The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-06-01
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.
An English firm has succeeded in
dyeing leather clear through the skins,
producing a supple material, alike on
both sides.
fairly good magnifying glass may
be made by filling an incandescent
light globe with clear water and cork
ing the opening.
A North Carolinan who raised 227
bushels of corn on Il single acre of land
in contest is believed to have broken
all records.
A wire pen or pencil holder to fit
over the thumb and first finger has
been invented to relieve the strain and
ward off writer's cramp.
The porcelain insulation of more
spak plugs is broken by screwing
them in too tight when the cylinders
are cold than from any other cause.
A combination of a pound o. plum
bago, four ounces each of turpentine
and water and an ounce of sugar
makes Il cheap and effective stove pol
ish.
y FrenChman has patented a process
for making cigar boxes of paper pulp.
treated with cedar oil or IL chemical
equivalent, for the sake of appearance.
English railroads are building cars
especially designed to carry automo-
biles, bars being provided to separate
them and straps to hold them in place.
The Mexican state of Chihuahua will
established a reform school for young
criminals and Migrants. who will be
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Some of the more pretcntious Alpine
observatorieS are Shcathed in copper.
as a protection against lightning and
for the concentration of the suns heat.
Canada's wheat crop last year to-
tailed 166, IA, 900 bushels. valued at
$14t,32O, 900. as against 112.434. 900
bushels, worth $91, 22S, 900 the year be-
fore.
A Minnesota inventor has been
granted a patent on II cash register
that carries n phonogra phi to announce
the figures indicated when the keys
are pressed.
Hudson bay is the third largest sea
in the world, being exceeded in area
only by the Mediterranean and the
Caribbean.
A new electric lamp bracket that
can be bent into any position consists
of a series of alternating thimbles and
balls.
The expectation of chalk and cray
oDs from the United States has been
steadily increasing for several years,
last years exports being worth almost
100000.
Some Of the compounds Of the mys-
FERROUS mctalloid tellurium have an Of
fensive odor, which they impart almost
theoretically to anything with which
they come in contact.
A cooking stove for campers or
jewellers in small apartments 50 COM
pact that it can be taken apart and
arried in the pocket has been invented
by a PennsyTvanian.
Tnhertfng some of her fathers
genius, the young daughter of Thomas
a. Edison has patented Il road map for
automobiles and a means of lighting
it with electricity.
The first medical college in America
was established at Philadelphia in
1865. graduating ten students with the
degree of bachelor of medicine three
years later.
An Austrian aeroplanist has sue
ceeded in pr0pclling sleigh at a rapid
rate with the same engine and aerial
propeller that he used on one of his
flying machines.
From the Queen Marghcrita observ-
atory on Mount Rosa in the Alps. the
highest point but one in all Europe,
it is possible to see 1875 miles practi-
cally in all directions
A new English electric heater con-
sists of quartz tubes containing sprals
of wire. the tubes becoming incandes-
cent within few seconds after the
current is turned on.
Basins Ut mercury revolved by cleo
trio motors to change the concavity of
the mercury to alter the focus, are
something new in the line Of reflectors
for big telescopes.
EndoWmcnts having furnished a
financial nucleus, the municipal au-
thorities of Frankfort-on-the-M Main,
Germany. viii aid i'm the foundation of
Il trst-class university for that city.
The New England states again last
year led the rest of the country in the
number of balloon asccnsions rDr sport.
there being cishty-one flights from
Massachusetts and six from Vermont.
\ dead dog recently was made to
bark and howl before the French
Academy Of Sciences by applying
feeble currents to certain throat mus
Giles after the lungs had been inflated.
\ new safety appliance FOR railroads
is a machine to place torpedoes on a
rail when a danger signal is set in
foggy weather or in such a location
that a derail could not be used.