The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1906-08-30

just about the time when the Galsp-
agos Islands we're discovered BY this
Spanish. not quite 400 years ago. a
| tortoise was born Tiers The same tor
soise died a week or two ago In the
London geological gardens.
II edors were solid particles. they
would tend TO form nuclei Of cloudy
condensation In supersaturated air Dr.
John Aifken has tested musk and twen-
ty-three other odorous substances with
out finding such nuclei. and be con
cludes that odorx are gaseous and that
smell has gas as liza fundamental basis.
The highest kAfe ascent was lately
made at Lindenberg. Prussia. loo
feet being reached. with six attached
kites and sixteen thousand yards OF
wire The temperature fell sgom ~
degrees at the surface 20 10 degrees
below zero: the wind eighteen miles
at surfaee-was nfty-slx miles an hour
at highest point
Ones hair. 1 never cut. would fur
nish a record Of his health during life.
This Is the interesting discovery Of
Matsura. Japanese Psychologist. who
shows that the hair-iike the finger
nails grows smaller In disease. and
that the duration Of the mnlndy mar be-
estimated from the length Of the thsn-
ner section Of the hairs. The variations
are most striking Ia the coarse haired
races Of people.
Dr. Lindsay johnson. the celebrated
cpthaImologist. says that the dos has
two ancestors. one round eyed. the 9th.
sr ovateyed- The frst Is the hyena,
the second the bear. through the rae
room. All dogs descend from these AMI. |
mails. The corpus niger. or black 4
body Of pigment In the eye Of the
horse. which has puzzled veterinarians.
and biologists so much.
provides. through the opshalmoscupe.
! new means OF tracing the ancestry
nd relationship OF the horse. IL is
be same eye curtain that Is found In
ropieai animals-the onagcr. the camel
nd the anticipation protection from
uniight
A recent British scientific expedition
discovered that in the Indian Ocean
Ioating LIFE Ia exceedingly abundant
4 all depths down TO about 7 200 feet
n seas 1900 feet deep. by coating
lie is meant animals which form the
God Of whales and deep ocean nsh.
nd which, up TO the present. have been
w1 60 lee. IL. 4
urfaee. A variety of enormous squids
rere ssbsd out. as well as fol.
fish. and prawns fully six inches
ing. Some Of these latter were
lind. while others had huge eyes. but
early all OF them had phosphorescsnt
rgans. which would naturally be due
, the fact that they live at a depth
here almost total darkness prevails.
be blind varieties had enormous feel.
70 of antennae. some Of them extend.
IL to twice the length OF their bodies.
Prof. Dewar has found that thu
over OF charcoal to absorb gases Il
sstiy Increased at very low tesnpera-
Tres, 30 that 1t can be employed for
shausting incandescent lamp bulbx
nj Crookes tubes. and also for sonar.
Ing mixed gases. Experiment has
own that the freezing point OF water
I'd at normal atmospheric pressure / q
am OF charcoal absorbs cubic cent?
ssers Of hydrogen, and is cubic cent?
eters of oxygen. but that at -fs2 :,
grees G.. the temperature Of boiling
r. gram of charcoal absorbs rs5
bic csntineters of hydrogen and $50
bi csntimeters OF oxygen. when D
veral gases are mixed. the charcoal
Serbs some OF them much more free =
than others, 20 that by multiplying a.
. operation gases can be separated IL
om mixtures In sufficient quantity
r Industrial uses.