The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-11
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MISCELLANY

Glass splinters. TO give brillfancy to-
candy, is one of the most diaboIieal
authorizations yet discovered.
A .life-saving cabin. = that detaches
itself from a sinking ship, and is itself
ocean, is the ingenious idea of a Brit
Ish sea-captain.
The fishes of America north of the
Isthmus of Panama, as listed by Jor-
dan and Evernlan, embrace 3 classes.
80 orders, 225 families. 11l3 genera, 3S5
subgenera, 3,263 species. and 13S SUD-
species.
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A boat carrying six. persons has been
towed on the Moselle by Malay kite
six and ene-half feet long. Headway
was made against somewhat rapid
current, and the traction could have
been increased by adding more kites.
Grains of the same plant differ much
in color, and NJ. Holdeflefss has been
trying to show corresponding yaria-
ton in termination. Comparing green
and yellow rye, he has found quicker
termination IN the former, whose
plants, however. seem to have smaller
development, and TO form their grains
later.
| An interesting meteorological station
is that % Mammoth Tank. on the line
of the Southern Pacific Railway IN
San Disc county. Cal. The mean an
nual rai-faiI for twenty-three years
has beer ! 81 inches; maximum tenn
perature $50 degrees. on August II,
1873; hottest month, July. with a mean
Of es.5 degrees.
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In seasons Of drouth the natives of
India seek &c delay hunger by giving
bulk to their I'D in unusual ways.
The ground bark Of the kherja tree Is
safely added to -four ia the proportion
Of one to twenty, and a ground stone
/ Of Jaipur, containing somewhat nu-
| tritious oily substance, may be used To
the extent of one part in four. These
materials impair digestion when TAX
en- IN excess.
The influence of darkness on flowers
has been a subject of experiment BY
NJ. l.. Beulaygue. The flowers opened
later than in sunlight, and the colol
was generally less intense the loss O.
color being slight in some species. bu
| almost complete in others. The flow
ers are usually smaller in size ant
weight The pediceIs, however, some
times increase in darkness. and In som
rare cases the gain of the peduncle
counterbalances the loss in the res
of the plant.
with a total area OF $3.50, 257 squar
miles, Canada is found to- have NOR
THAN 1,25o, 600 square miles OF unexplor
led lands The largest district is tn
interior OF Labrador, comprising 2Ss, 90
square miles, or more than twice tn
area of Great Britain and Ireland.
barren region between Hudson Ba
and Great Slave Lake embraces 1850
square miles. Between the Pelly an
Mackenzie rivers is another large tFac
of 100 900 square miles, including near
. ly 600 miles of the main Rocky Noun
tain range. Nearest TO large centers c
population IS a tract or IS ,00e sduar
miles, south and east of James Bay.
The novel gas battery of Andre,
Plecher. a German electrician, cor
!. sists of a series of porous chamber:
;. | formed from clay or plaster mike
with a solution of chloride of plat
mum. The baking of these vessels free
the platinum in a finely divided s1at
and the action of the battery Is du
to the combination of oxygen and hy
ldrogen through the presence OF TIL
Finely divided platinum. Conductfn
J. wires arranged over the inside OF tn
lcharnbers lead to q common fermina
: a like system Of wires outside bein
. connected to the opposite termina
Hydrogen Is admitted at one side {