Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-10-14

Smiths Sound, about latitude SO
North. Germany and Italy are each
fitting out Arctic expeditions. A
British Arctic expedition is being or
ganized to test the feasibility of Com
mander Cheyne's plan of reaching
the Pole with the aid of balloons.
The results of these expeditions will
be awaited with much interest
throughout this country and Europe.
The great Sboshone Falls OF Snake
river, located at point ten miles
north of Rock Creek Station, on the
freight and stage road leading from
Kelton, on the Central Pacific Rail.
road, to Boioe City, Idaho, ninety
miles northwest of the former place,
are said to be the most beautiful and
wonderful to look upon in the known
world. Yet, there are but few per.
sons who have ever visited them, and
that place Astounding with so much
grand aud magnificent scenery, with
so much picturesque loneliness, and
so much wild beauty should rest in
such obscurity is mystery as unac.
countable as it is strange. However,
as time rolls on, visitors to that re.
gion become more numerous, and
the day is no doubt close at hand
when the Shoshone will be one of
the famous resorts of our nation.
The mighty volume of water pours
over precipice perpendicularly and
falls vertically distance of two hun.
dred and sixty feet, and its thunder
ings are said to DE heard for miles
around. A late number of "The
Californian" most excellent scien-
tific magazine, published at San
Francisco,igives a lengthy and mos,
interesting account of these wonder.
full falls, and glowing description
of the beautiful wild scenery there
abouts.
One of the strange and unaccount.
able facts connected with the cleo.
trio telephones, and one giving q
wide and interesting field of study to
psychologists, is that by cutting the
metallic wire aud placing the several
ends in the hands of an individual. al
lowing the current to pass through
his body, 1.-The sound is but slightly
diminished, and messages are al
readily transmitted as if passing
through continuous wire only. A
gentleman experimenting recently
took the terminals of the severed line
in his own hands, and, with the tele
phones in convenient position, t.
his sarprise actually transmitted
his voice through bis own body
and distinctly heard the voice O
the person at the other end of thu
line after it had passed through hi.
own body. A continuous line of per
sons joined together by hands, the
two end persons holding in their out
err hands the severed wire, will NEE
with like results, and the voice O
persons speaking be easily heard and
understood. Notwithstanding it's pas
sage through all the bodies in tn,
line.
Scientists have for some time beer
experimenting to determine the yir
tues of the Australian fever tree
known as the Eucalyptus, in Danish.
ing the unwholesomeness of malari.
GUS districts, and the results are SAID
to be very satisfactory. In many
fever plagued regions in southern 1t.
ally, Corsica, and Algeria, where, dur
ing certain seasons the atmosphere
has been literally pestiiential, the
planting of these trees has almos
wholly banished epidemic fevers, and
large tracts of low grounds near AL
giers, heretofore unoccupied on 40
count of the unhealthiness of the re-
gion, have been transformed through
agency of the fever tree, and rem.
dered wholesome and habitable
Many districts in this country need
to profit by the experience Of our
friends across the water, and through
the agency of the Eucalyptus, at least
diminish in frequency and intensity
the fevers and pestiIential diseases o.
their localities.
A Frenchmau named NJ. Lambrig
OF has invented a cheap form O
phonograph, and process for taking
electrotypes of the phonograms. He
claims that these electrypes are no
only cheap but durable, and may bt
employed by private students and
schools as means of acquiring the
correct pronunciation of language
The machine is said to be quite per
feet in its workings, and its inventor
anticipates for the future that tn,
pronouncing dictionary will be super.
coded in the schools by this teaching
machine, which he claims to be of fal
more real utility.
In the Yellowstone Park, on the
slopes of Amethyst Mountains, are
said to be exposed at different levels
a large number of silicified trees, anG
the series of sandstone and conglom
crates in which they are imbedded i,
more than FIVE thousand feet thick
forming vertical mile of fossil for
ests. Most of the woody structure i.
well preserved, and is said to be in
termingled with crystals of amethystt
and quartz.
The Far Northwest.