Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-06-26
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in the early afternoon by an English
observer, appeared as a black arcn
with black streamers against q oiue
sky. The sun was shining brightly
and some bright white clouds were
being driven rapidly in front OF the
aurora.
By means of new system Of print
ing called "callitypy." the ordinary
typewriting machine can be employed
for making the matrix from which
printing types are cast. BY special
devices the difficulty of bringing the
ends Of the lines into vertical ADJUST
ment and of making correctioRs mas,
it is asserted, been successfully over
come
A rise of body temperature from
D3.4 degrees F.-the normai-to 1o1 de-
grees is speedily followed by death.
Drs. Halliburton and Mott find that
cell l-globulin coagulates at the latter
temperature. and they conclude that
the faral results of high fever are due
to coagulattoR of this proteid In the
cells Of the nerve centers and other
parts of the body.
To eye strain, usually unsuspected,'
DR.. George N. Gould attributes much
of human misery He finds evidence
that it was indirectly responsible for
the opium habit of De Quincy. caused
the morbid condition and breakdowns
Of Carlyle, and gave Browning his
headaches and vertigo. Printing books
in white ink on black paper is a sug-
gested means for lessening eye strain.
According to w. e. D.. Scott, OF
Princeton University, there Is special
cruelty in the manner of killing birds
| in Florida for use on women's hats.
The huntsmen take advantage or the
devotion of the parent bird to their
young by lying in wait near the nests
before the young birds are able to ny,
knowing that their cries Will bring
back the parents again and again. In
spite of the disturbance made by the
slaughterers. With Flobert rifles the
devoted birds are picked of at a dis
tance Of only ten or twelve feet.
Reptiles and amphibians are attract
ed to water from such distances that
DR.. r. Werner, Of Vienna, supposes
they must be endowed with special
sense Sight is found to be the most
acute Of their ordinary senses. but
alligators and crocodiles see man
hot more than ten times their own
length, frogs see about fifteen or
twenty times their own length. fishes
not more than half their own length,
and snakes only one-fourth or one
eighth of their own length. Most rep
tiles and amphibians are totally deaf.
None are entirely without taste; and
the snakes tongue rapidly vibrating
: the air, seems to feel objects without
actually touching them.
Some fifteen years ago a Virginia
gentleman purchased in Alexandria,
, Egypt from a native who had found 1t
, in the wall of building broken during
! confagration, what appeared to be
a mass of corroded copper weighing
; twenty pounds. 1t was kept as q
hearth ornament, until recently it was
found to consist of about 500 Roman
/ coins, struck in the days of the early
Caesars. Professor Dunnington, of the
University of Virginia. finds that the
coins contain one part of silver to
four. of copper, but when dipped in
acid a part of the copper disappears
, leaving silvery surface. which
= 'wears' as white metal. He be,
eyes the coins passed for silver. The
t mass had become encrusted with 8
iouble skin of malachite and of rec
!, ,xide Of copper, and remarkable
. ,hanges had gone on within. although
E he lettering and the dates remained
: ,egible.