Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-03-03
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A physician of Colombia has found
decoction of coffee husks to be effective
in malaria and other diseases where
quinine had failed.
Every animal is said to have its own
kind of flea, sometimes several different
kinds. Many thousand specimens Of
these feas have been gathered In the
unique museum Of Charles Rothschild,
kept by DR.. Jordan at Tring Park, the
giant Of this strange collection being
mole flea a fifth Of an inch long.
Living organisms have resumed their
functions after enduring the cold Of
liquid air for six months. 1t Is suggest
ed that the remarkable experiment
should be continued for years or gen.
Grafton, for our theories would be great
ly modified by an Indefinite retaining Of
vitality, and probability would be given
Lord Kelvin's speculation that life may
have reached the earth from space.
The first large vapor motor applied
to navigation is to be placed on the
fishing boat of NJ. Emile Altazin, now
being built at Boulogne. The vessel,
which Is ninety feet long and Ia designs
ed to carry three hundred tons, will be
provided with a two-hundred-horse
power motor for operating nets. The
motors will use either gasoline or alco-
hol, Of which the tanks will contain
eight thousand gallons,
w. G. Marshall, of the Sheffield Scien-
tific School at Yale, has invented
pressure recorder which, when substi-
tuted for the ordinary rowlock at the
end of the outriggers Of a racing shell,
measures and registers the pressure
exerted at every stroke Of the oar. The
varying force of the strokes during
long race can be ascertained, and 1t is
intended to apply the machine In the
selection and training of the university
crews.
By the Hubon process, black pigment
is made by pumping acetylene into steel
cylinders to pressure Of about-two at
mospheres, and then passing an electric
spark through the vessels, the gas be-
| ing thus dissociated into its carbon and
hydrogen. The hydrogen is collected
for any convenient use; the carbon is
ready for the market: Acetylene black
is free from the oily impurities of or.
binary lampblack, and the demand is
already so great that the first factory
now running in Switzerland-is like
ly to be followed by others in other
countries.
The claim of Mount Mckinley, the
eliminating peak of the Alaskan range,
to be regarded as the loftiest point in
North America, is sustained by the res
port of an exploring party, made by one
of Its members, A. ii. Brooks. The
party made journey Of 800 miles on
foot in Alaska during the season just
passed, D. L, Reaburl, the topograph-
er of the expedition, believes that the
measurements of mountain heights
which were made have probable error
mot exceeding 100 feet. According to
those measurements, Mount McKin-
ley's elevation definitely exceeds 10000
feet; that OF Mount Foraker is 1900
feet.
An Italian physicist, Signor Salvioni,
has devised microbalance Of such ex-
treme delicacy that it clearly demon
strates the loss Of weight of musk by
volatilization. Thus the invisible per-
fume floating off in the air Is Indirectly
weighed. The essential part of the ap-
paratus is very thin thread of glass,
fixed at one end and extended horizon
tally. The microscopic objects to be
weighed are placed upon the glass
thread near Its free end, and the
amount of fiexure produced is observed
with a microscope magnifying 100
diameters. A mote weighing one-thou-
sandth Of a>miliigram perceptibly bends
the thread.