Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-24
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Whether Hcrjzian waves reach ~
from the sun is question that the MS.
tronomcrS are about to investigate.
Reasons are found for believing that
the sun must emit such waves, aud
MIR Charles Nordmann shows that the
emissions must be particularly intense
during violent eruptions and at periods
OF maximum sun-spOtS. This view is
made to explain the form of the solar
corona and the spc, ira of comets
The possibility Of poisoning from ar
senic in the soil has been studied by
MessrS. A. and A. f. Angel. British
chemists. The arsenic mpurity of.a
suprrphosphatc of lime was Increased
to one.hulf of one per cent about sew
entcen times the usual proportion. and
this manure was applied to various
crops in two lots part at time of sowing
ana part when the plants were well
above ground 1t was found that som,
arsenic was drawn up mechanically
into the young leaves of rhubarh and
the grasses and into the green pods of
beans but no trace reached the fruit or
seed of any plant.
ii. W. Olds, speaking before the Bio
logical Society of Washington about his
studies of the songs of birds. said re-
Gently that the wood-thrush, the Caro-
lima wren, the chickadce and the che,
wink use the intervals of the modern
musical scale. The songs of birds are
OFTEN rhythmical, and may be divided
into regular measures properly accent.
ed. Mr.. Odds added that several OF
the formal rules of human music may
be found governing the music OF the
birds" He gave an example OF 4 sony
by wood-pewee in which the rules Of
construction governing many of our
ballads were followed
Scientific study of the storm of dust
that swept over southern and central
Europe from March o to March II,
1901, shows that ii was one of the most
remarkable phenomena of the kind ever
observed. 1t began in northern Africa
on the borders of the Sahara, crossed
the Mediterranean Sea, swept over the
chain OF the Alps and extended as far
as Denmark, thus traverSng 20 degrees
Of latitude. The dust was sand from
the desert, and the particles that fell
became liner and timer as the storm
progressed northward. The advance
was at the rate of more than forty
three miles an hour, high atmos
pheric current carrying the dust along
the course of 4 burometric depression
moving toward the Baltic Sea. In Aus
tria- Hungary and farther north the
dust was accompanied everywhere by
rain, snow or sleet
Wendell Phillips would have found
an interesting item for his Lost Arts"
lecture, which he frequently remolded
as new facts came to him, in the story
of the Wardwell V-wound cop A cop
is cylinder of wound thread or yarn.
an the V>wind is superior in compact
ness and uniformity OF tension. The
method was invented by $. J. Ward
well in 1891. His patents becoming the
subject of Il lawsuit, it was diScov-
cred that the National Museum in
Washington and the Natural History
Museum in New York had cops of cord.
made years ago by Fiji Islanders. pre-
cisely similar in appearance TO the
Wardwell cops. So the patents were
declared invalid. But since the mu-
scum authorities refuse to have their
cops unwound, ii is impossible to prove
that the same wind extends through all
the layers, and for this reason the pat
ent office has reiSsued patent to Mr..
Wardwell for his method.