Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-04-23

Range Of Mountains with 5000 Ola.
ciers.
Compiled for the wooD RIVER TIMEsl
Mr.. Geo. II. Barten states in Science
that the lava stream which burst from
the side of the Hawaiian volcano of
Mauna Loa on the 9th Of November,
1880, continued to flow slowly down
the mountain and across the country
for more than nine months, at the end
of which time it had extended over a
distance of about 45 miles. A part Of
its course passed through a forest,
where the lava became sufficiently
solid before the large trees were burn
ed to retain complete moulds Of their
trunks, and from these perpendicular
moulds the lava was found to average
2OS feet in thickness at this place. Mr.
Barton roughly estimates the quantity
of lava emitted at something more
thar 5O0,0OO,OOO cubic yards. The
rapid cooling and solidifying Of the
surface of the lava while the interior
was still glowing caused a consider
ablo part of the stream to take the
form of tunnel.
The art Of sewing has been known
from very remote period, as is shown
by the fact that bone needles have been
found among the oldest remains Of the
Swiss lake-dwcllings and in the cares
Of France and Great Britain which
were frequented by man during the
reindeer age. Some of these early
needles were perforated in the middle
which was the thickest part-and
others were pierced at the larger end
A French cavern has yielded needles
much superior to those Of the ancient
Gauls and to the ivory needles of the
modern Esquimaux, especial skill hav-
ing been applied to the boring of the
eyes, which must have been done with
Il fine flint drill. The Swiss lake-dwell.
crs used linen thread or bark fiber for
sewing, and made garments from WOW
en- fabric of linen and bark as we'll as
from the skins of animals. The cave
people employed thread made from
split tendons ard perhaps strings of
gut, and the lineness of some of their
needles has suggested the probability
that they performed some more delicate
work than the sewing of skins.
DIR. Percy Pope, an English physi-
clan, maintains that diphtheria is pro-
duced by some influence of the soil, as
he finds that it chiefly occurs among
jewellers on clay. He thinks that OBJ
servations which have been made in
dictate that the clay may foster germ
which win cause the disease.
Mons. Angot having drawn the at
tention Of the French Academy of
Sciences to the fact that series of
brilliant twilishts was observed in Eu,
rope in 1881, Mons. Tissander has
pointed out that the effects were pre-.
ce6ed, as in 1888, by a great volcanic
eruption, which occurred in the Sicil-
ian Sea and caused a large quantity
of fine ashes to be thrown high into
the air.
An English writer states that the
Than Shap range of mountains in
Central Asia Is twenty-five times as
large as the Swiss Alps, covering an
area equal to Fraace and Spain in ex.
tent, forming q protruberance upon
the earth's surface con,i lcrab y grea .
err than the aggregate Of all the noun
tains OK Europe. This remarkable
range is supposed to have no less than
5000 glaciers, and it has snow bridges
a mile in length and NOR, than hun
dced feet in thickness.
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