Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-09-16

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A highly finished "sun chariot" late
ly found in Il moor of Seeland in Den
mark is thought to be at least three
thousand years old.
The most priced of the singing in
sects Of Japan is black beetle called
''susumushi," or 'insect bell" Its
singing resembles the. dainty sound Of
sweet-toned silver bell.
During the past year it has been
discovered that the chalk pits at CHS
elhurst, England, are ancient British
cave-dwellings, dating back some q
600 years. The inhabitants evidently
let themselves down through narrow
shafts, some of which are So feet deep
\ labyrinth of passages and chambers
exists, and in the midst of them is a
large circular apartment supposed to
have been a druidical temple. In the
ceiling of one of the passages the leg
of huge ichthyosaurus is to be seen,
partly uncovered. The body Of the
monster is embedded in the chalk rock.
Mariners have been unable to deter
mine latitude and longitude when the
horizon was hidden even though sun,
moon or stars might be shining. Com
mander Campbell Hepworth, G. B., has
now made it easy to obtain the alti-
tude of any heavenly body without
seeing the natural horizon. He at
taches to the sextant an artificial hori-
zon, which consists essentially Of a
contact maker operated by plummet
and so adjusted that the circuit will be
closed and bell rung when a slit of
the horizon glass Is in alignment with
the Observers eye and the sensible
horizon.
Experiments are under way at the
tural-bacteriologioa station Mt
Vienna, Austria, to increase the guam
tity Of iron carried in certain plants,
with view to the effect on the human
system when those plants are used as
food. Artificially prepared foods con-
tanning iron do not always produce the
desired effect because the iron Is not
completely assimilated. This difficult
ty, 1t Is thought, may be avoided by
causing plants to take up an increased
quantity of iron during their natural
growth. By adding hydrate of iron to
the soil in which 1t was growing, the
experimenters have succeeded in pro-
ducing spinach containing a percent
age Of iron seven times as great as
that found in ordinary spinach. 1t is
believed that the process will prove
successful with other ferruginous
plants.
A clear statement of the relation of
wave length to the production of cleo
trio, heat, light and Photographic eff
fects Is made by Prof. A. A. Atkinson
of the Ohio University. Electromag-
netic waves, comparable in magnitude
with the air waves that cause sound
are used in wireless telegraphy. When
they are much shorter, approaching in
length the infra-red waves of the solar
spectrum, they begin to produce heat.
The shorter they become the greater
their heating effect, until they enter
the region Of the visible spectrum, and
then they produce light AS they con-
/ tinue to shorten, the color of the light
runs through red, orange, yellow,
green, blue and indigo to violet The
heat effect decreases, and the actinic,
or Photographic, effect increases, and
when the waves pass out into the in
visible ultraviolet region the chemical
effect reaches its maximum. Yet more
shortening, and the waves begin to ex-
hibit the properties of the X-rays.