The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-01-15


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At n recent meeting of the lnstitu-
ton of Civil Engineers in London, the
opinion was expressed that the com
ing material for ship-building is niekel
steel. but that before it can be extern
slyely used further deposits of nickel
must be discovered.
Diving operations at great deplh
have proved successful off Cape Flnis-
terre. all the silver bars from the
steamer Skyro. which sunk In thirty
fathoms in 1891. having been brought
TO he surface The working depth for
the divers was never less than liz feet
and was often more. Dynamite was
used TO blow away the deck. The value
of the silver was $4,000
Experiments have recently been
made by Eastern railways in sprinkli7g
oil along the ground, beside their tracks
for the purpose of preventing he dust
from being swept up by the motion of
the cars. \ stretch of road II New
Jersey was sprnkled with crude oil for
a distance of six feet on each side OF
the track This was found TO lay the
dust successfully. and ii is said that the
entire Pennsylvania system will be
thus treated.
People who like plain fishing with
angleworms for bali will be Interested
in the best methods of procedure when
the weather is dry and the bait hides
deep in the ground. One way TO cause
the angleworms 70 come out is TO sprin-
kle strong salt water, or an infusion oil
tannin or of walnut husks, on the
ground. Another way recommended Is
TO drive sticks, or spades, deep into the
soil and then shake them violently.
This operation, il is said, will frequent
ly call the worms from their retreats.
one would hardly look for new forms
of animal life in a vast, dark cavern
like the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
Yet as a matter of fact, no less than
seven such forms inhabiting that par
ticular cave and hitherto unknown 10
science, have recently been described.
The fact that these creatures are very
minute does not detract from their sci
entitc interest. while, on the other
hand, it must increase our admiration
for the skill and industry of the natur-
alists who do not allow even micro
scopic life to escape their ken, although
hidden in places where no ray of sun
light ever penetrates.
Perhaps the most marvellous GENE
terry known to science IS the sheet OF
chalk which seems n one time TO have
covered the country from Southern En-
gland to Central Asia beyond the Sea
of Aral, having an area about 3.0i9
miles long by LOCO miles broad, Tbs
enormous bed was formed entirely df
the microscopic remains of minute sea
animals Isolated patches of the great
sheet now remain. that of England be
ing more than 900 feet thick, and coy
ering the island southeast of line ex
tending diagonally from the North Sea
Mt Marlborough Head to the coast cf
the English Channel in Dorset.
A Russian journal calls attention to
the fact that for some twenty years
past the inhabitants of II malarial local
lty In the government of Kharkov have
used powdered crabs with great sue
cess in the case of feyers. The powder
is prepared in the following way; Live
crabs are poured over with the Ordi
nary whisky until they get asleep; they
are then put in bread-pan in "a hot
oven. thoroughly dried and pulverized,
and the powder passed through fine
sieve One dose. a teaspoonful. is gen
orally sufficient TO cure the intermit
tent fever; in very obstinate eases n
second dose is required. Each dose is
invariably preceded by glass of aloe
brandy. The powder is used in that
locality in preference 10 quinine.
Prof. Jules Amann, of the University
Of Lausanne, Switzerland, was recent
" called upon TO apply scientific pho
Biography TO a rather novel purpose.
Swiss peasant woman who had saved
Inv hard labor and economy n sum
to $110, having temporari-
IL To leave her cottage untenanted,
nlaced her money. In the form of bank
bills. in tin box, which she ma away
In the oven of her stove. During her
absence her son came home and. not
knowing what his mother had done,
started n fire in the stove. When the
moor woman returned. the bank bills
had been reduced to black cinders. She
was advised to apply for aid ut the
laboratory OF The university, and Prof.
Amann succeeded in so photographing
the carbonlzed bills ms to make their
denominations. signatures, etc, de
vulnerable. Armed with these Photo.
graphs the woman recovered the value
of all the bills from the banks which
had issued them.