Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-30

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Hawaii Is said to have more tele.
| phones IN use In proportion to the popu.
ladon than any other locality in the
world.
A newspaper printed on the excur.
sion steamer Ophir published one mum
Der In 50 degrees minutes north lat
tude. 1t claims to be the paper puo.
Hshed farthest north of any on record.
A series OF experiments made by
Benno Erdmann and Raymond Dodge
show that In normal reading the letters
are not spelled out separately, and one
after the other, but that short word
OF not more than four letters can be
read off in less time than q single let
ter
The Pixies Peak Power Company pro
poses to develop 3,2OO-horse- power for
distribution for mines in the neighbor-
hood Of Cripple Greek, Colo. The source
of the water supply is Beaver canyon.
and u steel and rock dam will be built
having a storage capacity Of 10000, 900
cubic feet
board, which repeats sound at SO
short an interval that the original and
the repeated waves impress the ear in
unison, a device called the pOlyphone
has recently been applied to the phono-
graph for the purpose Of doubling the
volume of sound issuing from that in
strument. A ph0nograph with the
polyphone attachment has two horns.
each provided with a diaphragm and
stylus. Not only is the sound made
louder, but it's quality is improved
Lake Superior appears to exercise a
greater effect upon the annual amount
OF precipitation of rain and snow near
its shores than any other of the Great
Lakes. The average precipitation in
year Is about eight inches greater on
the southern than on the northern sid.
of Lake Superior Lakes Erie and On
tario also show more precipitation on
their southern than on their northern
shores, but the difference Is only three
inches annually. In the case of Lakes
Huron and Michigan it is the eastern
shores as compared with the western
which get the largest precipitation, but
the difference is not great.
The distances over which birds mi
CRATE vary between wide limits, and
are often surprisingly great. The bo-
bolinks, which rear their young on the
shores Of Lake Winnipeg, Canada, and
go to Cuba and Porto Rico to spend the
winter, twice traverse a distance ex-
ceeding $500 miles. or more than a
fifth OF the circumference Of our earth.
eacn year. The kingbird lays its eggs
rs far north as the tifty-seventh degree
Of latitude, and is found in the winter
in South America. The biennial nil.
grlmages Of the little redstart exceed
three thousand miles and the tiny hum
ming bird two thousand.
Madame Ceraski, of Moscow. has dis
covered In the constellation Cygnus a
star OF between the eighth and ninth
magnitude which undergoes wonderful
variations In its light 1t belongs to
the same type of variable stars as the
celebrated Algol, but it's variation Ia
larger Its period is four DAYS tbir-
teen hours and forty-ive Minutes
When at minimum it is three magnI-
tudes fainter than when at n maxi
mum; IN other words, 1t periodically
loses and then regains so much LIGHT
that at one time 1t is sixteen tImaa
brighter than at another. In stars OF
this type the changes of light are sun
posed to be caused by dark body re-
voiving around the star, and produc-
ing ecl1pses as it comes within our line
of sight.