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NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.

London't newest fire boat can pump 900 tons of water an hour.
 Gasoline can be used as a soldering flux for very neat work on tin. The average cost of railroad mileage throughout the world is $76, GOO.
 New Zealand boasts of a death rate of only 9.57 per 1000 population last year.
 In a muffle furnace the temperature at the center is lower than near the walls.
 If paint be strained before using it will cover more surface and wear bet ter.
 The Wisconsin State Militia is con- sidering the formation of an aeronau- tic, corps.
 Pure milk, when frozen, preserves its original properties unchanged for
 A mixture of powdered sulphur and oil will facilitate the cooling of hot bearings.
 Mosquitoes are said to have dam aged tea plantations in India by biting the young leaves.
 The purity of Norwegian iron is largely due to the fact that it is smeh- ed with charcoal.
 Britons send on an average of two telegrams apiece each year, Americans, II, and Germans 0.9.
 Coating the inside of a show window with g1ycerine will prevent the forma- ton of frost upon it.
 Experiments in southern Burma with Virginia and Havana tobacco have proven a fractical failure.
 Oklahoma is the only State which requires the teaching of agriculture in all it's country schools.
 Russia is rich in asbestos and stead fly is increasing the production of the Ural Mountains.
 A three-ton motor truck recently was pitched to a blow to open the streets of Springfield, Mass, for gas mains.
 An electric device for bakers allows fJxnIr fr, -fj.n frn 1a 1frr1if an alarm when it begins to fall.
 The tonnage of the United States battleShipS and armored cruisers totals 607, ,241 to Great Britain's 1895, ,930. Soaking a cheap lead pencil in in- seed oil will improve it's writing quail ties and make it's sharpening more easy.
 If cold water be poured upon grease spilled upon a floor immediately, 1t will prevent it from soaking into the wood.
 In Texas alone prairie dogs annually eat enough grass to feed 1.56zoOo cows. according to the Federal ForeS- try Service.
 Furniture with a. matt finish can be renovated with a thin solution Of white paint in turpentine or by ruoplng IL over with linseed oil.
 Field telephones provided with a specially light wire are to be added to the equipment of every infantry SUD- division of the Austrian army.
 Qualified authorities have estimated the standing timber in the United States all the way from S22, ,862, 900, 900 to 2OOO OO0 0o0, 900 board feet.
 After being worked steadily over 60 years, emery mines near Smyrna, Asia tic Turkey, once the most important in the world, have become exhausted.
 A French physician has devised a painless method of slaughtering ani- mals by the use of electricity, elect rodes being placed at each end of the spine.
 A novel device by which a street car motorman can announce the streets to his passengers consists of @ speaking tube. leading to a megaphone within the car.
 More than 10000. 900 pounds of coca leaves are annually harvested in South America a vast amount being brought to this country for manufacture into cocaine
 Cholera is being successfully treated in India, by a new method, which con- sissts of hypodermic injections of mor- pl1ine and copious draughts of water and hot tea.
 A turbine pump for fire engines, driven by gasoline, in tests in England. has proven it's ability to throw 450 gallons of water a minute nth a etoodu avan nreSSIIra