Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-01-09
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about ten days. develops In these
periods: Egg from laying to hatcnins'
one-third of a day; Matching OF larVa
to first mott. one day; second mott 10
pupation, three days; pupation 70 Is
suing of the adult. five days
The new boat Of M. Turc. of the
French navy, designed to pass through
The wave without roll OF pitch III
described as a combination Of sub
marine and high platform. The SUD
marine is three hundred feet long,
seventy-fve feet wide and twelve feet
deep. and is to contain boilers, engines
and steering gear, which will be sub
merged to a depth of twelve rect
From the submarine will rise vertical
ly two foaters, sixty-five feet apart,
each two hundred feet long n ten
feet wide.
In addition to an eight-inch disap-
bearing gun, firing a light p~rojectne
by compressed air, there Is, In an
armory Of the National Guard IN
BROOKLYN, a model of a ships cutter,
carving a crew Of ten men and a one
FOUNDER gun, and running on concealed
wheels, which are driven by means
of a rope attached to the oars. A
rudder-post is geared to a gulolng
wheel in the stern, so that, with oars
swinging and men bending to their
work, the BOAT glides about the armory
floor, and looks, In partial darkness,
as If it were genuinely ahoat. The
BOAT and the disappearing CUR, TO-
gether with the model Of a fort, en-
able the regiment to practise many or
the m~anoeuvers of coast attack and
defense as they are carried on in
actual warfare.
A scientific investigation of muscular
fatigue a been begun by NJ. A. M.
Bloch. From questions sent to per-
sons of many occupations he hnds
that it is not the most used muscles
that are most subject TO fatigue, but
those that are kept under tension, al
though doing no WORK. The back,
loins and neck need more exercise to
strengthen them, the arms II legs
less. The baker becomes first tired
In the legs, the wood, sawyer in the
calves of the legs or the loins, the
road-digger in the legs, the blacksmith
in the back and loins, the young soldier
in the back of the neck. the horseman
in the thigh, the artilleryman in the
neck and loins. the IMMATURE violinis'
{ in the neck, the practiced violinist II
the left hand, the expert fencer in the
: right shoulder, the onrsman in the
calves and insteps.
The department of agriculture ha:
: undertaken a series of experiments In
t tended to answer if possible, the ole
: question, How long can seeds remaiI
} buried in the soil and still retain thei
, power Of germination?" Many extra
7 ordinary stories have been told of tn
8 prolongation of the vitality of seed
during many years., n even centur
les, but very few actual experiment
t have hitherto been made. In 100
Doctor Beal reported that he ha'
: found seeds which responded to germ
nation tests after having been burie
t twenty years. The seeds buried by tn
agricultural department at the Airing
ton farm last December were packe
with dry clay in porous clay pots. COY
cred with saucers, and placed at var
GUS depths, from six inches to thre
A and a half feet. There are 80 complet
sets, in 1884 pots, representing 10
species, "a genera and "a families
h Tests are to be made at the end of
., 3, 3, Z, 10, 10, 20, %, 80, 40, an
so years.