The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-05-28

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1t Is estimated that the nerves. with
Meeting with the brain, exceed ten mill
ion.
Ii Is said that In the sandy deserts or
Arabia whirling winds sometimes ex-
cavate pits two hundred feet in depth.
and extending down to the harder
stratum on which the great bed of sand
rests.
In a communication TO the Paris
J Academy of Sciences, NJ. Grehant says
that the surface of cas iron kept at a
red heat Is capable of transforming car
bonle acid into carbonie oxide-that Is,
into a poisonous gas.
1t has been demonstrated that while
there Is no especial difficulty In using
petroleum as a fuel for locomotives,
there would be trouble In obtaining a
supply Of the fuel. Ii has been esti-
mated that the entire petroleum sup
ply of the country would not furnish
fuel enough for the use of the loeomo-
tlves employed on the Pennsylvania
and New York Central systems alone.
Some persons associate particular col
ors with particular sounds. DR.. W. 3.
Colman, discussing this phenomenon In
the Lancet, says there are two forms
of it. In one case the person has a sen
sation as II a transparent colored film,
like a rainbow, appeared before his
eyes when certain vowel, or musical,
sounds strike his ears. In the other
case letters or written words, represent
ing the sounds heard, appear In colored
tlnts. The tints are very definite and
Characteristic, and do not vary with
lapse of time; but two persons seldom
associate the same eolors with the same
sounds.
The fanelful notion which men used
sometimes to entertain, that the earth
is, in some sense, a living thing, would
probably have derived support from the
recent observations Of Prof. John Milne,
and others, on the shivers and quivers
that frequently run through its rocky
frame, but escape notice, except when
watched for with specially constructed
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Prof. Milne reports that apparatus Of
this kind has now been mounted in
Canada, British Columbia, the United
States, South Africa, New Zealand,
Java, India and Argentina, as well as In
England and at various places on the
continent of Europe.
On one occasion a steel rail, after
twenty-five years continuous service
ON the Great Northern Railway, actu-
ally dislntegrated under the wheels Of
a passing train. So complete was the
breaking up that scientists thought II
worthy OF investigation, during which
it was determined that the metal had
become exhausted and had broken
down, just as an oyerstrained animal
might be expected to do. This has led
to further inquiry, and scientists are
satisfied that metals do become tired
out. The idea that metals become
weary, while not altogether a new one,
Is to an extent a plausible one, and un-
der the careful scrutiny of scientific so
cleties will probably be satisfactorily
explained and settled.
At a recent meeting of the Royal Dub
lin Society Prof. J.. Jolly presented a
new theory of sun-spots. He suggested
that there may be certain levels In the
brilliant shell of hot yapors constituting
the visible surface of the sun, where
the temperature, although very high,
falls below the critical temperature of
the elements there present. In that
case those elements would be precipi-
tated into liquids, If the pressure were
sufficiently great. Such liquefed mass
es, floating In gaseous matter of great
er density, would, he thinks, present
the characteristic appearance Of I'M
spots, for If the liquid were Opaque, 1t
would look darker than the surround
ing philosophers. When the liquid re-
evaporates, the spot disappears. This
theory that the sun-spots are the first
visible beginnings of a change of state
in the sun.