The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-05-31
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The French roller boat built by NJ.
Balm has been broken up at Preston,
England, after being exhibited for
some time as a curiosity. Her construc-
ton was most intricate and the amount
of metal used enormous.
A commission has been appointed to
examine into the rapid death of the
elm trees in New Haven, and it is
found the trees are dying from lack of
plant food in the streets. humiliation by
horses, poisoning by Illuminating gas
and by insects and elm tree beetles.
Some time ago an attempt was made
to attribute the death Of trees to stray
electric currents.
During the eclipse of the sun in May,
1900, an English observer, Mr. Ever
shed, as reported at a recent meeting of
the Royal Astronomical Society, noticed
a point on the edge of the moon where
the sun was shining through a very
deep valley, and where the lunar noun
tains seemed to be about $4,000 feet in
altitude This exceeds by 6OO0 feet
the estimated height of Mount Everest.
the loftiest mountain on the earth. The
edge of the moon is so broken by peaks,
ridges and valleys that the length of
totality during a solar eclipse is affect
ed by them.
American peanut crops average about
100000 bushels a year. and twenty
two pounds of the nuts make a bushel
About $1000O,O00 worth of peanuts
yearly are consumed. either in their
natural form or in candy. Vast quanti-
ties of peanuts are shipped each year
to Great Britain and the continent
from both Africa and Asia, where they
are converted into pure Lucca olive
OIL" A bushel of peanut shells will
afford about a gallon of oil, and the
meal is used for feeding horses, and is
also baked into a variety of bread
which has a large sale in Germany and
France.
Value of the collections in the gold
room" of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art is estimated at 100000. and they
are protected by a most admirable
series of burglar alarms. Visitors are
carefully watched, and the rooms are
constantly patrolled both day and
night. Each individual object which is
valuable is connected with a burglar
alarm, as we'll as the cases themselves
The wires run direct TO the Office OF
the director and if any article is dis
turbed the iron doors of the room are
at once closed, thus catching the thiei
in a trap. The device is tested at in
tervals to make sure that the door
closing mechanism is in perfect order.
Prof. John Milne says that upOr
knowledge derived from the scientific
study of earthquakes new rules anC
formulate for engineers and builder!
/ have been established, and these prin
E ciples have been widely applied il
Japan and other countries, thereby
, minimizing the loss of life and prop
, erty. Such studies have also been o
, practical use in the working of rail
ways. especially in Japan. by localizin.
; faults in the rocks and suggesting altera
tions in the balancing of locomotives
I I Another advantage gained relates L
ocean cables, as 1t has become pOssibl
r to indicate parts of the sea bottom tina
e should be avoided in laying such ca
bles.
l Differences in taste depend simply Of
the varying intensity in nerve transmits
sion, according to DR.. Mendelsohn. AM
are much affected by temperature
The sense OF taste for cane sugar /
D temporarily destroyed by holding tn
tongue for a minute in water at abou
:. 125 degrees f. Cold, on the other hanC
: has the same effect. all power of tast
being lost for a brief time after til
tongue has been held in water at 8
e degrees to so degrees. Taste is strong
: est between 80 degrees and 20 degree,
This is also the temperature at whic
q beverages are most effective, and waite
at about 60 degrees is really the bes
for relieving thirst, instead Of as
r usually supposed, that at about 10 d,
grees.