Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-15
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TIE sadness Of the Dead Sea is at
uibuted by W. Akroyd in considerable
degree to air-borne salt from the Med
iterranean.
Exposing pure Oil of turpentine
mixed with one per cent of oil of Law
ender is the finest of all simple meth
DDS for purifying the air of a stuffy
room.
Leather railway ties are made by
grinding scrap leather very fine, sub
jecting to a refining process, and COM
pressing to different grades of hard
ness in a moulding machine.
A British naturalist suggests that
the destruction Of animal life by heavy
rains has received too little attention.
The mortality among insects and all
small animals is certainly very great
In late experiment in Switzerland
Scotch boiler was found to be 159
degrees G. hotter at the upper part
than at the lower part, and the tenn
peratures changed but slightly after
two hours. AS this popularity Is
chief objection to this form of genera
tor, test of other boilers is desired.
The Fuel Builders.-These are the
ferns, which in the carboniferous peri
cd attained rank growth. The spores
of the ferns, found on the under sides
of the leaves, which answer the pur-
pose Of seeds, form brown dust, ana
this dust, heated and compressed, COM
poses great masses of coal. Jet is also
another work of these little builders.
A new luminous fungus has been for
warded to Europe from Tahiti. 1t Is
said to emit at night light resembling
that Of the glow worm, which it re-
tains for a period of twenty-four hours
after having been gathered, and 1t Is
used by the native women in bouquets
Of flowers for personal adornment In
the hair and dress. It is believed to
grow on the trunks Of trees.
According to a recent pamphlet by
an Italian doctor, sure way OF re-
storing life in cases Of syncope is to
hold the patients tongue firmly. After
two other doctors had worked for an
hour without result over young man
who was apparently drowned, he thrust
spoon into the patients mouth,
seized the tongue, and worked it vio-
lently until the patient gave signs of
life.
Considering the possible influence Of
alcohol upon human evolution, DR..
Harry Campbell assumes that such CIV
ilizations as those Of Babylon and
Egypt may date back thirty thousand
years and that agriculture by migra-
tory tribes may extend back thirty
thousand years more, but concludes
that the use Of alcohol as beverage
has not been known more than ten
thousand years. He finds no reason to
believe that as was suggested some
years ago, the discovery Of fermented
liquor gave the first civilizing quicken
ing to the brain of ape-man.
Observations as to the height Of the
diurnal sea breeze are few in number,
albeit of considerable Importance. By
means Of a captive balloon, sent up
from Coney Island a number of years
ago, it was found that the average
height at which the cool inflow from
the ocean was replaced by the upper
warm outflow from the land was from
five to six hundred feet At Toulon,
in 1893, the height Of the sea breeze
was found to be about thirteen hum
dred feet, and a distinct off-shore cur
rent was found between nineteen and
twenty hundred feet. More recently
19O2-on the west coast Of Scotland,
Dimes, using kites, had noted that the
kites would not rise above fifteen hun
dred feet on sunny afternoons, when