The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
Newest Notes of Science.


Pearls decay when buried in the
ground
Few balloons are serviceable for
more than eighty flights.
Aluminium dust or powder burns at
an exceedingly high temperature.
IL takes 100000 SIXTEEN candle power
tugnsten lamp filaments to weigh a
pound.
New York City is to spend 100000 for
improvements to it's fire alarm sys-
TEN.
The chances of sudden death among
men are eight times as great as among
women
Nine of the eighteen expeditions in
search of the south pole have been of
English origin.
About 10000 of the 10000 automo-
biles in the United States are driven
by electricity.
The Chicago & Alton railroad is test
ing automatic stokers on thirty-six of
its largest engines
1t has taken eighteen years for
steamships to lower the transatlantic
record by a single day.
Buenos Ayres is to have an interna-
ton railway and transportation expo
sition next year.
There is about 10 per cent more gold
money in the world now than there was
ten years ago
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,210
pounds, almost twice as much as the
same quantity of silver.
Turkey has more aged persons in
proportion to her population than any
other European nation.
An experiment by an Ohio company
of curing tobacco by heat from nat
ural gas stoves has proven successful.
The United States, Germany and
Great Britain produce four-fifths of the
worlds supply of pig iron each year.
Over S19,000,00O worth OF gold was
produced in Alaska last year, to less
than 900 worth of other minerals
A wealthy English automobile enthu-
siast uses seismograph to register the
jolts impaired to his car by rough
roads.
Although the winters of Montreal are
noted for their severity. that city is $50
miles nearer the equator than London.
The Shoshone irrigation dam il
northern Wyoming, which will be SIC
feet high. will be the highest masonry
dam in the world.
During the whole of last year Lon
don's famous clock, Big Ben" never
varied more than four seconds from
the correct time
Although aluminium can be welded to
other metals with blow torch, two
pieces of aluminium cannot be joined in
that manner
The discovery in Maine of a natural
alloy of tin and bismuth is said by
metallurgiStS to be the first of the kind
on record
From eight to ten thousand of coal
slack and pitch briquettes are manu-
featured and consumed in the city Of
Belfast, Ireland, each year.
Eminent French medical men are en-
gagged in an extended discussion over
what constitutes the most healthful po-
sition in which to sleep
There are over 1000 bee keepers in
this country, and the product of their
hives last year was enough to fill
train of cars over 400 miles long.
English farm lands that have beer
titled continuously for centuries still
produce an average of thirty bushels If
wheat 10 the acre every year.
The half century of the drilling of
the first oil well in the world will be
appropriately celebrated on the 18th
Of this month at the site, near Titus
vile, Pa.
A Cincinnati man has patented an
electric air heater for BARRIERS use.
compressed air passing through a cyl
inder containing a resistance coil
In connection with Argentina's Gen.
tennial celebration next year an agri-
cultural and livestock exposition will
be held at BuenOs Ayres.
The forest service has turned 800 An
CORA goats loose on mountain slopes in
western states as an experiment to
icon tha woods f~o-7, tho s,.o h~aor-e