Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — NOTES OF SCIENCE [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF SCIENCE

The Falkland Islanders in the South Atlantic will establish a wireless station to get the - news of the world from passing ships'. The flat taste can be removed from boiled water by pouring it back and forth between two receptacles several times, thus aerating it. Ti© German government substantially re war do every locomotive engineer who runs a train for ten years without accident. The forests of the United States are estimated to contain enough timber to house two-thirds of the world’s population. All material for a bridge in the interior of China, 800 feet long, had to be transported nearly 1,000 miles in native carts. The earth is believed to he hiding within its crust twice as much aluminum as iron and more than 80 times as much a 6 copper.