Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-08
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bio vi IIuDldlu are ICDOTltu
by I'll. Goebel 10 number 1913 species
Or these 1873 certainly breed in that
country, thirty-fOur probably do so,
seventeen are stragglers and six win
ter visitors, II is an ocean species
n seven are seen only in the Solo
vetski Islands.
A novel watch in Zurich is in the
form of a ball which moves impercept-
IDLY down an inclined plane without
rolling. There is no spring, the sliding
giving motion to the hands, and the trip
from top to bottom of the inclined sur
race, a distance of sixteen inches, re-
quires twenty-four hours. The ball is
then lifted again to the top.
The Highland Railway Company of
Great Britain announces that it has
completed arrangements for telephone
communication between trains and sta.
lions on its line, thus not only greatly
lessening the danger of wrecks on the
road but also enabling its passengers
to communicate with friends and bust
ness associates while travelling from
place to place.
A tree using aluminium almost to the
exclusion of other mineral elements
has been reported In New South Wales
by II. G. Smith, Of Sydney. 1t is
known botanically as Orites excelsa,
X. Br., and the aluminium is deposited
as a basic succinate. Other Towering
plants show only a trace of aluminium,
although it seems to serve as a food
Of cryptograms.
Hugo Halberger, Of Munich, Ger
many, has found that when an cleo
trio current is sent into the earth by
thrusting n of the terminals into the
ground, the worms and snails within a
radius of six feet or more crawl out
and get away from the affected area.
Their behavior seemed to him to indi-
cate that they were distressed by the
electricity. and he suggests that the
} remarkable effect of an electric cur
rent in stimulating the growth of
plants may be really due to the exter-
= mination of parasites about their roots,
rather than to a directly beneficial in
fluence upon the plants themselves.
A comparison between the heating
properties of acetylene and coal gas
shows that the heat units developed
per cubic foot are 1850 and $50, re.
spectively, the temperature of the
acetylene flame being about 1900 de
grees Fahrenheit. With an acetylent
burner consuming two cubic feet OF
gas per hour a quart Of water was
brought from q temperature of abou'
v 80 degrees to the boiling point in abou'
a eight and a half minutes. Under sim
i liar conditions it required ten and
O quarter minutes for the illumination;
gas to accomplish the same results
though the burner used sixteen cubi,
feet of gas per hour
e King Menelik of Abyssinia, propos
ing to take advantage of the scientific
methods of minting coin which prevail
g in the civilized world, has just import
= ed from Germany an outfit of machin
cry for his mint, which is to be set n
= at his capital, AddisAbaba. The las
lstage of the long journey of this ms
chinery will be by caravan, and
month will be occupied in thus trans
| lporting it from the nearest railway sta
4 ton. 1t is said that Menelik, who 70
! several years has had a limited silve
\ coinage circulation in his kingdom
] the coins We're struck for him |
1 ~France-has accumulated more tina
4 10000 pounds of gold bullion, beside
| n still larger amount of silver, avail
| ing the arrival of the mlntlng-ma
| chimes.