The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-06-10
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Bees are attracted to flowers by the {
bright colors. The experiments OF q
Miss ]. Very, a Belgian naturalist. :
prove that perfume has much less at
traction, and that honey has none at
all. (
Scopolamine, the new anaesthetic
from japanese plant, is administered
by hypodermic Injection and induces a
deep sleep for eight or nine hours. 1t
Is claimed to have absolutely no after
effects.
China has just granted its 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-
2 Gently come to the conclusion that the
: solidihcation OF the moon extends from
! the surface to the center, and not. as
/ the American scientists think, from
' the center to the periphery. This view
T. would modify various existing the
. cries. Their conclusion IS drawn from
h the examination Of photographs exc
"a cuted at the observatory for reproduc-
|, ton in the new lunar atlas.
" The British postofice has entered
,e into an agreement with the Marconi
II company whereby messages are now
h. received at any telegraph office in the
United Kingdom for transmission
10 from the wireless coast stations to
n ships at sea fitted out with the Mar
ia conf apparatus. The cost is sixpence
- word, but no message consisting Of
No less than twelve words is accepted
- making the minimum cost for a mes
~, sage 6s. Cd. No one can use a wire
no less telegraph system In Great Britain
,re without authorization BY the postmas
=. ter-general.
~ A gramophone which, 1t Is said, cal
49, be heard at distance Of three miles
- late invention. The instrument
- named the auxetophone and is worke
'O by means Of compressed air. This
pumped in by small engine at a pre-
" sure which can be adjusted up to ovs
'ea eight pounds, through a small yalv
io'i which takes the place Of the ordinal
'Ns diaphragm, into the trumpet. II
valve consists Of a number Of sms
slots, covered with a fine comb, n
unlike a mouth organ, and the vibr
ton Of this comb produces the SCUM
On a calm, MINDLESS day 1t is es
mated that, with a high pressure, L
record could be distinctly heard thr
miles away.
The ability Of some Of the most 4
mute Of the earth's inhabitants to pl
duce striking changes on the face
the land, which Darwin showed W
characteristic Of earth worms, has
Gently been appealed to In attempt
2 to account for the curious natu
mounds seen In Louisiana, Arkani
and Texas. The creatures to VIII
agency these mounds are provisions
ascribed are white ants, or termi
o"n' supposed to have abounded In
south central United States at SC
former period, when a warmer
moister climate prevailed there.
Cuba, the alta, or leaf-cutting a
at present build mounds ten or tive
feet high. and in western Texas q
mounds are sometimes forty or
feee in diameter, although only on
two feet in height. The ant theor
regarded by Mr.. A. s. veatch as, u
the whole, preferable to the sug
lions which have been made that
.ere, mounds in question were for
either by springs and gas vents o.
the action OF the wind