Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-10

treatment has overcome the tendency
OF the stored powers to pass gradually
into an insolnble state, and has improve
ed its keeping qualities, giving II a
higl degree Of resistance to bacteria
and mold as well as TO dampness and
heat. The apparatus can dry 10000
quarts daily, yealding about 1 pound Of
powder from 8 quarts of milk.
The curious formations known as
Snow mushrooms" reach extraordinary
development near the Glacier House,
IN the mountains Of British Columbia.
At this place the tree trunks have the
most favorable diameter the stumps
are always left several feet high, and
the snowfalls are usually damp occur
ring at about 80 degrees F. Dr.
Vaughan Cornish reports that on his
visit IN February 1901 when the snow
was five feet deep. he saw one stump
two feet In diameter with a cap mine
feet across and a broken tree four feet
through with a snowcap II feet across.
It Is estimated that these snOwcaps
must often weigh a ton, they are SYM
metrically rounded. and they are so sol
idly frozen az to be not easily broken,
The first steps In decimal tme-keep-
Ing. taken in Switzerland have met
with the approval Of leading scientific
bodies, NJ. Paul Ditisheim has con-
structed a decimal chrOnometer. called
the trOpometer, and "A new registering
chronoscope, the hours being counted
as recommended by Nj. Henri de Sar-
TautOn-frOm to 20, with subdivisions
into 100 minutes Of 100 seconds, each
second consisting of two BEATS In
measurements Of the circle the divls-
ions are 2i0 degrees, each subdivided
into 100 primes containing 100 thirds.
The blue color Of the sly has been
long attributed TO refraction Of light
by the dust. or minute particles, scat
tered IN the air. different theory has
been worked out by NJ. Spring of Liege,
who has made many experiments with
light rays under almost all possible
conditions, injecting them into agitated
solutions and into glass tubes filed
with such limpid solutions as chloride
of aluminium. While he could get red
yellcE, violet etc, no blue appeared
until by electricity he obtained a per-
fectly pure atmosphere. His conclu-
sion Is that the skys azure Is purely
electrical IN origin, and an essential
quality Of the air.
The simplifed Foucault pendulum OF
NJ. d'Arsonyal is a copper-coyered lead
en- ban OF pa pounds supported by
steel wire about q hundredth OF an
inch In diameter The wire Is attached
10 the ceiling by a nail, and a metal
block screwed to the ceiling firmly
clamps the upper end Of the wire. leav-
ing the rest Of &c free TO swing about
the lower face OF the block. Such
pendulum Is capable OF swinging about
three hours making evident the earth's
rotation In that time.
The expansion Of metals on heating
Is a serious disadvantage for many pur-
poses. The new alloy OF iron with &c
per cent Of nickel Is claimed TO expand
less than l-l200O000 for an increase Of
one degree g., while the expansion Of
iron Is 10000 for one degree G. The
alloy Is recommended for clock pen
dulums, measures, etc.
The Idea Of Dr Garrigne, Of the Par
Is Faculty OF Medicine Is that tubor-
culosls cancer and other germ diseases
destroy because the formlates. which
WITTY the blood are absorbed. The
cells die when formic acid can no long
or be produced. To cure he would in
vert the process. supplying oxygen TO
Inc cells. and producing oxygen by
formic acid other physicians call him
a quack.
AceWlene headlights for Russian 10.
comOtlvcs have projected a fine light
three times az far as the naptha lamps