The Washington herald., 1909-03-21

The German army is experimenting with
mattresses filed with paper in some Of Its
barracks.
An exposition Of butchers and meat
packing interests will be held at Berlin
from March to Is.
Warts will be cured by wiping them sew
tral times daily with castor oil and allow
ing it 10 dry in.
The crop reporting service of the De-
partment of Agriculture costs the govern
ment $4,000 a year.
Seamless steel barrels formed by a sin
gle process by powerful hydraulic presses
are something new.
The volcano of Kilaueau, on the Island
Of Hawaii is more active than 1t has been
before in eighty years.
The Chinese claim music was invented
by the Emperor Fuhsi some 5000 years
before the Christian era.
-Aeroscaphe' has been coined as the
word that signifies the aerOplane with
phililogical correctness.
The tower OF the Metropolitan Life
Building in New York. which is 200 feet
high. weighs about 3S.O22 tons
Automatic egg boilers In the galleys of
the liners Lusitania and AIauretania have
capacity of go eggs at a time.
France has more than 2I7 miles OF pneu-
matte tubes for conveying the mail. di-
vided between Paris, Lyons and Mar
seilles.
There are about twelve generations of
lies a year the sexes being about equally
divided, each female laying about 1000
eggs
An English ornithoIogist has success
fully bred the black swan. one Of the
arrest OF birds in every country except
australia
Cubas first textile factory, for the man
ufacture Of hosiery at first and cloths
later on, is soon 10 be started at Matan-
zas-
Straw will yield 40 per cent Of its weight
n paper when made into that commodity.
Cornstalks viii yield 42 per cent
The government made a profit OF sl0,541,
S79 on its coinage Of silver. nickel, and
bronze coins during the fiscal year ended
ast June.
The line of perpetual frost at the equa-
sor is at an altitude OF 1900 feet, in the
Northern States of this country at an al
4 titude Of about 1900 feet.
Kitchen soap is the most reliable tenn
pOrary repair for Illuminating gas leaks.
but should not be depended upon TO hold
Cor more than a few days at a time
Some American students recently dis
covered rich deposits Of coal in Shenshi
province. China. and have sought permis-
son Of the government 10 develop them.
Tests Of small arms by the Swedish
government have shown that three inches
Of pasteboard viii stop a bullet that easily
penetrates hve-inch wooded plank.
During the thirty-seven years that the
German federal government has been in
existence 2.707,676 natives have emiGrated.
nearly hve-sixths OF them TO the United
States.
The Russian ministry Of trade and in
dustry will organize floating exhibition
Of manufactures and industries 20 visit
the ports Of other European countries.
The French navy is experimenting with
shells containing in their bases a chemical
combination which ignites and leaves a
luminous trail 10 mark their fight.
a recent invention Of a Canadian is a
brick-laying machine which is claimed 10
do the work of six or seven skilled brick
layers when operated by two men and a
boy.
Fortifcations have been photographed
by an automatic camera. the invention OF
German. so light that it may be sUs-
pended from the neck Of a carrier pigeon.
4 Texas Congressman has introduced
bin apprOpriatng $4,000 for the use OF
the Department Of Agriculture in expert
menting in the manufacture Of paper from
cornstaIks.
A Danish inventor has brought out a
wireless telegraphy outfit which uses a
machine like a typewriter for sending and
which receives on a machine that writes
the message
A cash prize amounting 10 $1,000 has
been offered for the first kite of French
construction which will lift a man 200
meters and keep him suspended in the air
AT least an hour
slippery streets in NadgebUrg are made
safe by the use OF a wagon that sprays
over their surface sand or fine gravel
much IS the streets Of American towns
are sprinkled with water.
The Australian House OF Represent
atives is considering a bill for the creation
OF commonwealth bureau Of agriculture.
The various state bureaus will be contin-
ued as heretofore.
For restaurant use an automatic sauce
pan has been invented which at the end
of a given time pOurs the contents on q
plate and turns off the electric current
which does the cooking.
A written language. invented by a na-
tive Of the west coast Of Africa assisted
by ive friends. is said 10 be successfully
competing with English in that portion OF
the Dark Continent.
4 preliminary estimate by the Depart
ment of Agriculture of the country's pro-
ductiOn Of tobacco in 1903 places the crop
at 629,65i.OO0 pounds. a decrease Of nearly
10 per cent since 1907.
The largest three pumps Of their type
in the world are being built for Balti-
more's sewerage system. Each viii have
capacity Of 10000 gallons every twen-
ty-four hours against a head OF seventy
two feet.
Having made paper from cornstaIks.
the laboratory Of the Forest Service is. ex-
perimenting with rice straw. of which
hundreds Of thousands Of tons are wasted
in the United States each year.
The vOlcancitos of Colombia. tracts Of
land whence exude oil and natural gas
from many openings, are 10 be developed
for the oil by an American companv.
which already has its machinery on the
ground
A professor OF the University Of Berlin.
who is leCturing in this country. believes
that the Alps have been moved twenty
miles south from their original location
and carved into their present form bv
glacial action.
Three surgeons. assisted by half a dozen
attendants. recently removed a twenty
hve-pound tumor from a ioness in the
Cincinnati Geological Gardens. one Of the
rarest operations in the history Of veteri-
nary science.
Mrs Catherine Green, OF Rhode Island.
widow Of Gen. Nathaniel Green. Of RevO-
lutionary fame, is said 10 have invented
the cotton gin. but to have allowed Eli
Whitney 10 take out the patent through
mOdesty
1t is probable that 100000 feet Of pine pill
Ing. sunk in the Rideau River and lakes
In Canada eighty years ago. when lun-
bering operations in that vicinity were be-
ginning, Will be raised and converted into