Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-08-17
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The great hydreearbon belt stretche.
from northeast to southeast for 101
miles across the gncempahsre and Uin
tab Indian reservation. Here occur the
largest known bodies Of gilsonite, elat
erite - mineral eaeutchouc - asphaltit
limestone and sandstone
At meeting of the Torrey Botanical
Club. recently, the president described
some remarkably small pine treet
, which he had found growing OH the tor
, of n precipice in the ShawangunB
; Mountains, at an altitude of 2.2OO feet
These trees. although they had per
fectly developed cones. were only six
inches In height.
The working Of a plan Of ventilation
of rooms devised by DIR. Castalng, prin-
cipal physician of the French armies, is
highly commended. 1t consists In the
use Of double windows. with openings
at the bottom Of one and at the top OF
the opposite one. through which the air
comes In freely without any one feeling
it. The system is said to possess sin
plicity, efficiency and cheapness.
! A writer In Harper's Round Table
describes a piece of amber IN which
Is imbedded a lizard eight inches In
length and belonging to species which
IL no longer extant. The little animal Is
perfectly preserved in its golden-hu
prison, all of its colors showing
In which the fossilized gum named am
| Der has preserved specimens Of living
forms that have now become extinct OD
the earth.
A process Of plating aluminium with
copper by a welding method has been
invented In Germany by Herr Wach
nitz. This is regarded as important be
cause one of the obstacles to a wider
use Of aluminium has been its compare
| tive lack of resistance to the action OF
many fluids and Its failure to hold
paint. These objections are removed
when 1t is covered with a thin plating
Of copper, while Its weight IL not ma.
terially increased.
A Paris ice company now obtains its
supplies from the glacier du Casset,
near Briancon. The foot Of the glacier
Is 66OO feet above sea level, and the
30O-pound blocks Of ice are carried to q
station 1,4O0 feet lower by a telpheI
line 1000 feet long. The loaded cars
or boxes on this line pull up the empty
ones. no engines being required. The
cars bring down hourly ten tons Of ice,
which Is carried In carts from the lower
station to q railway about eleven miles
away.
Electrical machinery operated by ont
man Is applied to the ringing Of the
three great bells of the church Of st.
George, Berlin. A motor Of ten horse
power gives 100 revolutions per minut.
to a shaft, on which are three loose
drums. each having at its side fric-
ton wheel fixed to the shaft. Pressure
of the wheel against the drum causes
both to revolve. A rope on the drum
acts on the believer, and as the bell
reaches the middle Of its swing, an
eccentric releases the drum and allows
the bell to ring back.
According to the recent calculations
Of Prof. J. @. Kapteyn, Of Amsterdam
0OO, 900 miles a day is the velocity with
which the sun and its planets are speed
ing through space in northerly direc-
ton. The brightest star in that part OF
the heavens toward which we are going
Is the brilliant Vega in the constellation
Lyra, a sun unQuestionably much great
er than ours. Every year. by Prof
Kapetyn's estimate, we draw some
three hundred million miles nearer te
that star.
A Cornell professor makes an inter
ssting announcement about brains. Th,
main portion Of the human brain |.
composed Of the cerebrum, and tn,
portion anterior to II, devoted to smell
and known As the oltactory bulbs. l.
sometimes treated as q mere append,
to the cerebrum. But this professor
after comparing brains from all grades
Of the lower animals, declares that tn,
human brain is an anatomical mon
strosity, and that, In historical view
of the brain, the portion devoted to
thinking is more properly to be styled
. mere appendix to the part devoted t.
smelling. In some creatures. the olfac
tory portion is much the largest par,
Of the brain.