The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-13

There are ten medical colleges in japan.
Ammonia is an effectusl stimulant for
falling hair
Michigan leads the states in the salt in
dustry, with New York a close second.
AUSTRALIA produced 3,0GJ.535 fine ounces
of gold last year and New Zealand Al 800
Berlin is said TO have more trees on its
streets than any other city ia the world
II costs about S5.500.000 to lay a modern
telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean
The United States uses nearly one-third
/ OF the worlds production of cocoa each
year.
The geological survey estimates Mary
lands store OF unmined coal at 7.716O00. 0OC
tons.
The electrical equipment of a modern
first-elass battieship entails an expense
Extensive deposits Of asbestos of good
quality have been discovered in India and
Afghanistan.
The diminutive hog fish. swimming
down Gods throat kills its host and eats
its way out.
India is expected to export 10000 tons
of linseed this year, 10000 tons more than
last year.
Almost every serious epidemic of cbol-
era in the history Of the world has tray
eled from east to west.
For privacy while telephOning there has
been put on the market a desk booth
which just fits the face.
A recently-opened section of the Picking
Kalgan railway i'm China rises 1850 feet
in the first ten miles.
Work has begun at Cleveland on a
bridge which will have the longest CON
crete span in the world. go feet
During 1905. 7jS,Sl2 Russian settlers mi
grated to Siberia of whom. for various
reasons. 121, 2O4 returned.
A British company with ample capital
has been organized TO WORK the so-called
magnetic iron sand deposits of Java
Glass may be frosted with a solution of
one part of wax in ten of turpentine. 70
which is added one part each Of TaTnIsl
and siccative.
Candles are said to remove seven times
and kerosene five times as much oxygen
from the atmosphere as ascetylene lamps
OF equal bTilHancy.
In making a silver dollar the die is Civ
en- a pressure Of $50 tons to the square
inch. while one Of 155 tons is given TO the
double eagle
An alloy Of 20 per cent Of cerium and 81
per cent CT iron has the remarkable prop
erty Of giving off a shower Of sparks
when struck by steel.
After a seventy-year fight. which has
! cost over S25. 600 the bark beetle. the chief
foe of South Dakota timber. has been
driven from that state.
A novelty in the line Of physical cui-
ture apparatus is a mOtor-driven tread
mill which cOmDels the user to run to
I keep from being thrown off the machine
A government report estimates the
number of caged sOngbirds in this coun-
/ try at not less than 5.00009. eating feed
costing St.JbJ.UUp each year.
4 steamship recently made the 4.249-
mile trip rom Yokohama to Seattle with
out being out Of wireless communication
with one port or the other at any time.
4 motor-driven sleigh. developed durins
the past winter. was propelled by q pail
of legs resembling, I'm their operation
those of a Grasshopper.
A national girls college. for the training
+ of teachers has been established at Pc
/ king. entrance being by competitive ex-
aminatiOns in all the provinces.
The waters of Lake Chapala. between
{ the Mexican states of JaliscO and Mich
Oacan. are to be utilized for an extensive
power and irrigation enterprise
Although Calico perfected his first