Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-08-06
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London produces ten lunatics per
day; New York nearly as many, with
greater proportionate increase.
The self-lighting Bunsen burner OF
a German chemist depends upon the
lguiting effect Of a pellet Of palladium
sponge, which is passed over the es-
Gaping gas as the tap is opened.
Over-fatigue is regarded by DR.. Bur-
Tanning as the determining cause
Of 10 per cent of his cases of pulmo-
nary consumption. Even a single ex
cess-as unusual bicycling, climbing,
hunting. or even dancing or tennis
may bring into activity unsupported
latent tuberculosis.
The statement is generally made that
the principal geysers of the Yellow
5tone Park greatly exceed in size and
power all others in the world. ]. A.
Ruddick, now of Ottawa, Canada, con-
tradicts this. and says that the Wal
mangu Geyser in New Zealand far ex-
ceeds In proportions anything describ-
ed in the Yellowstone region. Mr..
Ruddick has never himself seen Wal
mangu in action, but has often wit
messed the eruptions of the geysers
called Fairoa and Pohotu, the former
sometimes playing to a height of more
than 200 feet.
The curious electric heater of NJ. Ca
mile Herrgott consists OF conducting
wires woven into carpets and other
fabrics, and 1t is designed to give a
moderately high temperature to the
fber-hemp, cotton, linen or silk. 1t
does not affect the pliability or appear
ance of the material. 1t is claimed
that the heater is perfectly safe, and
that the wires cannot be raised above
a certain temperature. The arrange
ment can be applied to many purposes
Carpets, rugs, etc, can be kept at the
temperature OF the body or higher
and dry or wet medical applications
can be kept easily at $50 deg. G. In
the industries numerous uses are sug
gested, as in filters for fatty or gelat
nous matters, and for warming car
riages or trains, etc.
New materials from which paper car
be made are continually found. Re
Gently in our Southern States yellow
pine waste has been successfully man
ufactured into that universal sub
stance without which so many fea
lures of modern civilization coulC
hardly survive. Fine paper can b'
made of corn stalks and of rice straw
In addition to spruce, whose useful
ness in paper-making has caused grea
uneasiness concerning the ultimate fat
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ests, marsh pine, fir, aspen. birch sweet
gum, cottonwood, maple, cypress an,
willow trees all contain fiber suita BIZ
for the manufacture of paper. Hemp
cotton, jnte, Indian millet and othe
fibrous plants can also be used 70
this purpose, so that there seems to b
no danger of dearth of paper.
Major Powell-Cotton's expedition II
Eastern Equatorial Africa resulted /,
the discovery OF six tribes of men pre-
viously unknown to the civilized worlC
. One Of these tribes is known to 1t
neighbors by the name OF the Ma
: gicians. The Magicians dwell on tn
1 high lands halfway between Lake Ri
dolph and Lake Albert. and their vi
. lagos consist of two-story houses bull
Of waffle, and grouped together on tn
upper slopes of the hills. They il
! spire great awe among the dweller
: in the valleys below, although the la
ter outnumber them a thousand to on,
l Their formidable reputation appears t
be baned upon their superior INTEL
gence. None of the new tribes disco1
cred by Major Powell-Cotton had eve
ID met a white man, and they treate
their visitors in friendly manner.