Show II I NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE I I An average arap roe herring con eon contains OO eggs e More than roe different kinds kInd of insects make ma e their thur homes In oak trees tress tressIn In the production of olive oil Asiatic Turkey leads Id with Spain n second and Italy third Great Britain imported more m than M pounds poun 18 of beef beet from Argon Argen Argentina tine tina ti last year Paper is III being beIg made e iron the prickly pear aar in Inn an experimental way WRY at Port Elizabeth South Africa Javas Jav coffee crop tal this year is 18 estimated by the th Dutch colonial government of officials officials at pounds For the benefit a recently r patented dishpan carries on one on side a draining rack for wet dishes Sewage screenings screening are compressed Into blocks and burned under the boilers of a aton Boston ton sewage pumping station The Greek currant crop of 1608 In exceeded tons tone ranking second to the record 1 crop cros cro of lO Ia tons ton dered six dirigible balloons and six aero jo 10 u LL planes In Europe for experimental pur purposes purposes poses A New Yorker has been granted a pat pal patent patent ent on a simple but effective effe tive holder to prevent spoons ns from irom tailing felling into tall glasses An Italian physician has found that vaccine virus irus may be rendered absolutely pure by exposing exp it to radium emanations Official figures place the country pro production production production of salt last It year at 4 tonsa tons tonsa a decrease from 1107 HOT of 1485 tons ton Scientific efforts to combat the South African sleeping sickness B already have cost coH the lives live of seven seyen European physic physicians lane ians lalliA ACcordIng A to a professor of the French Academy of Science all the elements element of food ceded by man are contained in Gru Gruyere yere ere cheese ch Corn cobs compressed Into blocks block bound hound with wire and soaked ked in tar are used to bund build houses bouses In some parts darts of Germany and Russia Fossil remains of a mammoth including IncludIng IncludIng ing a tusk of or prodigious size sice have been unearthed In a railroad cutting near Maline Malines Ma Malinee lines line Belgium Nearly twice as all many JIMmy persons travel vertically by elevator every ery day in New NewYork NewY NewYork York Y rk as ho tally by elevated surface or subway car carThe carThe carThe The latest estimate of the population of the world placed the figures at an average of about inhabitants per square Quare mile The TIle residue re idue rejected by Greeks Greek who smelted lead where It was waa mined as tar far back as H 00 B C is tB being ng worked over to today today today day by modern methods In tn an actual test teat t a new style steel coke ear car ar adopted by the Pennsylvania railroad dumped Its It load of 01 pounds in a minute and 45 seconds movement for As An a part of a national better preservation of the teeth several German cities clUes are providing free f dental treatment for tor school children Oak galls gall heretofore her thought to be of purely vegetable growth have been de do determined to be due to insect attacks by a coterie of ot British scientists Delegates Delegate from countries at attended attended attended tended the recent international congress a of refrigerating industries at Paris Part and formed a permanent association The Importation of Ceylon elephants to work In the Philippine lumber camps Is la proposed to make up for the scarcity of ot draft animals in the islands To create a greater demand for Its cur current current rent vent during durin the daytime a Chicago elec elee electric electric trio company recently loaned H electric irons to its feminine customers A pineapple cannery in Formosa Fornosa man managed managed managed aged by b Japanese also extracts the long lon fibre from the leaf teat of the fruit for tor use ulle usein useIn in the manufacture of grass cloth Natural gas from certain wells In Kan ICan Kansas Kansas sas sag is found to contain 2 per ver cent of he helium helium lium hum and scientific experts are working on the problem of extracting It House HOUN cleaning is II made easier by a new Dew vacuum cleaner deaner in which bellows op operated rated orated by two long handles suck uck the dust duet from front carpets or walls walla through a nozzle The pound Coffey Guffey meteorite found near ar the Colorado town of that name Dame In 1807 1507 has been acquired by the American Museum of Natural History at New York That many cases eases of or color cotor blindness may maybe maybe maybe be cured or at least rendered less lees serious by practicing Is as B asserted sorted by an eastern of note nots Resembling ice tee tongs In appearance appe