The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-01
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Geographical statistics show that flf-
ty-two volcanic islands have risen out
of the sea since the beginning Of the
century. Nineteen of that number have
since disappeared and zen are now in.
habited.
The fruit of the nutmeg tree Is pear
shaped 1t consists of four parts,
fleshy outer part a red network within
this. known TO commerce as mace, the
shell covered by the mace, and the
kernel, or nutmeg proper.
1t is well known that anesthetlcs. es-
pecially chloroform and ether. are fatal
to living beings, acting slowly when
they are used in small quantities for Il
long time. aud rapidly when they are
given In large dose :. This is true both
for animal and To-. vegetable life.
Fat, or the materials dissolved from
a feeding stuff by ether, Is "a substance
of mixed character. and may include.
besides real fats. wax, the green col
oring matter of plants. etc. The fat Of
food is either stored up in the body
as TAT VI bhinthY ~ Auih h'hN ~
energy.
Powdered sugar Is said to possess de
cided inferior sweetening properties 10
those of the coarsely crystalllzed arti-
Gle. In the process of pulverzation 1t
is claimed that the heat and electricity
produced transform certain proper
ton Of the sugar into glucose, whose
sweetening powers are two and half
times less than those of saccharose.
The lung differs from all other strue-
lures In having two separate clrcula-
tons. the nutritlye. supplied by the left
side Of the heart through the bronchial
arteries; and the functional. supplied
by the right side of the heart through
the pulmonary artery This double cir
culation underlles all the phenomena OF
pneumonia, and must be recognized In
any definition of the disease as with
out II the disease Itself cannot exist.
our new island of Porto Rico. ac-
cordlng 10 Mark W. Harrington, is the
most densely populated rural com
munity proper In America" II has
about 900 Inhabitants to the square
mile When the Spanards first occu-
pied it, IL was as densely populated as
Il is now. Before Columbus discovered
America two successive races had oe-
cupied the island, one seems TO have
been Of northern origin aud the other
was of Carib stock. Every tillable part
of the land has been cultivated again
and again.
Among the flint quartz and Jasper ar
row-heads frequently found In this
country are certain forms known to
archaeologists as war points" For
arrows they were made small. some
times not more than three-fifths Of an
inch long. They are triangular in out
line and were intended 10 stick fast In
a wound. Prof W. X. Moorehead says
that war points are found abundantly
scattered in certain localities where
lcre are no Indications Of villages hav-
existed. and the Inference is that
such places were la title. grounds, where
the red men fought In ancient days.
For many years efforts have been
made from time to time to measure the
heat radiated from some Of the bright
est stars. The most successful attempt
appears to be that OF Professor Nichols
at the Yerkes Observatory. With the
aid OF an apparatus recalling the prin-
ciple of the Crookes radlometer. he has
ascertalned that the star Vega, which
shines very brilliantly near the zenith
In midsummer evenings, sends to the
earth an amount of heat equal to that
of an ordinary candle six miles distant
Arcturus. the star celebrated by Job.
and which has somewhat fiery color.
radlates about twice as much heat as
Vega.