Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1904-06-16

Forecastirg foods is now almost an
exact science.
| Raymond s. DuGan. the astronomer.
graduate Of Amherst College. has
discovered new planet. which he has
named Amherstia, in honor OF his alma
mater.
An Austrian inventor has applied for
patent for seif-lighting cigars and
| cigarettes. These are tipped with
chemical mixture. and OH being struck
| against anything ignite like matches.
In test OF the sense Of time. inter-
walls OF quarter Of a minute to a
minute and a half were overestimatetl.
forty-fve per cent. by fifteen men
students AMI Ill per cent. by fifteen
women.
Many European physicians treat al
coholism by hypnotic suggestion. some
practitioners claiming as high as
eighty per cent. Of cures. The sug-
gestion Is usually repeated fifteen or
twenty times within year.
Notwithstanding earthquakes seem 10
be most numerous i'm the years WHEN
the earth wobbles most. For example.
In 1900. the pole shifted C.32 second.
ana there We're but seventeen severe
earthquakes. while i'm 1897 the poles
movement was 1.0I second. and aboat
forty-five great earthquakes were fe.t.
The growing of acid fruits-sucl :s
tomatoes and strawberries-is anon.
the means suggested for lessening the
mosquito evil. 1t has been noticed
that when mosquitoes have access t.
acid fruits their bites are less poison
Gus. and districts of Italy seem TO have
been freed from malaria by the Guilt
walton of tomatoes. the natural food OF
| mosquitoes. 1t is supposed that the
malarial parasite is destroyed by fruit
acids.
An invention has recently been
shown in Birmingham. England. for
the seamless welding of iron. steel and
other metals by a new process \
flame is formed by burning acetylene
with oxygen. and il is directed i'm the
usual way by means Of blowpipe 1t
is said that the hardest metals may
be welded i'm this way as readily as
lead. Notwithstanding the intense
heat Of the flame. the process does not
make necessary the protection of the
eyes by dark glasses. for the mixture
or the oxygen with the acetylene re-
moves the glare and leaves a small
flame Of a greenish-blue color.
NJ. Heit. French inventor has de-
vised new type of compass. which is
OF an automatic nature. The direction
OF the compass by this arrangement is
automaticai,-- registered minute by
minute. so that " consulting the chart
the ships officers "an ascertain the
route traversed at any time during the
passage. The compass can instead Of
having at its centre an agate resting
on fixed steel point. is fixed on STEEL
pivot which rests on q steel agate. Til.
latter is immersed in n drop of mer.
curry, which serves to conduct the cur
rent Of electricity that renders the reg
istering Of the movements Of the ap-
paratus possible.
since iS36 the effects or light and
darkness upon crustaceans. batrach-
ians and fishes have been studied in
biological laboratory Of the Cata-
combs of Paris. In the underground
portion of the laboratory animals ac-
customed to daylight are kept con-
stantly i'm darkness. while in a section
above ground cave animals are kept in
ordinary light. Life i'm darkness brings
gradual fading Of color. The organx
or smell and taste soon increase TO
three times their normal size: the eyes
remain normal for time. but i'm fishes
doubled i'm size at the end OF five years.
though with loss OF power and evident
coming atrophy. The size OF fishes be-
comes much reduced. The cave ami
mails show that light is disagreeabIe
to them. and in few months devotion
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