The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-12-29
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Academy of Sciences that his studies
OF the action of sounds upon the hui
man ears prove that the auditory ap-
paratus of each ear operates independ-
emily OF the other. This appears to
nave a bearing upon the question
whether loss of hearing by one ear
exercises an injurious effect upon its
mate.
Under the best conditions obtaining
at present. out of every hundred tons
OF coal delivered at gas works or cleo
tric light stations, something, like nine
ty-eight tons are. as far as the produc-
ton of light is concerned, absolutely
wasted and &c to produce useless heat.
When n considers the enormous
quantity of coal used annually for the
production of artificial illumination, the
absolute waste of nlnety-eight per CEN
or 1t seems little short of criminal. Yet
scientists are engaged in solving the
problem.
The French scientific journal, La Ma
ture, warns its readers against the
~time-honored custom of using spiders
webs to stop bleeding. Remarking that
old webs from stables are preferred by
those who resort to this remedy, it
points out that such webs are peculiar
ly liable to be infected with the mi
crobes of various diseases which may
be communicated from animals to man.
Among other Affections that have been
traced to the use of old, dusty spiders
webs bound upon wounds is the
dreaded tetanus or lockjaw.
One scientist counted the hairs on a
fy's feet and found an average of be-
tween ten thousand and twelve thous-
and, from each of which flowed the
minute specks of oil. The oil is alb
solutely necessary to the fly when walk
ing on a vertical surface. If a pane
of glass should become wet or very
dusty it would be impossible for the
fly to walk over it, In the one case be-
cause of the flowing of the oil between
the hairs of the feet and destroying the
strength of the capillary action; in the
other, because of the clogging Of the
hairs with the dust.
Prof. r. H. Thurston of Cornell Uni
versity calls attention to the fact that
since the Spanish War, the manufact-
ure of chilled-iron turrets for coast de-
Tense has been established in this
country. He regards the chilling of
the surface Of cast iron so as to give 1t a
hardness exceeding that of tool steel
as "one of the most remarkable scien-
tifc achievements of the time" The
chilling of east iron for car wheels has
long been practised almost exclusively
in this country, but although it is at
bottom an American Invention, the use
Of the process for making turrets for
coast defense has hitherto been devel-
oped only in Europe. Professor Thurs
ton remarks that American iron is the |
finest in the world for this purpose.
E. D. Preston, of the Coast and Geo.
detic Survey, who has recently studied
the language of Hawaii, calls attention
to a remarkable popularity in which
that language shows a sharp contrast
to others. Usually when a foreign word
is adopted into a language it is debased
In its meaning. Thus, Saloon" mean
ing a bringing place, comes from the
French salon, a parlor; and the Span
ish word hablar, to talk, is transformed
by the French into a word s~ignifying
a babbler and a liar. Many similar ex-
amples are found in European lam
guages. But in Hawaii the opposite
rule prevails, and words that have beer
adopted from the tongues of white men
have been elevated in meaning and des-
ignate better things than they did in
their original language.