The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-11-04

| possible already to send time impulses
that would be perceptible over the en-
tire North Atlantic, enabling mariners
to correct their chronometers and find
their longitude. BY international ar
| rangement, the time signals-at GER
tain fixed hours of day or night-could
| be protected from other signals
In the Hackl arc lamp, made in
| Budapest, the mechanism is at the top,
and the carbons are inclined down
ward toward each other at an angle
Of about ninety degrees. reflector
between the mechanism and the car
bons intercepts the rays that pass up
ward, thus further increasing the
efficiency. The lamp is designed for an
alternating current of ten amperes at
twenty-eight to thirty volts, and it
uses but a third as much current per
candle-power as the ordinary globe
lamp.
At the beginning of the year, the
meteorites in the U. S. National Mn-
scum represented 34S falls, 143 being
those of meteoric iron.
Alcohol is coming into considerable
use for illumination in France. The
flame is made luminous by the addition
of sufficient coal-oil or crude benZene
or the ordinary non-luminous flame is
used to give incandescence to a Wells
bach mantle. The latter Is the more
important method. Some lamps have
from 60 to so candle-power and these
large portable lamps-carrying their
own illuminant-seem to have advan-
tages over gas or electricity for many
purposes. The best of the burners
yield about 80 candle-power hours per
ounce of alcohol.
The production of a vegetable sub
stitute for horsehair is reported as a
thriving Algerian industry. The ma
/ terial is the fiber of leaves of dwarf
palm, and it is prepared for such uses
as stufiing furniture. mattresses, etc
The advantages of the vegetable hair
are its solidity, the readiness with
which it can be dyed, and it's low cost.
Electrical reactions have been found
by DR.. A. ID. Waller, of the University
of London, to serve as a test of life in
both animal and vegetable tissues. In
this way he has just shown that bits of
human skin for grating preserve their
vitality at least two days, often ten
I days, and probably sometimes much
! longer. AS confirming this conclusion
1t Is mentioned that carefully preserv-
ed skin has been used after six months,
| l6 transplantations out of % proving
successful.
Experiments made last year seemed
! t. indicate that water could not be
| initiated, but in a later trial pure water
mixed in correct proportion with the six
| chief salts of the ocean supported SEN
sitive marine animals, and appeared to
have the physiological effects of nat
| ural sea-water.
The sense organs Of fishes have been
difficult to understand clearly. The
eye, German writer points out, is
most like that of other vertebrates, and
has an iris of brilliant metallic luster
large and round pupil, and a very
large lens, and is so sensitive that some
fishes find food at depths as great as
200 feet. Proper eyelids are wanting
The nose consists of two holes lined
with a corrugated mucous membrane
in which the nerves of smell terminate,
and its function must be very different
from that of land animals, which deals
with gaseous odors. The scent" of
fishes once much believed in, proves to
be very feeble, or absent. Taste is very
keen, but its seat must be in the softer
parts of the mouth, the tongue being
very hard The organ of hearing Is
simpler than in other vertebrates,
though extremely sensitive. The eXter-
nal ear is wanting, and the inner ear
consists merely of cavities filed with
fluid and with little porcelain-like par
! ticles. OF the sense of touch little Is
/ known except that il belongs to the
whole skin and is very acute in the
bristles around the mouth. Fishes are
suspected of having a sixth sense.
whose organs are the pores of the head
and in a row extending over a large
nerve.
! The meteorite of Bacubirito (Mexico) is
estimated to weigh fifty tons, and that Of
| Anaghito Greenland is placed at the
same weight, ii being doubtful which Of
the two is the heaviest known. The
| Chupaderos (MeXico) meteorite has been
/ shown on the scales to weigh 10 % tons;
the San Grogorio (MeXico). H. tons; and
the Bendego (BraZiD, 1-3 tons. MeNico's
claim to prominence as country Of
meteortes is really justified by the size
| of the specimens instead of the number of
falls, and the ten largest Mexican me-
teorites, according to Prof Henry A
Ward, have an average weight OF 3 l-lO
| tons, while the average OF the ten larg-
est Of the United States Is only s1-3 hun
dred-weight. Only 30 distinct meteorite
localities are known in Mexico. against 81
and ~ in like areas OF the United States
and India respectively
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