The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-04

ented a gas burner that remains open
when the gas is burning but autOmati-
cally closes should the flame be extin-
guished.
The word "tu1gstolier'' has been coined
to define the fixture used to hold a group
of tungsten electric lights m proper po-
sition to give the best service.
A prOfessOrship Of aeCOstatiCs has been
| founded at Gottngen university, and
schools for training aerOnauts are to be
established in several German cities.
Machines have been invented in Austria
to shell peanuts, strip the rex skin from
the seed and extract the bitter germ pre-
paratory to the manufacture Of Oil
A deposit of manganese, covering about
LOCO acres and believed to be very rich.
has been discovered on Table Mountain
at Cape Town, South Africa.
The railroad which a British firm will
build for the Chilean government over
the Andes from africa, Chile, to La Paz,
Bolivia, will be the highest in the world.
An incandescent lamp fixture which
reels up the wire within a drum by
ratchet and spring mechanism similar TO
that OF a shade roller, recently was pat
ented.
A Chicago undertaken has installed for
service a black motor hearse for adults
q white one for children. and three cars
for mOurners, with room for twenty-fOur
persons.
Experts Of the geological survey who
examined the Niobrara limestone deposits
in northern Colorado, have reported them
cement.
Following the fourth Latin-American
medical congress at Rio de Janeiro in
August an international exposition of
hygiene viii be held during the entire
month of September.
The evaporation Of all the oceans would
leave salt enough TO cover the entire
globe to a depth Of 200 feet equal to the
bulk, above sea level, of North and South
America
The governments Of Great Britain. Ger
many, France and Belgium are working
together to fiEa a cure for the sleeping
sickness" so costly to life in South
Africa.
The new Hungarian land bill contem-
plates the distribution Of seven-acre plots
to farmers, who VIII be taught scientific
methods Of agriculture by experts. who
VIII cultivate adjoining farms
Because Of the inability to carry high
enough masts on automobiles. experiments
with wireless telegraphy from moving
motor cars have not been very satisfac-
tory at distances over eight miles
A new electric safety razor consists NJ
a small motor which revolves blades with
IN thin casing. through perforations Of
Whlch mars protrude and are cut OFF as
Ihe instrument is passed over the face.
Prof. Henry Helm Clayton. for sixtea-
years meteorologist at Blue FIfU obesy,,s
tory, near Boston. has announced No ~
tentlon OF trying to travel from thar oif,,
70 the Pacific coast by balloon this sum
More in the line Of physical culture an
paratus than child's toy is a new y7ot1,-
driven machine which opsratez q -
ping rope when its user steps on a pIst-
FORM stopping automatically when h.
steel plates polished by a process in
vented by q Swedish engineer to = &c.,
Of smoothness heretofore irnos~ifI5s - = =
attain Wnen laid together are said ~ Fs
separated by a space Of less than 1-101 555
-- Crtaln nary manila paper may be made
ing and furs by coating If v-ff5 " -i CON
OF 20 parts coal tar oil. 20 Of min CCs7
taI ana I'VE each Of refined petroleum ey5j
crude carbolic acid. -i'' ana