The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-03
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

Frost is the enemy most dreaded by con-
crete builders.
strengthening machines are beginning
to be used extensively in Australia.
| \ single mill in Maine converts 2.0S
cords of brentwood into toothpicks each
year.
ST. Petersburg will hold an "interna-
I tional exposition of the latest inventions
/ in the spring.
The English Royal Agricultural society
has offered prize of 500 for the best de-
vice for drying hops.
The Pacific ocean has an area almost
equal to that of all the land on the earth,
80. Goa 900 square miles.
Under the microscope over 100 eco bac-
terra have been counted on the legs and
mouth of a single house fly.
The swiftest bird that flies is the frigate
bird, which has a speed estimated at over
300 miles per hour.
The largest locomotive in the world uses
seventy-two gallons of water minute
when working at its full capacity, t
Americans eat more candy than any 9TH
er people in the world and manufacture
nearly as much as all the rest combined.
Remains of Roman cemetery were re-
Gently brought TO light by excavations by
a French scientific expedition at TangieT.
South Australia has purchased 1000
acres Of land to encourage and demon
strate the most modern methods in dairy
farming.
Tests by the japanese government of
cotton seed from several countries pro-
duced by far the best staple from Ameri-
can seed.
Nearly $1,000 horses were killed for food
in Paris last year. an increase of nearly
10 per cent over the preceding year.
Mechanical slate pickers, each of which
does the work Of ten boys. have proven q
success in q large Pennsylvania coal mine.
New Jersey paper mill is experiment.
ing with okra stalks and pulp from Geor-
gia. of which. ii is believed paper may be
made.
An adjustable band to clasp a stove pipe
with radiating arms. has been devised by
a Chicagoan as new form Of clothes
drier.
To obtain the best results from a good
watch. it should be carried upright. in the
same pocket. and should be hung up at
night
Discoveries of rich gold-bearing quartz
recently were made on the headwaters of
the Adagueda and Chirvigo rivers in Co.
lOmbia.
a female toad lays from 200 TO 200
eggs at time comparatively few of
which hatch and reach maturity at the
age of five years.
Rhodesia produced 22s4.775 ounces Of
gold from 1892 to 1897, both years inclusive /
the output gradually increasing from year
to year.
The Illinois Central railroad is fitting Cd
several locomotives to burn coke in an ef- |
Tort TO check the smoke nuisance at ter |
minsls
Russis's cotton crop for ZOOS is estimated
at nearly 424000GOO pounds. an increase
over the previous year of about 25.000,000 /
pounds.
A shortage of ehlorate of potash has |
forced many japanese match factories TO /
close, and has nearly ruined that coun- /
-ry's new match trust
4 E39-yesr-old buttonwood tree recently /
cut down in New Jersey yielded Loo feet I
1f sawed lumber and three two-horse /
Dads Of fiTewood.
Great Britain greatly increased it's acre
age of wheat, potatoes and lucerne this !
year at the expense of all the other grain /
and vegetable crops.
Havana exported las ISL cigars from /
Ian. to Nov. ]. an increase of about 10 L
Der cent over the corresponding period last
year.
OF New YorlS's 100 forest fires this year.
which destroyed property valued at s643-
S5.1s. AS were attributed to campers
hunters and fishermen
The finest pearls in the world come from |
thursday island. north of Australia. one
'alued at $1,000 recently reaching London
rom its fisheries
Europe consumed 42ls.s72 tons of sugar
turing the twelve months ending with Au-
months of SO tons.
PennsylNanias state BIOLOGIST has
warned the farmers of that state not to ,
estroy turtles as they not only remove
arrion, but kill injurious insects
The German armys new guns, built for
iarfare against dirigible balloons have
roven effective at greater heights than
is nov possible to send airships
A competition for automatic car cou-
lers Will be held by the National Col
-ge Of Italian Railway Engineers early
Z the year, for ! gold medal and cash
rize
Life insurance statistics show that in
be last quarter century the average.
myth of the American mans life has
lcTeased per cent, from AS to 4s9
ears.
The best cement for mendsng glass and
fetal articles is a paste OF equal parts
gum Arabic. water and calomeI. 1t
lust be used as soon as mixed as it
bon hardens.
Flowering plants have been found at
height Of 1890 feet in the Himalavs
lountaiEs, while the highest point at
hich they have been found in the Alps \
about 5000 feet.
Not scrap of iron or steel will enter /
TO the construction of a nOn-ma ghetto /
cam yacht for which the Carnegie in
itute has contracted for use in cor
citing sea charts
comparison of French census fig
'es Tor the past ten years shows that