Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-01
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The bacillus of the grip is the small
est disease germ yet discovered.
The amount of blood in the human
body is one-thirteenth of the body
weight
1t has often been claimed that the
presence of nickel in dust is sufficient
criterion to distinguish it as Of cosmic
rather than terrestrial origin. 1t has
lately been shown that nickel is found
| in SCOT, and hence that nickeliferous
dust may be terrestrial Gallium, also,
is found in all aluminous minerals, in
many fiue dusts, in many iron ores, in
SCOT and in atmospherical dust.
The cultivated oasis of Dakhla in the
Libyan desert has a copious water sup
ply, derived entirely from an under
ground bed of sand stone which is new
er visible. The water rises to the sur
| face through wells, averaging about
460 feet in depth. Many of these wells
were made in ancient times, during the
Roman occupation. They fertilize broad
areas of cultivated lands, interspersed
with palm groves. The success of this
system of irrigation in Dakhla is inter
est;ng in connection with the projects
for supplying moisture to some of our
Western plains which are similarly un-
derlain by hidden supplies of water.
The continually increasing demand
for india rubber, and the great interest
manifested in all efforts to prevent
waste Of the trees from which rubber
is derived, have led our consuls in coun-
tries where these trees grow to collect
many valuable facts concerning them.
| Consul GoldSchmidt at La Guaira re-
Gently transmitted to Washington some
| highly interesting statements about the
rubber, or caoutchouc, trees, OF the up
per Orinoco by DR.. Lucien Morisse, who
has made extensive personal investiga-
tions in that region. DR.. Morisse
makes the somewhat surprising state
ment that the prohibition of the Vene-
zuelan Government against the telling
of the trees is altogether unnecessary,
because "it relates to an immense for
est measuring upward of 100000
acres, where caoutchouc exists in
abundance, and which it would require
millions and millions of hands to ex-
ploit, whereas it only contains three or
four thousand Indians, not more than
the tenth part of whom are engaged in
the work"
| Some interesting details have lately
been published concerning the use of
ozone in purifying water. Ozone is oxy-
gen in a highly active condition and it
occurs in small quantities in the air
Berlin an esta adjustment has been erect
ed for the purpose of experimenting on
the effects of ozone in Kidding water of
the microbes it contains. OZonized air
containing from 2 to grams per cubic
meter Ia cubic meter equals 22OO9 gal
Ions and gram is about Is grains) is
passed upward into a tower which is
filled with f1ints and in its passage
meets the water coming down and thus
acts upon it. It has been shown that
as regards water from the Spree, the
number of microbes was decreased
from 100000 per cubic centimeter (.O61
cubic inch) to 10, which is practically
nil. The total cost is set down at 81
cents per 1000 cubic feet. Ozone has
long been known as natures disin.
fectant," and it's application to the puri
fcation Of water becomes, therefore, a
matter of great interest. If the cost
can be reduced this mode of purifica
ton may have a chance of widespread
adoption.