Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-04-20
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"A gorilla which measured seven
feet six inches In height and four feet
In width across the shoulders has been
shot In northern Africa.
Two weights suspended from a bar
form London scientific novelty. When
one weight is pulled down and released
1t vibrates up and down for q little
time, when 1t suddenly stops and the
second weight begins to bob up and
down. This soon stops, the first then
resuming its motion.
The probable existence of q large
planet beyond Neptune was pointed
out by Prof. George Forbes a quarter
Of a century ago. His theory was
based on the orbits of comets, but he
has since noted perturbations of Nep-
tune that seem likely In q few years
to give good idea Of the position Of
this unknown body.
A new Industry, the making Of mat
tresses and pillows of sponge, has been
started in Florida. The sponge ma
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by a scrubbing process in large tanks
Of water, then run through wringers,
and the drying continued by subjecting
1t to a cold-air blast. 1t Is then
shredded by machinery, sterilized and
rendered odorless by chemical treat
ment and subjected again to cold-air
drying, when 1t is ready to use.
Some fine specimens Of Chinese
sounding stones have been described
by late visitor at Ch'ufu, the birth
place and burial-place Of Confucius.
An incense dish Of stone rang with
the bell-like tone Of bronze on being
struck with a stick, two pillars gave
out musical note on being struck at
any point, and a large tablet-three by
five feet in area and six inches thick
emitted a note varying with the point
struck. These 'stone gongs" are found
throughout the country, having been
known for centuries. The material is
grayish oolitic limestone, and it is
said to come only from occasional veins
at a quarry few miles from Ch'ufu.
Yawning is beneficial. 1t serves the
purpose of lung ventilation. The lungs
are not filed or exhausted by ordi-
nary respiration. There is a certain
quantity Of air which Psychologists
call residual air left in the recesses
Of the lungs after the ordinary respir-
alton. This In time becomes vitiated
and affects the blood, and, through it,
the nervous centers. The result Is a
yawn, which is really a stretching of
the respiratory chamber to its fullest
capacity and the filling of it with fresh
ly inspired air, which drives the vitiat-
ed air out. Yawning also opens, stretch
es and vehtilates the vocal, nasal and
auditory chambers in immediate con-
nection with the mouth.
Paris hardly knows what to make
Of the weird Cooper-Hewitt mercury
yapor lamp. A newspaper correspon-
dent writes of it: ''The motor garages
and agencies have, of course, adopted
it, but mineral-water dealers, tallors
and fish shops have been even with
them, and in all their windows the
fierce, unmistakable blush light glows
The opera house, too, has adopted it.
A first look at it makes one think of
Crookes tubes and X-rays, and leaves
a doubt whether it Is not the very
light which to some seems green and
to others violet. 1t has, indeed, been
called violet and green, but, in popu-
lar opinion 1t is mixture. 1t makes
the best complexion look CHASTITY"
In that region of the Sahara Desert
called the Oued Souf, in the extreme
southeastern part Of Algeria, there ex-
lists highly developed system Of date
palm culture, in spite Of the facts
that the face of the land consists of
sand-dunes, that the rainfall Is prac-
tically nothing, and that irrigation Is
impractlcable. The date-palm gardens
lie In the hollows among the sand
dunes, where, although there are no
springs and no running water, the
ground water lies at az depth Of only
a few feet The roots Of the palms
reach down to the moisture, and thus
the spectacle is produced Of groves of
fruitful palms growing in the midst
Of a desert Of pure sand. The solar
heat is so great that the hollows are
are like forcing-houseS. 1t Is suggest
ed that the Salton basin, and other hot,
arid regions of our Southwestern coun-
try, present conditions favorable to q
similar culture.
HER ElGHTY-SlXTH.