The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-03-11
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London produces ten lunatics per
day; New York nearly as many, with
greater proportionate increase
The self-lighting Bunsen burner of
German chemist depends upon the
lgniting effect of a pellet of palladium
sponge, which is passed over the es-
Gaping gas as the tap is opened.
Over-fatigue is regarded by DR.. Bur
CONTAINING as the determining cause
of 10 per cent Of his cases of pulmo-
nary consumption. Even a single ex-
cess-as unusual bicycling, climbing,
hunting, or even dancing or tennis
may bring into activity unsupported
latent tuberculosis.
The statement is generally made that
the principal geysers of the Yellow
stone Park greatly exceed in size and
power all others in the world. j. A.
Ruddick, now of Ottawa, Canada, con-
tradicts this, and says that the Wal
mangu Geyser in New Zealand far ex-
ceeds in proportions anything describ-
ed in the Yellowstone region. Mr..
Ruddick has never himself seen Wal
mangu in action, but has often wit
messed the eruptions of the geysers
called Fairoa and Pohotu, the former
sometimes playing to height of more
than 200 feet.
The curious electric heater of NJ. Ca
mile Herrgott consists of conducting
wires woven into carpets and other
fabrics, and it is designed to give a
7 4.oI-v s.~I, frr- 70 hp
fiber-hemp, cotton, linen or silk. 1t
does not affect the pliability or appear
ance Of the material. 1t is claimed
that the heater is perfectly safe, and
that the wires cannot be raised above
a certain temperature. The arrange
ment can be applied to many purposes
Carpets, rugs, etc, can be kept at the
temperature of the body or higher
and dry or wet medical applications
can be kept easily at $50 deg. G. II
the industries numerous uses are sug
gested, as in filters for fatty or gelat
nous matters, and for warming car
riages or trains, etc.
New materials from which paper cal
be made are continually found. Re
Gently in our Southern States yellow
pine waste has been successfully man
ufactured into that universal sub
stance without which so many fea
lures of modern civilization coul,
hardly survive. Fine paper can b
made of corn stalks and of rice straw
In addition to spruce whose useful
ness in paper-making has caused grea
uneasiness concerning the ultimate fat
of the beautiful White Mountain TO
ests, marsh pine, fir, aspen, birch swee
gum, cottonwood, maple, cypress an
. willow trees all contain fiber suitabl
. for the manufacture of paper. HEM
. cotton, jute, Indian millet and othe
, fibrous plants can also be used fc
; this purpose, so that there seems to
no danger of a dearth of paper.
h Major Powell Cotton's expedition
1 Eastern Equatorial Africa resulted
a. the discovery of six tribes of men pr
"a viously unknown to the civilized worl
r. One of these tribes is known to 1
" neighbors by the name of the M
n gicians. The Magicians dwell on Il
n high lands halfway between Lake r
Ia dolph and Lake Albert, and their v
20 lagos consist of two-story houses bui
70 of waffle, and grouped together on Il
N upper slopes of the hills. They i
"a spire great awe among the dwelle
to in the valleys below, although the Ia
ter outnumber them a thousand to or
in Their formidable reputation appears
It: be based upon their superior intel
at gence. None of the new tribes disco
vo cred by Major Powell-Cotton had ev
n" met white man, and they treat
~ their visitors in a friendly manner.