Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-01
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,

An attempt is being made to prevail
upon the nightingale to favor Norway
with its presence in the nesting sea-
son. Numbers have been imported
from Hungary, but the experiment is
expected to prove failure.
Mr.. j. w. Gridley describes in the
bulletin of the American Museum of
Natural History new species of fossil
horse. This species was one of the last
OF the series of American horses which
begins with the four-toed hyracothere
OF the size of a dog. The present speci-
men had head about the size of an
ordinary horse, but resembled a pony
In respect of height and weight. its
proportions are similar to those of the
zebra or quagga.
Readings of the winds force are
transmitted electrically to a distance
by new French instrument. The
spindle carrying the revolving cups of
an ordinary thermometer also carries a
small Gramme ring, which revolves in
the field of strong permanent mag
net, and connection is made between
the coils of the ring and special form
OF voltmeter, whose graduations are
adjusted to correspond to speeds of the
wind as measured by the thermometer.
A discovery of much interest to geol-
ogists has recently been made about
the Yellowstone river. 1t seems to have
been established beyond doubt that
Yellowstone lake, now the head of the
river, once flowed off southwark into
Snake river. At that time cornpara-
lively small stream followed the course
or the Yellowstone canyon, which had
then nothing like it's present great
depth. The head of this stream grad
ualiy ate its way back until it cut
the divide that inclosed the basin of
the lake, and by thus diverting the
waters of the latter formed the yell
lowstone river.
The sensation Of hunger has hot
been easy to explain. The new theory
OF German physician is that it is
due to emptiness of the blood vessels
OF the stomach, and it is pointed out
that hunger is appeased with the rush
OF blood to the stomach following the
taking of food and beginning of diges-
tlon. In many anemic patients, who
have no appetite when the stomach is
empty, the blood vessels of the stom-
ach are really congested instead of bt-
ms empty Lack Of blood in the stom-
ach, In health, acts. on a special nerve,
which is a branch OF. the same nerve
OF the mouth and tongue. A stimulus
applied to the tongue as by a spice,
thus increases appetite.
There are more kinds of dark clouds |
than are dreamed of in most people
but they are only modif-
cations and combinations of those al
'eady mentioned. The "nimbus," or
ain cloud proper, is a thick layer of
lark cloud, shapeless, with ragged
edges. The cumulo-nimbus is the
hunder cloud or shower cloud. This
sort OF cloud is formed in heavy mass
IS, which assume weird shapes, sug-
yesting to the imaginative eye castles,
giants, ordinary animals, ETC. The
;trato-cumulus is the typical storm
loud, almost always seen in advance
If storm. The altostratus is a thick
heet of gray or blush cloud, with a
brilliant patch near the sun or moon.
The alto-cumulus consists of large
,lobular masses of white or grayisn
loud, arranged in groups of lines. The
irro-stratus is a thin whitish sheet
overing the sky, through which the
un or moon is seen surrounded by a
alo