Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10

Fer Cleaning and Polishing Stoves
mix finely-powdered black-lead to a
paste with water In which n small
amount of glue has been dissolved.
The bulb of an electric lamp should
never be inclosed in any fabric If
wrapped in tissue paper SO that no air
ear pass between 1t and the glass, the
Taper will soon be on fire.
Paper tiles are said TO have numerous
advantages over the ordinary ones, be-
ing lighter, harder, and also imperyious
to damp. Furthermore. they are non
conductors of heat and sound, and look
better than the old kind.
Glass library shelves have recently
been introduced in France. The edges
are rounded. The glass is nearly in
flexible, which gives it great advant-
age over wood. Its strength has been
proved. 1t Is more easily kept clean
than other shelving. The appearance
of the library is greatly enhanced. The
book people who have used 1t are en-
thusiastic
Sudden and great fluctuations in the
level of water in wells in stormy wealth
er. closely corresponding to the fluctua-
, uons in wind velocity recorded by Prof.
Langley, have been observed by DR..
Romei Martini. This explains the pop
ular tradition that bad weather may be
predicted from the sudden rise and fall
OF wells. Curlously however small
and rapid changes of harometers are
more certain to affect wells than largo
changes.
Recent observations on the differ
ences of color in different races of men
are described in Fre h Journal Of
anthropology by Monsieur Breul 1t
appears that the color of the skin de-
pends upon a pigment contained in the
deeper layers of the epidermis. This
pigment, in the form of minute grains,
Is distributed In the same manner in all
races, the only difference being in the
color Of the grains, which varies from
black, through many lighter shades, up
to light yellow.
In Spain, where the telephone is large
ly used in place of the telegraph, says
Monsieur Plerard, as reported in the
Electrical World, an ingenious appi-
cation of the phonograph to record the
telephone messages has been made.
The receiving operator repeats the mes
sage into a phonograph, from which it
can afterward be Transcribed at leis-
ure. This saves the delay caused by
writing the message during its recep-
tion, and insures greater accuracy be-
cause the repetition of the message for
the phonograph is heard, Simultaneous
ly, by the original sender at the other
end of the line.
Many of the violent changes which
occur under the surface of the sea, as
Prof. John Milne has recently shown,
produce effects that are distinctly and
sometimes disastrously felt on the land.
Wherever profound cavity exists in
the bed of the ocean near the land, and
wherever the border of continent
slopes off into deep sea, great slides
are apt to occur, and these often cause
earthquakes. In Japan, Mr.. Milne says,
a large number of earthquakes came
from the deep sea off the mouth of the
Tonegawa, the largest of the Japanese
rivers. The river brings down alluvial
detrltus which is deposited on the brink
of deep hollow in the ocean, and from
time to time the accumulated deposit
sides into the depths, shaking not only
the sea-bottom, but the adjacent land.
According to Nikola Tesla, as report
ed in Industries and Iron, "of all con-
ceivable methods of generating electri-
cal energy, nothing in the present nor
In the future is likely to compare in
facility and economy with the water
fall OF all methods of generating
power, the utilization of waterfall, he
says, Is the simplest and least waste
full. According to him, even II it We're
possible, by combining carbon in a bat
terry, to convert the work of the chem
ical combination into electrical energy
with very high economy, such mode of
obtaining power he thinks, would be
no more than n mere makesmift, bound
to be replaced sooner or LITER by a more
perfect method which requires no con-
sumption Of any material whatever.
with a view to rendering his opera
tions really aseptlc," says the Berlin
correspondent of the Lancet, Prof
Mikulicz of Breslau has taken to ope,
rating in gloves, and has published an
account OF the favorable results obtain
ed after three months experience. He
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