Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
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The Chinese are not mentioned eth
ar in the Old or the New Testament.
! 1t is not known from which of the
sons of Noah they descend. AS ma
lion they date several thousand years
back.
By arrangements with the two gov
ernments of France and Germany, a
telephone service has been inaugurated
between Paris, Frankfort and Berlin.
The charge for the use Of the wire be-
tween Frankfort and Paris is 80 cents
For three minutes, and between Paris
and Berlin $1.25 for the same time.
Things grow very fast in the short
Arctic summer. As soon as the snow
melts off in many places the ground is
covered with vine which bears
small berry something like buckle
berry, porwong it is called. 1t Is sour
and has a pungent taste, and the In
1ians leave off work and go porwong
hunting. cramming themselves with
The berries.
The theoretical velocity with which
water flows under given head is SOB
times the square root of the head. To
Hnd the pressure in pounds per square
lnch 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-
heasive 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 2,465.613 cablegrams are
now annually transmitted.
| NJ. Gain has examined the structure
of the embryo of grains of wheat and
barley obtained from Egyptian num-
my cases, and finds that although the
grains have undergone but little change
in external appearance, and the re-
serve substances have retained their
COhpOSItIOit, tu0 CDCIulSdl
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
Iapocryphal statements that these seeds
can germinate after thousands of
years.
Sir w. Fl. Preece says that one great
advantage of electric over steam trac-
ton on railroads is that it impresses
continuous and uniform torque, or
turning, on the shaft, while the actidn
J of the steam locomotive is intermit-
tent. The consequence is that wheels
driven by an electric motor get con-
! tinuous bite on the rails, as steam
| driven wheels do not. By means Of
| this constant grip, slipping on greasy
rails is avoided It is also possible.
with electric traction. to apply the
maximum torque at once. and thus to
bring railroad train up to it's great
est speed much more quickly than is
possible with steam traction. This adj
vantage is especially valuable on city
lines, where stoppages are frequent and
distances between stations short.
Under government encoura cement, it
| is said that Siberia is gaining 100000
farmers per year. Among it's exports
are cereals, butter. wool. leather and
dried and preserved meats. Already
this remote country, which the popu-
lar Imagination is apt to picture as a
vast waste, the abode of frost and snow
and misery, is becoming talked of as a
possible competitor with the we'll
known cereal-producing- countries of
the world. A member of the French
bureau of foreign commerce estimates
that, on the basis of the present popu-
lation of Russia in Europe, Siberia can
sustain S0.000.0O0 inha bitants, although
now it has not one-tenth of that num-
ber. 1t produces one-tenth of the
worlds yield of gold, but owing to eli
matte obstacles many of it's mines are
not worked, and it's immense coal de
posits have hardly been touched.