Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-14
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Bees are attracted to flowers by the
bright colors. The experiments of
Miss J. Very, a Belgian naturalist,
prove that perfume has much less at
traction, and that honey has none at
all.
Scopolamine, the new anaesthetic
from a Japanese plant, is administered
by hypodermic injection and induces
deep sleep for eight or nine hours. 1t
Is claimed to have absolutely no after
effects.
China has just granted it's first pat
ent. 1t is for an electric lamp, the in
ventor Of which is an inhabitant Of
Nankin, the old capital of the Chinese
empire, who calls his lamp the bright
moonlight and asserts that it is far
superior to foreign glow lights that
hitherto have been sold at Shanghai
and other Chinese cities.
Certain French astronomers have re-
Gently come to the conclusion that the
qualification of the moon extends from
the American scientists think, from
the center to the periphery. This view
would modify various existing the
cries. Their conclusion is drawn from
the examination of photographs exc
cuted at the observatory for reproduc-
ton in the new lunar atlas.
The British postoffice has entered
into an agreement with the Marconi
company whereby messages are now
received at any telegraph office in the
United Kingdom for transmission
from the wireless coast stations to
ships at sea fitted out with the Mar
conf apparatus. The cost is sixpence
word, but no message consisting Of
less than twelve words is accepted,
making the minimum cost for a mes
sage 6s. Cd. No one can use a wire
less telegraph system in Great Britain
without authorization by the postmas-
ter-general.
A gramophone which, it is said, can
be heard at distance of three miles Is
late invention. The instrument is
named the auxetophone and is worked
by means Of compressed air. This is
pumped In by small engine at a pres
sure which can be adjusted up to over
eight pounds, through small valve,
which takes the place of the ordinary
diaphragm, into the trumpet. The
valve consists Of a number of small
slots, covered with fine comb. not
unlike mouth organ, and the vibra-
ton Of this comb produces the sound.
On calm, MINDLESS day it is esti-
mated that, with high pressure, the
record could be distinctly heard three
miles away.
The ability Of some of the most mi
mute Of the earth's inhabitants to pro-
duce striking changes on the face of
the land, which Darwin showed was
characteristic Of earth worms, has re-
Gently been appealed to in attempting
to account for the curious natural
mounds seen In Louisiana, Arkansas
and Texas. The creatures to whose
agency these mounds are Professionally
ascribed are white ants, or termites,
supposed to have abounded in the
south central United States at some
former period, when a warmer and
moister climate prevailed there. In
Cuba, the alta, or leaf-cutting ants,
at present build mounds ten or twelve
feet high, and in western Texas their
mounds are sometimes forty or fifty
feee in diameter, although only one or
two feet in height. The ant theory is
regarded by Mr.. A. S. Veatch as, upon
the whole, preferable to the sugges-
lions which have been made that the
mounds in question were formed
either by springs and gas vents, or by