The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-03-23
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A faint luminous mist In the bull
Z and on the fingers has been noted b
Professor Sommers on rubbing electrl
light bulbs that have been not long |
! use. No satisfactory explanation ha
been given.
/ The layer Of the sea taken I'D by th
clouds each year is now estimated q
fourteen feet in thickness. The wind
carry the clouds to land, where tn
water falls as rain, to find its wa,
in due time back to the ocean.
Late statistics show that Spaniart
lives less than two-thirds as long al
Norwegian. The average duration O
life Is, In Norway, 80 years; England
40; Belgium, A; Switzerlnd, A
France, 43; Austria, 80; Germany, 80
Italy, 80, and Bavaria, 80.
A remarkable effect of le-drivins
was lately observed at Rotterdam. On
withdrawing some piles that had been
rammed through quick-sand by $50 to
two hundred strokes per minute, the
points were found to be charred BY
friction and they ignited spontaneously
on contact with the air.
A new sugar plant from South Amer
lea, which has been named eupatorium
rebandium, Is pronounced by Beroni,
the German chemist, to be Of great in
dustrial value. 1t grows from eight
to ten Inches high and Is found to con-
tain from twenty to thirty times as
much saccharine matter as sugar-ca
or the beet.
A physician writes of the effect of
London's smoky atmosphere upon the
human lungs: 1.-THE coal miners lung
is black, the lung Of the Eskimo is a
pearly white, the lung of the Londoner
Is rich gray. Natural selection
evolves beings adapted to meet all sorts
OF natural circumstances-amon which
carbon-laden atmosphere is not in
cluded. Such an atmosphere is a prod
uct Of mans own stupidity and nature
has had no chance of protecting him
against its consequences"
Birmingham, England, Is having
trouble with its new water supply. The
water is soft" The city's health
board has warned hardware dealers
and manufacturers that galvanized
kettles and utensils are dangerous. as
the zinc coating is quickly dissolved by
The water. Birmingham plumbers say
that their business has increased i'm
nensely since the new water arrived.
Il seems to have no great effect on
'rass taps. but leap pipes and cisterns
ire eaten away much faster than be-
ore.
Readers Of the late Paul du Chaillu's
raFeis still recall with many a thrill
'1vid descriptions Of encounters with
ne gorilla In its native forests. But
zone OF the monsters seen by him could
e compared with a gorilla recently
not on the shores Of the river sangha.
: French Congo. which measured no
ess than seven feet six and three-quar-
er inches In height. The substantial
ccuracy Of this measurement seems
be established by photographs that
ave been sent to Europe. Prof. e. T.
lamy, the French antnropologist
links that this specimen indicates a
ew race, II not a new species. Of
orilla.
Gradually all the great rivers are
cling harnessed for the great advance
lat the mechanical powers under the
'ntrol Of man are destined to make
lring the twentieth century. In the
ature Of the case, those rivers whose
pper courses are marked by manv
aterfails possess the greatest avail
'le power. Recent calculations by
avarian engineers show that the
anube is capable of developing. TO- [
ther with its Alpine tributaries. a
tie less than 100000 horse power.
MS applies only to that part of the
Ver's course lying in Bavaria. ONLY I
O,OOO horse power could be effectively {
ilized, and only $4,000 has as vet
en- developed. The principal uses t
und for water power in the Alps ara c
mountain railroads, and for electro J
emical and electrometallurgical in a