The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-14
PIOCHE, .
SCIENTIFIC FACTS.


royal residence for 1874 years.
The only involuntary muscle com
posed of red or striped fibres is the
heart.
Nearly every human race have been
mound builders at some stage of their
history.
The preparation of the human hair
for the market gives employment tc
seven thousand Parisians.
Research shows that there is not a
particle of vegetation in the eastern
part of the North Sea. 1t is one great
watery waste.
The Dyak head hunting has relig.
ious origin. The Dyak believes that
every person he kills in this world will
be his slave in the next.
In olden time, screws were made by
hand, and five minutes were spent il
making one. Now a machine rattles
out sixty in minute.
California has more artesian wells
than any other country. One county
having 457 of them.
. A cotton shower, looking exactly like
a snowstorm, is a common sight in the
cottonwood groves in Colorado.
A small horsepower engine which
is said to make forty-two cigarettes a
minute is the invention of French
man.
A nugget of tin weighing fiftyfour
hundred pounds has been found in Tas-
mania. The assay shows sixty.
per cent. of metallic tin.
Ducks fattened on celery possess an
exquisite flavor similar to that OF the
famous canvas back of the epicure.
A caterpillar in the course of month
will devour six thousand times its own
weight in food. 1t will take a man
three months before he eats an amount
Of food equal to his own weight.
The first muffs were made for the
use Of doctors to keep their fingers soft
and warm, that they might accurately
feel the pulse Of their patients.
The Warrior" the first real iron
clad built for the British Navy, was
recently surveyed at Portsmouth and
declared to be practically worthless.
The ship was built at Blackwell.
In the Marquesas Group the recent
absolute prohibition of the sale of
opium has increased at once the de-
mand for liquor.
The cravat was originally large
shawl worn round the neck, not for
show, but for comfort, by nation OF
Eastern Europe called the Cravates, OF
Croats.
The Hungarian of three centuries
ago was entitled to wear one feather in
his cap for every Turk he killed, hence
the phrase In common use among US.
A distinguished French specialist is
now claiming that hypoderuic injec.
ton of nitrate of strychnine will cure
alcoholism.
One billion feet of timber per year is
being cut in Texas, U. S. At that
rate, it will take but fifteen years tc
exhaust the supply.
Articles which one may wish to pre-.
serve as mementoes are now electro
plated to preserve them from the raw
ages of time.
London bridge is nine hundred and
twenty feet long, fifty-six feet wide,
and fifty-fve feet in height. 1t has
five 'semi-elliptical arches, the centre
one being one hundred and fifty feet.
In building new bridge over the
Harlem River, in New York, it became
necessary to erect a temporary bridge
with draw to accommodate river
traffic. 1t was decided to use the draw.
span OF the old bridge, but this had te
be lifted from its position and trans.
ferred to the central pier ON the TEN.
porary site. As the tides are consider.
able in the Harlem River, this condi.
ton furnished the means for success.
full transfer. Two enormous scows
were moored, one ON each side of the
central pier, close up to the masonry,
and connected by suitable timbers.
Upon these pine timbers were placed
IN cob-houes fashion and securely bolted
together. The structure was com.
pleted at low tide, and when the waite,
rose the span was lifted clear from its
foundation. The scows moved ava,
with their load, and were brought into
proper position at the central pier Of
the temporary bridge. The tides were
again utilized, and at their falling the
span settled into its new place. ant
that without the slightest accident O,
misfit. The job is considered by ex.
perts as exceedingly successful and wei
managed, and suggests many interest
ing ideas in regard to the subduing o.
Natures forces.
How to handle quicksands that I'M
derlie places where foundations are /,
be built has long been perplexin.
problem for builders and engineers 1
is announced that German experi
menter has tried blowing very dry
finely powdered hydraulic cemen