The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-08-09
FlgjAS Science
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/ Monsieur DuSsard, n French lnNen-
! tor, has combined photograph with a
] telephone in such manner that mes
/ sage spoken into the telephone Is I'M
| pressed upon wax register ut the
/ receiving end, in case the person 10
whom il is addressed happens 10 be alb
/ sent. The registered message can at
/ any time be turned into speech by set
| ting the photograph in operation. A
similar device has been employed in
/ Germany by another inventor. Herr
| Poulsen.
In Paris experiments are being made
with electric automobile fOre-wagons
which can be attached, somewhat at-
ter the manner of locomotive, 10 car
riages otherwise drawn by horses. The
fore wagons are so arranged that when
hitched to a carriage all the meehan-
ism required TO manage them Is direct
~ under the hand of the driver, as IN
an ordinary automobile vehicle. The
method of attachment is such that the
fore-wagon can be removed, and horses
substituted In its place without diff
Guilty.
Some curious spiral fossils, recently
discovered in rocks of the Permlan
period in Russia, appear to represent a
kind of saw-like appendage, armed
with enameled teeth. and capable of
being rolled up in the manner Of a
spiral spring, which once belonged to a
species of fish related to the rays and
dogfish of to-day. A French geologist
Mons. PREM. suggests that the fish car
ried this singular weapon rs an exten-
sion of its upper jaw. Except In Its
capabillty of being rolled up, such an
appendage seems to be no more wonder
full than that of the sawfish or the
swordfish.
From the study of clouds Prof. +. III.
Bigelow of the United States weather
bureau concludes that the ordinary cy-
clones which traverse our country from
west to east are not more than two or
three miles in depth. although their
diameter is many hundreds of miles.
In other words, their motion does not
affect the upper regions of the atmos-
phere. In the case of hurricanes Prof.
Bigelow finds that the depth is great
er, amounting to as much as five or six
miles. But the higher currents blow
directly across the cyclonic and anti
cyclonic areas which produce storms
and fair weather at the surface of the
earth. Some of Prof. Blgelow's eonclu-
slons upset former ideas concerning
the circulation of the atmosphere.
Although tie inhabitants Of the earth
are not perceptibly affected by the
wandering motion of the north pole,
yet 1t is phenomenon of unceasing In
| terest to astronomers, and on Jan. /
a new plan for investigating 1t went In
to effect. The motion, which is sugges-
tive of the wabbllng of a top, is ex-
tremely slight when the vast size Of
the earth is taken into account. Since
1890 the north pole has never been
more than 30 feet away from the place
1t should occupy If the earth's axis Of
revolution never varied in direction.
But the new plan Of observation was
formed by the International Geodetic
Association. 1t provides four observ-
ing stations, all close TO the Both de-
gree of north latitude, and all within
800 feet of the same parallel. These
are at Midzuswa, Japan: Carloforte.
Sardinia; Gaithersburg, Maryland; and
lUkiah, California. Precisely similar OBJ
servatIons with exactly the same kind
of zenith telescopes will be made at
each station on carefully selected stars.
Any change in the direction of the pole
reveals itself by shift of the stars.