The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-25
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Marseilles is the human hair mart.
The first expedition to the South pole
took place in 1867.
IL has been calculated that the loss
from illness averages 10000 900 weeks
of work in the year. or ga per cent.
OF the work done by the whole popula-
ton between 10 and So years of age.
A strange custom Is followed by
Mexican farmers. They use oxen Of
one color In the morning and another
color i'm the afternoon. They do not
know why. but they know II must 10
the right thing to do, because their
forefathers did II.
IL Is generally known that any small
dead mammal or bird, when left near
an ant hill. will ultimately be found
picked clean OF flesh quickly. IL a
been lately demonstrated that they
can be made useful in the direction
Of skeletonizing specimens. Professor
Bernard has been employing ants as
his servants. While I'm Florida he had
a fox squirrel thus ~skeietonized in a
single day. The only agents employed
were ants.
Rats are playing havoc with the UNI
foreground telephone and telegraph ca
bles in ST. Louis They have discov-
cred hat the wires are covered with
parafined paper. n they like the
taste. To satisfy their appetites they
must gnaw through the lead casting
around the wires. IL has happened In
a number of cases hat the rats In
gnaw1ng through he "a cables 20
get at the creased paper have barred
the copper wires so that they touch
each other and cross in such a manner
as to make II impossible to ESTABLISH
communication over them.
From experiments made on the
Righi. one of the Alps. covering a pc
Rod OF we years. Rijckevorsel and
Bemmelon conclude that they consid
er IL proved hat IL there Is any influ-
nee OF altitude m terrestrial magnet
ism IL Is So exceedingly mall that q
can hardly he detected with present
surveying Instruments. and IL Is. there
fore. unnecessary to take altitude int,
account i'm magnetic surveys; II. how.
ever, II should be ound that there Il
such influence. Il is more likely to b.
an Increase of the vertical forces will
the altitude than anything else.
An ingenious plan for the economi,
regeneration OF Ireland is proposed b,
r. +. Baines I'm the London Spectator
IL Is to make Galway a transatlantic
port and to connect u with Kingston
by a deep water canal across the isl
and 100 miles long. The fish Of tn
west coast and the produce OF the int
j NANi NtAAa w ~ ~ aA'A~ -, aA
or from some central point and con
Veyed To Liverpool. Fast trains across
Ireland and the proposed tunnel un
der the Irish sea would serve expires
passengers. Utilizing the presen
grand canal he thinks his canal woul,
cost SIS. ooo. 900.
4 new use has been found In stee
by "A Sheffield. England. firm. which d
making "A steel harness trace. consist
ing OF a narrow ribbon of steel. from
three-fourths 90 one inch wide. role,
very thin and cased in leather. A sin
gle trace of this kind. when tested A
the Sheffield testing works. recorded
tensile breaking strain OF 4.555 pounds
while an ordinary leather trace Of tn
best quality. tested at the same time
broke al the strain Of 2.1oo pounds. II
addition to being lighter and stronge
than the ordinary trace. the steel ar
ticle IL about 20 per cent. cheaper. Tn
steel II necessarily of the very fines
quality. and f. ~ pliable that II ca
be twisted in any direction.