Arizona republican., 1901-07-06

more thou:ands will be recovered. In- scrihed on clay tablets in the cunei- form characters which tn, explorations of Nlnevah and Egypt have made fa- millar to archaeological students. thsse literary works of men who lived 5000 years before the Christian era began include dictionaries, architectural plans. historical and chronological data. legal and commercial as well as religious lit- erature, that bear witness to the form and pressure of time" in which Abra- ham lived. They also show. says Prof. Hilprecht. that ages before the reputed appearance of Adam man was not only existing but had developed a high state of civilization comparable in all its essential points with that which we ourselves possess.
 Science has proved that moonlight is mere fatal to the complexion than the sun in hia splandor. and they are now selling in Paris little moonshad made of a double tlickneos of mousseline de soie with light fringe. the handles Of which fold back like those of the mar pulses of our grandmothers' time.
 
 According to a Berlin corrc spondent, the authorities in Ems have issued a notice in regard to the wearing of trains by ladies. in which the danger is pointed out of causing duot to fly about in a town where there are so many invalids. The printed notice con cludes thus: Ladies will, perhaps, find comfort in the fact that men are alao requested to refrain from smoking during the hours when the invaids are taking thair walks. Should this wish of the authorities not be compiled with, then a police order will be issued, which will be strictly enforced"
 
 Some interesting details as to the height of waves recordel on the east coast of Scotland have iFt been com municated to the Instit ition of Civil Engineers by William Shield. the en- gincer at the Peterhead harbor worka. where the records were taken. During a storm from the routheast. Veering to ast-southeast. the velocity of the wind rose from 57 to S9 mics per hour within the 36 hours. Tha waves. care fully measured by instr,mc nts, were found to be irregular both as to height and length, hut wave after wave passed having it's crest qu te unbroken, fully 22 feet inches above the sti!! wattr level Assuming the troughs to he as far below the rtill V ater level as their crest was above it. he height of the waves would thus be 4i feet
 
 very curious device has been in- vented by which it ir ssible to de- termine how many times he eye moves in reading. and how fas the move ments are mad5. The object of the in- strument is to show in w'rat cases read ing Is hurtful to the eyes, and thus to prevent short sightedne:s and fatigue. In a test Of the instrument recently mad the results were curious. A mans eye was first made insersible to pain by an application of holocoacaine. and then a very light shell, with a hole in the center, was placed on the eyeball and held to ii by suction.
 The shell was connected with light aluminium levers in such a way that the eye movements were traced on a moving sheet of "moked paper. Flee trical devices caused tho pointer to re- cord not only the movements. but the ! speed of each and the exact time 1t | took The tracings showeC that the eye doss not move over a printed lire con | tinuously. but by quick jerks of varying 1 length. The eye returns in al un- | broken sweep until near the end, when it halts occa ionally. az if to get it's bearings. The average number of jerk movements in reading a newspaper line | Is about three. A line slightly less 1 than an inch in length was r5a1 with cyt any movement.
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