The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-31

considering that they feed on fresh fruits
that after time an unlimited dietary OF
hazel nuts and stale buns is apt to disagree
with the Quadrumanal digestion.
A curious phenomenon was recently wit
messed during q storm near Queenstown,
when the gigantic waves broke on the
rocks and huge volume OF water Of spi-
raj shape suddenly rose and assembled TO
great height simultaneously similar
volume Of water descended from the clouds
till both spirals met, when both volumes of
water spread and fell foaming into the sea.
The telephone is STILL to very largo ex-
tent, an American institution. Even IN
England it is but very slightly appreciated,
and neither in France nor Germany has it
yet obtained anything like 8 financial or
commercial foothold. There are far less
telephones in use IN London and Paris COM
Dined than there are in ST. Louis, and
there seems little prospect of its getting
into general use in either of these two
cities. This is the more remarkable seeing
that there is practically no express mes
senger system in either London or Paris,
while the local telegraph service is ad-
mitted to be uniformly and atrociously bad.
The horse power of whale has been
made subject of study by the eminent
anstomist Sir William Turner. of the y nj
versity of Edin burgh, Scotland, IN con-
junction WITH the equally eminent Glas-
gov shipbuilder, John Henderson. me
size aud dimensions OF great hnner
stranded several years ago on the shore
| of Longriddy furnished the necessary
data for the computation of the power ne
cessary to propel 1T at q speed Of twelve
miles an hour. This whale measured
eighty feet in length, twenty feet across at
the isnge5 of the tail and weighed seventy
four tons. To attain speed of twelve
miles per hour IL was calculated that l45
horse power was necessary.
| Undoubtedly the few large animals stll
left on the ehrth are gradually being ex-
| terminated either for the purposes of trade
or sheer wantonness. The biggest AMI
| mails that ever appeared on the earth's sur
] face are now almost IL not wholly extinct
such as the dinotherlum. mastodon and
mammoth, which were similaf animals to
| the elephant, except in point OF size. the
elephants of the present day being mere
/ pigmies in comparison. The mastodon,
which was smaller than the dinotherium.
was from six to eight times as large as the
biggest Of the existing elephants. Even
these later elephants have been so hunted
down for their ivory that they are fast
tending toward extinction. The deer Of
| the present day ara very small compared
| to the size of the great Irish elk, which has
long been extinct. All species of animals
appear to have been gradually diminishing
| in size.
The most powerful microscopes render
visible point about one one-hundred thou
sandth part of an inch in diameter. There
| is reason for believing that a single mole
cule is much smaller even than that. One
reason for this has beed deducted from the
soap bubble. Scientists have measured the
thickness OF the envelope Of soapy water
enclosing the air of the bubble when il had
/ become so thin as to produce rain bow tlnts.
At the appearance of the shade of violet 1t
was oae-fourth the thickness Of the length
Of an ordinary violet wave Of llght-one-
sixty thousandth of an inch-thus making
the thickness equal 10 one-two hundred
thousandths of an inch. AS the bubble
continued TO expand black patch formed
adjacent to the pipe from which the bubble
was being blown, and the thickness OF such
patch has been found to be only one-forti-
eth OF The thickness of the violet section,
or about one-tifty millionth Of an inch.