The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-11-06
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At speed Of SHY miles an nour
train covers Ito feet each second
The terrific heat of the aeetylene gas
blow pipe Is being used In the welding
of steel
The Slaby Arco wireless telegraph
system Is being installed by RUSSIA on
the Baltic Sen
\ side wind retarus the speed of
train more than u head wind. because
Of the ilange friction 1t produces
The volcanic dust from Mont Pelee'
proves to have little fertlllzlng value.
An analysis by an American engineer
of specimens from Barbados, where
though ninety miles away-the fail on
May : was about three inches. has
shown only 0.675 per cent Of potash
and q III Of nhosphoric anhydride.
\ large blank ON the meteorooglc
map Of The world has Just been filled
by the organlznt ion Of weather Of
tee under the Argentine Department
Of Agriculture. An American, Walter
q. Da Wis Is ut the head of il, and daily
weathermaps are published, covering
not only Argentina proper, but Patago
MIA
The nasal passages are stated TO
have n surface area Of not less than
twenty square inches. A new proven.
tive Of hay fever Is the rubbing with
surgical cotton twice daily OF rs much
of this inner surface or mucous mem.
hrane. as can be reached. The mas
sage hardens the membrane. lessenlng
Its oyer-sensltiyeness.
New Jersey has long been famous
for It's mosquitoes. and It seems appro
pirate that the State should lead In the
scientific warfare on the malarlal
pests. The Legislature has appro
prlated $4,000 for preliminary lnYes-
tlgation Of the subject; but the whole
sum being. for some technical reason.
not available, the Governor has set
aside $1,000 from his emergency fund
to get the work under way. A sclen-
tlfic IN vestlgatlon Is to be made In a
malarial district of the State. where
the dreaded anopheles Is abundant
aud the result OF his inquiries Is ex.
pected TO guide the future steps In the
campaign.
How the electric waves used In
wireless Biography follow the earth's
curvature is still an unsolged problem.
+. Lasher supposes that the waves run
along the surface Of the earth, and es
pecially of the sea. In the same manner
that they follow n wire, and that part
of the electric energy enters the earth's
surface as part OF II penetrates the
surfare OF the wire. A suggested test
OF the theory is signaling between two
balloons. when the difficulty OF com
municn ton should Increase with the
height. The electrical oscillations be.
Ing at right angles to the wire or
earth's surface. another interesting ex-
pertinent would be the sending Of sig
nails up a precIpiee. using both hort
zontnl and vertical antennae.
Many details of tho backwardness Of
the worlds metropolis In those applica.
tons of practical science with which
we are so familiar In America have
been pointed out from time to time.
None OF them Is. perhaps. more sur.
prlsing than the absence OF telephone
connections among the London police
stations. The householder who finds
burglar on his premises cannot call up
the police to assist him. In truth. few
private houses In London have tele.
phones. and recently the operations of
the police in an important burglary
case were much hampered by the lack
OF a telephone service at Scotland
Yard. The fire department refuses to
allow private alarm connections with
the fire stations English conscrya.
tlsm is blamed for the absence OF
many OF the eonvenlenees OF modern
life which the progress Of science has
afforded In almost every other great
city more abundantly than in London.