Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
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India, has been investigating beriber
and has come to the conclusion thai
the Immediate cause Of that disease Il
20 be found In race which has under
gone certain changes connected witt
the development upon it Of a mold OF
fungus. His experiments on fowls and
monkeys confirm this conclusion.
GraVitation is explained by the new
theory Of w. A. Nippoldt as due to the
motion Of matter having the tenuity
usually assigned to the ether. All mat
ter is in motion, and the smaller the
aggregation the greater Is the maxi
mum velocity. Open space contains
very minute particles in rapid motion
in all directions. The particles are
small enough to pass between the
molecules Of ordinary b'eaSes, and they
are stopped or reflected "a proportion
to the mass of the body bombarded
Two bodies in space shield each other
on one side, being thus apparently at.
tracted.
An engineer who viewed the recent
eclipse Of the sun from his station IN
Malta thus describes the effect Of the
darkness on the Inhabitants of that isl
and: THE Maltese nearly went mad
with fright, thinking the world was
coming to an end. All the people in
the village where am living ran into
the church, while some rang the church
bells and some even fred or large
SQuibs (SOmething Of the firework tribe.
l mean), but 1t was all over in about
q quarter of an hour and then the Nal.
teSe left the church and made their
way back to their houses, still looking
very much scared"
Experiments aimed at developing the
resistance of brass to the action of sea-
water, with a view to its employment
for constructing submarines in France.
have shown some remarkable results
from the addition Of aluminium. The
internal structure Of the alloy is strIk-
ingly changed by a very small percent
age Of aluminium, and the color chang
es are surprising. From half of / per
cent up to per cent of aluminium
gives the brass a deep golden color.
II the quantity Of aluminium is in
creased beyond 8 per cent a superb
rose-colOr" results, which reaches its
maximum when the aluminium
amounts to Z per cent. With 10 per
cent Of aluminium the color turns to a
sllvery white.
According to information sent to the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
the swarming population Of China has
failed to appreciate one Of the greatest
sources of wealth of that country
namely, its vast areas of hillside and
mountain land suitable for grazing cat
tie, sheep and horses. They use the
'rees for lumber and the brushwoo5
for fuel, apparently without thinking
Of the immense pasturages which the
luxNriant growth of grass would sup
ply. 1t is thought that this may be
due in part to the prohibition of meat
eating by Buddha, but at present al
most all classes of Chinese eat meat
whenever they can get it. On the 9TH
er hand, fisheries of all kinds have
been carefully developed in China.
The surface of the dry land sinks II
a level below that Of the ocean in siA
places, viz: The Salton Basin in San
Diego County and Death Valley in
Inyo County, CAL; the Valley of the
Jordan in Palestine, where the Dead
Sea is nearly thirteen hundred feet
below sea level; two small areas in the
Sahara Desert of Northern Africa and
larger than all others together.-the
Valley of the Caspian Sea in Western
Asia, which is eighty-slx feet lower
than the Black Sea. The Salton Basin,
once connected directly with the Gulf
Of California, has been gradually
closed in by silt from the Colorado
River. A complete barrier was form
ed at last, shutting or the basin from
both gulf and river, and separating a
AXE that soon disappeared through |
In times Of heavy rains |
the silt Is sometimes cut through, |
though only at long intervals. The |
last flooding in this way was in 1891 |
%, but in the spring of this year the
opening OF an irrigation canal left a |
preach, through which the summer |
iood has poured a lake of many square |
niles With the foothold gained this
lew body Of water may remain long |
:ime before sitting and evaporation |
lgain leave a dry basin.