The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-06
NEWEST NOTES
 OF SCIENCE

1 Extensive deposits of asbestos have
 been discovered near Eastman, Que
 bee.
 Less than four per cent of the worlds coal comes from south of the Equator.
 1 TenperiDg an ordinary drill in sul
 phuric acid will give it an edge that will cut tempered steel.
 An electric organ has been in-ented in which series of vibrators takes ! the place of reeds or pipes. l Great Britains rarest bird is the kite, which has but single breeding | place, in the hills Of Wales. l A railroad has invaded the holy city of Medina, and the tomb of Moham- 1 med has been illuminated by electric ity. 1 Forty men and four women in each one thousand are said to be afflicted
 with Seolor-blindness to a serious de- gree.
 new and ingenious machine unrolls a bolt of cloth CT other fabric, measure l it and rolls it agail, in new bolt. The recently discovered eighth sat elite of Jupiter has been successfully photographed at the Greenwich Ob- servatory.
 To give St Petersburg supply of pure water, experts are considering | | the city.
 ] The new life-saving gun, adopted by 1 the Federal revenue cutter service, has thrown line 1,650 feet in official tests. l Statistics for the last two years show the Dutch use 50 pounds more wheat four per capita per year than the Germans.
 Government figures place the approx innate number of horses in the coun- try at 20,000,000 and of mules at nearly 4,O000, 900.
 Columbia University will establish a school of forestry in connection with it's school of mines, engineering and chemistry.
 A recently-patented drinking foun- tain delivers clean new paper cup, filie;l with ice water, when a cent is dropped in the slot History is taught to young children
 a Brussels school with the aid of dolls,
 dressed to represent notable men and women.
 The Argentina Department of Hy- .giene acts as referee in cases of dis
 puted professional accounts between
 physicians and patients.
 The swiftest of the smaller birds is the Virginia rainpiper, which has ac-
 complished measured flights of 7,500 yds. in a minute.
 Japan has completed and published geological survey of Korea, together with a detailed account of it's mines and mineral resources.
 A calorie is a metric unit of heat, equivalent to the heat necessary to raise the temperature of a gramme of water one degree, Centigrade. ! Turpentine will restore to their orig inal whiteness piano keys that have turned yellow, while hot vinegar will remove paint stains from glass.
 The largest electrical cooking device in the world is an oven at Marseilles, 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 pow CT for knitting mills in the vicinity.
 A Boston woman has patented an in- dividual car strap which may be. car ried in shopping bag and attached by hook to the rod in the car or to another strap.
 The Philadelphia Aeronautical Re- creation Society has ordered the larg- est balloon ever built in this country and expects to make a trial trip in April.
 American interests largely predom- mate in the mining industry in Korea, one American company having already taken out bullion worth nearly $10,000,- O0Oc
 A 150-foot steel tower with a 75-feot well under it will be constructed at the Carnegie Observatory on Mount Will son, California, with which to use a spectroscope.
 i The Canadian Pacific Railroad is equipping it's bridges with automatic devices which VII set danger sgnals in case the bridges are burned or wash ed away.
 Test borings for oil are being made in the mountains of North Carolina and eastern Tennessee as the result of discovery of indications of natural gas.
 Christian remains, probably dating from the Eighth or Seventh Century, have been unearthed at Wad-el-Hadad, along the Blue Nile, further south than ever before found.
 A magnifying glass with clip att tachment to fasten it to pencils or otla- CT drawing instruments to facilitate fine work, is a recent invention for the benefit of draughtsmen.
 Surgeons of the Pasteur Institute at | Paris have discovered that chimpan- gees have a previously unsuspected re- semblance to man in their special sus- ceptibility to appendicitis. The British royal Meteorological Society has awarded the Syn1ons gold medal for 1908 to l.. Teisserenc de Bort, l of Paris, in recognition of his reaSearch | work in that science.
 The highest concrete stack in the at Great Fa alIS, 1OnV., towers QUO | feet into the air and weighs 17,000 tons. | It rests on a concrete base 25 feet deep 1 by 103 in diameter.
 Two British marine engineers have invented an electric alarm to give mo- tice of leakage Of gasoline. gas or other dangerous vapor in a submarine ,r a confined space in a larger vessel. 1
 A dirigible balloon, which is being built in Germany, the invention of a high school professor, it is predicted, will be able to carry two tons of freight in addition to it's crew.
 Atlanta is equipping it's fire cisterns with automatic valves, which allow the ,isterns to fill again as rapidly as emptied, and which shut off the supply ,f water when the capacity is reached.
 The Maine Central Railroad is ex- with electric locomotive headlights, the current for which is provided by small steam turbine gen. ,rsttors mounted on top of the boilers.
 While tires of a. steam locomotive will wear down after being run 5000 niles, it is said that those of an elec- ric locomotive will not require renew U until it has been run 30.0O0 miles.
 One of the biggest nuggets yielded by he new Australian gold field of Posei- lof. was found on top of the ground | where it resembled mushroom so greatly as to be neglected when first Ieen.