| Show L NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE Ten thousand gross of steel pens ns may ma be made from a ton at of t the metal u A works at Hyogo Hyo o has ha Just completed complete the first frt moden moer locomotive ever eer built In Japan An n electric light socket that locks lock with a Key has been b devised devi to prevent lok theft wih of bulbs A Ion long s sj of experiments has dem that hollow copper rods make the best beat bM lightning rods ros The second white rhinoceros ever cap ture alive in Africa has bu rought CP to a museum near nea Brussels The Te chief ingredient In a new secret preparation for filling fUng life Ute preservers is said eald to be 0 common soot soot A n new W musical Instrument known know as the is i a harp har played playe by a key board br similar to that of a piano Although much gold copper ropper and lead Is produced pruce In the Philippines there Is but one notable deposit depoi of sliver silver Santos newest flying Hying machine a is so light and compact that he lie carries cries It about with him in his automobile An experiment station to investigate the resources of Guam will be established there by b the department wi of agriculture Falling Failing to produce any tillable suitable buiM bui ing lumber herself Cuba Cub Imports 0 00 feet of yellow elow and white pine a year Th TIe e latest Parisian novelty novel in watches Is one set sot In a ring to be worn wor on the ring finger r of the left lel hand over oer the glove Figures gathered by b the government show that the American average con consumes consume consumes sume half halt his weight weigh or 66 26 pounds of o sugar a year An electric attachment for rural tree free frt delivery delvery boxes boxe rings a bell bel in the owners house whey when mail mal Is II deposited fn In the bos box Experts Expert in the federal bureau of ento entomology entomology have stated that more than 95 9 per percent Pr cent bles of the flies fe of a city are bred bre in sta su stables subles stables The Dutch will wi celebrate the centenary centena of tile reestablishment of national inde independence Independence by a worlds fair at The Te Hague n uc in 1913 A savings bank with a a clock cloak cok attached which cannot be wound unless a coin be dropped In the slot in the bank has ap appeared appeared In th stores stores mullein m factories last tear produced enough enot h pills ls to t girdle Ic the earth line Un three thre times If placed place together In a single Over 30 pounds of peppermint oil 01 are arc prepared annually annual from the product of of Kalamazoo the peppermint MIch Mleh farms fars In the vicinity A German gunsmith has patented ai an expanding bullet bulet adapted to the destruction destruction tion ton of dirigible balloons baloon which may be b Tired fired fire from fro an rifle rUe Though Tough apples In storage remain reman sound and firm fr they lose more than 3 per cent centor of or weight wl ht each six months montis by respiration of carbon dioxide A gold mine has ha been ben discovered In the theold theold theold old Chilean Chien gold field feld from which has ba been taken ore or containing more than 2 ounces ounce of pure gold to t the ton ton The wireless telegraphy plant plat which Is nearing completion near Newport Newport R R I at a cost ct of 00 will 11 have hae a radius of action acton of 1250 1230 1 miles milesA mies A knife the blade of which curves to toone toone toone one side at the end and is cut Into prongs pron pronto to form a fork has been invented for the theUS use US of persons The navy nav department maintains two schools for the Instruction of Its It enlisted electricians at It the navy yards at Mare Island Cal Cat and Brooklyn N Y T TAs YAs YAs As squeaky floors for are due ue to the ends endsor or sides of o boards rubbing together they can be b cured cure by separating the boards by driving screws between them themA A Paris Pris physician successfully produces artificial sleep by an Intermittent electric current of low voltage e the tle circuit being Interrupted ond one hundred times each sec second second Japan exported isinglass worth SI to the United States the first frt eight months in 19 nearly nerl seven seen times ties as much as in inthe Int inthe the corresponding period in 1907 19 t A patent lies has hI been granted on a I pooi pool table in which all aU the balls bals roll roil rn Into a a re receptacle re receptacle at one end from which they are released only when a coin gln is dropped into a slot plot More than of the persons rons ad admitted to the Pennsylvania Institution for forthe forthe forthe the blind in fn the last lat eight years ear owe their affliction to neglect soon son after their birth Memphis board br of health hrh will wi deliver deUer lectures on tuberculosis telling how to avoid It and ad how to combat it If con contracted contracted rn by b means mens of phonographs on street corners corer The addition ad lUon D f a teaspoonful of salt saltpeter saltpeter saltpeter peter td to a pot pt of glue will wi deodorize It and at the same Bame time help the glue to dry dr faster fater and become beme harder h without ing its It strength A new machine In a a large larg eastern eter sew tog ing machine factory takes ts kES in tn a sheet of metal at one d and after operations ejects finished bed be plates ples