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The Chinese are not mentioned eth
Pr In the Old or the New Testament.
1t Is not known from which Of the
ons of Noah they descend. As ma
ion they date several thousand years
back.
BY arrangements with the two gov
rnments of France aud Germany,
telephone service has been inaugurated
'etween Paris. Frankfort and Berlin.
The charge for the use of the wire be
,ween Frankfort and Paris is 80 cents
or three minutes, and between Paris
md Berlin S1.25 for the same time,
Things grow very fast in the short
Arctic summer. As soon as the snow
nelts off in many places the ground is
covered with vine which bears a
small berry something like buckle
berry, porwong it is called. 1t is sour
ind has pungent taste, and the In
lians leave off work and go porwong
hunting, examining themselves with
The berries.
The theoretical velocity with which
water flows under a given head is S.03
times the square root of the head. To
dnd the pressure in pounds per square
nch of column Of water, multiply
the height Of the column In feet by
434, approximately; consider that ev-
cry foot of elevation is equal to one
half pound pressure per square inch;
this allows for ordinary friction.
A new submarine cable is about to be
laid between England and Germany.
This is the fifth cable, and compre-
haasive idea Of the increase In the ca
BILE traffic between the two countries
may be gathered from the fact that,
whereas in 1896, when the fourth cable
was laid, the annual number of cable
grams was 1,S67,S6S per annum. no
fewer than 2,465,G13 cablegrams are
now annually transmitted.
NJ. Gain has examined the structure
of the embryo of grains of wheat and
barley obtained from Egyptian mum
my cases, and finds that although the
grains have undergone but little change
in external appearance, and the re-
serve substances have retained their |
chemical composition, the chemical |
composition of the embryo has been
completely altered, and it is no longer
capable of development. The dormant |
life of the seed must long ago have ex-
pired. and NJ. Gain regards this OBJ
servation as entirely disposing of the
apocryphal statements that these seeds
can germlnate after thousands of
years.
Sir w. II. Preece says that one great
advantage of electric over steam trac-
ton on railroads is that it impresses
a continuous and uniform torque, or
turning, on the shaft, while the actidn
Of the steam locomotive. is intermit-
tent. The consequence is that wheels
driven by an electric motor get a con-
tinuous 'bite" on the rails, as steam
driven wheels do not. BY means of
his constant grip, slipping on greasy
'ails Is avoided. 1t is also possible,
with electric traction, to apply the
maximum torque at once, and thus to
BRING railroad train up to its great
est speed much more quickly than is
possible with steam traction. This adj
Tantage is especially valuable on city
ines where stoppages are frequent and
distances between stations short.
Under government encouragement. 1t
5 said that Siberia is gaining 100000
armers per year. Among its exports
re cereals, butter. wool, leather and
Tried and preserved meats. Already
his remote country, which the popu-
ar Imagination is apt to picture as a
asst waste, the abode of frost and snow
nd misery, Is becoming talked of as
,ossihle competitor with the we'll
.nown cereal-producing countries of
he world. A member of the French
'ureau of foreign commerce estimates
hat. on the basis of the present popu-
alton Of Russia in Europe, Siberia can
ustaln S0,000.000 inhabitants, although
low 1t has not onetenth of that num- |
er. Il produces one-tenth of the
worlds yield of gold, but owing to eli {
latic obstacles many of its mines are
ot worked, and its immense coal de- t
osits have hardly been touched. S