The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-21
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SILK worms, in Flammarion's expert
ments, have attained their maximum
production in white, red and blue light.
The first two planetoids in 1900 were
discovered, the one by the Austrian as
tronomer Paliga and the other by
Charlois Of Nice.
Measurements 10y an American mi
croscopist to test the theory that the
red blood corpuscles vary in size in diff
ferent races have failed to show any
marked differences.
New mines of Ignite have been dis
covered in Germany which are of CON
siderable importance; they are located
at Quadrat in the neighbOrhood of
Cologne a series of soundings has
shown the presence of a compact mass
of Ignite from forty to fifty feet be-
low the soil; the bed extends over sew
eral hundred acres. The extraction
has commenced and at the present
time about GOO tons of briquettes are
made per day, these being used to re-
place coal
The first section of the great Russian
pipe line has been completed. The
pipe runs parallel to the Trans-Cau-
casian Russian State railway. The
section just completed is 14J miles long.
The pipe is of wrought iron, lap-welded.
and the internal diameter is eight
inches. 1t was made in Russia from
native materials There are three
pumping stations with two pumps in
each, only one being used regularly,
the other being kept as a reserve. 1t
is expected that 416.2T5,2O0 gallons of
oil will be pumped per annum.
The growing of Belgian hares for the
market in Southern California is de-
scribed by Mr.. .. Z. Wolcott, in the
Scientific American, as having recently
become an extensive industry. The
hares are imported for breeding pur-
poses from England and Belgium. \
high-bred buck OF doe hare, Mr.. VOL
colt says, will bring from $50 TO $50
In the mari IT'S the price is about -
tents per pound, live weight. From
Los Angeles shipments are now made
TO all parts of the United States. A
warm climate is not essential for the
animals. and ii is said they could he
grown for the market in almost all
parts of the Union.
A Russian inventor. X. Danilewsky
has recently experimental, under gov
eminent auspices, with a fyngm
oh Which Ifnas. 1ifffna
power of a balloon with something re-
sembling wing action. The balloon il
shaped like a projectile. and is small
being filed with pure hydrogen. It,
ascensional force is sufficient to neu
tralize the weight of the aerOnaut anC
the apparatus. The latter consists Of IT.;
system of movable aerOplanes and
steering tackle, by means of which thu
aerOnaut guides the course of the bal
loon. In descending. the latter assume
an upright position. The immediate oh
iect of the experiments is to provide 1
dirigible balloon for the signal-corps o
the Russian army.
Visitors to museums of science ar
always interested in the mounted skele
tons of gigantic extinct animals. bu
they seldom appreciate the amount o
study and skill required to properl.
match the fossil bones together. Evel
at the best it seems probable that man.
mistakes are made, and extinct mon
sters may sometimes be caused TO as
sumo forms and attitudes unknown L
them in life. This is indicated. no
only by the differences between III
reservations made by various natural
lists. but by recent remark of Prof II
G. Osborn. an expert in the mountin
of fossil skeletons. that if we had ha
nothing but the skeleton of the elC
plant to work upon, we should prOba
bly, have obtained very faulty cor
ception of the animal.