The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-21


geological survey Of Korea. together with
a detailed account Of its mines and min
eral resources.
A calorie is a metric unit of heat. equiv
aient to the heat necessary TO raise the
teraperatur Of a eramme of water one
degree. centigrade-
Turpentine will restore to their original
whiteness piano keys that have turned
yellow. while hot vinegar will remove
I paint STAINS from glass.
The largest electrical cooking device in
the world is an oven at Marseilies, France,
which is heated by currents passing
! through resistance coils
The ArostoOk Falls IN Maine have been
harnessed to produce electricity to operate
/ a railroad and furnish power for knitting
mills in the vicinity.
A Boston woman has patented an indi-
vidual car strap which may be carried in
/ a shopping bag and attached by hook to
the rod in the car OF to another strap.
The Philadelphia Aeronautical Recrea-
/ ton society has ordered the largest bal
/ loon ever built in this country and ex-
poets to make trial trip in April.
American interests largely predominate
| in the mirnng industry in Korea, one
/ American company having already taken
out bullion worth nearly sl0.099.o0.
A E0-foot steel tower with q T5-foot well
/ under il will be constructed at the Carne-
gle observatory on Mount Wilson, Cali
/ foTnia. with which 20 use a spectroscope.
The Canadian Pacific railroad is equip
ping its bridges with automatic devices
l which will set danger signals IN case the
4 bridges are burned or washed away.
/ Test borings for oil are being made in
the mountains of North Carolina and
/ eastern Tennessee as the result of the
/ discovery of Indications of natural gas.
! Christian remains. probabl dating from
the eighth or seventh century, have been
unearthed at Wad-elHadad, along the
| Blue Nile, further south than ever before
/ found.
| A magnifying glass with a clip attach
ment to fasten it to pencils or other draw
| ing instruments to facilitate fine work. is
| q recent invention for the benefit of
draughtsmen.
/ Surgeons of the Pasteur institute at
Paris have discovered that chimpanzees
| have previously unsupported resem-
bance to man in their special suscepti-
| biiity to appendicitis.
| The British ROYAL meteorological society
| has awarded the Symons gold medal for
/ 1908 to T. Teisserenc de Bort of Paris. in
! recognition OF his research work in that
| science.
| The highest concrete stack in the world
| at Great Fails. Mont. towers SOC feet into
the air and weighs II. 900 tons. II rests on
a concrete base % feet deep by 100 in
diameter.
Two British marine engineers have in
vented an electric alarm to give notice of
a leakage of gasoline gas or other dan
1 gerous vapor in a submarine or confined
| space in q larger vessel.
! A dirigible balloon. which is being built
/ in Germa any, the invention of a TECHNICAL
/ high school professor, it is predicted will
be able to carry two tons of freight in
| addition to its crew.
Atlanta is equipping its fire cisterns
/ with automatic valves which allow the
cisterns to ill again as rapidly as emp
1 tied and which shut off the supply of
water when the capacity is reached.
The Maine Central railroad is expert
I menting with electric locomotive head
I lights, the current for which is provided
/ ny small steam turbine generators mount
te don top Of the boilers
] While the tires Of a steam locomotive
! will wear down after being run 5000 miles,
it is said that those of an electric locomo-
/ tive will not require renewal until it has
! been run 1900 miles.
I One of the biggest nuggets yielded b.
/ the new Australian gold field of Poseidon
was found on top of the ground where it
/ resembied a mushroom so greatly as to be
neglected when first seen.
The French academy of science has de-
cided that the skeleton found in 4 pre-
historic cave at La Chapelle aux Saints.
department Of COrezze, is the Oldest and
most perfect human fossil known.
new English sunshine recording in
s si-1I!Si, consists of glass sphere
cussed upon cards, in such manner that
a charred mark is made whenever the sun
| shines.
/ The fact that salenium is a good con-
dUctor Of electricity under the influence
of light. but Is non-conductor when dark
makes it useful in exploding torpedoes
and for telephoning with ray of light.
An American company which took sd-
vantage Of the return of the roller skat-
ing craze to Great Britain after a lapse
Of eighteen years, has opened seventeen
Kinks IN various cities, employing 10000
pairs Of skates.
An exceptionally fine photograph taken
at Philadelphia of an automobile running
at a speed in excess Of seventy miles an
wheels DO throw UP dust. despite argu-
ments to the CONTRARY.
The mean annual rainfall of the United
States Is thirty inches, or approximately
215, coo 00o. 90. 600 cubic feet, of which one
half evapOrates, One-third flows to the
sea and the remainder is consumed OF alb
sOrbed.
To facilitate its telephone service the
British postoffice department is expert
menting with a slot machine device into
which two pennies are dropped when a
call is made. If the line is busy the
money Is returned.
The navy's submarine boat. Octopus,
holds the record for depth OF operations.
With a fan crew on board the little vrS-
sci was operated for half an hour in Buzz
yards Bay. Mass, in water no less than
107 feet deep.
The first electric furnace in this eOun-
try for annealing, temDering and hard
ening metals las been erected at Sche-
nectady, y. Y. IL consists of a crucible
containing metallic salts melted by an al
ternating current of low voltage.
A prize of about s2,400 offered in Ger
many n 1894 ttt Atlt utSt utetItt VI pre-
venting the pollution of streams by sui
phite rquor from paper mills still remains
uuawardgd. Scores of methods have been
tried, but none has been notably sue
cessful.
The lammageier. or bearded vUlture of
southern Europe, is known by the natives
of the countries It inhabits as the bone
breaker" from it's habit Of dropping bones
upon rocks from great heights 10 crack
them. enabling it to set at the marrow.
To defeat the wiIes of the Mississippi
river, which frequently shifts its channel,
a bridge to be erected across it at Kiiths-
burg Ill will be so constructed that any
one of a number of spans can be made a
draw span by moving the elevating ma
chinery
Exhaustive inquiries into the history OF
several thousand European families have
demonstrated that the third, fourth ami
fifth children OF a couple are more able
to resist disease than their older brothers
or sisters This is especially the case In
the offspring OF early marriages
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THREE TO ONE.
IT. A. DAILY in the American Magazine
Signor. remember yestaday.
How mad I am bayesuse yeu say
Dat nearly all Eetaiian
i Ees ood-for-notheeng, lazy man.
All, Lessen, pleasa. an you we'll be
Ashame' for wat you say to me,
Wen I have tai you W at / see.