Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-06-04
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The liquefaction of gelatin in old |
canned meats has been found by Dr. |
Grixoni to be due to bacteria. AS ami |
mails were poisoned both by injection |
and feeding, he concludes that canned
meats that splash on being shaken are
dangerous unless boiled before use.
The Harvard Observatory announces
the discovery, by Professor Wendell,
that the asteroid Iris, which was first
seen in 1S47, exhibits a variation Of
light resembling that of the new aster-
old Eros, which was discovered in 1898.
re periodic change in the light of Iris
takes place in about six hours, and
amounts to two or three-tenths of q
magnitude, which is much less than
the amount of change exhibited by
Eros.
A new method of producing artificial
respiration is claimed by Professor
Shafer, of Edinburg, to be much more
effective in cases of drowning and as
phyXiation than any other. Placing
the subject in a prone position, the OPP
orator applies pressure with his hands
to the lower ribs, and repeats this
about thirteen times a minute by
swinging himself backward and for
ward. The common moving the sub
ject's arms is condemned as of little
value.
This descriptive phrase is suggested
by the grotesque appearance Of an an
imal recently added to the collection of
the New York Geological Park, the
blue gnu 1t has been said to have
the legs of a deer, the neck and horns
of q buffalo, and q nondescript head
which gives 1t a most fantastic look.
The oddly of its appearance is in
creased by the extraordinary postures
1t assumes when disturbed. 1t comes
from South Africa.
The old question of the origin Of
the extreme sadness of the Dead Sea
has received a new answer. William
Ackroyd, after showing that the soil
and rocks can have furnished but a
fraction of the quantity of salt that
has collected in the Dead Sea basin,
proceeds to argue that the most i'm
portant source of supply of this salt
is atmospheric transportation by winds
from the Mediterranean. This view he
thinks is confirmed by the fact that
the ratio of chlorine to bromine in the
Dead Sea is the same as In the Med
iterranean.
The perspectartigraph is an ingen-
ious instrument with which Otto Eich
enberger, of Geneva, makes 1t easy fol-
the amateur artist to give accurate per
spective to landscapes or drawings OF
any objects. A folding box opens tC
form a table, and near the top Of its
extensible sides a telescope Is 81
mounted that as 1t is moved about II
following the details of any view {
pencil is made to draw a correspond
ing line on a sheet of paper beneath
Crossed hairs in the telescope give pre-
cision, while the pencil is kept upol
the paper by sliding up and down il
a suitable holder. Beautiful drawing
are made with little or no practice, AM
specimen work exhibited includes
panorama of the Alps and a view o
Geneva.
1t is reported from Canadian source
that the government of the Province O
Ontario is considering the advisabilit
of withdrawing from sale or lease tn
as yet unsold nickel lands within 1t
territory, and reserving them for tn
use or the BrlCSn Imperial BONernnen
in the manufacture of armor plate an
guns. The Ontario nickel deposits, an
those of the island of New Caledonia
French penal colony in the Sout
Pacific Ocean, are at present I'll
worlds most prolific sources of nicke
The metal is not widely distributes
But in Austria process has been di
covered for the manufacture of bronz
which is said to be equal to nicke
steel for making great guns, and II
Austrian government has decided
continue the use of bronze instead
nickel-steel for that purpose.
n. L.