Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-04-10


pee pie are frightened to death while
awake when they have their full
senses and hope for relief, why is it
not doubly likely that they die from,
fright while asleep. when their
courage is dwarfed by faculties tenn
porarily affected"
The DECLINE in the surface of Great
Salt lake is causing apprehension
among the people of Utah. This inter
esting body of water has been steadily
sinking for a number of years. but the
causes of its decline are not well I'M
derstood. 1t is thought by some that
the lake is subject to cycles of change
which correspond to like cycles OF
years of heavy and light rainfall, and
that it is now undergoing one OF its
low water periods from which it will
soon revive The movements in the
waters have also been thought to be
related to the development of agricul-
tural and grazing interests, which
divert large quantities of water from
use upon the land. During past years
the cutting of the timber on the neigh
boring mountains has been unusually
heavy, practically destroying the
forest protection of the head waters
of a number of streams whose waters
flow into the lake. Great Salt lake is
the means of considerable resource to
Utah and the value of property near
the lake and certain lines of business
are said to be unfavorably affected by
it's decline The matter is there con-
sidered of so much Importance that
the United States geological survey
has been asked to make an investiga
tion into it,.
Water in Kansas.
W. G. Russell, photographer of the
United States geological survey in
Kansas, has recently reported facts OF
more than ordinary interest which
were brought out by stream measure
ments conducted in that state. The
past year in Kansas was one of excep-
tional dryness, and the outflow of the
streams was smaller than it has been
for a number of years. Still the
measurements show that the cities
and towns which draw their water
supply from the rivers need not fear a
shortage. One of the smallest streams
to be measured, the Smoky Hill,
showed supply sufficient for $4,000
people; the Verdigris for 215.000; the
Solomon for 100000; the Neosho for
$4,000, and the republican for 2,000,-
000 all at their lowest stages 1t
was also pointed out that if storage
reservoirs were constructed along
these and other streams, and parts of
the flood waters impounded. the sup
ply for both municipal and irrigation
uses would be very much increased.
Horns on Males.
DR.. Forsyth-Major has lately re-
viewed Darwin's statement in The
Descent of Man as to the probability
that horns of all kinds, and canine
tusks, even when they are now equally
developed in both sexes, were pri-
marily acquired by the male in order
to conquer other males and have been
more or less completely transferred to
the female. Darwins inferenc did not
rest on archaeological evidence. DR..
Major reviews all such evidence for
certain families and comes to the con-
clusion that Darwin's inference was
correct. His concluding remark is OF
prophetic interest. In our own species,
he says, the modern aspirations of
signs of the same natural law. Physi-
cal and mental characteristics of man,
originally acquired in the struggles of
the males, are apparently being slow
ly transferred to women. They only
require time for their full evolution.
Light Waves.
The idea that the waves of light
produce mechanical push. or pres
sure, was advanced years ago by
Clerk Maxwell. but he could only of
fer a theoretical proof Recently
Prof Lebedew of Moscow has made
an experimental demonstration of the
pressure of light" He employs a
radiometer resembling the familiar
Crookes radiometers with their revolv-
ing yanes, but uses larger and more
completely exhausted bulb, from
which the heating effect that is the
principal agent in moving the Crookes
yanes is excluded. When the light
falls upon the vanes they are driven
before it. and the intensity of the
pressure thus revealed comes within
10 per cent of that calculated by Max
well. The effect is Independent of the
color of the light. and directly proper
tional to its energy