The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-05-12
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: A new French life preserves y
. belt filled with calcium carbide II
: quickly inflated by scstylsns On bsin.
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Great mountains on Venus are . sup
, posed discovery Of Herr Arsndt o
Posen- These elevations appear to pro
ject through the clouds from time b
time. and the observations thus fal
made tend to prove . rapid rotation h
about twsnU-four hourA
The magnetic pole In Northwestern
America IL supposed to have shifted
considerably since tn discovery by
Rosa In 1881. Taking with him seven
companions In ANAL schooner
Amundssn. the Norwegian explorer.
expects to make observa uons on the
present site Of this pole from 1853 %
1896.
Adding nns sulphur to the dissolved
material. then heating. preferably with
pressure. Il found BY Isidor Kitsss to
more than double the resistance Of cell
iuloss ~ an insulator for electric
wires Flexibility varies with the per
centags Of sulphur. and resistance to
acids and moisture 10 increased
In the Smithsonian report on scisn-
unc work for 1902 Prof. Langley ~
marks that when the bolomstsr was
invented some twenty ysars ago. IL
was able TO measure temperature to
about ons-one- hundred-th ousandth of .
degree Since then the instrument and
i1 sdtuncts have been 20 far improved
that temperature can now be meas
ured to less than ons-oos- hundred mill
lionth Of . degree readily and with
precision.
The Italian government u awakinT
70 the necessity Of protecting what ~
mains Of its forests and to replantinr
devastated areaA The most valuable
rec Ia the cork tree. which now
'bounds most In Sicily and Sardinia
he cork forests of Calabria having
'een almost wholly destroyed for char
'oaI The present use OF vast quaint
lee OF cork In the manufacture OF I
lnoieum and for shipbuilding smpha-
lies the Importance Of preserving and q
xtsnding the cork forests Spain also l
ossessss great cork forests. and a few
ears ago the expectation OF wine bot '
% corks from that country amounted n
/ value to 1.OOo.O00 b
The weights OF Lib human brains
ave been collected BY N. Marchand
Marbourg. At birth the average
eight II found to be e.s ounces In
oys and 9.3 ounces In girlA At the
- OF one year. 2 pounds LIS ounces
I'd i pound Ills ounces. respectively;
I'd At the end Of three years the Il
eight has trebled- Increase IL then
DIV. Full growth 10 attained at nine px
en- to twenty years In men and six-
en- to eighteen In women. the mean =,
lult weight being 3 pounds ounce =,
males and 2 pounds 10 ounces In -
males Loss by seniis atrophy be- n.
~ In man At about forty eight years
d In women at about seventy. Tur-
nen. the Russian author. had one of
heaviest brains on record. weigh
: Al pounds: and Gambetta'A. CIV
freely 20 pounds. was one Of the ~
htest
he nrst butterfly farm IL said to nf'
We been established only q year or
D ago by the English entomologist
liam Watkins. ut Eastbourne. but ois
eady several similar farms have
ne Into existence In France. The we
ect Is to rear rare genera OF the for
nbycidae. the silkworm family. WI
y have. by crossing. obtained some wa
: varieties. which are sought after hat
museums Of natural history. They {
also endeavoring to acclimate In SIR
nee species Of silkworms lndlgen- ain
TO other countries. The farms con dra
oaks. allanthus trees. pines. plum line
8. castor oil plants. and other roS.
It's the leaves OF which serve ~ OF
for the caterpIllars- Cocoons q /,
Matched on branches protected By alte
.e. and. for the sake OF uniform Owe
the insects are often kept the
room until after the FIRST Noting. thin
n they are placed on bushes in the cate
air. and protected from birds a 10
overings Of muslin or tulle. max