The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-04-05

snly about 60 per cent are sound
mentally.
A large deposit of high grade
tungsten has been discovered in the
north of Chile.
planned for Milan will be the high
est business building in southern Eu-
rope.
More than $4,000 pa-e- is along
electrical lines have been ssued by
the patent office at Washington.
White pearls that bring a high
price have been found growing on
cocoanut trees in the Malay penin-
sula
The death rate from disease in the
United States army this year was the
lowest for more than ninety years
The German postoffice department
is trying out a small three wheeled
automobile for letter carriers use
Pennsylvania annually raises S15,-
900. 900 worth of garden produce,
ranking next to New York in that
regard
French wireless experts plan to es-
tablish regular communication be-
t"eeH rTeHCn west africa ana South
America.
To axe it easier to pick up a
needle an inventor has placed a small
horseshoe magnet on the side of a
tAimble
At cost of nearly $5,OOO,OOO the
Chilean government will build a dry
dock large enough for 20, 1000 ton war
ships
Once driven into wood, recently
Invented split nail cannot be with
drawn, as the two parts curl away
from each other.
In its efforts to become a citv
beautiful Buenos Ayres has planted
more than $4,000 trees in the last
nine years
Cherokee Indian in Virginia
claims to have lived more than 100
years and to be the oldest resident
Of the United States.
The mortality rate among farmers
according to English figures, is low
er than among any other class of
men except clergymen.
Funds raised by popular subscrip-
ton have given Pittsburg, Pa, the
third largest telescope in the world,
thirty inch refractor.
The German army is experiments
ing with falcons as dispatch bearers.
regarding them as four times as
speedy as homing pigeons.
Glue that cannot be remelted AFTER
cooling is made by adding an ounce
Of bieromate of potash to half a mint
of best Scotch glue
Eropoy,,,,oa l,o.
with holes in the ends of the sticks
to receive flowers to make it re-
semble bouquet when closed.
Mechanism sensitive to sunlight is
made to light and extinguish a gas
lantern for buoys that the United
States government has adopted.
Germany mines more than $780,
900 tons of potash salts each year.
having the only known extensive de-
posits of the kind in the world.
y rubber stamp to be worn on a
nnger so that when an egg is picked
up the date will be imprinted on the
shell is a recent invention.
ourteen per cent of the area of
London is free from buildings, while
Berlin has 10 per cent free space and
Paris Az per cent.
Besides shipping several knocked
down steamboats, to South America.
Pittsburg firm has sent one to the
Congo and another to the river Nile.
Constantinople soon will be sup
piled with electricity for public and
private lighting and power by a Hun
garian firm, backed by French cap
ital.
California Increases it coal out
put at a greater rate than any other
state last year, Mining more than
twice the quantity mined the year
before
An American at Tampico, Mex, has
discovered a method for extracting
. textile fiber from banana plants
and has formed a company to exploit
it.
A Michigan inventor has patented
= stepladder with wheels to facilitate
moving it about and with a safety
device to prevent it slipping when in
use.
In the interest Of economy a small
automobile which will appear early
in the new year will have but one
rear wheel, to which the motor will
be connected.
Munich has a museum in which
the development of illumination from
the pine splinter of centuries ago to
the most modern electrical devices
may be studied.
Forests of the Philippines, accord.
ing to a government expert, contain
zoo. 900, 900, 900 board feet of lumber
one-half as much as in the forest
reserves of the United States, but or
one eighth of the area of land.
The Teachers College of Columbia
University of New York has estab
lished a course in practical house
decoration, covering three years. the
last of which requires a student to
spend the time with a professional
decorator.
To prevent the spread of disease
among horses that formerly used g
common drinking trough, Los An.
geles humane organization has pro-
vided white enameled pals. cleansed
frequently by a man employed fol
the purpose.
Accurate statistics covering mum
Der of years in a German state indi
cate that lightning strikes more fire.
Quently in marshy than in dry sec
tons and that the frequency o,
strokes increases as forests are clear
ed away.
A we'll known firm of London op