The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-01-12
hIxAnScienCe
sll1vention

Recording bird, nigrations, Otto !
Herman, Hungarian ornithologist,
10 surprised to find that swallows take /
1O6 days to complete their passing
from Gibraltar to Lulea, in Sweden.
That electricity is soon to replace
the manual labor of the housemaid is
the prediction of Col. r. z. Crompton,
the English electrician. 1t is capable
Of washing dishes, kneading dough,
chopping meat and even doing the
family washing, as well as many other
things. The use Of the motor to COM
press air may give cold storage
room for every mans house. Domes-
ened and electric lighting companies
are profiting by selling current for day
use at reduced price.
At a recent meeting Of the Torrey
Botanical Club in New York, DR.. G. 8.
eager reported the results Of expert.
ments with the action Of radium on
growing seeds. 1t was found that the
rays act as a stimulus, varying in in
tensity with their strength as well as
with the thickness of the seed coats
and the amount of intervening moist
SOIL If the stimulus is not pushed
beyond a certain limit, termination
and subsequent growth are accelerat
ed. Above that limit the results are
unfavorable. The growth of plants is
retarded, and may be stopped, by plac-
ing them in an atmosphere containing
the emanation of radium, such as may
be drawn from a cylinder lined with
Lieber's coating.
Ingenuity was manifested to a nota-
BILE degree In Spain and France at the
time Of the solar eclipse of Aug. 30.
The shop windows in Madrid, Paris
and other towns were filed with q
great variety of devices for viewing
the passage Of the moon across the
suns disk without danger to the OBJ
servers eyes. There were black glass
spectaeles, black glass monocles, black
glasses set in pasteboard handles of
20 different forms, and also devices
for viewing the phenomenon by re-
lection. But the people made many
contrivances of their own. such as pin.
holes through paper, or through the
tops Of Derby hats. Some viewed the
eclipse In the streets or on the roofs
by reflection from pals or pans Of
water to reduce the glare, and some
saw it through cambria handkerchief.
Or thin umbrella tops. The book shop!
abounded with paper-bound treatise'
on eclipses.
!, Airship travel seems to be alread.
popular. W. de Fonvielle estimate
that seven or eight hundred balloon
. voyages are now made annually, an
!, states that the members of the Frencl
q Aero Club alone made more than tw
;. hundred last year. Tie forms an
n colors Of the clouds. the brightness an
the new views of the earth give a woI
derful charm to sky automobilint
This IL increased at night, and Camill
Flammarion, whose wedding trip wa
- made in a balloon, has expressed hi
= surprise at the splendor Of the light
~ Of a great city-in this case Paris-a
well as at the brilliancy of the col
!. stellations. The number of the star
- Is unbelievable, the dog star become
as bright as Venus, while some {
= the nebulae appear like gas jets. TIL
shooting stars are terrifying. The
explosions seem to be heard, and TIL
may be really true, as the balloon act
like a gigantic ear, trumpet, an
catches such earthly sounds as tn
whistling Of locomotives and barkin
Of dogs. Hygienically the complete r.
newal Of the air in the lungs is a d
lightful sensation.