The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-27
IRRIGATION
IN ARIZONA.

tants of the ella and Salt river valley:
an immense amount of labor. are being
utilized in the construction of the more
scientific and elaborate works now il
progress under federal supervision.
In recent letter Lord Rlythswood. the
original discoverer of radium emanatior
in the Bath waters. states that the same
condition W
UNDERGROUND found at the
Buxton springs
periments he is
inclined to believe that the presence OF
radium emanation in these mineral wa
tiers indicates the presence of radium
near their source. Further confirmation
of this is derived from Mr.. Struts dis
covery of radium, in the iron deposits left
by the hot Bath springs.
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The highest temperature observed at
any spot in the British empire during the
year 1902 was Ia degrees, at Trinidad.
! The highest shade
temperature was BRITISH Gil
! 111.W degrees at
Adelaide, in Feb MATE RECORDS.
ruary. The wet
! test British land was at Colombo, where
III inches of rain fell. The cloudest place
in the entire empire was London. and the
! highest average temperature for the en-
tire year (S32 degrees) was recorded in
Madras.
/ 1t is announced that in 1905, the tenth
! anniversary of Roentgen's famous discov-
! cry of the X-rays, "a Roentgen celebra-
ton will be held in
! A ROENTGEN berlin. This will in
clude an exhibition
| ANNIVERSARY Roentgen apparatus,
and persons desiring
| information regarding the arrangements.
should communicate with either Prof.
R. Eberlein or DR.. Immelmann
The interest reused by radium discover
! les is so great and widespread that the de-
mand for the wonderful element is fore
ing a price, fab
.
first up to much
higher fig ures. GOLD IN VALUE.
| The latest offers
for radium, in France, are reported to
have received the amazing rate Of $780,
900 a pound. Gold is worth about $40
pound. troy weight. or not more than $500
for a pound advoirdupois. If anyone pos
sessed a pound Of radium he might OBJ
tain for it about thirteen tons of pure
gold. unless. indeed, the marketing of so
much radium cuts its commercial value
down decidedly below its present level.
The Electrical Review believes that the
problem of communicating with moving
trains, from terminal or division points OF
control j.
COMMUNICATION rectly to the
WITH ENGINEERS. cabs, is not
far f o m
practical solution When all the difficult
ties Of detail shall have been overcome.
it will be possible to abolish the block
system Of holding trains at safe distances
apart. and still keep them better in hand
and freer from danger of collision than
ever before. The telephone is more likely
to be used in this manner than the tele-
graph.
4 new rapid type-printing telegraph was
recently described by William Won Sic
mems in lecture before the Electrical
Society in Berlin The
apparatus belongs to PRINTING
the species Of so-called
automatic teIegraphs, TELEGRAPH,
where the telegram
is prepared i'm such a manner that with an
apparatus similar to typewriter. holes
are punched in a continuous paper tape
for every letter to be telegraphed. This
paper tape then runs through the rotat
ing telegraph instrument and automat
ically sends corresponding currents over
the wire AS this apparatus sends the
large number Of 1000 words per minute
over the wire. while a single operator.
even with the best auxilaries. cannot send
more than 26l or 800 letters in the same
time. it is possible in this way to send
kilograms from quite a number of oper
ators over one wire.
The last official report on the iron pro-
duction Of south Russia shows a decrease
of 100000 pools "a pood is thirty-sX
poundsl OF pig iron from the
IRON first six months of last year.
the total six months prod
RUSSIA. uct being Sc, 10000 pools:
S6.000 600 pools of steel hillets
were pro2Uced: increase Of 10000 pools.
and 100000 pools Of finished iron and
steel. an increase Of 20ooOoo pools At the
close Of the half year there were 236 blast
furnaces at work
II is hoped by some sanguine scientific
authorities that by the use Of what are
known as M rays. one of the latest dis
coveries along
the line Of ra- VIEWING THE
dio-activity and
the 'X'' or Roen- BRAIN AT WORK.
tgen rays II may
soon be possible 10 literally see the~work
Of the brain in thinking reflected in a
phosporescent chart Rut the fondest
dreams OF science can hardly anticipate
the visual representation Of quality in
thought. The brain may be seen at work
but whether Z studies astronomy or
plunCes down into crime VIII hardly be
indicated by any marvel Of physical dem
onsTatior.
FRENCH HOUSEWIVES THRIFT.
The well known thrift Of the French