Show NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE Using liquid air a soap bubble may maybe maybe be frozen solid Within a year the machinery exports of Japan have increased fivefold The electric furnace furna e is capable of at attaining attaining taming a temperature of m degrees The voice of man has been known to carry three miles through a trumpet Rich or highly fertilized soils solis produce tobacco with a high percentage perc of nico nicotine nicotine tine A resident of Jersey City N J 1 I ha has been granted a patent on an electric egg The British admiralty began experimenting experimenting experimenting with submarine boats in Ply Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth mouth harbor in 1774 I 74 Scrap telephone wire seldom is used in the manufacture of brass because it contains silicon Ido is 15 the name of the new universal language the promoters of which say it will wUl supplant Esperanto A Hungarian has invented a machine by which it is claimed words an hour may ma be sent over the telephone The state of North Carolina is the th most notable ble in the country for the va vu variety varlet of precious stones produced of the members of the human race die before reaching the age of fix rix years before sixteen wear and tear on the cur currency currency rency reney of the world is estimated at two tons of or gold and tons of silver It has cost one transatlantic cable company over oer so far fal this year ear to repair cables ca broken by trawlers As a health restorative a French medical expert recommends a ten or fifteen days diet of or fruit alone twice a year Germany is the principal competitor I of ot America in i the he exportation of loco lICO locomotives locomotives motives and Italy is her principal cus customer customer customer tomer England has a lighthouse to every fourteen miles of coast Ireland one to every thirtyfour miles and Scotland one to every miles The average importation of tea into the United States each year is about pounds a pound for each in inhabitant inhabitant inhabitant habitant A detachable clothes rack made of metal rods which may be clamped to the foot toot of a bedstead is a recent in invention invention An American photographer living in m Mexico City has invented a compound to remove yellow or brown stain from photographs Bathing machines used almost exclusively ely on the English coast were in invented Invented vented in 1750 1 O but were not used ex extensively extensively until 1803 output of gold in 1907 fell fei off oft as compared with 1906 while she produced worth of sil sli silver sliver silVer ver ore There are over words in the English language about more morp more than in German French Spanish and Italian combined The tree of Africa produces a fruit that resembles a chestnut which yields a cheap grease that can be bc made into candles and soap s ap The business of ofa a firm o of New York opticians consists largely largel of or orthe the manufacture of spectacles for tor horses to make them step higher An electric coin counter is a recent in England It sifts coins on ona ona ona a metal plate and stacks those of each denomination in paper tubes The only buildings left standing after a recent forest fire which swept the th town of or Fernie Canada were two busi business business business ness blocks and a residence of concrete One of the greatest needs of the pres present pres present present ent day according to a British scientist scientist n is for a metal harder than quartz as a substitute for diamonds in drills The whalebone industry once the support of hundreds of persons now amounts amount to about pounds a year ear most of or which is obtained in the Pa PaCific Pacific cine cineTo S STo To aid the man who shaves himself a Californian has patented a mirror mirro which may be hung from a frame about abou th neck and adjusted in almost an a any y position The largest lar est clock in the world weigh weighing ing a ton and a half is in the tower o of f Glasgow Glascow ow university The hammer weighs and the pendulum pounds S SA 1 A Ha pla la ba lies hp hl boon n found in Crete Cret Cr t I which seems to prove proe conclusively that I the he art or of printing from movable types was w s known in a crude way years cars ago agoA so soA A steel tape fire escape so compact that hat it can be carried in a mans pocket by y which a person can lower himself from rom a high window is a recent in Invention It is said that the Swedish mineralogist gist who discovered tantalum gave it that hat name because lecause of the he tantalizing difficulties encountered In investigating It k A German patent has been granted on n a slot machine that gives out a sin single single gle le address or a list of firms in a sin single single single gle branch of business when a coin is dropped into it itA itA t tA A horse can live days das without solid food if it has water to drink rink but only five tle days das on solid food without drinking Without food or wa water ter er it can live seventeen days Liberia the republic founded by American negroes has but one Ing ng plant and the pounds p of ice that It t produces daily dally is the sole supply of the he republic Experiments in Ceylon with raising camphor trees give promise of that Island within a few years producing a greater supply annually than the worlds present demand demandA A German chemist having found a away away away way to utilize the common potato potao in instead instead stead tead of wood for lead pencils a fac factory ac actor tor tory ory in that country is now turning out pencils daily A group of or Pennsylvania capitalists Is s planning to operate a trackless trot troley trolley ley ey line from Chattanooga Tenn to the theop top op of ridge Tennessee a distance of fifteen miles Siberian capitalists have arranged with British bankers to finance rail rall rallay way vay ay operations in northern Asia which will vill tap enormous deposits of copper Iron ron coal and other minerals The third gathering of the International International Int rna Electrical congress c will wUl be opened at London Oct 12 The standardization ion tion of electrical terms and units will willbe willbe willbe be one of Its chief f objects Records compiled complied at London for sev several several several eral years cars show that more fires occur in that city on Saturday than on any other day of the week and more in August Au August August gust and December than in any other months S Moscow will wili soon have a belt lin line railroad nearly arl nine miles in ia length tapping all the present lines that radi radiate radiate radiate ate from the city arid and serving a nUm nUmber ber bel of factories fa now distant from any a y line The Italian t is experimenting experimenting experimenting with small fish found in Bar Barbadoes Barbadoes Barbadoes waters which are said to feed feedon feedon feedon on the larvae larae of small insects which spread malaria mala in an effort to prevent pr vent the disease d S A new ne electrical ele device is ls claimed almed c to produce a bleaching liquid from ordinary ordinary ordinary nary salt brine brin by electrolysis elec which is s not injurious s to textiles s and at a reduction n in cost over present methods of from 30 to SO 90 O per cent centA A New Jersey inventor has applied for or a patent on a process of treating the bases of telephone and other poles with hot asphalt by b which he claims at slight expense epen e t they e can be from rotting for ten years The government of Bavaria Is taking steps looking toward tord tow rd the substitution of electrical power produced by water waterfalls waterfalls falls f Us for steam on the railroads Existing falls fals without the use of dams are expected to develop horsepower |