Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-06
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Some interesting discoveries have
lately been made in cave i'll South
western France. The removal of thick
layers of stalagmitic deposit revealed
great many drawings of animals
made with much skill. They represent
reindeer, mammoths and other animals
now extinct in Southern and Western
Europe, among them some resembling
the modern horse. These have halters
and other attachments, showing that
they had been used in the service of
the stone-age man.
Wonderful as is the human body in
its mechanism and its adaptability to
its surroundings, there are some very
simple things that it cannot do. For
example, a man cannot rise from
chair without bending forward or put
ting his feet under the chair or on each
side of it. Another impossible thing is
for a man who is closely blindfolded to
stand without support of any kind for
five minutes at q stretch, without NOV
ing his feet If he does not move his
feet at all he will be pretty sure to
topple over in minute or two.
blind man, however, can do it, because
he is used to doing without his eyes.
The existence of fourth state of
matter has been probable ever since
radiant phenomena have been eXten-
sively studied N-rays, ultra violet
rays, etc. This fourth state Sir Will
lam Crookes calls the ultra gaseous or
misty condition; solid, liquid, gaseous
and misty being the four possible con-
ditions in which matter can exist. In
his address at the formal admission of
the Prince of Wales to membership in
the Royal Society Sir William Crookes
discussed these questions, and stated
his belief that the work of the last few
years on the phenomena of radiation
had led to the collection of data whose
eventual correlation and coordination
must produce an important extension
and possibly modification of present
physical concepts.
There are few birds that change their
names and their dress, as they fit
from cline to Cline more than does
the bobolink. In New England, where
he arrives with his mate in May, his
plumage is as bright as the song that
has given him his name. BY the first
of August, the young having been
reared, the old birds put on sober
dress, and journeying southwark be
gin to congregate in vast fiocks, as Mr..
Knowlton, Of the National Museum, de.
scribes, in the region of Chesapeake
Bay, where they are known as reed
birds, and are shot for the table. In a
few weeks they go to the far Southern
States, where their arrival under a
new name, the rice bird, is dreaded on
account of their devastations in the
rice fields. In October they disappear,
some going by Cuba and some by Cen.
tral America, to their winter homes
beyond the Amazon" in Central and
Southeastern Brazil.
A Hungarian chemist has discovered
that some of the salt lakes in Transyl
vania present the popularity of lay.
er of warm, or even hot, salt water, be.
tween lWU DOulcS VI COluer water.
Thus in the Medoc Lake the surface
temperature in summer is about sew.
enty degrees, but at depth of little
more than four feet the temperature
becomes 1872 degrees, but declines
again to sixty-siX degrees at the bot
tom. The surface water Is fresh, but
the warm water beneath is intensely
saline, and the explanation of the diff
ference of temperature is that, since
the specific heat of salt water is less
than that of fresh water, the salt
water is more easily heated by the
sun, and having risen to higher TEN.
perature than that of the everything
fresh water, retains its heat because
the fresh water prevents its escape by
radiation. 1t is suggested that some
use might be found for these natural
reservoirs, or accumulators, of solar
heat. ,--.- -,.,... .,.,,.,>
The Parisian Ragpickers.
Very many of the Partisan ragpick-