Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-03-28
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The light which comes to US from the
sun In eight minutes might journey
ten thousand billion years and not
reach the borderland Of the universe.
1t has no limit. 1t can have none. Yet
the same laws rule 1t throughout. And
every force. al power within it, all
the laws that govern 1t. work for bar
mony and happiness.
A French engineer. Jean Berlier. has
worked out in detail the plans for a
railroad tunnel under the Straits OF
Gibraltar. He would run 1t from a
point in Spain near Gibraltar to Tan
gier. in Morocco. the total length, in
Guiding approaches. being 25 miles. Of
which 20 miles would lie under the
sea. The estimated cost is about $2o.
100000
Prof. G. E. Bessey announces In a
letter to Science that he has obtained
evidence that trees, including such spe-
cles as oak, hickory. willow, cotton
wood, elm and box elder. are rapidly
advancing in eastern Nebraska. The
areas covered by them are gradually
creeping up the courses Of the streams
and spreading out laterally. In some
cases the tree belt" along rivers has.
within twenty-five years. increased
In width from 100 feet to half a mile
md even a mile.
Prof. Arthur Thompson. In Knowl
sdge, deals with the form of skulls and
brain capacity. The average weight
of a mans brain Is about 30 ounces.
that of a woman about 45 ounces. This
difference between the sexes Is less
marked In savage than in civilized
races. and Is apparently explained by
the fact that in the higher races more
attention is paid to the education of
:he male than the female. and conse-
Quently the brain Is stimulated to in
creased growth.
An ingenious Frenchman, NJ. Louis
Levat, recently administered alcohol,
through the soil. to a geranlum plant
for the purpose OF observing the ef
feet 1t was sufficiently startling. The
leaves Of the geranium began to turn
yellow and gave off a peculiar etberic
odor. symptoms Of poisoning appeared,
the rootlets turned black and seemed
to have been burnt. the leaves dropped
toward the earth, and in four days the
alcoholized geranlum. which had been
q very beautiful plant. was totteris
wreck.
The Arctic Ocean, says Nansen, l.
a kind of lagoon, separated from the
Atlantic by submarine ridge. stretch
ing from Spitzbergen to Greenland. II
this ridge is due a curious condition,
The Arctic is covered with layer Il
slightly salt water from the Siberia,
rivers and Behring Strait. and under
this Is the normally salt Gulf Stream
water. If the two layers were mixed
the average temperature would fall
but this average would not be as coll
as the surface layer. This account.
for the enormous formation Of pola'
'ce.
There IL a little bird in Costa Rica. {;
pretty black and orange Oriole who ia
an expert in needlecraft. Having NJ
clothes upon which to exercise her skill
she turns her talent to account il
home making. Selecting a large. fresh
growing banana leaf. she CAREFUL,
sews the two edges together with hei
| bill for the needle. and some stron;
grass or rootlets for the thread. Sh'
even follows the grain of the leaf clos,
by one Of the veins, and so neatly aTt
the stitches made that only the closes
| examination reveals them. Inside thi.
pocket is built a nest of soft grass o
hair. and here the mother bird lays he
| dainty eggs and raises her fami!,
without fear Of discovery.