rance but without sharp ends end are the new tools In vented vent by a Connecticut man to facilitate the handling at 01 hose Jos by b f The deepest bee eves ever made Into the earths surface for industrial purposes pu is 18 said Hid to be the Buyer oil well at Ron Ronchamp Ronchamp Ronchamp champ France which reaches a depth of 1310 feet feet Several of the Ute smaller mailer Michigan Nc cities are experimenting with h at tenting ung by hanging han arch ch es of tungsten s across e eth the th highways froM M The me eates t l of t buildings 1 lall by a firm tInn at France Is i to have bave withstood blows blow from a mallet malJ t tand and revolver shuts shots in tests testa without breaking The Chilean congress has h ha abrogated a contract made by b President Montt with a French company fr harbor improvement at t Valparaiso o which were Yere to tu have cost coet The production of all an kinds of cement in the United States State last year totalled um barrels barnI worth fUN M a de do deer crease er In value from ISO 1107 of over Experiments have shown that waves will pass pam through stone walls walla more mOI than three feet thick but will be stopped by IY b tin sheets no thicker than cigarette paper Pennsylvania led In the production of slate last la t year followed b by Vermont Maine Virginia New York New ew Jersey JeneT Maryland California and Arkansas Arkan u in the order named To economize economist time In curing hams a B Minnesota man has haa patented a perforated perforate tube with a sharp point which can be In Inserted Inserted Into meat for the Introduction of the pickling solution A few years ago a o volts volU was wu consid considered ered eyed a maximum tension lenon for electrical transmission lines line Now an volt line Is III being belD built and nd one designed declined for volts volta If il planned The army Is I testing tasting a three shell shed which has hu the properties of both solid Mild shot and nd shrapnel Behind a steel head bead is a casing caning containing tl bullets and a charge of high explosive Promoters of an experimental plant at Vancouver for tile the electrical distillation of turpentine from resinous woods claim the resulting byproducts more than pay the cost of operation Electrical incubation with which ex experiments experiment experiments are under way wy In Europe is said to produce a higher percentage of chickens which also alBO are re materially stronger and healthier than the other methods method Opalescent t glass for or us use In stained glass windows as u manufactured in the United States Stales never has h been duplicated In any other country and the exportations of it to Europe are re steadily Increasing The government of Argentina A nUna Is plan planning planning planning ning to spend about in enlarging the port of Buenos Ay Ayes Are res and 1 00 more on a canal to connect cOnned the port with the River de do las Pal Palmas mas The Japanese minister ter of communications is Investigating the advisability adri of transporting mail man by automobiles in the larger clUes citieS of that country and aM to re remote remote remote mote regions region not yet reached by railroad Ten grains of prussic acid per quart have been extracted from water wilier taken from an n Edinburgh gas meter met Indicating that the Illuminating gas of that city con eon contains an appreciable quantity of the dead deadly ly poison A resident of New Jersey has bas patented a tapering on which there is a sliding gauge te to regulate re the Ule size eize of the holes it may my make mahe ma to save ve an embroidery worker from carrying a set of tools of different sires sims The fixed stars are changing their po positions at an appreciable rate according to astronomers who say that even the most moet familiar constellations have changed their forms forma since the time of the ancients who named them themA A peculiar poison the use of ot which is attributed to English gypsies has hu been Identified as barium carbonate known to mineralogists as Although it kills killa domestic animals It does not render their flesh unsafe to eat to German railroads are experimenting with an automatic ticket printing ma machine m machine chine which does away with the necee necessity necessity sity for carrying a large stock Mock ef of f tickets at each station the tickets being leaned only when required at a possible speed spee of 05 09 an hour hourA A fire extinguishing exUn liquid In which the chief ingredient is said to be carbon carboR tetra tetrachloride tetrachloride tetrachloride chloride is a nonconductor non or of electricity er and its ita use is said Mid to save firemen b from the danger dancer of it r severe shocks Sometimes re received received by them when streams of ef water touch wires |