The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-08-29
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The sun Is nearer to the earth In win
ter than in summer; the northern hemi-
/ sphere of the earth Is turned from the
sum- however, SO that the suns rays
strike at an angle. not directly as In
summer.
The French art critic. NJ. Arsene Al
eNandre, has discovered that our ma
chinery shows a distinct beauty of
racial type The national character is
clearly marked. he thinks even In our
locomotives. This theory is an in
genious one and is worthy of elabora-
ton.
According to the distinguished
French anthropologists, Gabriel and
Adrien de Mortillet. there was june
ton between Europe and America by
way Of the British Isles, the Faroes.
Iceland and Greenland In what is
known as the Chellean epoch, which
Is supposed to have ended a hundred
aud fifty or sixty thousand years ago.
Some curious botanical experiments
made at geological laboratory at Ma
pies are reported by Hans Wlnkler. A
iowerless aquatic plant. that grows
normally with Its roots In the sand
and leaves In water. was inverted, spec
linens being placed with the leaves
buried In the sand and the roots float
Ing In the water In strong light. The
roots changed to stems and leaves, the
hIlFip1 paFfE haaamtnU roafa
In 1895 a French chemist discovered
rays emanating from the element uran-
ium, which possessed the properties
similar to the Roentgen rays Recent
experiments by the Berlin High School
OF Technology proved that a new ele-
ment is responsible for the Becquerel
rays-and the interesting fact has been
observed that these rays render almost
every transparent substance luminous
In the darkness. The rays make 1t pos
sible to tell genuine diamonds from ar
tificial ones In the dark.
The size of eggs among nesting birds
ranges from that of the ostrich to that
Of the humming bird. IL being primarily
dependent on the size of the bird but
also on the condition of the young at
birth. the eggs of birds whose young
are born feathered being proportion
ately larger than the eggs of those
whose young are Matched naked. The
period of incubation. is more'ldr Ilees
closely related to the size of the egg.
being about fourteen days In the husn-
ming-blrd and forty-two In the os-
trich.
A London electrician, W. Duddell,
recently gave an exhibition of novel
musical instrument, composed of a Sc
ries of electric are lights, which played
a popular air. When the current Is
passing through'solid carbons they give
Off a musical sound, and by placing a
shunt across the carbons, connected
with keyboard. Mr.. Duddell was able
to vary the sounds through the scale
of two oetaves. The keyboard served
to vary the self-lnduction and capacity
in the shunt circuit, and by employ
ing four arcs In series, the Intensity
of the sounds was made sufficiently
great.
The Reverend Father Grison Of STAN
ley Falls, Africa. writes that Europeans
have very inaccurate idea of tropical
temperatures. He passed eight years
at the equator on the Pacific coast, he
says. and never saw the mercury above
50 degrees. while at Stanley Falls the
l. NJ h. ,t,.l,4
are deliciously cool. On the other hand,
there are frequent tempests of indie
scribable violence, and Father Grlson
has counted GO lightning flashes In one
the thunder being continuous,
and has seen 10 thunderbolts strike
within a radius Of few hundred me-
tiers In the space of two hours.