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

ison photograph, using steel tapa or
wire instead OF q wax cylinder. as re-
ceiver. The steel tape is passed be-
tween the poles OF an electromagnetic.
with whose coil telephone is connect
ed, and II is variably magneti2ed Mt
different portions Of Its length as the
current is varied by the speech vibra-
lions in the telephone. The magnetiza-
tlon is long retained, giving a repro
duction OF the vibrations and speech
when the tape is again passed through
a similar electromagnetic.
Actlnlum is the name given q new
radioactive element of the iron group
discovered by A. Debierne in pitch
blende. The substance has now been
sufficiently concentrated to show that
Its rays have the same effect on bar
ium platlnocyanide, Photographic plates
and a magnetic field as those Of radium
and poIonIum, while It is evidently dis
tinct from those elements.
The earliest meteorological record
now known was made by Rev. William
Merle, for the seven years from 1887 to
1874, and Is preserved In the Bodleian
library, at oxford.
About minute before and Just after
totallty in n solar eclipse, alternate
bright and dark bands-sometimes call
ed shadow bands and sometimes DIFF
fraction bnnCs-:-e seen sweeping
acrosS the country. The dark bands
are but few inches wide, moving not
more than ten to twenty feet per sec
ond They cannot be connected with
the moons shadow, as has been as
sumed, for that moves with cannon
ball velocity, md the theory that they
are due to striae in the atmosphere
seems not wholly satisfactory. Prof. r.
w Wood, of Madison, Wis. hopes to
get reports concerning these bands from
persons In many localities witnessing
the May eclipse. He has asked for de-
tails concerning the width, speed and
direction Of motion (the direction being
reversed as the eclipse passes). with
particulars concerning the wind and
general atmospheric conditions.
The sand dunes of the Gascony coast
are stated by r. lie Mang TO occupy II
belt four or Ave miles wide and $50
miles long, in which area they fire.
Quently rise to height Of 1876 feet and
In one case reached 300 feet. The
shifting sand has been that along the
shore. Barren OF vegetation, this has
been blown about by every wind. and
has buried fields. forests and villages,
and has caused disastrous inundntlops
by blocking the mouths Of the streams.
The evil has been finally remedted by
long experiment and nearly century
OF systematic work. A gently sloping,
half artificial dyke runs along the
beach, next to which is a strip Of quar-
ter OF n mile or more wide, which has
been covered with stunted frs and
bushes, and behind this Is a great ar
titicIal forest of frs and oaks, the whole
efrectually checking the sand invasion.
From numerous pyrometrIc meas
urements, NJ. White and F. w. Taylor
have prepared the following color scale
as most accurately corresponding to the
temperaturas-in Fahrenheit degrees
OF heated steel under average work.
ship conditions: Dark blood red, black
red, 800 degrees: dark red. blood red.
low red, 1850 degrees: dirk cherry red.
1l75 degrees; medium cherry red, l,25i
degrees; full cherry red. 1875 degrees:
light cherry. scaling heat. light red,
$50 degrees: salmon, orange, free seal
ing heat, 1850 degrees; light salmon.
light orange. 1,725 degrees: yellow, l,2S5
degrees: light yellow, 1875 degrees;
white. 1900 degrees.
Guaxlma, a proposed new paper ma
terial, is very abundant In Brazil, The
fiber is long and very strong, res!sts the
action Of water, and is much more cas-
lily prepared than that OF jute.
The aging of timber. which formerly
required long storage. is now complet-
ed by electricity in few hours In the
Nodon- Bretonnenu process, the timber
is piled on lead frame In large
wooden vat, is nearly immersed In
chemical preparation, and is covered
over by shallow vessels OF water hnv-
ing porous bottoms of felt and linen.
The positive pole OF a dynamo Is con-
nected to the lead frame and the mega
tive pole to the water vessels. On the
passage Of the current the sap is drlv-
en- to one side OF the wood and expelled.
and the chemical liquid enters the pores
and takes its plnce. After drying the
wood is ready for use.
WinkIng IE common phenomenon
whose purpose Is not yet clear. II var
les greatly in frequency in different
persons. and at different times, and one
theory is that It serves to give the eye
momentnry rest, becoming more fire.
uuent MS the eye grows tired, while an
other view Is that II serves TO moistcn
the eye-ball. Its duration, which is too
slight to interfere with distinct vision
has been subject of Investigation by
Herr s. Garten. By Photographic
method he has shown that the entire
wink lasts about four-tenths of Il sec-
ond, the downward movement tnking
only about seven to rlne-hundredths.
while the upward movement Of the lid
averages seventeen hundredths, aud the
eye is shut about ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of
a second.
The little Insects known as glacier
heaa," have been found to be the cause
OF the color OF n recent singular fall OF
''black snow" at Molding, Austria. 1t Is
aupposed that these Insects were car
rled from the Alpine glaciers by vlo-
lent snow storm.
Rcd pigeons, blue pigeons and rain
bow-hued cannrles are among the
freaks DR., SaunTmnnn, an Austrian OK
periu,cnter. has been able TO produce.
The birds nre cOlorcd by Introducing
anlllrc dyes into their food.
Goose arc driven long d!stanccs to
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