Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-01
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The aurora borealis, as lately seen
In the early afternoon by an English
observer, appeared as black arch
with black streamers against a blue
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 corrections has,
1t is asserted, been successfully over
come.
A rise Of body temperature from
e84 degrees F.-the normal-to 10Y de-
grees is speedily followed by death.
Drs. Halliburton and Mott find that
cell -globulin coagulates at the latter
temperature, and they conclude that
the fatal results of high fever are due
to coagulation> Of this proteid in the
cells Of the nerve centers and other
parts Of the body.
To eye strain, usually unsupported,
DR.. George M. 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 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 of the
devotion of the parent bird to their
young by lying in wait near the nests,
before the young birds are able to fly,
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
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lance Of only ten or twelve feet.
Reptiles and amphibians are attract
ed to water from such distances that
DR.. E. Werner, Of Vienna, supposes
they must be endowed with a special
sense. Sight is found to be the most
acute of their ordinary senses, but
alligators and crocodiles see a man
not 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 OF 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 Virginia
gentleman purchased in Alexandria,
Egypt, from native who had found it
in the wall of a building broken during
confiagration, what appeared to be
a mass of cOrroded copper weighing
twenty pounds. 1t was kept as a
hearth ornament, until recently it was
found to consist Of about 500 Roman
coins, struck in the days of the early
Caesars. Professor Huntington, 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 a silvery surface, which
wears as a white metal He be-
lieves the coins passed for silver. The
mass had become encrusted with a
double skin of malachite and Of red
oxide of copper, and remarkable
changes had gone on within, although
the lettering and the dates remained
legible.
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