Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-16
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The wanderings and migrations of
insects is new subject of study,
which has been begun at the Eddy
stone Lighthouse, by w. e. Clarke.
A curious effect of the Ismaillia
Canal i'll Egypt has been the making
of desert of certain lands formerly
fertile. The canal has not only raised
the general level of the subsoil water,
but it has brought to the surface more
or less injurious salts of soda.
The camera records of human emo
tons obtained at Geneva by DIR. e.
Magnin and NJ. Edward Flegenheimer,
are of remarkable artistic and scien-
tific value. The experiments have been
made upon very susceptible hypnotic
subject, who has been influenced by
both musical and oral suggestion, and
the entire range of human passions
joy, anger, fear, sadness, gluttony,
greed, etc.,-have been recorded i'll
about five hundred photographs of the
woman under the various forms of
suggestion. The intensity of the eN-
pressions is said to have been rarely
equaled by the great artists.
DIR. George NJ. Gould, of Philadel-
phia, reports some interesting obser-
vations on a new visual phenomenon,
which, he suggests, may have some
connection with the subjective produc-
ton of images, ghosts, wraiths, tele-
pathic visions. and so forth in certain
conditions of the mind and body. The
phenomenon he describes may be wit
messed by fixing the eyes, or prefer
ably one eye, the other being closed,
steadily on q distant electric light, or
q very brilliant star, all other lights
being carefully screened off. After a
while the watched light will begin to
exhibit curious movements, the origin
of which, Doctor Gould thinks, is il
the cerebral center of vision.
Notwithstanding has become, tC
certain extent a scientific undertake
ing. Careful preparation, selection il
physique and diet, the use of appro
pirate stimulants and the management
of scientific instruments of observation
characterize all attempts to ascend the
higher peaks Of the globe The RECORD
highest ascent to the present time wal
achieved last summer in the western
Himalayas by DR.. William II. Work
man, who reached the summit of ;
peak of the Chogo Lungma, 1889
feet above sea-level. This is about 3O
feet higher than Aconcagua, in Sout
America, the ascent of which has here
tofore ranked as the highest on record
Mrs. Workman reached a height o
22,567 feet, the highest point reache
by woman Observation-Disclosures.
There is growing use in this cour
try of Manila rope for power trans
mission in mills and factories in tn
place of leather betting. In Englis
factories ropes superseded betting Ion
ago, and their use is nearly universal
In the United States the change tina
is taking place is in part due to til
acquisition of the Philippines, wher
the Manila hemp flourishes. The tibC
of this hemp varies in length from
to - feet, and occasionally attains
length of IS feet 1t is said to posses
greater tensile strength than any oth'
fiber known, exceeding 10000 pount
per square inch. "ROpe-drives,' ;
transmission ropes are called, posse
the advantage of noiseless, owing
their fleXibility and to the existence
an air-passage i'll the grooves betwe'
the rope and the sheath.