The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-05-31
NEWEST NOTES
Of SCIENCE

eminent will establish model school
of agriculture.
Because man can withstand OK
IRENE cold better than extreme heat
more persons are killed by sun
stroke than by freezing.
\ pistol so small that it may he
held in the mouth and discharged
with the teeth has been invented by
a Berlin artist.
Equal parts of turpentine and kerr
osene, applied with a piece OF fan
mel makes a cheap and effective fur
niture polish.
The worlds oldest chain bridge is
in China, where it forms roadway
half mile long from one mountain
top to another.
A shovel with sieve attached so
that ashes can be sifted before they
are removed from a heater has been
invented by Michigan man
Qunine. calomel, castor OIL tine
turc of iron, opium and brandy, in
the order named, are the medicines
most used in the tropics.
Coal dust ground fine enough to
pass through a 200-to-the-inch mesa
screen will explode on contact with
flame or an electric spark.
The shortest transatlantic cable is
being laid by a German company
over the narrowcst part of that ocean,
ling Liberia and Brazil.
An armored- automobile that may
he used for transporting money or as
1,.,,, 4
novelty in the motor vehicle line.
Though totally blind, young wo-
man at Pittsburg, Pa, is making
good living with typewriter, taking
her dictation from photograph.
Concrete brackets support 1900
feet of busy Paris street that had
to be und armined to form an ap-
proach to an underground railway
station. a .t
If grindstone be left exposed to
the sun. the side kept uppcrmost by
the weight of the handle will harden
ana the wheel will be ground out of
"a true circle.
Trains weighing 400. tons are haul
cd oyer. level track at a speed of
sevcnty-four and one-half miles an
completed in Germany.
Accurate measurements have
shown that few raindrops exceed
one-hfth Of an inch in diameter, the
size varying with the kind of clouds
from which the rain falls.
a metal holder for paint brushes,
By which they may be attached at
any angle to the ends of poles to
save painters using ladders, has been
Epatentcd by an Illinoisan,
A floating sanatorium for consump-
tives is planned in England, the idea
being to divert the patients minds
by change of scene as it is moved
from one place to another.
BY melting together an ounce each
of white rosn and shcllac and then
adding an ounce of carbolic acid
crystals. cement that has great
adhesive qualities will be maze.
A new German method OIL record
ell line of varying thickness. formed
under the control of the vibrations
on a strip of insulating paper,
| For the convenience of travellers
/ there has been devised a pocket elcc-
trio heater which attached to light
socket by a cord Will boil a quart of
water il three minutes,
I Adding small quantity of 90 per
Econt alcohol to linseod oil and cX-
posing the mixture in glass bottles to
sunlght for several days will bleach
the iii for artists use.
Experiments have proved that the
japanese tallow tree. which bears
nuts yielding an oil used in high
raised in the Rio Grandc valley, in
| Texas.
An expedition Of French natural
/ lists has discovered a new species OF
elephant in Africa. smaller than the
known types and with shorter trunks,
longer nccks and no tusks.
Because brok III signal lamps may
show white lights. several railroad,
have abandoned that color for sig
mailing, using green for safety, orange
for caution and red for danger.
British India now has two asri-
cultural colleges and the government
will establish several more to pre-
pare the natives for scientific work
along that line
or the more than 5000 newspa-
pers in the world. more than one
half arc published in the English
language. Canada and the United
states having about 24.00o of these
a tool chest which may be convert
ed into a work bench by clampina
it to the tops Of two desks is the in