The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-11
NEWEST NOTES
Of SCIENCE

Individual feas have been known 70.
live six years.
Spain IS fastest railroad trains make
only about twenty-five niles an hout.
Oil was used for Illumination more
There are more than 1000 distinct
operations in the assembling Of high.
grade watch.
No one language employees even a
majority of the sounds of which the
human voice is capable.
According to the estimate Of a
Brown University professor, the world
is 72,000,000 years old.
Within thirteen years every Japanese
city of Importance has established an
electric street car line.
The value Of the known mineral out
put of Alaska to date is in the neigh
.borhood of $14s,000,000.
An automatic burglar alarm recent
" patented by Russian army officer
fires 200 shots automatically.
Formosa S camphor output last year
was more than a million pounds be-
hind that of the previous year.
The first international aeroplane race
for the Bennett trophy will be held
at Rheims, France, in August.
Europe has about 107 inhabitants to
the square mile, North America about
seventeen, and Australia less than two.
The Russian Government has forbid
den the use of strong narcotics, cocaine,
etc, by dentists in their practice.
Simple but effective clamps to hold
rugs in position on polished floors have
been patented by two Oklahoma men.
The United States consumes over 40
per cent of the worlds output of tin,
but contributes an almost inappreei-
able amount.
The wettest known place in the
world is Cherrapongee, Southwestern
Assam, which has an average annual
rainfall of 610 inches.
St. Petersburg is to have a modern
system of drainage and water supply
by compulsory construction under
Government supervision.
The sensitiveness of Photographic
films is said to be increased by pre-.
liminary exposure, too brief to produce
latent image.
The e1ectrolysis of water and gas
mains in Boston and vicinity is said
to be proceeding at greater rate than
ever before known.
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discovered in Rhodesia, at point
which experts declare to be the site of
an ancient working.
The world s gold production last
year was the largest in history, $780,
100000, against $400.oo0,000 in 1907
and $390,0O0,000 in 1906.
Salt is mined in nearly every portion
of the German Empire in such quaint
ties that only about per cent of the
salt consumed is imported.
A machine that automatically
weighs or measures a medicine and fills
eight capsules at the same time taken
to fill one by hand is recent inven-
ton.
The rebuilding of New York city s
Catskill water system will require S.
100000 cubic yards of excavation, %, )
100000 more than the Panama canal.
The lowest point of dry land in the
United States is in Death valley, Cal,
27S feet below sea level; the highest,
Mount Whitney, Cal, 1861 feet.
Inks in which iron is an ingredient
keep better if kept in earthen jugs
than in glass bottles, as the exposure
to light hastens their decomposition.
For the German army's new gun, de.
signed for use against airships, there
has been developed a shell that will
burst inside a balloon and ignite the
gas.
More than 10 tons of human hair
most of it from China, are annually
imported into France, where it is made
up for use in all parts of the world
Of Pennsylvania s 100000 acres
| OF timber, about onehalf are in ma.
ture trees, one-fourth in second growth
and the remainder in stripped or brush
land.
For the storage of torpedoes the
| French Government has constructed
l and sunk in the Mediterranean, neal