The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-28

States took hold OF the work was taken
out Of the route Of the Panama canal.
The largest pontoon bridge in the world
/ is in India, connecting Calcutta with How
"a, an important railroad terminal and
cotton and manufacturing center.
But three days elapse between the time
the salmon leaves the Pacific ocean to as
cend the Washington rivers and the time
that it is neatly canned, ready for ship
ment
Previous to the establishment of Pas
I teur institutes in India there were over
a hundred deaths year from + lies IN
To aid horses TO keep their footing on
slippery streets, a Massachusetts veteri-
nary has invented a chain tread, which
may be bUc6ed upon their hoofs without
the use of tools.
A Russian engineer claims to prevent
scale in boilers by introducing. a small
amount of linseed oil in a perforated
tank. from which the oil DercOlates to the
surface OF the water
The damming of the river Nile has con-
ferred such benefits upon Egypt that the
capacity Of the Assuan dam will be doU-
bled. TO bring 100000 more acres of land
under cultivation.
Pure butter will not melt under a tenn
perature of % degrees, when 1t will leave
a sweet and wholesome liquid. but adul-
terated butter melts at s. into liquid
with repulsive odor.
Experiments in Germany to show the
effects Of magnetizing steel, by rolling,
show that il becomes more highly mag
netic at right angles to the direction OF
rolling than parallel to it.
The residue from the garbage inciner-
ating furnaces of several of the smaller
English cities is mixed with quickiime
and water and made into a fair quality OF
bricks and building blocks.
What promises to be one of the great
est competitions of light agricultural mo-
tors that ever has taken place In North
America will be held in the Winnipeg In
dustrial exhibition in July.
A pressed steel boat. into perforatiOns
of which is forced under hydraulic pres
sure graduated cork until the entire sur
face is covered a recent invention, IS
claimed to be unsuitable.
Photographs by a Danish scientist, in
dictate that lightning flashes, instead of
continuous streams of electricity, are
made up of small discharges which follow
each other along the same path.
After celebrating for over a year. q
commission representing the governments
of five German states. the population of
which Is one-fifth Of the whole empire,
has recommended a standard shorthand
system.
A Cleveland inventor has brought out a
torch, operated by oxygen and acetylene,
producing a heat of $500 degrees, with
which it is said to be possible TO weld
aluminium, heretofore regarded impossi-
BILE.
Gold bricks. used by swindlers, general
4 ~ are made of an alloy of copper and
I zinc. the gold coating, containing msT-
curry alloy. being applied with a brush,
after which the mercury is driven off by
/ heat.
As a wedding anniversary present to his
{ parents in Scotland. a machinist in AL
/ toona, Pa, sent them a photograph rec
/ ord of HIS voice, which they had not heard
/ for thirty years. but recognized immedi-
ately.
Probably the oldest derricks in the world
| that still are in use are two at TrieT,
/ Germany, erected in 1913 and one at An
dernach. Germany. built in 1854. The loads
are chsin-lifted by train wheels, sixteen
feet in diameter
/ With no companions but Eskimos and
dogs Albert Harrison. the explorer, ex-
/ poets next year to travel by sledge from
/ the delta of The Mackenzie river IN North
America, over the UNEMPLOYED polar re-
! gions, TO Spitzbergen.
I One Of the chief arguments advanced il
support of a project for a floating sani-
/ tarium for cOnsumptives in England is
/ that the patients minds would be divert
ed by the changing scenes as the vessel
/ passed from place to place.
A simple test for the purity Of wine is
/ to. dip a thread into #. then into vinegar
/ II the vinegar turn pink. an artificial col
oring matter has been used. Cream of tar
/ tar will precipitate in granuies in wine
! fortified with alcohol
/ BY vaccinating a person with a few
drops of Koch tubeTculin a French ply
stefan claims to be able to detect abso-
/ Iutely the presence of tuberculosis. ThC
| slightest trace - the disease causes the
/ incisiOn to inflame and form a pustule.
/ The United States Steel corporation 1,
about TO install at Duquesne, Pa, a spe
I cial bureau for scientific research, a
which systematic experimental work vii
/ be- carried on with a view to improving
1 the processes Of steel manufacture.