The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-05-17
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The water of the larger Norwegian
fjords, or rock bays, though in direct
communication with the sea, are so
saltless as to be drinkable.
At high altitude, where the air is
rarefed, water boils at a lower tenn
perature than it does at a lower place.
Tea and coffee cannot be made, nor
can vegetables be cooked by ordinary
rules, because the water boils at such
n low temperature it will not cook the
food. Water must boil at the tempera-
ture of 212 degrees F. to do the work.
Prof. r. T. Fessenden, of the United
States Weather Bureau, is making eX-
periments with wireless telegraphy on
the southern coast. Stations will be
established at Capes Hatteras and
Henry and at other coast points north
of Cape Hatteras. 1t is the Govern
ments intention to communicate storm
warnings to vessels at sea off this dan
gerous locality. 1t is also intended to
send storm signals to life-saving sta
lions when the wires are disabled. If
the tests are successful the entire coast
will be similarly equipped.
L. E. Dudley, the United States Con-
sui at Vancouver, reports that expert
ments are being made on the coast of
British Columbia with an automatic
system for warning ships of their APP
proach to dangerous rocks and shoals
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lights nor fog horns can avail. The
principle is that of wireless telegraphy,
and the operation is automatic. From
metallic conductor, fixed at an ele-
walton ON or near the point of peril,
electric waves are transmitted over
a zone several miles in width. Any ship
provided with a proper receiving in
strument, and coming within this zone,
is Immediately warned of the prOxim-
ity of danger and the direction and
distance of the concealed peril are auto
matically recorded.
One of the most curious Of storm phe-
nOmena is the formation of hail. 1t is
known that this frozen rain falls from
clouds at high levels, where the tenn
perature is low enough to crystalline
the water Thus thousands of tons Of
hailstOnes may be discharged from a
mass of cloud within a few minutes.
On May 8, 1865. near Catelet, in
France, a quantity of hailstones esti-
: mated at twenty-One million cubic feet
fell in a space a mile and a quarter
long and two thousand feet broad. Such
ice crystals Of extraordinary size have
been observed occasionally. The larg-
est hailstOnes on record fell in southern
France in October, 1874, one weighing
eleven pounds being picked up. Doubt
less, however, these exceptional hail
stones are agglomerations representing
many crystals fused together.
A well-knOwn critic of art in France
N. Arsene Alexandra, studied the ex-
hibit of railway locomotives at Paris
last summer from a new point of view
and drew some interesting conclusions
One of his most surprising differences
, was that the genuine art of to-day was
exhibited not in the museum of paint
: ings, but among the locomotives. The
latter showed beauty of line and pro
portion and true originality of treat
j. ment. National character was clearly
marked in them. The American loco
motive combined elegance, practically
convenience and power, betokening &
= race which takes its ease in working
r The English locomotive was NOR,
trim. snug and smaller but withou
loss of power. The French was Lighter
and finer in line. but less powerful anC
effective. The other nations showed
similar distinctions in their work.