Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-23

fertility, and keeping Ii more uniform In
temperature and moisture than where
more exposed that density or growth,
causes early struggle for existence, In
which the trees while young lose their
lower branches, becoming free from
knots and more cylindrical in stems;
and that the Yield Of timber to the acre
IS greater than any other system. The
European foresters consider that the
oak timber IL at It's best when the tree
Is 40 years old and that elm, ash ana
beech reach maturity in about 1875 years
The famine causing droughts OF india
are found by Mr. Il. D. Archibald to
have some connection with the sun
spot cycle, although with sufficient
Irregularity 10 prevent trustworthy
predictions. Extensive droughts occur
In the dry area of Southern India at In
teryals Of nine 10 twelve years, and
usually, but not regularly, about year
before the sun-spot minimum. When
severe, famine follows in the next year.
A severe drought In the peninsula Of
Southern India Is followed by severe
drought and ensuing famine In North
ern India in about five cases In seven;
and there IL also a tendency to sum
mer droughts in Northern Indian years
OF maximum sun-sp0ts, connected In
some way with the abnormal high
pressure prevailing over Western Asia
at such epochs,
Since 1892. Molssan has produced in
his electric furnace diamonds and other
precious stones, graphite. chromium,
manganese, uranium. vanadium, zircon-
ium, slllclum, aluminium, etc He hopes
soon 10 obtain pure iron, which does not
yet exist. and which he supposes to be
silver white. flexible and strong
Tests of LIQUID air Cor blasting begun
at German colliery about three years
ago, are being Systematically continued
at one of the largest factories for eX-
ploslves in Europe, The explosive com
pound Is formed by adding some car
bonaceous substance and many different
mixtures have been studied, some of
them proving very dangerous on ac-
count of high inhammabllity and too
sudden defamation. Good results have
been lately obtained with equal parts
of paraffln and charcoal the filed cart
ridge being soaked in liquid air or hay-
ing the LIQUID air poured into the
wrapper In practical mining, a prob
able method would be to take tank OF
liquid air TO the working place, and then
deposit In II a wire basket Of cartridges,
allowing these to remain until the
moment Of using Complete soaking
requires about ten minutes. a cart
ridge inches long by 2A inches In d.
ameter weighs 1l& ounces when filled
with a mixture OF keselguhr, tar and
tar OIL and II ahsorbs 24& ounces OF
liquid air. So rapid Is the deterioration
that Il would be necessary to use o
cartridge OF this size within fifteen
minutes after removal from the vital
fluid With carbon materials OF the pet
roleum variety and highly-oxygenated
liquid air. Il is possible 10 obtain an
explosive compound Of greater strength
than blasting gelatlne, but safer mix
lures are less strong.
n phosphorescence Is due to vibra-
ton Of material particles, II would seem
that magnetism might affect It. TAX
ing long tubes of sulphide OF lime, sui
phide OF zinc nitrate Of uranium and
other more or less phosphorescent sub
stances. NJ. Alexandra de Hemptinne
has placed a portion OF their length
/ under the influence Of powerful magnets
| but in no case could any Influence upor
| the phosphorescence be detected The
| tubes remained uniformly lighted In The
dark, the brightness gradually and I'M
iformly lessenIng,
Serum treatment for drunkenness Il
! no new thing Or. Crevally, Of Sidney
! has tested It for two years, inoculatinf
/ with serum from a long intoxicated
| calf. and has been forced 70 conclude
that the lessenlng Of appetite for liquor
| noted for two or three days Is due en-
tirely 10 Imagination, NEGOTIATIONS Will
water had the same temporary effect
The roadside trees about Salem. south
ern india. are mostly tamarind. whose
fruit Is sold, but whose scanty shade u
said TO be so harmful that cattle nevei
seek II and vegetation dies In II.
The progress made up 10 July In keep
ing hail from the crops by cannon firms
has been reported by v VerSorel. o
Villefranche A special form Of cannon
Is used. and trlgonometrlc measure
ment shows that the atmospheric whir
set MP by its discharge may reach {
height Of more than a mile. The com
motion produced I'm the clouds trans
forms the hail into rain, In experienced
In the Rhone Valley Il has been found
that each gun protects about GO acres
the cost of the station being little les'
than si.0n per acre, and the annual ex
pense of malntepance--allowlng bO
shots about ef cents per acre, Promp
and concentrated action Is ensured b,
a code Of signals. The confidence fell
In che evstem Is Indicated by the fac
that 1900 shooting stations have beer
already established in Italy while in
surance companies have reduced thell
premiums 80 per cent In protected dis
trlcts.