Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-10-10
SCIENTIFIC FACTS
In Tabloid Form for Busy Readers of Daily Press

Not more than eight per cent of its
oped by Spain.
A novel attachment enables an alarm
clock to start photograph and awaken
q sleeper with music.
Bulgaria enforces the use of the met
ric system BY filming those who use other
weights and measures.
When the fuel gets low in an automo-
pie tank the vacuum causes new
whistle to blow as warning.
Sweden's increase in beet sugar pro-
ductlon has almost caught up to that
nations requirements of sugar.
"A lawn sprinkler with four automatic
ally operated valves throws water in
four different directions in turn.
For displaying clothing jointed human
figures made of heavy and suitably col
ored cardboard have been patented.
A Frenchman claims to have made
writing paper from spinach stems. which
he says contains As per cent of ceIulose.
Driven by an electric motor, a new
combined wrench, drill and screw driver
also can be used as buffer or grinder.
The Swedish government is working
on plan for establishing direct wireless
communication with the United States.
An Oregon inventor has equipped
lunch pail with an electric torch to en-
able night worker to see what he is
eating.
To make imitation leather closely re-
semble the genuine it's surface is formed
with dies made from impressions of &C.
tual hides.
The Samoan Islands have a breed of
cattle the bulls of which seldom weigh
more than 200 pounds and the cows sell
dom more than 100.
A concrete barge built in 1910 for use
on the Welland canal is still in service,
while Baltimore is using one built two
years later.
A tool for quickly stripping buttons
and their fasteners from shoes without
injuring the leather has been invented
by Michigan man.
1t has been estimated by an expert
that Finnish industries can obtain 3,OO0
600 effective horsepower from the rivers
Of that country.
A new window frame is extended with
in the wall Of a building above the open
ing to permit both sash to be raised en-
tirely out of the way.
Such extensive deposits of titanium
iron ore have been-discovered in Nor
way that $1O00,OOO company has been
formed to develop them.
An inventor has mounted q refriger-
ator on wheels like tea wagon, per-
uniting it to be easily moved to where
iCS contents are TO De USED.
Finland maintains three agricultural
colleges, % agricultural training schools,
nine of which move from town to town,
and eight farm schools
industrial scientists have found that
well lighted factories have a II per cent
increase in production and % per cent
decrease in accidents
The Dutch postal service has adopted
a safe that will float for it's mail steam
ers, equipped with various signalling de-
vices for use when adrift.
A woman is the patentee Of bathtub
so formed that one end serves as a head
rest when bather reclines or as a seat
when foot bath is taken.
Associated with the magnesite depos-
its of Manchuria have been discovered
deposits of taic comparing favorably
with the high Grade inch mineral.
Nebraska is ne !e lt"g It 70 in the
civilian use of airp!fa"s. Ia 9 more
than 800 in service, while Chicago is the
leading city with about 300
Success has attended government fos-
tered experiments in cotton growing in
the Belgian Congo and shipments Of the
staple have been made to Belgium.
For out OF door use concrete tele- /
phone booth has been invented in which |
the telephone circuit is connected auto
matically when the door is opened.
An electric tow boat used on a French |
canal has propellers on each end and is |
driven either by storage batters or pow |
er taken from an overhead Wire
To announce that the occupant of
room is absent is the purpose of a. bell |
that has been invented which rings when
the knob on an office door is turned.
An English shipyard is experimenting
with counterbalanced suspension de- !,
vice to relieve workmen of the weight
of heavy tools used on vertical surfaces.
For factory purposes a jack has been
invented with which loads can be lifted
and moved by a man standing besides
them, permitting it's use in narrow aisles.
The Matching of eggs by artificial heat
has been practiced in China and Egypt
since prehistoric times, huge brick ovens
being used in the latter country.
For rifle ranges a self painting target
has been invented a roller passing from
a paint reservoir up over the face Of it
when it has been bullet scared
The worlds principal jade mine is In
Burma, where the privilege of mining
the stone has been in the possession Of
one Indian tribe for many generations.
A sanitary drinking fountain that can
be attached to the top of fire hydrant
without interfering with the use of the
after is the idea of a Californian.
1t has been found that the bark of a
,actus native to western Mexico CON
aims enough resin after the death Of the
plant to make it's utilization worth while.
A novel bathing cap for women has an
lir tight band to surround the head and