The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.


In proportion to it's size the horse
has the smallest stomach area of any
quadruped.
One ton of mechanical or half g
ton of chemical pulp is the average
yield of a cord of wood.
What is believed to be a lake OF
| pure asphalt has been discovered
near Georgetown, British Guiana.
In caring for the Indians since
1883, the United States government
has spent more than $474,0OO,00O
Black smoke is the exhaust from a
gas engine comes from too much fuel
blue smoke from too much oil.
A German photographer has de-
vised process by which ordinary dry
plates may be developed by day
light.
The population of the polar re-
gions is estimated at 100000, or about
one person to every ten square miles.
Wax obtained by boiling the btu
minous shales of Central Poland and
Hungary is used for candles by the
peasantry.
Half an ounce of oXalic acid to a
pint of soft water makes an exceNent
solution for cleaning and Frightening
brass.
In the south of France there still
is In use a concrete arch bridge which
was built by the Romans in the year
So B. C.
Something new in the furniture
line is a chair that can be turned in
to Norris chair, a tete-a-tete, a set
tee or a bed.
An American predaceous beetle is
upon an insect that ravages the tea
plants of that island.
The Venezuelan government has
arranged for International Geographic
communication between Columbia,
Ecudor, Peru and Venezuela
The handle of a new electric torch
is magnetized so that it will adhere
to metal surfaces, leaving its users
hands free for work.
OF the 1926 miles of street rail-
ways in Great Britain at the close of
last year all but 166 miles were
operated by electric traction.
Pronounced dead by several ply
sicians. a Chicago man was saved
from burial alive by a perfunctory
final test made with an electric
needle.
The oldest vessel in the world
afioat and still in active service is be-
lieved to be the Danish sloop Con-
stance, which was built in 1923.
One of the most valuable discov-
cries of placer gold in Alaska was
made by men who ran a small steam
boat up a shallow river to avoid gov
erment inspectors.
A reed basket of peculiar shape,
mounted on a long handle, has been
patented by Pennsylvania to pick
fruit.
Inside the remains of mammoth
found in Siberia were vegeta b1es
hitherto unknown to science, evil
IDENTIFY relics of the prehistoric ami
mails food.
OF $4,000, 100000 letters written IN
the world at large every year, $780,
100000 are in English, 1,200,000,0O0
in German and 100000 in
French.
The University of Cairo, the most
celebrated institution of learning in
the Mohammedan world, will cele-
brate its one thousandth anniversary
this year.
Any one of the twenty-six new At
lantic-type locomotives recently or
dered by the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad will haul on a level a train
of twenty-five passenger, ten baggage
seven Pullman and eight postal cars.
A fort built on long narrow
island at the entrance to Manila bay
is called the concrete battle-ship"
because of it's shape and because it
carries two ships turrets each with
two 12-inch guns.
A massage apparatus invented by
an Ohio woman consists OF a suction
cup on one end of a lever, to which
is pivoted another lever, to operate
a punger within the cup, the whole
being operated with one hand.
AS a means of Identification, should
they stray away, the children in a
New York institution for deaf mutes
are tattooed with their names and
addresses, an ink being used that
wears off after year or two.
The coal, iron and salt mines
owned by the Kingdom of Prussia
last year yielded 19,0S0,0I6 metric
tons of black coal, 100000 tons Of
ore and $4,000 metric tons of salt.
Electric signs may be automatical-
ly turned on and off by inserting in
the street lighting circuits solenoids
to operate switches in the sign cir
cults when the current in the for
mer is turned on or off.