The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-10

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ors colors. The experiments -
MISS J. Very, a Belgian natnrs,,s :.
prove that perfume has much ,... :.
all. none az
Scopolamfne, the new anaa.th.+,,
from Japanese plant is administerad
~ nypodermic injection ana indnca. :
ueep sleep for eight or nine hours r
Is claimed to have absolutely no after
effects. ~ aiter
emma has just granted II. t,rst MT.
~. - - TOT an electric lamp, the in
ventor OF which is an inhabitant q,
Nankln' the old capital Of the Chinese
empire who calls his lamp the Upright
moonlight" and asserts that II ia far
superior to foreign glow lights that
nitnerto have been sold at Shanghai
and other Chinese cities.
Certain French astronomers have "a
cently come to the conclusion that tho
soild1hcation Of the moon extends from
the surface to the center, and not. as
tne american scientists think. from
the center to the periphery. This view
would modify various existing tho.
cries. Their conclusion is drawn from
the examination of photographs eye
cuceo at the observatory for reproduc-
uon IN the new lunar atlas.
The British postofice 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
q word, but no message consisting Of
less than twelve words is accepted.
making the minimum cost for A mes
sage Is. 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
De heard at distance Of three miles Is
late invention. The instrument ia
named tho 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 a small valve,
which takes the place Of the ordinary
diaphragm, into the trumpet. The
valve consists Of a number Of small
slots, covered with a fine comb, not
unlike a mouth organ, and the yibra-
ton OF this comb produces the sound.
On calm, MINDLESS day it is esti-
mated that, with a 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-
tons which have been made that the
mounds In question were formed
either by springs and gas vents, or by
the action of the wind.