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Show Newest Notes of Science. Pearls decay when buried in the ground. Pew balloons are serviceable for more than eighty flights. Aluminum dust or powder burns at an exceedingly high temperature. It takes 140,000 sixteen-candle power tugnsten lamp filaments to weigh a pound. New York City is to spend $100,000 for Improvements to its fire alarm system. sys-tem. The chances of sudden death among men are eight times as great as among women. Nine of the eighteen expeditions in search of the south pole have been of English origin. About 20,000 of the 160.000 automobiles automo-biles in the United States are driven by electricity. The Chicago & Alton railroad is testing test-ing automatic stokers on thirty-six of its largest engines. It has taken eighteen years for steamships to lower the trans-Atlantic record by a single day. Buenos Ayres is to have an interna-tion interna-tion railway and transportation exposition expo-sition next year. There is about 7o per cent more gold money in xhf world now than there was ten years ago. A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,210 pounds, almost twice as much as the same quantity of silver. Turkey has more aged persons in proportion to her population than any other European nation. An experiment by an Ohio company of curing tobacco by heat from natural nat-ural gas stoves has proven successful. The United States, Germany and Great Britain produce four-fifths of the world's supply of pig iron each year. Over $19,000,000 worth of gold was produced in Alaska last year, to les? than $1,000,000 worth of other minerals. A wealthy English automobile enthusiast enthu-siast uses a seismograph to register the jolts imparted to his car by rough roads. Although the winters of Montreal arr noted for their severity, that city is 350 miles nearer the equator than London. The Shoshone irrigation dam v northern Wyoming, which will be 310 feet high, will be the highest masonry dam in the world. During the whole of last year London's Lon-don's famous clock, "Big Ben," never varied more than four seconds from the correct time. Although aluminum can be welded to other metals with a blow torch, two pieces of aluminum cannot be joined in that manner. The discovery in Maine of a natura1 alloy of tin and bismuth is said by metallurgists to be the first of the kind on record. From eight to ten thousand of coal slack and pitch briquettes are manufactured manu-factured and consumed in the city of Belfast, Ireland, each year. Eminent French medical men are engaged en-gaged in an extended discussion over what constitutes the most healthful po- ; sition in which to sleep. j There are over 7.000 bee keepers r i this country, and the product of their j hives last year was enough to fill n train of cars over 400 miles long. English farm lands that have been tilled continuously for centuries stil' produce an average of thirty bushels cf wheat to the acre every year. The half century of the drilling of the first oil well in the world will bp appropriately celebrated on the 28th of th1 month at the site, near Titus-ville, Titus-ville, Pa. A Cincinnati man has patented an electric air heater for barbers' usi compressed air passing through a cylinder cyl-inder containing a resistance coil. In connection with Argentina's centennial cen-tennial celebration next year an agricultural agri-cultural and livestock exposition will be held at Buenos Ayres. The forest service has turned 300 Angora An-gora goats loose on mountain slopes in western states as an exDeriment to |