The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-06-17
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.

sun is 68, 300 miles an hour, over
1000 miles a minute, or 10 miles a
minute.
One of the newest applications of
the nickel-in- -the-slot principle is in
connection with small Photographic
apparatus. You drop your coin into
the machine and it hands you your
tin-type.
Several French railway lines light
their carriages with electric light, ''as
it has been found perfectly practical
to make and store electricity by means
of a mechanical attachment to the
engine"
One of the latest contrivances that
the kodak fend has invented is the
Photographic gun, which, it is claim
ed, will secure pictures at the rate of
dozen a second of any object aimed
at, no matter what the position or
how rapid the motion.
In the mercury mines of Almaden,
Spain, the quality of the mercury i'm
proves and the quantity increases the
further the distance traversed. In the
deepest gallery the mercury seems to
run down from the rocks as resin from
the trees.
London has strange novelty in the
shape of cab moved by electricity.
The three-wheeled carriage driving
along without any visible motor may
be stopped and directed apparently
with little effort, and runs at the rate
of mile in three minutes.
The museum at Leyden contains
huge and almost perfect Apiornis
egg, bought from a Frenchman for
thousand guilders, or about $4OO,
something less than one-third of the
price paid for the egg of the great
aux, sold at auction in London.
1t is not generally known, but it is
nevertheless a fact that the Amazon
and the Orinoco rivers rise at the same
source, and that were few snags and
sand bars and other impediments re-
moved, a light draft steamer could
enter the mouth of one river and sail
out of the other, thus crossing the
continent twice from the Atlantic al
most to the Pacific, by different routes.
Nickel is modern metal. 1t was
not in use or known of till 1715. 1t
has now largely taken the place of
silver in plated ware and, as an alloy
with steel, it is superior to any other
metal for it is not only incorrodible
itself, but it's transfers the same quail
ity to steel; even when combined as
low as per cent it prevents oxida-
ton. Scientific American.
The land of the Nile possesses one
of the most wonderful climates in the
world. Here alone are found associ-
ated perpetual sunshine and practical
rainlessness with verdure and fertil-
ity. The rainfall of Egypt varies
from eight inches annually at Alex
andria to one inch and quarter at
Cairo and nil at Luxor, where it is
facetiously said to rain once in every
1000 years.
DR.. Alfred Springer of Cincinnati
has shown new application of the
metal aluminium. He has made a
violin of it, and the instrument which
was given public test at concert
before number of musical experts,
has been pronounced eminently salts
factory in the purity and sweetness of
it's tone. The maker said that 80
cents worth of aluminium sufficed for
the construction of the instrument =
Chicago Herald.
1t now lies within our means to
build an electric transmission of power
plant from coal mine to city, which
shall cost $500, 1000 and will transmit
5000 horse power; this plant will do
the work of 10000 men steadily day
and night, year in and year out, and
once placed will last lifetime. The
$500, 200 represents the work of the
80, 900 men for about four days, or an
outlay of the $40 each; thus these
men can build plant in four days
that will do more work during their
lives than they can. Can anything
appeal to the imagination of man more
than force? The energy of 5000
horse power transmitted noiselessly