The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-23

A sunfowsr in a season will produce
1900 seeds, while u poppy bears 32,ooo.
am naturally opposed to anything which
cannot be explained by scientific W yet
know ''there are more things in heaven
aud earth than are dreamt OF In" mans
philosophy" ."-M
In Australia, where deadly snakes abound,
it has been discovered that strychnla ID
almost mn infallible cure for their bites.
THE antidote acts quickly, snake poison
slowly. All physicians use it.
The case of the youth who died of i'm
%aginary hydrophobia recently shows what a
part the mind plays in disease. 1t recalls
tho story Of the criminal who was told
that the former occupant of the bed IN
which he slept had died of smallpox. Inc
criminal also died-not from smallpox, but
+! light.
It is reported that the tidal wave
caused by earthquakes in the .Cocopah re-
pion, Ariz., recently reached a height OF
100 feet. Near Lerdo the Colorado river
bed was divided by a chasm over ten feet
wide into which the waters poured with
laundering noise, and many assures OF less
width and twenty to thirty feet long were
suddenly caused in the sun dried earth.
II is said that a glass of beer taken
through straw will %intoxicate q man. The
liquor taken in small quantities is spread
over the coating of the stomach, and the
alcohol is at once vaporized, the fumes tls-
ing to the brain. 1t takes some time to
drink a half pint of beer through a straw,
and the intoxicating ingredients are IN tull
~actiyity for several minutes. 1t is this CON-
tinuity, and not the amount of alcohol,
that CAUSES intoxication from 10 armle a
draught.
Tho national emblem of Ireland grows
very close to the ground at the season OF
the year in which st. Patriok's day occurs,
and has to be carefully hunted for among
the grass. Later it puts forth a small,
whitey-brown blossom, and unlike other
varieties Of the plant, the leaves remain a
bright green until the plant withers. Tho
fact that shamrakh is the Arabian word for
trefoil has been used as argument by those
who endeavor to trace the origin OF the
Irish race to one of the lost ten tribes OF
Israel. although the word might we'll have
been introduced by the Milesians. ~
The telephone between London and larlf
is proving a big success. scientifically, com
n,etolally and financially. Electriciant
say there ia no telephone circuit in London
or in England that works so clearly and
perfectly. The tariff IL eight shlllinRs o.
81 for three minutes use Of the wire, ant
ths average number of calls during the pas
few weeks has been fifteen nh hour during
the busy part OF tho day, and about 10S I
day. From records kept OF actual business
transacted it 10 estimated that messenger are
sent between London and Paris at the rat'
Of 1--we words for two cents, an enormous
reduction on the regular telegraph cabl,
rates. The telephone has been uset
through to BRUSSELS, and also to MarseilleB
tbs latter q distance of 900 miles.
A stoel cantilever bridge is being bull
over this Spokane river at Spokane, Wash.
~ ths Spokane Bridge company. of Toledo
ohio. The bridge has q canal height o
l,135 feet, and consists Of three cantilsve
spans, one 227 feet 4 inches, two 1S9 feet
three steel truss spans, 105 feet, 80 feet AM
IA feet long, respectively, and trestle ap
proaohea. Ths distance between csnters o
trusses il 80 feet. tho roadway ia 80 feet
inches, and there ~ an S-foot, 8-inch side
walk Mt each side. The roadway will Carr,
double tracks for a street railway, and vii
b. fioor beams bolted together in pairs Ok