Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-03-07
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Medical men have noted the injurl-
GUS effect of the Philippine climate on
wounds. The time for healing is much
longer than here. In South Africa 1t
is shorter.
The internal heat of the earth is
survival of the time when it was
glowing ball and was turning on its
axis with a velocity four times as
great as at present 1t was slowed
down principally by the action OF the
tides, internal and external, these be-
ing one of the results Of the moons
attraction.
The rotation of the moon in such
way that is shows to us always the
same face was shown to be the conse-
ouence of the tides in the molten moon
due to the attraction Of the earth.
The earth has not surrendered itself
to the tides caused by the moon be-
cause they are relatively so feeble.
1t will, however, without doubt, ulti-
mately present always the same face
to the moon.
A French scientist, says the Pail
Mail Gazette, has just drawn public
attention to certain phenomena which
show that the truism 'eXtremes
meet" applies with as much force to
physical nature as to human character.
He relates that in the mountains near
Pontgibaud, in Auvergue, there is
formed in the hottest part OF every
summer a most singular ice deposit
which has no existence in winter, The
local peasantry have never evinced
any acute interest in the scientific eX-
PLANTATION of this remarkable natural
peculiarity, but they have always,
from the first, turned it to practical
advantage by using the spot for cold
storage for the cheese which is the
staple product of the district. :, =
No weather belief is more absurd
than that Of wet moon and dry
moon" There is no connection be-
tween the position of the moons
horns and the rainfall, unless the
same weather recurs at the same time
each year, for, as A. X. Bartlett has
lately taken the trouble to explain,
the crescent moon always appears
upon its back" in spring, near the
vernal equinox, and upon its end in
autumn, near the autumnal equinox.
The change OF direction in which the
horns are turned depends upon the
difference in deciination Of the sun
and moon. If the moon be farther
north than the sun after the new, the
sunlight strikes under her, and she
appears with her horns upturned; but
II she appears south the light reaches
around her disk to the northward, and
her horns appear nearly vertical. The
| line joining the two horns is always
sun and the moon.
Some fresh water fishes can live in
salt water, but others cannot. The
carp, for example, is found in the
Caspian Sea as well as its a1liuents,
but the fresh water eel dies in salt
water. Experiments have recently
been made by NJ. Colollian, and
brought before the Society Of Biology,
France, with carp and tench in water
artifcially salted by the addition of
ten to twelve grammes of common
salt per litre, that is to say, about
half the proportion of sea water. A
fish which can live for twenty-four
hours in salt water is considered able
to bear it permanently and he found
that his tench and carp could stand
ten grammes per litre but not twelve
or thirteen grammes. Another expert
menter NJ. Larbaletier, found that
fresh water fish could live in strong
er solution of salt if they were first
accustomed to it by degrees. By in
creasing the proportion of salt from
| five grammes to fourteen per litre
| in the course of twenty-seven days, he