The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
NEW NOTES
OF SCIENCE

The automobile INDUSTRY provides a
livelihood for 100000 persons.
Rats are eaten by the natives of
some portions of Northern Australia.
The working power Of an able-bod-
led man is about one-tenth that of 4
horse.
A large German electric power sta
ton is relying wholly upon peat for
fuel.
A new dining-room chair has a seat
that lifts to form high chair for a
child.
OF the 22,994 miles of telegraph lines
in Chile the Government owns 1858
miles.
Milk will quench fire caused by an
exploding lamp, water only spreading
the oil.
The London police use finger print
records to identify more than 1000
prisoners a year.
An English company has been organ
lied to develop and exploit the pc
troleum fields of Morocco.
In new London club almost every
thing is done by electricity, even the
walters being electrical.
In China there has been discovered
method for making a strong, durable
cloth from banana stalks.
A fence can be made catproof by
stringing a tight wire about two inch
es above and parallel with the top.
The heaviest rainfall ever recorded
occurred on the Isthmus of Panama,
where 1896 inches of water fell in
twenty four hours.
An Italian inventor living in Phila-
delphia has patented a burial casket
to hold a corpse seated upright on a
stool,
The record Of cost to manufacture
moving picture film was attained
when a French firm spent $4,000 to
reproduce an opera.
A Florida hotel owns an artesian
well which yields a copious supply of
water hot enough to heat the build
: ing when necessary.
The oldest pipe organ in the world
an instrument dating from 1910, is in
church on the Island of Cortland,
in the Baltic sea.
Utilizing the steam from heating
pipes to which it is connected, fuel
saving cooking stove has been patent
ed by Missouri man.
A bullet recently was removed from
a soldiers heart by Paris surgeons
and the patient recovered and return
ed to duty in a short time.
Grease may be removed from the in
terror of utensils so that they can be
washed thoroughly by holding them
over the vapor of alcohol.
By way of experiment a California
railroad has ordered $4,000 railroad
, ties rom Australia, made of ironbark,
a very durable hard wood.
The use OF tungsten as an alloy in
steel enables the latter to hold its
temper at a much higher temperature
than the ordinary carbon steel.
Thoracograph is the name that has
been given to a machine which has
, been invented to draw diagrams of Il
persons chest movements during re-
SEPARATION.
t Under new ruling in Ceylon, opium
may be imported only by the Govern
ment and dispensed under the super
vision of the civil medical stores.
Despite the advance that has been
made in electrical signs in the last
= few years, manufacturers claim the
industry is but in its infancy.
huge cave in a chalk mountain,
containing prehistoric remains and an
tiquities Of great value, has been dis
= covered in German East Africa.
5 The lumber cut in the United States
, last year totaled 44,5S5, 100000 feet,
; board measure, an increase Of 34.2 per
. cent over 1908
With its S5,OOO-ton affair at Ham.
burg, and one of 10000 tons capacity
Z building at Kiel, Germany will have
p the two largest dry docks in the world
The art of photography has been
+, advanced in Siam by the royal family,
several members of which are expert
, amateur photographers.
! With a view to horses comfort. a
! Philadelphia has invented a check
: rein operating from the sides of the
3 head instead of from the top.
A cylindrical barrel for grapes, di-
vided into four sections to ventilate
the contents and prevent crushing, has
been invented in Spain.
OF similar form to the usual tyne 0f