Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-10

many lOJAllueS witnessing the May ]
eclipse. He has asked for details con-
cerning the width speed and direction |
OF motion (the direction being reversed |
as the eclipse passesJ, with particulars |
concerning the wind and general atmos-
pheric conditions.
The sand dunes Of the Gascony coast |
are stated by r.. lie Mang TO occupy a
belt four or five miles wide 20 a height |
OF l2j feet and IN ole case reach 300 /
feet The shifting Sghd has been that |
along the shore. Barren OF vegetation.
this has been blown about by every
wind, and has burleQ fields, forests and |
villages. and has caused disastrous in
undations BY blocBue the mouths OF |
the streams. The evil has been finally T.
remedled by long eXneriment and nearly |
century Of systematic work. A gent !
ly-slOping. half artificial dyke runs |
along the beach, next 20 which is a strip |
a quarter Of q mile OF more wide which f.
has been covered win stunted frs and /
bushes, and behind this is great arti- |
fetal forest OF fins and oaks. the whole
etfectually checking the sand Invasion. /
~
From numerous pyrometric measure
ments. NJ. White aud +. W. Taylor have |
prepared the following cOrlor scale as
most accurately corresponding 20 the
temperatures-in Fabrenheit degrees
% heated steel under average work.
shop conditions: Dark blood red, black |
red 900 degrees; dark red blood red.
low red. 1850 degrees. dark cherry red.
l,li5 degrees; medium cherry red. 2jO !
degrees fun cherry red 1876 degrees
light cherry, scaling heat. light red. |
J, $50 degrees, salmon orange free seal |
ing heat. $50 degrees light salmon.
light orange LIS degrees yellow LESS |
degrees; light yellow 1915 degrees |
white, 1900 degrees.
GuaXlma a proposed new paper ma
terial Is very abndaut IN Brazil The !
fiber Is long and very strong resists the
action u water. ana Is much more |
easily prepared than that Of jute.
The aging OF timber which formerly
required long storage, is now completed
by electricity Ia few hours. In the
Nodon-Bretonneau process the timber
IS piled on a lead frame IN a large
wooden vat Is nearly immersed IN "a
chemical preparation. and Is covered
over by shallow vessels Of water hay-
Ing porous bottoms q felt and linen
The positive pole Of dynamo is con-
nected 20 the lead frame and the Mega
tive pole 10 the water vessels. on the
passage OF the CURRENT. the sap is
driven 20 one side Of the wood and ex-
PEELED and the chemical liquid enters
the pores and takes its place. After
drying the wood is ready for use.
Winking Is a compton phenomenon
whose purpose Is not yet clear. IL
varies greatly in frequency az different
times. and one theory Is that u serves
10 give the eye mOmentary rest be-
coming more frequent as the eye grows
tired while another View Is that 10
serves 10 moisten the cye-ball rs
duration which Is too slght 90 inter-
fere with distinct yision has been a
subject OF investigation by Herr S. Car
! ten. BY Photographic method he has
I shown that the entire wink lasts about
four-tenths Of a second. the downward
| movement taking only about seven 10
nine hundredths. while the upward
movement Of the ma averages seven
teen-hundredths. and the eye Is shut
about hfteen-hundredths Of a second
The little insects knovn as glacier
heas" have been found to be the cause
Of the color Of a recent singular fan 0f
BLACK snow" at Modiug. Austria. il
Is supposed that these Insects were car |
ried from the Alpine glaciers b. vio-
lent snOWstOrm
Red pigeons. blue nIgeons and rain
I bow hued Canaries are among the |
freaks Dr. Sauermann an Austrian ex- |
perimenter, has been able 10 produce |
The birds are col0red by introducing |
anillne dyes into thelt food.
Geese are driven long distances TO
market az Warsaw, poland. and their |
feet are protected for the trip by being
'shod.' the creatures being made 10
walk alternately through tar and sand |
several times
The number Of plants known 20 COM |
merce IS placed az A2O0, and OF these
go are applied 70 the making Of per
/ fumes.