Show NEWEST N WEST NOTES OF SCIENCE I Norway imports nearly all ail of its 1111 coal COd I from England The escapement wheel of a wath watch makes revolutions a year Gas and gasoline engines are gradual ly driving windmills out o of Holland To eye defects detects are attributed 20 00 O per percent percent cent of ot neuralgic headaches The year 1508 rounded roun cd out thirty years cars of telephone service In New York YorkA ork City Uty A combined carbon filament and mer mercury cury vapor apor lamp is being introduced d in Germany Almost 10 per cent of the population of ot Japan la Es dependent upon fishing for fora a livelihood Government railroads in India arc are experimenting with cast iron cross tk tIt tiei A Amade made In the form of f boxes France has withdrawn her objection I to lo w a proposed wireless telegraph ser set service service vice between England Eng and and Italy Ital I A Connecticut paper mill has sue suc succeeded In making a tough paper with a u afine afine fine grain from Texas sugar augar cane caneA caneA caneA A single body of ot Iron ore In Lebanon county Pennsylvania has hns been mined almost without interruption since 1740 Under favorable circumstances the product of ot a single bacterium will total 16 bacteria in houS lious The Michigan Central railway will vili electrify its Detroit terminals and its It main line for tor thirty miles to Mich An easy way to convert a measure measurement measurement measurement ment In Inches into centimetres Is o 0 ouse ouse use the proportion Inches centi cent centimetres centimetres metres of compressed calcium car carbide carbide carbide bide which the th maker avers aers will keep indefinitely are arc a recent Invention in Itt Vienna The first living walrus to be bo exhibit exhibited ed In England in nearly forty years ears re recently recently recently arrived at the London zoological garden To secure seum tie a patent In each of or the six countries issuing them would cost an Inventor exclusive of the time attorneys fees tees teesA A peculiar feature of ot Tibetan In Incense Incense incense cense is that its smoke ascends for a considerable distance before It is 18 af affected affected a by air currents The Tho yeas year ear 1908 will long be known in Great Britain as the potato year ear th record crop of ot almost tons ha hay haIng haIn haying Ing In been produced The production of and lake copper In 1908 1903 exceeded that of ot 1907 by pounds being more than pounds Flasks or other vessels es ls made of fused silica may ma be heated white hot ani an 1 plunged into water without being cracked or otherwise Injured A single pair of rats If It allowed to breed unchecked and suffering no losses loss s from death would produce more than In three years New dump cars cors c rs ordered by the Unit United United United ed States steel corporation will dis die discharge discharge charge a load with the labor of ono one man in less than two minutes A new electric barometer depends f fr frIts jr r rIts Its operation upon the tho of a filament by an ordinary barometric mercury column olumn An International exposition of clocks clock watches Jewelry mechanical and op optical optical optical apparatus will be held hold at St PC Pe Petersburg from Jan 23 28 to March 28 23 A young oung French chemist has bas suc sue succeeded succeeded in producing artificial sapphires from melted in much the same m manner as artificial rubles rubies arc are made madeA A baby with a full set of If perfectly per eU developed teeth t th caused a sensation when exhibited at a recent meeting of or the Vienna Medical society A company has been formed forme l In Con Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut to exploit a typewriter which Is held to be noiseless printing by pres pre pressure presure pressure sure instead of the hammer stroke The government of or the British East Kast Africa protectorate has prohibited any person experimenting with wireless telegraphy without a license from the governor Ono One of the tho biggest electrical compa companies companIes nies flies in Germany Is considering the erection of a separate plant for the manufacture of aeroplanes and other form forms of or airships airship A machine operated on the principle of the vacuum cleaner Is being used to pick walnuts in a California grove Two men operate It saving the work of eight more The Bank of England is experiment experimenting ing lug with a new Swiss counting ma machine machine machine chine which Is said to sort and pack money Into bags or tubes at the rate of coins per hour of the sugar Bugar used in the United States Is 19 produced at home one fifth Is 18 brought from our own Islands i and the remainder is imported from foreign countries The Aeronautic Society of ot Great Brit Britain Britain ain alit has acquired a tract of ground half halfa a mile square which will be completely fitted up for experimental work with airships The August meteors according to a n leading astronomer form a stream so broad that the earth though it travels faster than eighteen miles a second takes seven seen weeks to cross it While the seeds of ot the dOroa an East African leguminous tree are ex ox extensively used for food the pods and leaves form fonn an excellent cement when mixed with crushed crashed stone Though It is Ie estimated that a gramme of radium contains energy equal to one horsepower for fifteen days dB It parts with it so slowly that It would take 15 years ears to exhaust itself The largest chimes in the world orld are being installed In the tower of ot the Met Metropolitan Metropolitan Iet Life Insurance compans building at New No York The four bells weigh IMO 1660 l O 2000 and pounds An English company which has sunk half halt a million dollars in the past eight years ars in trying to mine gold in th West Indian Islands of ot Aruba has baa sold out for to local capitalists Near Calcutta natural gas has been Issuing from train a crevice in the rocks and burning according to the natives for centuries It Is now proposed to exUn extin gUsh glish the fire and utilize the gas Asia Is I believed to hold In reserve resent more mort coal than Is ts in all the coal col fields of Europe and North America corn com combined In northern China alone there thre are believed to be tons The light Intensity of or a moonless night is estimated at candle foot of moonlight at candle foot root and of full tull daylight at from 2000 to can candle candie candie die dle feet depending de upon the clouds A new twin screw gunboat for the British navy na though feet long by 24 4 feet 6 Inches draws but thirty Inches and is composed of nine floatable see sec sections lions which may mo be united when afloat For the general advancement of the shellfish industry which yields nearly a year oar a national association lation has been formed by the shellfish com corn commissioners commissioners I missioners of the seventeen states in interested interested J i mineral output for 1908 1903 is es Cs estimated estimated at more than 1000 II less Ip It value alue than In 1967 The de tIe decreases decreases creases were ere In gold and copper all other Industries showing gains I The longest tunnel In the world hav having ha haIng haing ing a length of ot over fourteen miles wIll pierce p e the Caucasus mountains on the theline theline theline line of ot the Russian railroad from frota Machet to work upon which hr h will wm soon begin As the th spring at Bad Silesia possesses POE S marked radioactivity ity it a search is being made for orthe the strata containing c radium in considerable ble quantity through which the water is believed to flow Worms the product pro of ot butterflies which were brought from Venezuela by a recent south wind are destroying the corn crop of Curacao So successful Is a motor the invention of a Pittsburg man at Atlanta City CIt N J r that it is to be tested by the lighthouse board with a aview aview view for furnishing power to generate electricity By the addition of the salts of cal calcium calcium al barium or strontium to arc light carbons they the can be made mal to give light tinted yellow yeno or red re respectively r cly The Tho first gives the highest efficiency The value of wireless telegraphy was al evidenced shortly after the Italian when there was constant communication between bete n the Eiffel Elft l tower at Paris and French warships rt at it Messina a distance of abut OO mills miles A census of the American bison con conducted f rn on I ducted by the New York Zoological so society M clet showed that were ere 2047 of the animals In existence the first it 1 I last year of ot them In captivity in inthe inthe n the United States and in inI Canada I The Th abandonment of goats milk milkan a aan as asan an article of ot diet by all Europeans 11 i ing on the Island of Malta has bas rom corn completely romi i eliminated a disease known as I Maltese fever fler and made the island on Q one of or the most healthful in itt th the Mediterranean I 55 |