Salt Lake Herald | 1892-04-24 | Page 3 | Scientific Waifs

SCIENTIFIC WAIFS The telephone has been successfully used in surgery to locate the position of metallic substances in the body thus enabling an operation to bo performed in the right direction at once Dr Thcodor Wolf lately the state ceo ologist of Ecuadorhas made special study of the Andes of that country which ho says are between ten and twenty miles further away from the Pacific coast than most of our recent maps show Ao inventor has perfected a sewing machine ma-chine by which the thread is supplied directly di-rectly from two ordinary spools and sews through the assistance of an rotary looper I By moons of this arrangement the old style shuttle or bobbin is done away with We are familiar with the rush of the express ex-press train a it flashes past us at the rate I of i sixty miles an hour but light actually I travels 11178500 times as fast The initial 1 I velocity of the shot from the 12pound 1 bronze 1 service gun is only l7COfeet a second sec-ond or 1556134 only that of light Granite ia the lowest rock in the earths crust It is the bedrock of the worla It shows no evidence of animal or vegetable life It is from two to ten times as thick as the united thickness of all the other rocks It is the parent rock from which all other rocks have been either directly or indirectlv derived