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The lake of Urania, in Persia, con-
tains more salt than the Dead Sea,
which holds twenty-six per cent, or
eight times as much as the ocean.
A celebrated family of lion tanners
are reported to use electricity. \ live
wire is stretched across the cage, and
serves as an impossible yet invisible
barrier which protects the performer.
1t is said that one touch of the wire
gives a lasting lesson to the fiercest
lion.
Singers, actors and public speakers,
since the introduction of the electric
light, have less trouble with their
voices, and are less likely to catch cold,
LAelr throats are not so parchcd, and
they feel better. This is due to the air
not being vitiated and the temperature
more even.
The largest bog in Ireland is the bog
of Allen. which stretches across the
center of the island, east of the Shan
non, and covers nearly 250,000 acres.
Altogether there are nearly 3,OOO'OOO
acres of bog in Ireland-that Is to say,
about one-seventh of the total area OF
the country is bog.
The method proposed by Herr E.
Moyat for producing large artificial
| diamonds consists essentially in sealing
pulverized coal, iron chips and liquid
carbonic acid in a strong steel tube, and
submitting to the action of the electric
arc. Unlike other methods, this process
generates enormous pressure during
the Grafton of the electric current,
and it is believed larger diamonds will
crystallize out as the mixture cools.
Incandescent burners, having man.
ties similar to those used for coal gas
flame. are now made for oil and spirit
lamps The kerosene is drawn up into
small chamber by number of wicks,
vaporlzed there by n small external
flame. and after two minutes and half
supplies sufficient vapor to keep the
, mantle at white heat. The disadvan-
: tage of this burner is the delay of two
: minutes and a half before it is ready
for use.
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move to Forest Park, that city, from
Camden County, Mo-, what Is describ-
ed as a magnificent stalagmite of solid
white onyx, six to ten feet in diameter,
e and between twenty and thirty feet in
V height from its base to its tapering
II summit. 1t is said to contain about
S 1000 feet of pure white onyx, more
/; beautiful in design than could be made
l. by n skillful sculptor A hundred
n thousand years are given as the proba
Is BILE time passed in its formation.-New
York Times.
> A new style of pleasure boat is de
is scribed in the Electrician. The boa
in which the passengers and driver rid,
~ has rigidly connected with it, at tn,
- = bow end a swan-shaped tug containin:
i an electric motor driving a propeller
D.. The craft Is steered by means of rein
:, attached to the head of the swan
~ which turn rudder of ordinary pat
" tern. The driver has also close at ham
regulator, which gives him contrC
over the machinery in the swan. Th
y. vibration of the boat is said to be niue
N less than in one which carries its ow
w, motor.
Nm An idea of the kind of weather tha
or the gold hunters of the Klondike mu:
,rs face in winter may be gathered frol
meteorological records made on II
,re Upper Yukon in the season of 1SS0-S
of and recently published in the Nations
es- Geographic Magazine. From the Ell
.ds of October steady fall of temperatul
en- set in, and in December the thermom
ter touched 81 degrees Fahrenheit b
lid low zero. This was the lowest, Il
ing record for January being IL degree
We. for February IS degrees and for Mare
see 43 degrees below zero. During the Ia
wn named month the long cold was broke
YER but the ice did not start in the Iuk
until the middle of May, and for sever
ley weeks thereafter floating ice prevel
9TH, ed the navigation of the river.
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