The suburban citizen., 1901-07-13
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y new form OF sealing wax has re-
Gently been devised. 1t differs from
the ordinary stick wax in that it is in
closed in a glass tube, from which it
may be poured by heating the cylinder.
The tip Of the tongue is chiefly SEN
sible TO pungent and acid tastes, the
middle portion to sweets and bitters,
while the back is confined chiefly to
the favors of roast meats and fatty
substances.
The sun Is nearer to the earth in
winter than in summer; the northern
hemisphere of the earth is turned from
the sun, however, so that the SUMS
rays strike at an angle, not directly
as in summer.
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
say expert hydraulic engineers, con-
tains in the Colorado River. which
dashes through 1t, a dozen times over
as much electric energy as can be Sc.
cured from Niagara Falls. An cleo
trio road is to be run along the top of
The great chasm.
Oil fuel was recently tried on the
Narrow torpedo boat Ophir. With coal
alone the speed obtained was twenty
four and half knots, with coal and
oil twenty-six and n half knots an
hour. Twenty eight hundred pounds
of coal and 700 pounds of oil an hour
were used. With 500 pounds of oil
alone a speed of fourteen knots was
easily obtained.
Artificial wool made from turf fibers
Is now employed at Dusseldorf, Ger.
many, for manufacturing cloth, band
ages, hats, rugs and so forth Ten
years have elapsed since the first at
tempts to make turf wool, and it is
averred that recent improvements in
the processes have resulted in the pro-
duction Of a soft fibrous material,
which can be spun as readily as
sleeps wool, and which, besides pos
sessing excellent absorbent properties
is capable of being bleached and col
Ored for use in various textile indus.
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At a recent meeting of the lIlnera.
logical and Geological Section OF the
Academy Of Natural Sciences, at Phil
adelphia portion of the evening was
consumed in a discussion of the new
red" or mezoic rocks. The age and or
igin Of these rocks are still much il
question, but the recent discovery was
announced Of the finding of fossil fish
remains near Boonton, n. J. These
remains, coupled with previous dis
cOveries of plant and animal remains,
90 a great way in demonstrating that
these rocks were laid down in con-.
paratively shallow and still water. !
Although the fish which have been
just brought to light and after mill
ions Of years sleep in their rock tomb, |
have not as yet been definitely identi-
fed, still it is possible that they viii
do much toward elucldating the enig-
ma, and to make it possible to CORE
late our rocks with like rocks through
out the world.
The Field Columbian Museum n |
Chicago possesses some of the bclcs
OF a gigantic dinosaur, which al.
parently exceeded in size the ia
nous atlantosaurus, heretofore re-
garded as the largest land animal
known ever to have inhabited the |
earth Professor Marsh thought that |
the alantosaurus might have attained |
a length Of eighty feet, and have been
more than thirty feet in height. The
as yet unnamed monster whose bones
have recently been measured in Chi
cago, and which, like the atlantosau-
rus, dwelt in the Rocky Mountain re-
giOn, had q thigA-bone six feet and
eight inches in length. The bone OF
its upper crm, the humCrus, is even
larger than the thigh-bone, exceeding
by twenty.threo ilchec the largest hui
merus hitherto known to science. Pro
fessor Elmer 9. Riggs remarks that
the extraordinary length Of the hui
merus suggests that the animal had
something giraffe-like in its proper
tions. Il that case its height must
have been truly gigantic.