Show I I I Ir L NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE II I I The 1 Brazilian CO palm frequently lives ves to en an age of f iM O years ear There It ar are 4 SOi counties of agricultural itt Importance in Uw the States The present system of punctuation was wai d in the fifteenth century TM The German erman army Is experimenting with s filled per paper In m some ome Of Its tt barracks An exposition on of butchers and meat packing c Interests interest Inte tI win will be held at Berlin from irem March 6 to is 1 Warts wilt will be cured ced by wiping them several times Umes roes a flay day with mth castor cuter oil and anI allowing allo It to dry ta tu The TIle lg of o the de do department department of agriculture costs the govern government ment metat y ar t Seamless steel start barrels formed farmed by bya a sin single ale gle process by bJ powerful hydraulic presses are something new The volcano of Kilauea on en the Island Illand of Hawaii is mere re active than It has been before Mf in iD eighty years year ear Tb The Chinese claim music was Invented by the Emperor ej Fuh some corne years yea before rore the Uie Christian era phe has been coined as the tb wO J that signifies Il the aeroplane with correctness The tower of the Ute Metropolitan Life building in a New York ork which Is WO 00 00 feet high weighs about Ii tons ton tonA A Automatic lito egg ess boilers boiler In the galleys galles of the liners ImerS and hava hav have havea a capacity of ef S 9 eggs at a II time France FraD has mere fliers than miles of pneumatic matic tubes for or conveying the mall mail di dt divided vided TIded between b Paris Lyons Lyens and Mar olar Marseille Marseilles sem seilles There are about twelve generations of flies n s a year rear the sexes being about equally divided each female laying about eggs eg Pennsylvania u ya IA New Kew York and Ohio In Inthe Inthe the order named have led in the country coun country try tryl fi i sandstone industry for fer the past vast three years l rs An has success successfully successfully fully bred wed the black blaek swan sW n one of the rarest est eat of birds In every country except Aus Australia Australia traits Cubas first textile factory for or the man manufacture manufacture manufacture ef sf 8 hosiery at first and cloths lat later later later er on is soon to be started at Matanzas Straw will Wilt yield 40 per cent of Its weight In tn paper when made into that commodity Corn Com stalks will yield 4 1 per cent The government made a profit of JW 10 3 on Its coinage of silver nickel anI an bronze bronse coins during the fiscal year ear ending endino last laft June The line of or perpetual frost at the equator is at an altitude of l feet In the north northern northern northera ern era states of this country at an altitude of about 4 feet Kitchen soap is the most MOt reliable tem tern temporary pOl OnU 51 repair for Cor illuminating gas leaks but tut should not be depended upon to hold bohi for far more than a Ii few days at a time Tests Tee of small arms annl by th the Swedish gov government government government have shown that three inches of pasteboard will stop a bullet that easily penetrates wooden plank During the years that the German federal government has teen been in existence natives have baTe emigrated nearly of them to the United States The Russian ministry of trade and In Industry Industry will mil organize a II floating exhibition of manufactures and Industries es to visit the ports of other European countries The French navy DaVY Is experimenting with shells containing in their bases a chemical combination which ignites and leaves a aluminous aluminous aluminous luminous trail to mark their flight A recent Invention of a II Canadian is a bricklaying machine which Is claimed to todo too todo do o the work of or six or 01 seven seen skilled d brick bricklayers bricklayers layers laer when operated by b two men and a abey abe aboy boy bey be Fortifications have hae been photographed by TV an automatic camera the Invention of ofa ofa ofa a German Gennan so IO light that It may be sus sue d from the neck of a carrier r pigeon A Texas congressman has Introduced a arill abill abill bill rill appropriating 1 WJ for the us use of or the thed department d of agriculture in experiment lag Ing ng in the manufacture of paper from cornstalks The new method of cutting steel plates b by an oxygen Jet Is lt based baaed on the fact that when the metal metat at a high temperature is isso IsS so 50 S treated the resulting oxide Is more fusible than the metal metai itself and ann passing I surface acted away laves a fresh to be upon in turn turnA turnA turnA A cash prize amounting tn 2000 has I been offered for the Ole first kite ki of French construction will lift IUt a man mn SOO OO metres and keep him MW suspended etl in the air I at least an hour bow Slippery streets s Ut lit 1 are made nade safe by the vat e of a wagon son that sprays pray I over Oer their surface sand sad or fine gravel grael much as the streets of oC American towns town are sprinkled with water The British army anny In 10 February win will hold holda I a competition for tractors capable of ef drawing loade 1 and will Win buy the winner wier if it proves suitable for military work The De Australian of representatives rep Is U considering cO a MS blU fee fer f the n of a bureau U of ef a agriculture The varioUs state Plate bureaus win Will be continued as 85 heretofore For Fm restaurant use aa an automatic sauce saucepan saucepan saucepan pan has hers bera Invented which at the end nd of ofa a given time p pours urs the contents on a plate and turns off oct the electric current which does doe the cooking A written language Invented by b a na native native tive tire of f the tho west wast most ef of Africa assisted by five fhe friends Is said ta to be Ie successfully competing with English la in that portion of the dark continent A preliminary estimate br hp the depart department department ment mont of agriculture of the Ute pro of tobacco in tn 1963 1 places the crop rop at poundS pound a decrease of nearly 10 per cent since rio 1397 The largest three pumps of their type in the world are being built for Balti Baltimore Baltimore more morea sewerage system Each Bach will rill have bave a capacity of gallons every ery twenty four hours against a a head heed of or feet Having made paper from rom cornstalks cornstalk the laboratory of f the forest service Is experimenting with rice me straw of which hun hundreds hundreds hundreds of thousands of oC tons are wasted waited in inthe Inthe inthe the United States each year The volcancitos of Colombia tracts tram of or orland land whence W exude oil oU and natural gas gag from many man openings are to be developed for the oil oU by an aft American company which already hs hu its machinery on the ground A professor of the University of Berlin who is lecturing In la this country believes ve that the Alps have been JnO move twenty miles south from their original l location and end carved into their present form fOnD by glacial action Three surgeons assisted by half halt a dozen attendants recently removed a twenty tumor from a lioness in th the Cincinnati zoological gardens one of the rarest ranst operations In the history of vet veterinary veterinary et science Mrs rs Catherine Catharine Green of Rhode Island widow of or General Nathaniel Green of revolutionary fame is ia said MId to have baTe In la Invented vented the cotton gin but to have hare allowed Eli ml Whitney to take out the patent through modesty It In Is probable that froG feet of pine piling sunk In tn the river and ancI lakes In Canada eighty eight years y ago when lum lumbering lumbering bering operations In hi that vicInIty were be beginning beginning beginning ginning will wilt be raised and converted into paper pulp Tests by b German physiologists have hae demonstrated that when a person pen on is de deprived deprived deprived of sleep It Is the brain that suffers most while when the body to Is deprived of food the brain holds its own the longest of all the organs or ns Experiments with the new army anny rifle show shO that the erosion with nitroglycerine powder Is three or four times aa as a rapid as asI I with nitrocellulose powder notwithstanding ing the fact that the charge of the former fonner I powder Is much less 1 The geological survey surrey ha tau has formally de denied denied nied Bled the statement going guIa the rounds that its experts had decided that h hof of 4 Alaska was a coal field TIle The latest official estimate la Is that theer are about 2400 noco square miles mUes of oC coal eoal areas area In hi that country A Danish inventor has brought out a arel wireless rel telegraphy outfit which uses wees a machine like Mke a typewriter for sending and which wb receives on a machine that writes writ the message |