Show I NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE j I England makes three thre pence profit prot on every shilling minted ever An ordinary piano contains over a mile mie mieor of or wire In its strings By Bv steeping corks in petroleum they the are rendered impervious imp to acids or chemical fumes rume The United Unite States produced antimony worth in 1907 1007 and imported 1656 1686 66 worth S The average hen lien will wf lay 40 eggs in her lifetime nearly nearl half hal of them in her third veat A single manufacturing company pro produced produced produced and sold ibid over 50 electric flat fiat tat Irons rons last last year Shoes Shoe can be well preserved and kept In cn wel good condition by h being wiped daily daly with wih milk mik or cream Germany rewards every ever locomotive en engineer engineer engineer who runs his engine for or ten years ears without an accident accident The ThO longest span of telegraph wire In Inthe Inthe inthe the world word is COO C feet across the river i h in India India A farm tarm near Idaho Falls Fali Fals Ida Idi owned owne by b Thomas homas W Yo Lee operated ja s en entirely entirely by electricity i It I has been ben estimated that the eyelids eyelid of or the average man open and close no less than times each year far Experiments with new machinery on the Chilean nitrate fields felds are expected fo to cut the cost of production in half halfA hat A patent has been granted gante on ona a go art art the wheels of which are interchangeable for runners for use on snow or ice lee When the body lody of a starving animal in including n eluding man mal loses of o Its Us sub substance substance stance st nce the inevitable result Is death deathA A patent has ha been granted on ona a hammer halmer handle recessed rEcessed to curry ur a nail nai punch h and ana loss los with wih a clamp camp on op 01 the end to prevent its Is Because of or accidents in various navies the British admiralty plans to all al apparatus warships warship magazIne i wi r frig The he longest clock pendulum m in the world Is at St Chad Chads C ads s Shrewsbury England It Itis I Itis is feet Ceet in length and anu ant the ball bal weighs pounds German military experts are experimenting experimenting rl with wih falcons alcons as dispatch bearers They The are said to be four times as fast as homing pigeons A patent has been granted on a syringe like machine injecting poisons around the roots of weeds without Injuring surround surrounding ing vegetation Government scientists who have hae been heen measuring them say a raindrops vary ar in size from the merest speck peck of water wate to two inches In diameter The Automobile club of France has of offered offered a prize of 0 for a new n fuel Cuel which must be cheaper than gasoline and give as a good results Genuine Gen lne ruby rub glass owes its color to the presence of ot particles of C gold too small smal to tobe tobe tobe be seen without the aid of the strongest microscope Under exceptionally good conditions con of weather and ad clouds vessels esses of the navy have exchanged searchlight signals igal at a distance cV c miles mils To take pickles from jars turing them as is always alvay ala s done with A metal fork wooden tongs with wih cross grooved ends have been invented At the national electrical show to be he beheld held at New York next month the semi feml centennial of the laying haying of the first At Atlantic Atlantie lantic lantie cable will wi be celebrated The pig Iron production of the United States in 1907 19 amounted to 83 long Ion tons as a compared with 2191 tons in 1906 19 and 2923 in 1905 19 Following a practical demonstration of ofIs its Is value in that field fel the government will wi use concrete buildings In which to store explosives in the canal zone zone A noted French aeronaut has formed a a company with 00 to be ready read to meet the demand which he says sas is coming for or dirigible balloons for Cor pleasure A gasoline weed wee burner in use by the tie Union Pacific railway does docs the work of oC men in keeping the track clear cear of objectionable vegetable matter mater There are go fO few ew flies fes in England that there is 15 a regular business In importing dried ones from South America for tor food for poultry and captive birds and fish Paradoxical as aR It may ma seen sen farmers wives of ot Berks county Pennsylvania keep sweet corn com perfectly fresh f all winter by salting It i down In stone crocks or ce cedar cedar dar tubs Pennsylvania leads lea s in the slate industry indus to with wih Vermont Maine Virginia Virginia Maryland New York California Arkansas and New ew Jersey following In the order named erey A San Francisco Frncisco wharf builder has found that may ma be driven from piling ping or other water ater timber by passing weak electric el currents through the wood woodA A Pennsylvanian has Invented a ma machine machine machine chine which scrapes cleans clean and trims the tIlO heads and tails tais from fish at the rate rte of ot to SOO o a minute according to size 20 One of the largest larget pieces of or concrete work in this country Is a S fence a mile mie count extending from long by b four Cour feet teet high extending the Wabash river to West Terre Haute Ind md The British army authorities are ex experimenting experimenting with an electrical machine to tattoo identification marks on horses gums jums Instead of branding their hides and an hoofs Dust in our atmosphere according to scientists helps to retain the heat of the earth arth at night and and without It the tho ground gound would freeze like that of or the airless moon What hot is Ii said to be the heaviest heal st cimin in to the world has been built buit in England for forth forth Jt iz n nc r na rie r common th lu nl navy welsh weight n 1 1 pounds each t the nd cos c cost Og t 1 ls made ma e In compressed sed n air tr r by two tw EnIsh physicians ph demonstrated ta that divers can work at least 10 ret feet cot under dinder va na aI dl tr danger of death from the Astronomers of or note are inclined to the theory theor that the tue eighth satellite of Jupiter discovered last winter is the missing Lexell comet cornet last seen In li 19 1779 9 close coe to the planet an Patents have hae been granted in Germany German ben and the United States for tor a machine that makes glass laeB telegraph poles which are art being extensively used in several sections of Europe where wood Is scarce In the tiN According to H a I French expert water courses coures of Europe there are oJ horsepower available for France the tim same fame for Italy Itly O for Norway for or Sweden and for Germany German Because of its Is high fire test whale oil oi is best for tempering metal It I also Is 15 used sed largely in woolen and cotton mills mis as a lubricant lubricant as a spot of ot It can be re removed Ie removed moved moed from the goods JO I without leaving a stain stains As s an advance on the typesetting ma machine machine chine a patent has been granted on a Vienna mans invention that produces produceR matrices ready read for the by b the manipulation of a keyboard similar to that of a typewriter In a n test of o the explosive power of various forms arms of or dust when hen mixed with lh air it I has been learned learne that the explosion of oC two ounces of oC flour four in two cubic cubi f r fet t of air wi will raise rale two men standing on l the testing machine several feet At a cost ost of nearly oearl the British admiralty will wi construct ji line of o huge i concrete blocks at to force yes ves vessels lesses ses sels to use URe a defined channel Naval aval maneuvers maneuver have shown that it Is possible possible possible ble for tor small smal craft to creep up to the shore at night An investigation by b the state geologist of or New York found much more important deposits of iron than had been generally general supposed and In his recent report that th t official expressed the opinion that the state one day da will wi be prominent In the production of the metal A French metallurgist has succeeded in coating steel with copper by b first weld weid welding weidIng welding ing the thie he metals together then reheating the two and putting them through the or ordinary ordinary rolls used in steel mills mis He has drawn dr wn the rods thus formed down to wire as fine as No o 40 JO Resembling certain fossil quadrupeds quadruped more than any living animal anima a few specimens spec mens mena of the an insectivorous animal have been seen on the island of Santo Domingo for Cor the first time in sev sey several eral erl years It I had been supposed that the animal was extinct Although the name of ot Pasteur generally general Is associated with wih the treatment of o hy h which he discovered he also discovered the way to kill ki the microorganisms which sour new wine and an ef effective remedy against the parasites which kill ki silkworms before they spin their cocoons |