Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-07
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The sounds emitted by telegraph and
telephone wires have been subject
of study by f. Book, who claims to
have made it possible to forecast local
weather conditions one or more days
ahead from the humming. Observa-
tons are made at IL a. III. and p. m.
The snails sense of smell has been
located in the horns by some observ-
ers, but authorities quite as good have
regarded this conclusion as incorrect.
M. Young, who has been making ex-
periments to settle the matter, now
claims to have proven that the snail's
nose is distributed over the entire
body.
The new motor forge of the United
States army is a vehicle 1917 feet long,
driven by "a horsepower gasoline en-
CINE, and carrying oil for travelling 800
miles at 10 to u miles an hour. 1t is
fitted with a small machine shop,
blacksmith's shop and saddler's shop,
while it carries spare parts likely to be
needed by light battery on the march.
An auxiliary engine on one side ope-
rates a dynamo, lathe and grindstone.
The deplorable summer waste of
child life, especially in crowded cities,
calls for scientific attention. A recent
medical writer claims that the cpl
demic diarrhea that proves so fatal
may be avoided by the following pre-
cautions: Q) Clean milk nipples. (O
Clean towns, with effective sewage re-
moval, dust collection and disposal and
street watering. 81 Clean homes,
with attention to food utensils, cover
ing food from dust and flies, and per-
sonal habits, and a. destruction or ex-
clusion of flies.
The brief operations of the wireless
telegraph service undertaken for the
London Times at the seat of the Russo
Japanese war, and ended by the In
reference Of the Japanese govern
ment throw much light on the detec-
tive powers of wireless telegraphy. In
this case the DeForest system was en-
ployed The land station was at Wei
, haiwei, with a mast ITO feet high. The
mast on the telegraph ship was 80
feet high. Both Russian and Japa-
I nese messages were received by the
operator, who could easily recognize
the difference in the systems employ
p ed. He could tell if a Russian ship
q was at sea by listening to the an
= swering messages from shore. He
l. could also tell whether the Japanese
z messages were transmitted from a re-
n lay base, or whether the fleet itself
K was at sea.
The question whether America or
Europe has the swifter railroad trains
J. is one the answer to which varies from
time to time with the progress of
events. According to a comparison of
schedules for this year, made by the
> Scientific American, the English and
:, French trains are at present decidedly
= ahead of our own. With the exception
- of the Empire State Express, which
!, averages $40 miles an hour, and the
Twentieth Century Limited, so miles
- it appears that we have no trains run
ming long distances comparable il
speed with many in England anC
" France. There are 80 French trains
- scheduled to run at an average speed
- of 90 miles an hour or more, and 3;
=. English trains that are equally fast
:, = Our two fast trains, it is true, go long
=, er distances and are much heavier, bu
- they have proportionally larger en-
: gines.