The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-24

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garden.
To secure a patent in each of the six
ty-four countries issuing them would
cost an inventor $4,000, exclusive of the
attorneys fees.
A peculiar feature Of Tibetan in
cense is that its smoke ascends for
considerable distance before IL is at
fected by air currents.
The year 1908 will long be known in
Great Britain as the potato year, the
record crop of almost 1000, 900 tons hav-
ing been produced.
The countrys production of blister
and lake copper in 1908 exceeded that
of 1907 by so 000, 900 pounds, being more
than 900, 900 900 pounds.
Flasks or other vessels made of fused
silica may be heated white hot ami
plunged into water without being
cracked or otherwise injured.
A single pair of rats, If allowed TO
breed unchecked and suffering no losses
from death, would produce more than
90 000, 900 tn three years.
New dump cars ordered by the Unit
ed States Steel corporation Will dis
charge a fifty-ton load with the labor
of one man in less than two minutes.
A new electric barometer depends for
its operation upon the short-circuiting
of a U-shaped filament by an ordinary
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An international exposition of clocks,
watches. jewelry, mechanical and OPP
teal apparatus will be held at ST Pc
tersburg from Jan. % to March Is.
A young French chemist has sue
ceeded in producing artificial sapphires
from melted alumina in much the same
manner as artificial Tubies are made.
A month-old baby with fun set OF
perfectly developed teeth caused a
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meeting Of the Vienna Medical society
A company has been formed in Con-
necticut to exploit a typewriter which
is held TO be noiseiess, printing by pres
sure, instead of the hammer stroke.
The government OF the British East
Africa protectorate has prohibited any
person experimenting with wireless
biography without a license from the
governor.
one of the biggest electrical compa-
mics in Germany is considering the
erection of a separate plant for the
manufacture Of aeroplsnes and other
forms Of airships.
A machine operated on the principle
Of the vacuum cleaner is being used 10
nick walnuts in a California grove. Two
men operate it, saving the work OF eight
more.
The Bank of England is experiment
ing with a new Swiss counting ma
chine which is said to sort and pack
money into bags or tubes at the rate OF
u, 900 coins per hour.
One-ffth of the sugar used in the
United States is produced at home. one
fifth is brought from our own ISLANDS,
and the remainder is imported from
foreign countries.
The Aeronautic Society of Great Brit
ain has acquired tract of ground nall
a mile square which will be completely
fitted up for experimental work with
airships
The August meteors. according to a
leading astronomer. form stream so
broad that the earth, though it travels
faster than eighteen miles a second,
takes seven weeks to cross it
While the seeds of the dorowa, an
East African leguminous tree. are ex-
tensively used for food, the pods and
leaves form an excellent cement when
mixed with crushed stone.
Though it is estimated that a gramme
of radium contains energy equal to one
horsepower for fifteen days, it parts
with il SO slowly that 1t would take 15,-
600 years to exhaust itself
The largest chimes in the world are
being installed in the tower Of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance cOmpany's
building at New York. The four bells
weigh ! 500, 1000, 5000 and 1000 pounds.
An English company. which has sunk
half a million dollars in the past eight
years in trying to mine gold in the
West Indian islands of Aruba. has sold
out for $4,000 to local capitalists
Near Calcutta natural gas has been
issuing from a crevice in the rocks and
burning, according to the natives, for
centuries. 1t is now proposed TO extin-
glish the fire and utilize the gas.
Asia is believed to hold in reserve
more coal than is in all the coal fields
Of Europe and North America COM
oined. in northern China alone there
are believed to ne 5000. 600 900. 900 tons.
The light intensity OF a uIoOnless
night is estimated at .0O1 candle foot, of
moonlight at Ola candle foot. and of
full daylight at from 1000 10 5000 can
die feet, depending upon the clouds.
A new twin screw gun boat for the
British navy. though 100 feet long by
"A feet inches. draws but thirty inches
and IS composed of nine doatable sec
tons which may be united when sfioat.
For the general advancement of the
shellfish industry, which yields nearly
s5O.0O0.0O0 a year, national association
has been formed by the shellfish COM
missioners Of the seventeen states in
terested
Alaska's mineral output for 1908 is es-
timated at s1s. 500 900. more than $1,000
600 less IN value than in 1867 The de-
creases were in gold and copper, all
other industries showing gains.
The longest tunnel in the world hav-
ing length Of over fourteen miles, VIII
pierce the Caucasus mountains on the
line Of the Russian railroad from
Mzebet to Vladikavkas. work upon
which will soon begin.
As the spring at Bad CeBtnerbrunn.
silesia, possesses marked radio-actiy
ity. search rs being made for the