The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-27

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eminent subsidy.
A new English electric oven can cook
! four articles at the same time, vet is
so compact that it is but IS by IA by
10 inches in size.
Tar-c coated water pipes must be shell
lacked before they are painted or the
tar will make stains that will show
through the paint.
/ Melbourne University plans to re.
! quire five years of study by a person
+ before granting him a diploma as
veterinary surgeon.
The first class of Filipino physicians
/ educated under American rule recently
was graduated from the Philippine med
zeal school at Manila.
A record for long distance direct tele-
{ graphy, recently was established be,
! tween London and Karachi. India, a
distance of $500 miles.
Chicago's telephone exchanges are
! the busiest in the country, with an aver
age of twenty-five calls ON each of the
100000 lines each day.
/ Glass may be frosted with solution
! of one part of wax in 10 of turpentine,
! to which is added one part each of
/ varnish and siccative.
In making a silver dollar the die is
given pressure of $50 tons to the
square inch, while one of 155 tons is
given to the double eagle.
After seven year fight, which has
cost over 5000, the bark beetle, the
chief foe of South Dakota timber, has
been driven from that state.
Candles are said to remove seven
times and kerosene five times as much
oxygen from the atmosphere as acety-
lene lamps Of equal brilliancy.
Under a new British law the expires,
sion "child' refers to person under
! IA years of age, while younger per-
son. is over IA but under 16.
A government report estimates the
number of Gagged song birds in this
country at not less than 5,000,0 900 eating
feed costing $7,500,000 each year.
An alloy of 20 per cent of cerium
and 80 per cent of iron has the re-
markable property of giving off a show
er Of sparks when struck by steel.
A vast prehistoric forest, buried un>
! der 400 feet of sand, was recently dis.
covered by Army engineers boring an
artesian well at Sandy Hook, N. j.
/. The pounding noise of steam pipes
can be obviated by attaching to the
pipes small check valve, set to admit
| air, but not to release any pressure.
Over 600 tons of steel recently were
moved in four minutes at Chester Pa,
by Chicago engineering firm who re-
placed an old bridge with new one.
A process of butter making by elec.
trolytic action on cream has been pat
entea by two Ohioans. The positive
eleettode gathers the butter globules.
By the use of internal combustion en-
gines a rev British battleship will do
without tunnels, her decks carrying
] only masts, gun turrets and bridges.
A novelty in the line of physical cul-
ture apparatus is motor driven tread
mill which compels the user to run to
keep from being thrown off the machine.
The Norwegian Storthing has voted
Captain Amundsen a subsidy of $4,000
to enable him to fit out Hansen s fam
Gus ship, the Fran, for polar expedi-
ton.
In new form of centrifugal pump
the power is applied directly to the
water, only about 3 per cent. being lost
in the journal, speed resistance and fric-
ton.
An Iowa man has patented a key-like
attachment for coffee pot handles which,
when pressed, allows air to enter to
facilitate the flow of coffee from the
spout.
Researches in Germany show that a
given quantity of red hot coke will alb
sorb four times the amount of water
that will be absorbed by the same coke
if cold.
The detailed formula of every patent
medicine has to be fled with the Aus
trian government and other require
ments fulfilled before its importation is
allowed.
a steamship recently made the 4,240
mile trip from Yok ohama to Seattle
without being out of wireless communi-
cation with one port OF the other at
any time.
Japan recently completed and placed
in commission the fastest passenger
steamship in the Pacific. Oil fuel and
turbine engines give it a speed of TWEEN
ty-three knots.
Cartridges containing powdered cal,
eium oxide, into which water is admit.
ted to form steam, are used to break
down coal in some European mines III
stead OF dynamite or gunpowder.