The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-21

strong microscope shows the
single hairs of the head TO be like
coarse, round rasps. but with teeth ex-
tremely irregular and jagged.
The oyster is one Of the strongest
creatures on earth. The force required
to open an oyster is more than nine
hundred times its weight
The sole of the English coast when
placed over a gravelly bottom, will at
once assume that shade 10 A remark
able degree Placed in a white bowl |
II becomes almost as white as the dish.
The collection of palms in Kew Gar
dens is truly magnificent. and probably |
much exceeds in size any other in the |
world, the total number of species rep |
resented in this collection being now
over four hundred.
Beamur says that each thread of
what we call spider web" is COM
posed Of about five thousand separate
fbres, and that it would take 27,64S,
full-grown spiders a year to spin a
pound of such silk
The summer coat Of the polar fox
is dark, in general harmony with the
ground of the rocky Arctic regions,
where the sun has melted off the snow.
In winter it is so white that it can
hardly be seen as 1t runs over the snow.
More than six thousand species of
plants are cultivated, and most of these
have been broken up into varied forms
by the hand of man. Horticulturists
create new species, and show numbers
Of cultivated plants of which no ore
knows the original form.
The drill of the wOodpeckers has
another tool inside, sort Of insect
catcher On the end is bony thorn
with sharp teeth like barbs on fish
: hook. As he works and finds an in
sect he opens the drill and sends out
. this barbed tongue and draws 1t into
) his mouth.
! At the beginning of recent thunder
shower, after a warm and MINDLESS
day, NJ. Maurice Despfes, of Cordova,
Spain, noticed electrified drops that
cracked family on touching the ground
and emitted sparks. The phenomenon
lasted several seconds, eeasng as the
. air became moistened.
The first use of the monograph In
biography seems TO have been in Spain
where receiving operators were unable
{ TO take down rapidly enough message:
q received by telephone and repeated thu
y messages into monograph, This re
II petition, being heard at the sending
i end. serves also as a control for thu
S correctness of the message.
: The towering Washington monu
d ment, solid as it is, cannot resist tn
], heat of the sun, poured on its southern
n side on midsummer's day, without
N slight bending of the gigantic shat
TO which is rendered perceptible by mean
to of a copper wire, ia feet long, hangin
II in the center of the structure, and cal
lie rying plummet suspended In ye'
ut sci of water. At noon in summer tn
~ apex of the monument, 300 feet abov
le tbs ground, is shifted, by expansion
ct the stone. q few hundredths of an inc
u toward the north. High winds caus
r. nerceptible motions of the plumme
u and in still weather delicate vibration
of the crust of the earth, otherwise III
perceived, are registered by 1t.
/ Strange stories are sometimes to
Ill of the wonderful things that have ia
n on in rain-storms. Occasionally 1t
he frogs. again it is splashes of blood,
AS some mineral, such as sulphur. FL
nuently there is foundation for the
stories. and investigation furnishes
is exclamation of the phenomena.
he Bordeaux for many years, In April al
Nav, so-called trains of sulphur ne
been noticed, when the earth recon
. snotted with what seem to be patch
of sulphur brought down by the IA
This phenomeon was recently the 81
tool az a scientific investigation, and
/ q was shown that the supposed sulpn
was really the yellow pollen or
ny snecies of pine, large forests OF wni
axist south and southwest of Bordea'
The rains referred to occur at the u
W. of the towering of the pines, the pol
of which must be carried to gr
" height In the air.
Mr.. Rayenstein, Of the Royal Geog
phical Society, estimates that the
10 tile lands of the globe amount TO
DOC, 900 square miles, the steppes TO
GOO. 900 and the deserts to 1,OOO,'
|EC Fixing 207 persons to the square n
for fertile lands, ten for steppes
one for deserts as the greatest pop
ton that the earth could properly M
isb. he arrives at the conclusion
when the number Of Inhabitants res
es about 6,GO0,00o 700, our planet
be peopled to its full capacity At p
in ent 1t contains about one'quarter
that number If the rate of incr'
shownb recent census statistics sh'
Ill be uniformly maintained, Mr.. IA
ian stein shows that the globe woulc
re- fully peopied about the year 2o72.
such calculations do not allow for
anu known sources Of error, and must
ceI. no taken too literally.