The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-08
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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 in 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 in
about five hundred photographs of the
woman under the various forms of
suggestion. The intensity of the eX-
pressions is said to have been rarely
equaled by the great artists.
DR.. 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 a distant electric light, or
n very brilliant star, all other lights
being carefully screened Off After
while the watched light will begin to
exhibit curious movements, the origin
of which, Doctor Gould thinks, is in
the cerebral center of vision.
Notwithstanding has become, to
a certain extent, a scientific undertake
ing. Careful preparation, selection in
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 was
achieved last summer in the western
Himalayas by DR.. William H. Work
man, who reached the summit of a
peak of the ChogO Lungma, 1884
feet above sea-level. This is about 300
feet higher than Aconcagua, in South
America, the ascent of which has here
tofore ranked as the highest on record.
Mrs. Workman reached a height of
22,567 feet the highest point reached
by woman mountain-climber.
There is growing use in this coun-
try of Manila rope for power trans
mission in mills and factories in the
place of leather betting. In English
factories ropes superseded betting long
ago, and their use is nearly universal.
In the United States the change that
is taking place is in part due to the
acquisition of the Philippines, where
the Manila hemp flourishes. The fiber
of this hemp varies in length from 6
to - feet, and occasionally attains a
length of IS feet. 1t is said to possess
greater tensile strength than any other
fiber known, exceeding 10000 pounds
per square inch. "Rope-drives." as
transmission ropes are called, possess
the advantage of noiseless. owing to
their tleXibility and to the existence of
an air-passage in the grooves between
the rope and the sheath.