The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-23


motor is less than thirty pounds, while
there is no Interference with the pei
alling of the ordinary bicycle. The
tank holds oil for a run of sixty mites.
the engine giving IA horsepower at Ne
normal speed of 1000 revolutions per
minute.
Life on Neptune. the outermost plan
ct of the solar system and a greenish
star of the eighth magnitude as seen
from the earth, would be quite novel to
US. Mr.. c. I. Whitlnell, of the Leeds
Astronomical Society, notes that the
force of gravity is only about SO that
OF our own world, although this planet
is eighty-fve times as large as the
earth, and the density is only Ill, wa
ter being one. Neptune's moon makes
a revolution from east to west-the OBJ
posite direction from that of our own
sateliite-in days p hours. The sun
is about as large as Venus is to us.
and the solar radiationS are 900 times
less than reach us. yet as much light
and heat are received from the sun
as We could get from 627 full moons
or 100000 first magnitude stars, or
from an electric are of LOCO candle
power at a distance of 1912 feet
With suitable dryness. the tempera-
ture endurance of the two bumped. or
Bactrian, camel is most remarkable
These animals are kept in a part OF
Siberia where IS degrees below zero
Fahrenheit is reached in winter, and
specimens roam wild in the Coli desert
where Przewalski found the ground
temperature in summer to be l40 de
grees.
The building material of the near fu-
ture M. Jules Henriyaux predicts, will
be glass. The foundations and walls
of the houses will be of the lately in
vented stone glass, which has shown
a crushing resistance three times as
great as granite has proven less sen
sitive than steel to heat and cold, I'M
der friction wears less than porphyry
and reSists shock-as of a hammer
blow-twenty-on times as severe as
that which would fracture marble. The
double walls would be held together
by angle-iron. leaving a hollow spao4
in which would pass the pipes, also of
glass-for hot air, water, gas, electric
wires drains. and other purposes
These houses will have stairs and bal
listers, ceilings and wall decora tons.
mantelpieces and fireplaces, all of
glass, and they may be washed
throughout without a trace of damp
ness and will offer no place to which
dust can cling.
! A puZzling phenomenon has been the
blackening of fields of buckwheat bios
SONS by thunder storms. An explana-
ton is suggested by the researches of
Lemstroem, a German electrician, who
has caused water to be sucked up
| through capillary tubes when an cleo
trio influence machine was worked
some distance away, AS the fluids of
plants rise through capillary tubes, it
1appears than an electrified condition OF
| the air may cause an unusual flow.
A remedy for the very fatal foot and
mouth disease of sheep is being tested
in France. 1t is SO per cent solution OF
chronic acid, chemically pure, which
lis applied as a caustic to the sore, and
gives a rapid and certain cure. DR.
Jarre. the discoverer, claims to have
used the remedy with success in 1,50t
leases in two years.
/ In a lot of market vegetables, DR.
Ceresote of Padua, has found 50 spe-
lcies of bacteria, including three or -four
disease producing kinds. If market
bought vegetables are to be eaten raw
he urges previous soaking for half ar
thour in a per cent solution of tartarit
acid, which is an agreeable antiseptlc
land so powerful as to destroy in five
minutes cholera spirilla in salad.