The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-08-16

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The sun is nearer to the earth in win
ter than in summer; the northern hemi-
sphere Of the earth is turned from the
sun. however, so that the suns rays
strike at an angle. not directly as in
summer.
The French art critic. NJ Arsene Al
exandre, has discovered that our ma
chinely shows a distinct beauty OF
racial type. The national character is
clearly marked, he thinks even in our
locomotives. This theory is an in
genious one and is worthy Of elabora-
ton.
According to the distinguished
French anthropologists, Gabriel and
AdrieD de Mortillet, there was a juno
ton between Europe and America by
way of the British Isles. the Faroes,
Iceland and Greenland in what is
known as the Chellean epoch. which
is supposed TO have ended hundred
and fifty or sixty thousand years ago.
Some curious botanical experiments
made at a geological laboratory at Ma
pies are reported by Hans Winkler. A
towerless aquatic plant, that grows
normally with its roots in the sand
and leaves in water, was inverted, spec
linens being placed with the leaves
! buried in the sand and the roots float
ing in the water in strong light. The
roots changed to stems and leaves. the
| buried parts becoming roots.
In 1895 French. chemist discovered
rays emanating from the element uran-
ium, which possessed the properties
similar to the Roentgen rays. Recent
experiments by the Berlin High School
of Technology proved that new ele-
ment is responsible for the Becquerel
rays-and the interesting fact has been
observed that these rays render almost
every transparent substance luminous
in the darkness. The rays make it pos
sible to tell genuine diamonds from ar
tificial ones in the dark.
The size of eggs among nesting birds
ranges from that of the ostrich to that
of the humming-bird, it being primarily
dependent on the size of the bird, but
also on the condition of the young at
birth, the eggs of birds whose young
are born feathered being proportions
ately larger than the eggs of those
whose young are Matched naked The
period of incubation is more or less
closely related to the size of the egg
being about fourteen days in the hum.
ming-bird and forW-two in the os
trich
A London electrician, w. Duddell
recently gave an exhibition of a novel
musical instrument, composed of a Sc
ries of electric arc lights. which played
a popular air When the current is
passing through solid carbOns they give
off a musical sound, and by placing a
shunt across the carbons, connected
with a keyboard. Mr. Duddeil was able
to vary the sounds through the scale
of two octaves. The keyboard served
to vary the self-induction and capacity
in the shunt circuit, and by employ
ing four arcs in series, the intensity
of the sounds was made sufficiently
great.
The Reverend Father GrisOn. of Stan
ley Falls, Africa, writes that European:
have a very inaccurate idea of trOpica
temperatures. He passed eight year:
at the equator ON the Pacific coast, h,
says. and never saw tbe mercury above
50 degrees, while at Stanley Falls the
maximum is 80 degrees. and the nights
are deliciously cool. On the other hand
there are frequent tempests of indie
scribable violence. and Father GrisoT
has counted &C lightning flashes in one
minute, the thunder being continuous
and has seen 10 thunderbolts strik,
within a radius of a few hundred me