from
an electric light current, has been put
on the market for picking up nails or
other metal objects or for clearing chips
and borings from machinery. /
Although Marconi is credited with
being the inventor of wireless tele-
graphy, patent on the idea was taken
ont by a Dundee Scotchman named
Lindsay in 1854, 20 years before Mar
conf was born.
According to a member of the
Shackleton Antarctic expedition, the
south magnetic pole travels around in
a circular area about so miles in dia-
meter, changing its position daily and
even hourly.
The efficiency of the tungsten lamp |
lies in the fact that the metal has a
higher fusing point than any other