The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-06-28
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Liquid air has bee. sed TO pronel
an automobile and for refrigeration
and blasting. Other applications have
also been contemplated. Thus far, how
ever. none of these have yet been de-
veloped TO a stage that insures a COM
merclal demand for the product, and
the problem of storing 1t without evap-
grafton is not yet fully solved.
When soda ash was obtained from
seaweed a Partisan soap boiler discov-
cred in it the element of iodin. In the
hands of Niepee and Daguerre this
iodin was found to render a silver sur
face sensitive to light The developed
and fixed impression ON the plate gave
the daguerreotype. The French Gov
eminent purchased the secret and
made it free to the world.
One Of the chief governing instincts
among wild birds is the sense of fear.
This feeling of fear is not apparent in
birds until ten or twelve days after
birth. All perching birds acquire the
instinct of fear at from eight or ten
days after birth, and this instinct be-
comes the controlling factor in the sub
sequent experiences of the bird. being
either lessened or increased by circum-
stances.
In Venezuela, the castor-oil plant
growing around houses Is believed to
keep mosquitoes away. In that country
the plant grows to the size of tree
and Is perennial, whereas in more tenn
perate climates 1t attains a height Of
only four or five feet. But United
States Consul Plumacher at Maracaibo
thinks the plant would be equally effec-
tive against mosquitoes anywhere. BY
keeping the branches and seeds of the
plant in room, he says. the pests are
driven away.
At McGi1 University. Montreal, ex-
periments have recently been made by
Prof. +. d. Adams which show that
at temperatures of 800 degrees to 400
degrees centigrade, and under a pres
sure of a hundred tons to the square
inch, marble "f1pws' readily. so that
solid block can be caused to assume
an entirely new shape without being
cracked or broken. The inference is
that in the depths of the earth mar
BILE, hemmed in by surrounding rock,
flows as in the experiments
The King of Siam, says our consul at
Bangkok, rides an American bicycle.
and lit is no uncommon thing to see
the ministers of the government COM
ing and going to their duties, and even
to public functions, on their Wheels"
Many of the princes of the country be-
long to a bicycle club, and few
months ago there was a grand bicycle
pageant in the presence of the King
and Queen, in which nearly every
prince of Siam participated The
American wheels are far in the lead
Of all others in the sales.
The deepest hole In France is a we'll
in the coal mines of Ronchamp. Upper
Seine, which was completed in Deem
Der, 1900. Its depth is 1909 feet, and
its utilizable diameter is thirteen feet.
The shaft is walled from top to bottom
and lined with copper. where it trav-
erses water bearing strata. To COM
plete it sixty months was required. At
thirty feet below the surface the tenn
perature of the rock is 80 degrees F..
at the bottom the temperature is lit
degrees f., although the highest tenn
perature of the air in the shaft with
out artificial ventilation) is So degrees. I