Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-10-12

Professor Alsnel says that between
the ticks of Il watch a ray Of light
could move around the globe.
hand, which Is more sensitive to the
touch than the left, Is less sensitive
than the latter to the effect OF the heat
and cold.
DR.. Sharpbil says: The elephant does
not smell with his trunk. His olfactory
nerves are contained in single nos.
tril which Is in the roof of the mouth,
near the front.
Every ton of Atlantic water when
evaporated yields eighty-one pounds Of
salt; ton of Pacific water seventy.
nine pounds; Arctic and Antarctic wat
er yield eighty Ave pounds to the tom
Dead Sea water 1877 pounds; the Med
iterranean elghty-seven and four
tenths.
A medical authority condemns slow
eating as we'll as hurried eating, fol
both beget imperfect masticatlon. Bui
rapid and energetic chewing with free
dom from mental anxiety insures the
most thorough mastication while
stimulating the secretion of saliva In
the most favorable manner.
1t Is asserted in Popular Science
News that spectacles for horses are
among recently patented inventions.
The purpose is said to be not to i'm
prove the sight, but by causing the
ground in front to appear nearer than
1t really is, to induce the horse to take
high steps. After training with
such spectacles, 1t is averred, the horse
acquires and retains the habit Of high
stepping.
When liquid air, containing from
40 TO 80 per cent of oxygen, Is mixed
with powdered charcoal 1t forms an
explosion which Is said to be compar-
able In power to dynamite, and can be
exploded by means of detonator. This
new explosive has been tested In a
coal mine at Penzburg, Germany. The
liquid air evaporates so rapidly that
the explosive cannot be stored, but
must be used within few minutes af-
ter 1t Is prepared.
Floors are making in France from O
mixture of six parts of good plaster
with one part of freshly slaked lime
This Is hardened, when very dry, by
thorough saturatlon with sulphate OF
iron or zinc-the former giving a sur
face twenty times as strong as ordi-
nary plaster, while the latter Is chosen
for It's whiteness. Linseed oil boiled
with litharge turns the rust color Civ
en- by the iron to a beautiful mahog
any, which Is further improved by q
coat Of copal varnlsh.
NJ. Ch. Ed. Guillaume, In an article
In the Bulletin de la Societe d'Encour-
agement pour fIndustrie Rationale
calls attention to certain properties OF
nckel-steel which are little under
stood. Now certain of these alloys are
not magnetic, but acquire magnetic
properties after they have been sub
mitted to the action of intense cold
Under the influence of variations IN
temperature 1t Is found also that nick
ular ratio, but within very small lim
Its.
DR.. Lydekker, in Knowledge, points
out the error of the widespread belief
that deserts, like the Sahara, are the
bottoms Of ancient seas, which have
been lifted above their original eleva
ton by geological forces. 1t Is abso'
lutely certain, he says, that the sand,
of all the great deserts Of the world
have been formed on the spot by thu
dislntegration of the solid rocks on
which they rest. Desert sands CORE
spond In all respects, so far as theil
mode Of origin Is concerned, to tht
dust and sand which accumulate OIL
our highroads in summer" All des
erts are situated where the winds from
the ocean, before reaching them, ar,
exhausted of their moisture by pass
Ing over mountains or across extersiy,
tracts of land.
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