The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-04-06
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Mexico has an area Of 751, 900 square
miles. or nearly one fourth that of the
United States
According 10 German authority, the
human brain Is composed of three hun
dred million nerve cells.
The best locomotives on steam lines
weigh 154 pounds per horse power, but
on an electric traction line ut Bald-
more. which was opened In 1893, the
electric traction locomotive weighed
126 pounds per horse power These
locomotives weigh ninety tons, and
develop 1,G00-horse power, distributed
on six Independent driving axles.
1t is perhaps not generally known
that the three-eornered nuts, called
Brazil-nuts. grow In packed clusters
enclosed In shells which are roughly
spherical in form and have somewhat
the appearance Of rusty cannon-balls.
In the tropical forests there is another
nutbearlng plant which goes under
the name of the cannon-ball tree. The
nutshells are almost perfectly spheric-
al. and would readily be mistaken for
cannon-balls.
Miss NJ. \. Ellis contributed paper
to the British Association on the hui
man ear as means of Identification.
She pointed out that the helix, or outer
rim OF the ear, and the general shape
of the pima, or whole outer ear, were
the most useful for purposes of identi-
fication. Ears do not change shape
after childhood, although they enlarge
slightly after middle life. From the
varieties of sixty-four pairs of ears,
many belonging to individuals noted
in art, science and literature. printed
from life by Miss Ellis, 1t has been
found that the right and left of each
pair Of ears usually vary In shape
Lighting the pyramids of Egypt with
electricity and the installation OF Il
$4,000 horsepower plant to cost some
$I00, 900, Is a plan now under eonsid-
Grafton by the British Government and
an American company Is reported as
likely TO receive the contract. As out
lined, the plan includes the genera
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falls. on the Nile River, and its trans
mission a distance of 100 miles through
the cotton growing districts, where, It
Is believed. the cheap power will per
nit the building OF cotton factories. 1t
Is planned to use the power to illumin-
ate the interior corridors OF the pyra-
mids and also operate pumping ma
chinery for lrrigating large areas Of
desert along the Nile.
II Mr.. L. NJ. Hunter, OF Philadelphia.
/ Is able to carry ont his ideas success
| fully, he will construct a telescope Of
such enormous power that the greatest
now In existence will he a mere spy
| glass in comparison. His plan Is to
make n reflector seventy feet in di-
ameter by combining large number
of small mirrors in such manner that
| the light from them will be concen-
trated at common focus. Surprising
this TO he done, the llght-gathering
power of the new telescope would be
about FIVE hundred times greater than
that Of any instrument now in exist
ence. If it We're ms perfect in constrvc-
ton AS smaller telescopes are, 1t might
| give magnifying power of sixty or
seventy thousand diameters, which
would bring the moon within an ap
parent distance of only three or fouI
miles. With this telescope the as
tronomer would have to place himself
high on a platform supporting the eye
piece, while the giant mirror was stu
afed on a movable truck below.