Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-12-10
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The nquefaction Of gela TN 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 1847, exhibits a variation of
light resembling that Of the new aster-
Did Eros, which was discovered in 1898.
Te 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
tmal recently added to the collection of
the New York Geological Park, the
blue gnu. 1t has been said to have
the tail and hind quarters of a horse,
the legs of deer, the neck and horns
of a buffalo. and a nondescript head
which gives 1t 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 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
tho ratio Of chlorine to bromine in the
Dead Sea is the same as in the Med
tterranean.
The perspectartigraph is an ingen-
tous instrument with which Otto Eich-
enberger. Of Geneva, makes 1t easy for
the amateur artist to give accurate per-
spectve to landscapes or drawings of
any objects. A folding box opens to
form a table. and near the top of its
eItensible sides telescope is so
mounted that as 1t is moved about in
following the details OF any view a
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 upon
the paper by sliding up and down in
a suitable holder. Beautiful drawings
are made with little or no practice, and
specimen work exhibited includes a
pauorduh VI tue Alps ana view or
Geneva.
1t Is reported from Canadian sources
that the government Of the Province of
Ontario is considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of withdrawing from sale or lease the
as yet unsold nickel lands within its
territory, and reserving them for the
use Of the British imperial government
in the manufacture of armor plate and
guns. The Ontario nickel deposits, and
those of the island of New Caledonia
a French penal colony in the South
Pacific Ocean, are at present the
worlds most prolific sources of nickel.
The metal is not widely distributed.
But in Austria a process has been dis
covered for the manufacture of bronze.
which is said to be equal to nickel
steel for making great guns, and the
Austrian government has decided to
continue the use of bronze instead of
nickel-steel for that purpose.