The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-15

stance. Drfftwood-covered beaches are
now % to 170 feet above water. many OF
the old harbors have become too shallow
for ships to enter. and various new 10.
lands have appeared In . few centuries.
II the upheaval continues at the present.
rate. the shallow bay will have entirely
disappeared.
The latest use Of glass 10 instead Of
gold as a material for stopping decayed
teeth. 1t answers splendidly. and u far
less conspicuous than the yellow metal.
OF course. II Is not ordinary glass. but 10
prepared by some new patented process
which renders IL soft and mal,eable. Glass.
too. Is being extensively used for church
bells. IL can he ~toughened 90 that there
Is no risk Of 1t cracking. and the tone 10
said to be beyond anything yet invented.
perfect. soft and sonorous.
A recent traveller among the Indians OF
~Catuquinarn. in the Amazon region. be-
tween the rivers Embyra and Embyrasu.
says they employ q wireless telephone. IT
Is made by digging q hole In the ground
inside the house and laying the bottom
with coarse sand well piled. On this n
laid q wooden drum. or hollow cylinder OF
wood. half-hlled with fine sand and ay-
ers Of broken wood. BON and powdered
mica. The upper part of the cylinder.
which In empty, rises above the floor OF
the hut. and in closed by leather. then
wood. and lastly India rubber. Outside the
cylinder Is packed round with fragments
of wood. leather and resins. which In COW
cred with hard rubber at the level OF the
soil. To use the apparatus the drum Is
struck by a wooden hammer. and the
vibration Is evidently transmitted through
the soil. The answer Is heard In the
drum. which acts as q cham
Der. Messages can thus be sent over 100
yards from house to house.
An electrical omnibus has lately been
put I'm service experimentaily I'm Berlin.
IL -. .-.---As-- g. ~ -2.--.-A..
measures . feet in length by 81 feet In
width. while Its weight. including the bat
terry. Is 6.65 metrical tons. The battery,
which consists Of 10 cells. contained in "a
boxes, weighs about ~ tons, and Is stated
to have a capacity suficient to run the
miles) at a speed ranging from . to ~
kilometers per hour. The motor 10 geared
to the front axle Of the omnibus.
NJ. De Menaceine. a Russian doctor, con-
cludes from observations that persons
who blush, laugh or weep readily, and
whose pulse quickens easily. are most IL
able to sleeplessness. which he declares
arises generally from overwork of mind
or body. or emotional excitement just
before bedtime. There Is an excess of
blood I'm the brain. which di'ste- the blood
vessels. and may paralyxe them. Elk
treme cold produces the like result. Some
think that more sleep Is required by per-
sons deficient in the red corpuscies of the
blood. Many authorities agree In suppos-
ing that sleep is needed In proportion to
the strength OF the consciousness
The excavations at Pompeii during the
past year have resulted In the discovery
of an unfinished temple near the sea
gate" which appears to have been de-
serted by the at the very mo-
ment of the catastrophe. Tools. carvings.
masonry. have been left just AZ they
were. the light thrown upon the methods
of the Roman stone artists being very
valuable. Hard by the ruined city. I'm a
plot of private ground. has been found
one of the finest and most interesting mo-
safes of antiquity. 1t consists of a group
of seven philosophers. one of whom Is
reading from a scroll. and contains in
the background a view OF the Athenian
A~reopagus. The mosaic. which was APP
parently new, and had never been put
down, has been acquired by the govern
ment and will shortly appear In the Ma
pies museum.
One of the most interesting features of
modern industrial chemistry Is the syn
thetic production of odorous substances,
closely related to the odor OF flowers,
plants and animal materials. IL was re-
Gently announced that the German chem
lists were producing musk. one of the
costliest of perfumes. artificially. Such
success has been achieved all along this
line that not only are the perfumes used
In toilet soaps and coarser manufactures
made synthetically. but also in the es-
sences named after flowers. The new es-
sences are said to he more persistent than
natural odors. That known as Parma VI
olets.' for example. Is made Of ionone,
mellowed down with small amounts OF
other extracts. Some Of these recent COM
pounds are heliotropine (heliotrope). To-
none and iraldine ~(violet): lumarine new
mown hay). terpineol Qilac). berganiol
or linaloyl caetate (bergamotte), merolin
neroly), jasmin oil. anisic aldehyde (haw-
thorn. gerariol (rose geranium). carvoi
.caraUav oin and safroI foil of sasga-