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Show NEWEST NOTES OK SCIENCE Greenland's largest settlement has a populntlou of 70G. Twonty-nlno stntes aro now producing pro-ducing coal on a commercial scale. Silk and Its mauurncturcrs comprise nearly 40 per cent of the exports of Japan. The United States Imports 3,000,000 gallons of mineral wntors a ycur, chiefly from Kurope. Japan's errorta to encourage tho cultivation or cotton in Formosa so fnr have ended In failure. New lining brlckB nro claimed to bo Import toils to moisture and oo light they will rioat in water. Textiles made or papor yam in Kuglnnd nro appearing in a vnrlety or oaslly wator-proored rubrics. For tho last uunrter century tho annual Inercnso In tho use or electricity elect-ricity has avoraged 20 por com. Venezuela soon will open Its first largo pnpor factor) , la which all the machinery will bo electrical. Tho nianufacturo or Mol briquettes rrom sawdust, shavings and nnptha-lono nnptha-lono In n now Colorado Industry. Using n special form of stokor and grato a Uorinnii power plant Is ma. king steam with cliulora from locomotives. loco-motives. A window shndo bracket so shaped Hint n roller cannot bo jarred out or It la tho Intention or n Now York mnu. For some time Honduras has be-on be-on known to contain petroloum do- fjoslts but only recently steps wcro taken to exploit them. Attachments to a plnno patented by its Georgia Invontor moko it serve as u smoothing plane, fore plane or Jointer plane. Koumtinin Is planing to build a tunnel under tho Danube rlvor to give it nccess to territory ncquired by tho linlknn war. The addition ot almost any dry soap powder to stove polish will add to Its lustre and lessen tho labor ot polishing a stove. In tho order named, quinine, calomel, cal-omel, enstor oil, tincture or iron, opium and brandy aro tho medicines most used in tho tropics. For uso in plnces whero wot hands might produce serious shocks a now Incandescent lamp socket Is entirely covered with porcelain. German builders nro p'anlng the construction or a 1C.000 horsopowor gas engine and In Switzerland gas locomotives lmvo been bullOj , A patent hue been granted ror a rod with a handle at ono end nnd a spring hook nt tho other for loadlu dangerous bulls by their noses. When u survey was mndo of tho wilds of Holltia all longitude was figured by tho uid or timo olgnnls 3ont by wireless from a ctatlon 120 miles from tho base or operations. For omorgency exists In public places a Chlcngonn lias invented u door with panols so mounted that prossuro at any point opens tho latch and permits tho door to swing outward. Italian engineers have reported that tho proposed tunnel from Venice to tho Island of Lfdo, which will bo two miles long and In places 27 feet bolow tho sea, Is entirely feasible. Cnmoras Hint will photoj;raph objects ob-jects many miles away, mo details of which tiro carofully guarded secrets, se-crets, have been ndded to the equipment equip-ment or tho United States army signal sig-nal corps. Italian shipbuilders have constructed constru-cted a floating drydock In which sub- HiaVSBaHiSlsajsjsjaasjaaaHSfJiHaaHSJi mnrino boats can be subjected to cxtornal pressure tests without the f necessity of sinking them In deep water. I In a combination sled and wagon for children tho runners tiro turned up and fastened when used for tho latter purposo and turned down to i project below the wheels when used for tho former. After n long investigation a French scientist has declared that tuberculosis tuberculo-sis can bo transmitted by the perspiration pers-piration of a person nHlictcd with v the disease, the germs passing through thro-ugh tho pores. I With an estimated production ol ' nearly 582,000,000,000 cubic fact or natural gas, tho United States established esta-blished n now high record last year. |