The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
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Red light is claimed by German
musician to be an effective remedy for
plmply eczema as well as other SIKH
diseases. Even when of long standing
the worst cases were cured by four
hours exposure to sunlight. covered
only by red cloth.
The keepers of the big cobras In the
Central Park Menagerie and the New
York Geological Garden do not find II
easy to supply their yenomous charges
with the kind of food that they spe-
clally prefer. In their native land CO.
bras live chiefly on smaller ana less
dangerous and Objectionable snakes
but although every effort Is MADE 10
collect harmless snakes to satisfy the
appetite of the imprisoned cobras, ut
some seasons they have TO be content
with rats and mice. which they do not
particularly like. Other varieties OF
captive snakes are fed mainly on toads,
mice and rabbits. English sparrows
are also purchased for them.
sir Harry Johnston. whose discovery
of q new species of animal In the Ugah-
da Protectorate has excited much H.
terest among naturalists, brought BACK
to London and exhibited there a speel-
men OF a gigantic species of earlhWofm'
which. when alive. was about three
feet long and as thick as two fingers.
Even larger species OF earthworms Juan
this exist. Ceylon has some giants, Vi
blue color, that attain as great Size
In Cape Colony and Natal there Is
species. partlcolored, green above and
yellowish beneath, which, II is averred'
sometimes attalns length OF SIX ieet'
Giant earthworms are also found IN
Australia and In South America.
The remarkable fact that the EARL
est known ancestor, or primitive type,
of the modern whale bore heavy armor
on its back, In the form of strong. Dony
plates, has recently been set forth by
the German paleontologist Or, o. Abel
The plates occasionally found asso-
clated with the remains of the prlmefal
form of whale, the extinct zeuglodon.
have generally been regarded as nav
ing belonged to gigantic turtles, but
DR.. Abel shows that they were a part
of the skeleton of the zeuglodon itseif.
They resemble In their character the
impenetrable bony shells Of the huge
glyptodonts that formerly Inhabited
South America. The suggestion IS
made that at the time when they car
rled armor, whales were amphiblous
creatures living on the coast and need
ing special protection from breakers
and sharks.
Francis Darwin, speaking before the
members of the British Association at
Glasgow, said that a plne-tree grows
straight upward because 1t possesses
a grayltation sense. A plant which
grows In a curve in order to assume
the position best suited to its needs
also exhibits a perception OF graYita-
ton. Some fower-stalks are very Gu
riously guided by the gravltation sense.
The common narclssus is an example.
At first there Is a straight SHAFT pierre
ing the ground with Its compact point
ed hower-bud. But as the flower
opens. the stalk bends close to the top
and brings the fower-tube into a rough
~ horizontal position, where 1t shows
off its brightly colored crown to the
insects that visit it. The flowers are
guided to the right position by the
gravitatlon sense, and they increase
or diminish the angular bend In their
stalk till the right position is attained"