The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-11
Toulon, an artificial island of concrete

Toulon, an artificial island of concrete
and steel
The first attempt to ship Swedish
iron ore to the United States for smelt-
ing was made recently, when a ship
loaded with 5000 tons sailed for Phila-
delphia.
A fish, found for the first time re-
Gently in Bahama waters, pass IS much
of its life within the shell of large
mollusk without apparently disturbing
the latter.
The American record for rock tunnel
ing was broken when 476 feet of the
Los Angeles-Owens river aqueduct,
nine by eleven feet, was bored through
solid rock in March.
Naturalists have identified III
species of frogs, some of which are
found native in every part of the
world except New Zealand and the
southern portion of South America.
A Canadian Government expert has
estimated that there are over 20,000,-
100000 tons of marketable fuel in the
Crows Nest Pass coal field of Alberta
and British Columbia.
A German scientist claims to have
discovered the germ of trachoma in
the eyes of apes, and to have demon
strated that the disease is contagious
only in its first stages.
About 100000 tons tinplate scrap,
including used cans, are detinned in
Europe each year, and about 10000
tons in the United States, for the re-
covery of the tin and iron.
That fish may carry typhoid and
cholera germs from contaminated
streams into hitherto unpolluted tribu-
taries has been proven by experiments
by the French Biological Society.
A Government physician at Manila
has succeeded in cultivating the leprosy
bacillus, and will experiment furthur
with view to establishing a specific
treatment for the disease.
japanese waterproof paper is made
from bamboo and eucalyptus, mixed
with fbers of the gampi and other
shrubs and treated with solution con-
tanning camphor, caoutchouc and resin.
The diamonds produced by the re-
Gently discovered field in German
Southwest Africa are of the first quail
ity, but almost uniformly low in
weight, averaging onethird of carat
each.
It is proposed to erect a monument
by public subscription in honor of
Marcy. the Frenchman, who is termed
''the father of the moving picture, -
because of his inventions along that
line.
The Adelskiold gold medal, awarded
but once every ten years, has been
given by the Swedish Royal Academy
to Thomas A. Edison for his inyen-
tions in connection with the phono-
graph and electric light.
The Arabian desert between Oman
and the Red Sea is believed to be the
hottest place on the earth. Scarcely
any life is known to exist in the in
terror, and even on the coast tempera-
lures have been recorded higher than
anywhere else in the tropics.
An expert s studies of earthquakes
IN the United States, India and ,Japan
for more than twenty years show that
they almost always draw the banks of
| rivers nearer together and open assures
parallel to them.
German scientists expect to get 600
| horse power hours of work from each
| ton of peat which will be taken from
immense bOgs in that country and con
| verified into gas, together with much
ammonia as byproduct.
A wealthy lumberman has offered
the University of Minnesota 5000
acre tract for experimental purposes bv
its school of forestry, conditioned on
the purchase of about $4,000 worth of
other land now held by Indians.
Experiments by the Aeronautieal So.
ciety of Great Britain showed that a
horizontal thrust of from twenty IN
| twentyseven pounds per horse mower
can be obtained with tapping wings
about six pounds more than with the
best airship propeller yet devised.
| After series of experiments 70
| lative to the effects of tin taken into
the human system, a Scotch nbvs;cian
has announced that canned goods CON.
tanning two or more grains of tho