Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-25
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II. Floresco has communicated to the
Academy of Sciences at Paris proofs
that there is a fixed relation between
the quantity Of iron In the liver OF AMI
mails and the color of their skin ana
hair. Animals of dark hair contain
nearly twice the amount Of iron ana
pigments in the liver and skin as those
Of white hair.
Prof. w. w. Campbell, the Director
of the Lick Observatory. in summing
I'D the results of the observations ana
photographs made by the party sent
from that observatory to study the to-
tai eclipse Of the sun In Sumatra last
May, says that the general conclusion
to be drawn Is that the coronal struc-
ture surrounding the sun is made up OF
matter, probably very finely DIVIDED
elected from the surface OF the sun
with great velocities, just as we nave
matter elected, now and then, from
terrestrial volcanoes, with compara-
lively small velocities.
Few persons have any conception OF
the tremendous degree of heat repre-
sented in the sun, just as they are ig-
nroant, as a rule, that it is hydrogen
gas that, blazing in the sun, keeps the
universe of life existent. An astron-
omer has just given some interesting
details respecting the temperature OF
the sun. He asserts that the mean tenn
perature is about $500 degrees cent?
ade-approximately 1920 degrees
Fahrenheit. OF such degree OF heat
one can form no adequate conception.
OF the total heat the earth receives, OF
course, only a very small proportion.
The rest belongs to space and Is shareu
by other worlds than this.
Men sometimes dream of enormous
wealth stored in the earth, below the
reach Of miners, but according TO the
statements of Prof. c. r. Van Hise at
the Denver meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement OF
Science, there is little or no ground to
believe that valuable metallic deposits
lie very deep in the earth's crust. Such
deposits, he said, are made by under
ground waters, and owing to the pres
sure on the rocks at great depths, the
waters are confined to a shell near the
surface. With few exceptions, ore de-
posits become too lean to repay work
ing below 5000 feet. Nine mines In
ten, taking the world as whole, are
poorer In the second thousand feet
than in the fierst thousand, and poorer
vet In the third thousand than In the
second.
In September the hunters and trap
pers Of the Yukon start out for their
long winter sojourn in the midst OF
the snowy and painless woods and
along the banks Of frozen rivers and
streams. Bears, beavers, otters, minks
martens. foxes, wolves and wolever.
enc all fall before their rifles or are
caught In their traps, and the man who
can accumulate a good store of the
furs Of any of these animals Is well re
warded for his hard winters work
But the greatest prize, which all seek
and comparatively few get, is the rare
black fox, Of which only about half
dozen are killed in a season. whose soft
robe Is worth from $500 to $500 to the
trapper who takes it. From twenty
Eve to forty silver-gray foxes are
caught in a season; their pelts bring
from 800 to $500 apiece. The price
Of bear pelts vary from $40 to $25; o1
beaver, from $3.50 to ST; Of mink, from
s1.50 to So; Of marten from $3.50 tt
S12, and Of otter from 81 to So.