The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-19

lem Of the advantage Of this greater
brain. He suggests that In the opera
ton of natural selection a point must
have been reached where mere bodily
size ceased to aid, and individuals be-
EanAto learn from experience and by
new powers Of habit, Judgment etc,
succeeded in the struggle for existence
against animals guided by instinct only
''Educabillty" becoming thus almost
the sole objective Of selection, 1t has
continued increasing throughout long
period, finally eliminating In man, with
his enormous cerebrum-the seat OF
educabillty or intelligence.
Workers on the Jungfrau railway, Mt
an altitude of about 5000 feet. after
about eight days are seized with vio-
lent pains in one side of the jaw, while
the gums swell and the teeth become
very sensitive. the symptoms increns-
ing for three days and then subsIdinE
This mountain toOthache appears to be
Il disease OF acclimatizad appearing
but once in the individual
A cycle Of hot and cold summers, CO.
incldlng with the decades, has been
traced by Mr.. A. b. MacDowall in the
records of Greenwich observatory.
Since 1871 the mean temperature for
Juno, July and august has ranged be-
tween 57.4 degrees and 65.l degrees, ana
Il is found that the summers reaching
or exceeding GO degrees have been
nearly all In years ending with the fig
ures 8 to 9, and that the summers of
60 degrees or lower have been almost
completely distributed IN the years
ending with 0 to 4. In other words. the
earlier summers Of decade have tend
ed to be cool. and the later ones to be
hot. The tendency has been followed as
far back as 1910, but the records before
1911 are less trustworthy.
The world manufacture OF calcium
carbide for acetylene gas is using cleo
triclty stated by Prof. Borchers to be
equivalent TO 10000 horsepower: that
Of the nlkaliHs and the combinations or
chlorine for bleaching $4,000 horse-pow--
or; OF aluminium, 1000 horse power; OF
copper, ll,0O0: OF carborundum, 200;
and OF gold. 455 Electroplatlng is car
ried on by nearly two hundred firms In
Sheffield, and over one hundred IN Biz
mlnghnm. Electric smelling of iron has
proven successful eXperlmentally, and
go 900 horsepower from the river Aar
has now been secured for manufactur-
Ing iron from the hematlte OF tue
Bernese oberland Lacking coal. the ma
chlnists of Switzerland have been com
PEELED to import more than SlO,OOO,oOO OF
iron year.
We can scarcely hope for new sources
OF energy to be discovered. says Sir
william II. Preecc but there nre some
existing ones we have not touched yet:
When the evil day arrives for our coal
supplies to give out, we may perhaps be
nble by the aid Of electricity. to utilize
the heat OF the sun and the tides OF the
ocean. There u.s. however, vast H.
llmitable store of,energy not only In the
rotation OF the earth upon Its axis, but
In the internal heat Of this globe itself.
As we descend. the temperature gets
higher and higher II ought not to be
diftlcult to reach such temperatures
that by thermo- electric appliances we
might convert the lost energy OF the
earth's interior into some useful cleo
trio form.
The longest lightning conductor runs
from the tower Of the Munich meteor
illogical station on the Hugspitz. the
highest point In the German empire
nearly three and one-half miles to the
Uoltenthnl. the nearest constant water