The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-07


utcs on two occasions astonishod IN,
people Of Mee-rnndi IN Calabria. an.
The drops were nftorvard proved 10 hl
ronuinn blaod-that Of birds II iq sur
posed that tho birds In q dense migratini
mass hrh IN air had been injured by .
hurricane
Human Influence on the weather hal
been found bv Dr. ". TRADER; OF In,
Paris Meteorological Society 90 be vefN
4 slirht. II Us chiefly Involuntary. due e
deforcstat'on and the extensive burning
Of coal and It's effects are an Increase II
/ drouths and foundations, fogs in indus.
! trial centers like London, AMI an In.
! crease In thunderstorms. which have
doubled In number In Europe since 1870
! That steam cannot influence rainfall l.
proven by the exceedingly minute guam.
t'ty produced, while the 1,1i0 pounds of
dust thrown into the air from coal fires
for each square mile of Germany Is a
very tangible cause Voluntary changes
in weather have been from artificial
clouds to prevent frost and explosions to
avert hail, the artificial productio of
rain being very doubtful.
The passing of the birds in France,
where protective measures excite little
interest, is illustrated by NJ. Louls-Adrien
Levat by the statement that in one
spring not less than 1,5OO nests were TAX
en-. representing a prospective loss of
about 5000 birds, in one province alone.
In 1860 an export of 100 cages of insectiv-
orous birds of various kinds was made
from Baden to New South Wales. but It
would be almost impossible to make such
a shipment now on account OF the scare
ity of such birds in Europe. Not only is
the loss of bird-life and bird-song in
country districts deplorable. but the eff
feet on agriculture Is disastrous. 1t is
computed that some birds will consume
100000 insects in n season, others as many
as 900 per day, and that a single insect
eater may be the means of saving 5000
grains of wheat and 1.15O grapes daily
Some French districts are already practi-
cally desolated by insect ravages due to
bird-slaughter.
About 500 soundings made in the North
Atlantic in 1899 in the interests of cable
laying have added considerably to what
Is known of the ocean bottom. Sir John
Murray records these soundings in three
groups-those between the Azores and
the British Isles. those between the
Azores and North America, and those on
the Azores bank. In each series there
were interesting new discoveries. On the
first line the "Peake deep" a new de-
preston of over 5000 fathoms, was re-
vealed, but a more important discovery
was that of numerous shoals, evidently
the submits of submarine cones, rising
sharply from a depth of more than 2,OCc
fathoms to 1000 or 1,4OO fathoms. The
more southerly OF the two lines of sound
ings between the Azores and North
America showed an unexpected extension
Of the great Newfoundland bank. Obser-
vations of bottom temperatures, currents
and deposits were made by the exploring
party, and results differing materially
from those of the Challenger in the same
region were obtained.
The new Dead Sea discovered by DR..
Sven Hedin in Thibet seems entitled
to rank among the geographical Won
ders of the world. 1t is described as
enormous in extent, but so shallow
that to navigate, one must wade half
a mile to reach the boat, and must
drag the boat half mile more before
1t can be fioated with a load. But the
most remarkable characteristic is the
almost incredible amount of salt con-
The bottom Is an unbroken
crust of salt, and the boat and oars
are as white as chalk, even the dress
Of the rowers soon becoming whitened,
while drops of the water sprinkled on
A dry surface, leave globules like can
die drippings.
The gibe that candy eating is as harm
full as wine-drinking has not been justi-
fed in an investigation by Nj. Chauveau.
A dog was fed on meat and sugar for
ifty-four days, and he gained one-fif-
teenth in weight Notwithstanding a daily
run of tn.rty-four miles. When one third
of the sugar was replaced with alcohol
his energy was so reduced that urging
was needed to make him run, although
he lost but an ounce or two in weight
On alternating the rations, giving the
sugar and sugar with alcohol each one
week, the corresponding gain and loss of
Energy were made very apparent.
In drowning, strangulation, gas
'utfocation and the like, the body is
n healthy condition, death result
ng from stoppage of respiration and
leart action. The actual restoration
IF life by renewing breathing and the
circulation of the blood, is now known
20 be possible. This has been dem
onstrated in Europe by late series
If 100 experiments on dogs, in which
sixteen out of twenty-one animals that
lad been killed by chloroform were re-
stored to life. The process consists in
,orcinS air through a tube into the |
lungs at the usual rate of breathing,
md in opening the chest and squeezing
he heart in imitation of the natural |
'ontractions. A Danish physician re-
ports having tried the method in the |
,ase of man that had died under the |
of chloroform. The heart ,
vas reached through an opening cut |
n the chest wall, and was squeezed |
for half an hour air be-
ng at the same time forced into the |
lungs. and as result respiration was |
set up. and only an occasional COM
PRESTON was needed to keep the heart |
,oing. Life continued several hours, |
when the breathing suddenly ceased |
md the patient was dead again.
The glaciers of the Alps have been |
for about forty years, and
II hfty-seyen observed in 1897, there |
we're fifty that were still decreasing. |
I Is probable that a period of increase /
5 now beginning. The oscillations are |
variable In the different |
glaciers and II is found that an un-
Outstanding OF the causes affecting |
glacial advance and retreat, can only |
he had by separate study of each |
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