Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-05-01

Holy Land Is IN progress, under froi.
Hull, f. X. $,
A white rainbow, an extremely rare
phenomenon. wa. witnesse at Courtenay,
France, on the morning Of November
2Sth last
English and French epicurcs have
long esteemed oysters with green giis
more than others, but in America the
color has been quite generally attributed
TO copper and believed to be poisonous
Recent investigations, however, have
proven that the green color Is due to
perfectly harmless vegetable coloring mat
ter absorbed form the substances on
which the oysters feed. A quantity Of
copper sufficient 10 produce the green
color would necessarily be fatal to the
oysters themselves.
Analysis Of the air of the Alps have been
made by French and Swiss investi-
gator, who have ascertained that entirely
pure air is not To be found until height
Of from 5000 to 1900 feet above sea
level Is reached From the atmosphere
Of lower rcgions-evcn when seeming OF
remarkable purity-baeteria were always
obtained, but the number Of these min
ute organisms in cubic foot Of the air
Of the Swiss valleys was found to be only
one yen-thousandth as great as that in
like quantity Of the air of Paris.
An pathological congress is to be
opened at Vienna on April 10th under
Tie auspices of Crown Prince Rudolf
Among the important subject, to be con
sidered is that Of providing means for
systematically studying in all parts Of the
world the migrations and breeding hab-
its Of birds, Of which so little is now
known. These matters are already re
ceiving attention in small area Of the
globe At series of archaeological obser-
vatories which the Crown Prince has
caused TO be established throughout Aus
tria- Hungary.
In lecture upon the Eskimos deliv-
cred in London few days ago, Dr. Rae
expressed the opinion that this people
was originally an Asiatic race, who cross
Cd from Siberia by Behring's Straits.
From Labrador to Alaska they speak bu,
one language, with slight dialectical vari-
ations. They are physically strong, have
great affection for their children, and are
intelligent and faithful. The tallest male
measured by DIR. Simpson near Behring' i
Straits was five feet l0l inches, and the
shortest was five feet one inch; the heav-
iest weighed 1875 pounds, aud the light
ct l25 pounds. An Eskimo often cats
- much as eight pounds Of seal or =
pounds Of fish at meal The clothing
Of the people is made almost entirely OF
reindeer skins, and their dwellings, usu-
ally snug aud comfortable, consist of stone
and mud ..kraals, wooden huts and snow
houses, according to locality.
A late very severe epidemic Of trichino-
sis in Germany-aifecting $50 persons
and causing over forty deaths-has been
traced to single trichinous hog, whose
Aesh was eaten raw. BY careful investi-
CATION Of this outbreak DR.. Brouardel
has learned that the trichnn were most
vigorous in their attacks upon the human
system within about "a hours after the
slaughter Of the hog, and 33 per cent
q those who ate tho infected meat during
that period died in consequence. Alter
the FIRST "a hours the power of the pork
worms to produce mischief seemed to
gradually decrease, until, when the sixth
day was reached, sickness alone followed
the eating Of the meat, without single
DEATH The medical men who treated
these cases affirm that the trichin1 were
more successfully resisted by children than
BY adults, while old people suffered most
Five persons who partook of the diseased
pork had it cooked, and those persons
were unframed.
In discussion concerning the habita-
bility Of other planets than ours it is
usually assumed that all other beings hav-
ing bodies must be clothed in flesh and
bones similar to thoac Of terrestrial ami
nails, and must be adapted to live under
similar conditions. such an assumption
. not justified, and Prof. Alexander
Winchell remarks that it is not at all i'm
probable that substances of refractory
nature may enter into the composition
Of organisms unknown to us so as to rem
der them capable Of enduring vastly
greater vicissitudes Of heat aud cold than
y possible with the earth's inhabitants.
This we'll known gcologist also finds it
conceivable that sentient creatures may
exist who do not require daily food and
warmth, and who might be lost in the
abysses Of the ocean, or laid up on a
stormy cliG through the tempests of an
Arctic winter, or plunged in volcano
for a hundred years, and yet retain con-
ssiousness and thought. why he
axis, ''might not psychic natures be en-
shrined in indestructible flint and plat
mum? These substances are no further
from the nature Of intelligence than car
bon, hydrogen, oxygen and lime
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