Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-31 | Page 60 | Facts New and Interesting from all the World

FACTS NEW and INTERESTING From ALL the WORLD THE manufacture of carbide is a new industry in-dustry planned for New Zealand. FRENCH engineers have completed plans for making the City of Brest a deep-water deep-water port. A GERMAN colliery has installed a canteen can-teen 500 feet below ground to save its miners' time. , -f -f AN ELECTRIC heating pad has been invented in-vented that can be fastened uDder the carpet in a room. APHILADELPHIAN is the inventor of a receptacle that can be attached to a cigar to catch aud retain all of its ashes until it has been smoked. -f M ODE EN electric lighting costs about onc-twenty-tifth as much as illumination illumina-tion with sperm oil or etn&les a century ago. SCIENTISTS have discovered that a valuable val-uable dye of khaki color can be obtained from the wood of the Argentine carob tree. MAGNETIZED plates, to be fastened to a finger with clips, have been invented to save carpenters time in picking up nails. A CHAIN of wireless stations extends arouud the coast of Australia, so that a vessel never is out of touch with the shore. GOVERNMENT expeite are investigating investigat-ing the recently discovered bone deposits de-posits of the Pribllof Islands, believed to be the world's greatest suppiy of fertilizer of that kind. PEAT covers about one-seventh of the area of Ireland and the deposits are estimated to contain 40.000,000,000 tons of fuel. BIRDS WHICH SING in Flight THE cuckoo is a fine bird which sings as it flies, especially when pursued by angry little birds whoso nest it has attempted at-tempted to invade. The tree pipit and white throat generally rise from their perch and flutter in the air while singing. The missel thrush and blackbird also sing while flying, but only very rarely. FROM mines in Japan and South Manchuria Man-churia the Japanese are mining 20,-WO.000 20,-WO.000 tons of coal annually. PLAYING cards that are triangular are covered by a recent patent, -t- INTERCHANGEABLE rubber heels have been invented that cau be attached to shoes and replaced when worn by means of metal fasteners permanently installed. HIGH temperatures aud a saline solution solu-tion are the essential features of a New York inventor's process for permanently perma-nently waving women's hair. DUTCH inventors have perfected a combined com-bined mechanical and chemical process for recovering all the uneonsumed fuel from furnace ashes. A NEW United States battleship will use 27,500 electrical horse power, enough to furnish heat, light and power to a city of 100,000 population. -f BY A new refrigeration process a Louisiana Louis-iana engineer claims to freeze a block of ice a foot thick in an hour. A PRIVATE train has been built for the Khedive of Egypt that is composed of cars that get their current from motors driven by gasoline engines, ULTRA-VIOLET rays Ere being used by German scientists to sterilize vaccine virus.