The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-01
The MARCH OF SCIENCE
DaXning Era in Science and InVan-
tiOn.
AFTlNG LIVING ANIMALS
The Stalest Bread-A Suspected
New Ring of Asteroids-Ihe
Air of Mars-The World to
Insect Senses.
GRATING LIVING ANIMALS

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umes-is the best technical library in the
United States, and one high authority has
declared that 1t has no superior i'm the
world. Among its reference collections il
contains a series OF English patents from
their beginning in 1917 to date, compris-
ing upward of 5000 volumes of text and
plates; a series of French patents num-
bering about 90 volumes; 500 volumes of
German patents; and complete sets of
the patents of Victoria, Queensland, Can
ada, New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland,
Sweden, Russia, Austria, Norway. Bel
GUM and Sardinia, each containing less
than 100 volumes. The whole collection
records more than half a million patents,
or Just about the number that has been
issued in the United States alone. Since
the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876, the
nrst great exposition in America, the pat
ents taken out in the United States have
far exceeded in number all that the gov
eminent had previously issued. But the
impulse of the exposition was not imme-
diately felt, being first perceptble in the
number of patent applications in 1880.
We are now, in the opinion of the COM
missioner of patents and probably of
other thoughtful men, in a season of re-
Election or of the maturing of inventive
material, and we may confidently expect
soon, as a consequence of the worlds fair
at Chicago, to enter upon period of still
greater activity in the field of invention
than has hitherto been known.
he enormous size and massive struct-
ure of the native houses is among the re-
cent surprising discoveries of explorers
among the villages-nhab by numer-
Gus war tribes-scattered along the shores
of New Guinea. Houses 800 to 400 feet
long and 100 feet high-among the largest
In the world ARE reported to be not I'M
common.
a loaf of bread supposed to have been
lGavened and baked about 500 B. c.. has
been taken by a French explorer from
tightly sealed sarcophagus.
If the new hypothesis of Professor New
comb proves to be correct, our planetary
system includes ring of planetoids be-
tween Mercury and Venus similar to that
discovered during the present century be-
tween Mars and Jupiter. The hypothesis
is IN improbable one, but it best accounts
for secular variations of the orbits of the
four inner planets, which show anomalies
that cannot be simultaneously explained
either by an intra-mercurial zone of
planets, by the action of matter re fleet
ing the zodiacal light or by deviation of
from the usually accepted
law. 1T this ring of little planets really
exists, its total mass probably ranges be-
1-5Oth and 1-30Oths of the mass of Venus.
Summing up our present knowledge of
the atmosphere of Mars, Percival Lowell
finds that we have proof of it's existence,
and reason to believe that it is at the sur
face of the planet about half as thin as
ours on the SUBMITS of the Himalayas:
that in constitution it is probably s. lilar
to our own, except that it is more Isayily
charged with water vapor; that it is
nearly, if not quite, cloudless, and that
rain and snow are almost unknown phen-
omena, dew or boar frost ill supplying
their place. 1t must be inferred that the
air, because of its thinness, is incapable |
Of supporting intelligent life.
No evidence that ants or bees hear or |
linary sounds can be found by Sir John |
Lubbock, who thinks il poss ble, however,
hat the higher over-tones, near and be- |
gond the range of human hearing, may be /
audible to them. Bees readily distinguish /
color, blue being their favorite; and ants
ire sensitive to the ultraviolet rays of the
spectrum, which are invisible to human
beings. These ultraviolet rays probably
appear as distinct color, unknown to US,
Ind may give to white highland conse-
luently to the world itself-an appear-
'nce very different ~ what it has to US.
The novel vessel that NJ. Bazn is con-
tructing at Argenteuil is to be rolled over
he water on enormous copper cylinders
instead of being forced through it, and is
to attain a speed of at least 81
Knots an hour. 1t is to DO steered by
lind of hydraulic pump.
G,,lr, |
identical reagent is now being liquefied
md sold in steel cylinders-like chlorine
md carbonic acid.
Sandow, comments DR.. G.. T. Lvdston
n a medical journal, is probably the finest
living example of muscular possibilities.
lie shows the wonderful results to be OBJ
aimed by systematic and philosophical
method of muscle building, but such de-
elopment is neither necessary nor adyis-
bile. The average big muscled man is
MUSCLE bound, and even Sandow himself
) probably at disadvantage in feats re-
uiring a combination of skill, strength
nd agility. Corbett is an idle athletic
nth muscles that are we'll laid. but not
ulky. Shadows exhibitions call for n
'ord of caution to youths who imagine
hat his feats of strength illustrate
leal training, for he is of very phler-
latic temperament, and persons OF more
ensitive organization would soon pass
he danger line in attempting to emulate
i'm. The personal equation must be
Onsidered oven in athletics. while diet
nd drink cannot be neglected. Sandow's / (
pparently perfect condition does not |
istify the inference that great feats of !
rength are harmless in any case. for at
is best he is confronted by two dangers
death at an early period of his athletic
rain is suspended, or death at middle
&c from a continuance of his work. To
Isl is impossible without decay of his
lormous heart and lungs. II has been
nd that "a man Is just as old as his ar
ries, and al 4 Saudow will be in the
-ime of his strength, while his arteries
nd heart will not be in their prime of
asticity. REIMBURSEMENT after strain
i'll be no longer possible. and degeuer-
ion and disease Of the heart and arteries
M follow. SanIoN's system Of muscle