The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-12-26
A Japanese Superstition.

other day, KIDD, an attache of the
Japanese Legation at Berlin, embark
ed at Marseilles for Yokohama. To
make sure that if he died at sea his
body should not be consigned to the
deep, he took on board with him a
handsome coffin and everything nee
essary for embalmment. All his papers
and his will in such an event will be
placed in coffret provided for the
purpose and given to the custody of
the captain of the steamship. Gen.
Kawaggi, the Japanese Project of
Police, who visited Europe four years
ago, took a similar precaution, and
died on the passage to his native
'country.-NeD York Commercial Id
UerttSer.
Scientific Miscellany.
Mons. Andres contends that hail
IS produced during ascending whirl-
winds.
Messrs. Clouet and Ritters find that
grape-sugar is rarely free from arsenic,
introduced in the process of making.
The curious fact is mentioned by
Mr.. l.. Stejneger that the ptarmigan, |
as well as some other birds, regularly |
sheds its. claws every summer.
An imperial decree forbids the cir
culating libraries to issue the works of
Darwin, Agassiz, Huxley, Lubbock,
Adam Smith, Lewes and Spencer to
Russian readers.
Experiments in England have shown
that gas and oil are about equally
good for lighthouses, and that the
electric light is superior to either in
fine weather but probably not so good
in fogs.
After Investigations concerning the I
relative value of different kinds of '
animal food, Prof. W. 0. Atwater
has concluded that fish is as nutritive '
as the flesh of land animals, but that c
oysters rank below fish in nutritiye h
qualities. t.
The combined attraction of the sun y
and moon so modifies the intensity of
gravitation on the earth, Mons Poin- S,
care finds, that the clock is retarded t.
half second yearly at the equator p
md advanced second at the poles. OF
The view is held by Prof. Boyd Daw- to
inns, the eminent English anthropolo- in
,ist, that the Esquimaux of American &C
Arctic regions are the survivors of the pc
Prehistoric race, known in Europe as 'n
he "cave-dwellers. The evidence
rought forward to prove the correct
ess OF assumption is, however, not
enerally accepted as conclusive. 10y
After much experimenting, DR.. Or
lchardson has found a satisfactory !
cans of causing painless death, and tra
Is introduced it into the Home for fat
ost Dogs, in London. The animals del
arged with mixture of carbonic G
1de and chloroform vapor, when ON
ey TRANQUILITY fall asleep and wake H =
more. rem
Sir Joseph Fayrer considers it most last
narkable that poisonous snake tint
mot poison one of its species, and A
y slightly any venomons snake, COW
hough it quickly kills harmless ton
'kes- A vigorous cobra can kill han
eral dogs CT from a dozen to twenty botl
ls before its bite becomes impotent; and
then the rapid resecretion of virus ness
makes it as dangerous as ever. It.
ow much Of the pleasure of living nal {
es from the exercise of the little agail
'ldered sense of taste or that of jutal
Ii 1t is hard to estimate. Harriet of ce
tineau, the English authoress, by tn
as to have been one of the few per- conn
having no sense of taste, as a re- tion'
writer asserts that she was entire Jer
'stitute of it. She reported that know
faculty came to her once, when by t,
righteousness of a leg of mutton mand
sed an eager anticipation of the III 81
yment of her next dinner; but but. 4
ing came of it, for her tasting voive
er was withdrawn as suddenly as track
n been oiven The sanoo 90 Iii the sh
also denied her, as it was Words cover
b. In his case the lacking sense The
appeared on single occasion, inal a
| he "smclled q bean-feld and ton /
ght it heaven" 2ls me
cording to late papers by Profs. toral
n and Bolton, sonorous beach, sentin
8 are far from being the rarities sentat
were considered some years ago, aiike
ey are already found in seventy OF and
American and thirteen foreign To- oes,ul
les, and the number is constantly sniane
asing. When suddenly compress '''' vi
'tween the hands, musical notes
mitted by these sands, the pitch
as the quantity is diminished. The
oudest sound may be made by verdict
emily bringing together two divid- Rev. !
'rtlons OF sand enclosed in bag. with 81
Julien considers that the condi- Reno
OF sonorousness are perfect dry rancho
uniformity of grain ranging from She dec
one-tenth to one-fifth of an inch then kl
meter, and freedom from dust. will,
links that any sand satisfying and sci
conditions may be musical. Wayne
wet, sonorousnes sands general jury ba
come quicksands. cution.
er careful investigation of the A ira
al weights of $50 children between spraguc
res OF nine and sixteen, Professor demand
,g Hansen, of Copenhagen, states poke
child may weigh from one to the otho
ounds more at night than in the book sh
ng, and may be over pound and The g
lighter in the morning than in Jeremis
'ening before. From one even day to
the next he may increase one prieved'
or decrease threc-fourths of a ior snoo
A child's weight shows three TENDER
q periods of variation during the oeeh res
H.: A period of decrease from John
Idle of May to the middle OF yard at
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