The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-11
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

increases after reaching $50. becomes La
bic TO spontaneous combustion after pass
ing 30, and almost invariably isnites at
As degrees.
A new toilet accessory on the principle
of an atOmizsr, sprays liquids around the
roots of the users hair without wetting
his or her clothing or wasting the ma
terial sprayed.
The Dominion railway commission has
sounded the doom Of the car lamp by re-
QtJiring that only compressed oil gas,
acetylene gas or electricity may be USED
on trains in Canada
4 Boston inventor believes he has per
fected an apparatus for using the sur. s
rays to generate electricity. which is
stored in acCumulatOrs for use II nshl
circuit at night
As a substitute for the baby carriage,
a French inventor has brought out a
portable hammock. by which an infant
can be carried between two persons by
straps from their shoulders
The University of California Is about
to try the experiment of raising grape
fruit from trees imported from Annoy,
China, said to produce the best frult Of
the kind in the world.
The Brazilian government is ABOUT 70
establish at Rio de Janeiro a zoO-tecnni-
cal and agronomicel institute, to be De
voted to the study of stOck-raising ana
agricultural experiments. -,
The top of the Philadelphia city nan
tower. which is over 800 feet above the
street. probably will be utilized as a wire
less telegraph station, to be controiled
/ by the municipality.
The chief ingredients in the paste
from which imitation jewels are MADE
are potash, oxide Of lead, boraX and
silica, in varying quantities, according ID
the gem 10 be counterfelted-
The artesian wells Of Gulfport Miss, a
city of 1900 population, are sufficiently
powerful TO drive the water through the
pipes with pressure enough for ordinary
fire fighting purposes.
| About 60 patents are granted each year
to British women upon inventions rang
ing from articles distinctly feminine IN
nature TO motors, railroad cars, Tying
machines and wireless telegraph
In government tests at Washington
samples Of the chain to be used on the
gear of the Panama canal locks with
stood tensile tests Of 1J3-G0G pounds 10
the square inch before the metal parted
A French naturalist claims that man
could not exist nine years after the birds
were eXteFminated, as insects would De
Stroy all vegetation despite the use Of
all the polsons that could be made ...
An inexpensive electric massage outfit
may be made by connecting two ordinary
ia tablespoons with as many battery cells
as are desired The operator can be in
sulated by wearing kid or rubber gloves
The naval observatory at W washington
has abandoned the work Of tracing the
movements Of the newly discovered aster-
ODDS and an appeal has been issued TO
the astronomers Of America TO take up
the work
A new type of electric locomotive. of
which the New York Central railroad viii
soon have twenty. IS capable OF 4'1l
horsepower at high speed, the armatureS
being mounted directly on the driving
axlese.
Austria is seeking TO establish a gov
eminent monopoly upon all coal mines
to be opened in future as well as on
sites for which permits have been grant
ed but which shall not be developed Tor
three years.
France is about to amend its patent
If its holder shall fail to exercise his
right in France or in the colonies OF
France for a period of three years from
its granting.
BY using two highly sensitive pendu-
iums suspended in a well a German sci
enlist has found that the surface of the
earth rises and falls about 8 inches every
twenty-four hours, having tides similar
to the oceans.
The next Brazilian congress viii be
asked TO provide for the irrigation of the
northeastern states Of that country
where there are vast tracts Of land that
only need water to make them immensely
productive.
Vessels Of the German navy have been
equipped with a novel life saving appa-
ratus resembling a huge basket with its
sides made OF rope ladders Lowered
over the side, several persons can climb
it at a time.
in @ new watch for the blind the fig
ures are replaced by knobs each of
which sinks during the hour which It
represents The minute hand is in the
usual FORM but heavier. to withstand the
| pressure Of fingers feeling for it,