Show II NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE I The best beet root yields Ields an av a age ge of oC 12 per cent of o sugar death rate Is the highest in Europe Eur pe 41 per 1000 each year ear Seventy per cent of the gold in the possession of man Is In the form of coin So powerful are the jaws of oC a wasp that the insect has been known to puncture a sea shell Japan has timepiece fac factories factories factories tories which annually produce worth of o clocks and watches A hydroelectric plant Is to tobe tobe be bl established by the Japanese prefecture prefecture ture of or In a recent test in Paris rain water bacteria were found at the rate of about to the cubic Inch Drying fruit by b the suns rays is s be being being ing illg scientifically done on an enormous scale at San Jose Cal Humming birds are disappearing from Trinidad In 1868 there were eighteen species now there are arc only five Twelve sprinkling cars re recently recently were completed for use on the Chicago City Railway tracks The aged Inventor of the Mauser rifle has now perfected a new weapon which fires shots at a single load loadIng loading loading Ing IngIn In the world last year there was pro produced produced du ed metric tons of or lead as compared with tons in 1906 Many excellent voices are ruined ac according according according cording to the French Academy of Medicine by practicing In too small rooms A new type of or torpedo with which the navy Is experimenting bores its way war into the hull of af a ship before beCore ex exploding exploding exploding The human lungs Jungs exhale each day da an amount of or carbon which If solidified I would equal a lump of ot coal weighing half a 3 ton Some of the finest French tapestry is manufactured so 50 slowly that an artist cannot produce more than two square feet in hi a year Two hundred and forty fort thousand wooden paving blocks a day are turned turne l lout out by a new machine owned by the municipality of Paris I IA A western Nebraska farm arm Is being successfully Irrigated by y a homemade windmill the fans of ot which were originally originally tin boxes I f fA IA A new supply of rubber believed to tobe tob tobe be b practically inexhaustible has been discovered in a explored section of ot Brazil At the rate that work ork Is now going on the tunnel through the Cordilleras tC to connect Valparaiso and Buenos Ayres A res will be completed in 1910 t I A photographic process which gives both perspective and relief is the in invention invention of Professor Lippman of or Paris a pioneer In color photography photograph Already Alread electric power generated by Niagara Falls Fal s Is distributed 15 12 miles and the Canadian n government Is plan planning planning planning ning to more than double the distance Berlin Is having great success with Its experiments with a suspended mo monorail monorail railroad which Is operated ad advantageously advantageously in extremely narrow streets Wireless telephony telephone records recently were ere broken when an Invention of oC three French naval lieutenants was operated successfully for a distance of oC miles The American Museum of Natural History and the Canadian Geological department are ar working together in the collection of an Immense amount of ot data about the Eskimo Over Oer rubber trees have been I planted on the Hawaiian Islands the experiment proving so successful as to tomake tomake tomake make a thriving Industry certain with within in a few Cew years A big Pennsylvania coal mining company com company pany panr will erect an extensive plant to treat railroad ties and other timbers with creosote and amI zinc chloride to ex extend extend extend tend their life liCe The rainless Atacama desert of northern north northern northern ern Chile Is the scene of the greatest Industry of the kind in the world yield yieldIng yielding yielding Ing enormous quantities of ot nitrates for fertilizers Thc use of o the microphone in fishing Is undergoing a series of oC experiments experiment in Europe The noise made by schools of the finny tribe is transmitted by the delicate instrument By curling or waving human hair hall with a hot iron a Russian scientist claims to prevent it becoming gray His theory is that grayness Is Iq caused by b microbes which the heat kills Using extremely ly delicate Instruments the French Academy of o Science Is ex experimenting with an ari unknown force supposed to be electrical In do nature given gi gien given en off by the human body bod i iThe The familiar shaving paste known as Creme is made by melting one part of or caustic potash Into three parts of or lard with sufficient essence of oC almonds to give it a flavor i After A working on his theo y for ten years General a member of the Institution of oC Naval Architects has announced that he can render ships both unsinkable and Francis Darwin Darvin son of the famous Charles Darwin whose theories he has exceeded In many ways was has been elect elected elected elected ed president of or the British association and on Sept 2 3 will In a speech defend his belief belleC that plants ha have e minds I and andare andare are arc intelligent I The human body bod contains over oer 2000 miles of tubing The department of agriculture has demonstrated that Chinese and Japan Japanese ese bamboo can be profitably grown In Inthis Inthis inthis this country countr and will experiment with forms Corms from Crom India I Chinas llInas new torpedo boat destroyers destro ers bum built but in Germany German have hae an indicated horsepower of ot and made 32 knots on their trial trip and 36 knots with a cruising load of ar fuel on board After Arter spending fifteen years ears In mak making making making ing minute observations of ot the moon Professor ProCessor Brown of Yale university will spend ten years more In studying them to determine the moons exact position A new coal field estimated to t contain tons of anthracite will be developed as soon as railroads now no un under under der del construction reach the Crows Nest mountain region of oC Alberta With a blow pipe using a mixture of oC acetylene and oxygen ox gen steel and copper sheets a quarter of an Inch thick may mar be welded more cheaply than riveted A temperature of ot degrees Is used To cover a pulley with leather use a warm solution of or crushed nut in eight parts of rain water on the leather and a concentrated solution lution Sl of glue on the pulley pulle which also should be warmed After thorough tests covering a num number number number ber of ot years ears the officials of ot the Bur Burlington lington railroad have declared that con concrete concrete concrete crete ties are unsatisfactory and have decided to build a large presen preserving preserving ing plant By B wrapping them In a new vegetable paper fish caught off ot the Portuguese coast are delivered In Belgium sixteen days later in better condition as re regards regards regards gards freshness and flavor than when packed on ice When a pest of eels threatened to In Interfere Interfere interfere with the operation of ot the Snow Mountain Power Pow r company In Califor California nia a wire netting was sunk In the stream and thousands of ot the eels were killed by electricity Despite opposition from the Japanese government the department of ot agri agriculture agriculture agriculture culture has succeeded In obtaining plants of or the grasses used in matting and will experiment with them In several southern states American financial l aid has been asked for far the erection at Montpelier France of a memorial to the late GUta Gustav Fox whose work on the grape grapevine vine era and questions are wen known to the horticultural world Despite the fact that fires are fought more scientifically In the United States than In any other nation the losses per capita In the last five years ears have been I nearly ten times as great as in the lIle leading le six European nations f 1 |