sav say saving saving saying ing the work of thirty thiry men Excesses Excess in tn the use us of alcohol dancing and are ar declared to aid in inthe Inthe the breeding of in tn inman inman man by b State Health Healt Commissioner Dixon DIon of Pennsylvania Sulphide pitch pich obtained obtain In the process proeM cellulose Is of manufacturing su nr a successful binder bider In the making of ot coal cal In the han coal fields fieldsA cal felds A V church organ with wih bamboo pipes pips built bui by b a priest orn near Manila In 13 1 still Is i in i idaly dally daily use the bamboo having been pre pee preserved pre served daly use by a process the secret of which sere died with the priest Vret de A solution of four for ounces once each of hypo hype hYp of soda and sugar of lead lad to a gallon of water soa used boiling bing hot bt will wl im irn impart part a blue color clor use similar to that of blued ble steel to most metals stel gives the Ule A london medical authority give credit for the decrease deree in the death deth rate rte of that city to the fumes of ot gasoline from automobiles which he lie says are antiseptic and act as a health holth tonic tonicA A Glasgow a ferryboat practically is a floating elevator as Its Is deck with wih a full ful load of sixteen wagons may ma be b raised rise or lowered lowerd seventeen feet teet to reach rech the dif dit different different ferent landings lading at which the boat bot touches touche There is nearing Bearing completion for the gov government g Tere I at Newport New ort News New Va a a I vessel the sole purpose of which will wi be b to de destroy detroy destroy stroy troy derelicts and other menaces menace to nav nay navigation along the Atlantic coast Apparatus for the Inhalation of oxygen will play an Important part in the equip equipment equipment ment 1 of the aeronaut whom the Aero club of France plans to send in a balloon balon to a height of more than six miles mies That speed at sea se is costly Is shown in inthe Inthe Inthe the Tat case of the British destroyer Swift Swit which holds the record rr at and anda an a half miles an hour Though hough only an and hal equip mies vessel her essel It I cost cst to build German Gran elite cities are experimenting with roads built buit of crushed basaltic rocks mixed roas with a small smal proportion of cement cent They The are ar said sid to be equally equal durable with concrete or granite roads rod and much less costly The i square miles of or phosphate lands in Utah Uth Idaho and Wyoming recently renU withdrawn from irom rm entry by the presidents order are said sad to 10 constitute the greatest get t known kown world deposit of phosphate rock rk in the I Chinese incense Inc includes Include the following I ingredients Elm bark bark cloves clove I sandalwood dust dUIt gro lako laka laka aniseed muck orange orge peel pel glano gin ginger ginger ginger ger rhubarb cassia and camphor Experiments in Sweden Seen with wih using buoys buos lighted with wih dissolved acetylene ac Iene stored in steel stel tanks have proved preyed a great gt success the lights being both brilliant and constant and needing no attention for months at a time men are re kept constantly em employed employed cleaning and painting the great gt Forth bridge In Scotland which presents acres of surface to the ac action action tion Uon of the elements element Two To hundred and I fifty tons of paint pant are arE required to cover From present indications the Ut projected railroad through Eastern Eter Si 51 Sibil Sibia bil bla bia la will wili wl not be b opened op ne for traffic before 1912 11 It I will wi tap tp five e cities cUe on o the way east from Moscow and develop vast vat tracts of agricultural land According to a French authority SO 20 2 per pee percent percent cent of the cannibals eat et their ther dead ded to honor hon r them 19 per cent rent eat et their ther warriors warn ors to obtain their ther courage curgE 29 2 eat et human flesh fesh to punish their ther enemies and only 32 3 2 per cent because they enjoy enJo Its Is flavor A German Grma army arm physician who h has bas been b experimenting with wih balloons denies the often ofen repeated statement that germs ger do donot donot donot not exist in the te upper atmosphere and claims that he has found thriving bee bac bacteria bc teria terla tera at elevations of f more mor than 13 feet tet Dr C G A Dorsey Dorley of Chicago Chicag who wh re recently recently centy returned from a trip tp through the Orient Orent found in one of the Solomon is islands islands Islands lands a tribe of hitherto unknown natives so IO uncivilized that they the wear no clothing and In the live le ground In hollow tree tre trunks and holes hole An examination of nearly nerl 2000 0 pupils in elementary schools showed 13 1 per cent more or less les seriously afflicted affee with pulmonary tuberculosis Should this percentage be b earned carried rare out through all al the te schools London has over 70 tuberculosis sis children The Te Bavarian government has ha discon discontinued discontinued the construction of et motor cars car on its Is stage railroads and is building Instead light but powerful four wheeled locomotives to o 0 haul single caw cars cn carsto to obviate oblate the difficulty of or the entire thE car cr being bing Idle when its It motor needs nes repair |
