Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-03
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During the nineteenth century fifty
| two new islands rose from the sea by
volcanic action and sixteen disap-
peared.
According to an expert in phrenology
the average adult head has circum-
ference of fully twenty-five inches
! The average adult hat Is fully 634
size. The sizes of mems hats are ga
and 67s generally. The professors or
Scottish colleges generally wear rs TO
! s sizes.
A new variety of cigarette has been
put up for sale in the French govern
ment tobacco shops. 1t is guaranteed
free from nicotine. Opinions vary as
to the merits of the new weed. Many
! inveterate smokers declare that 1t con-
| sists merely of ordinary tobacco boiled
to get rid Of the nicotine. They add
that with the poison the aroma has also
vanished,
The peddlers with carts who supply
the occupants of villas in the environs
OF L dEIS Will ClCI lltS anu OtAiNA AA''iNN
frequently carry for sale few small
turtles They are purchased by the
inhabitants of the villas to be placed
in their gardens, where they are be-
lieved to serve as very effective aids
to the gardener by preventing the raw
ages of the insects and other small
creatures which are accustomed to do
much damage to the flower beds and
borders.
An electric lamp inclosed In a pretty
little cage formed of fine metallic chains
almost touching each other, and held
rigid by metallic rings above and be
chambers. Its destined victim is the
mosquito. BY this nvention-recent,y
shown to the sayants of the Paris acad
emy by NJ. Chaulin-the insect Is pleas
antly attracted to its doom. An unseen
alternating electric current passing
through the chains kills it as it endeav
ors TO investigate the attractive lumi-
nous object inside.
According to the Investigations Of
Monsieur Seurat among the Pacific ISL
ands. there is a slow elevation going on
there, which, by lifting the reefs grad
uallv above the waves. preserves them
from erosion at the top, and enables
vegetation and certain animal forms of
n terrestrial character to exist there
This is quite In opposition to Darwin's
idea that the atolls were formed by the
gradual submergenCe Of small islands,
that the cOral-insectS built up encircling
reefs as the islands sank. Monsieur
Seurat shows that the elevation of the
islands is a general phenomenon, but
variable in amount, some islands. like
Aukena in the Gambler archipelago, |
rising rapidly, and Others very slowly.
Both the fora and the fauna of these |
islands are confined to very few species. !
although seen from distance some Qf |
them appear very rich IN vegetation.
The Danish government has recently |
begun. under the direction of Mr. Pc |
tersen of the Biological Station at Co !
an interesting effort 10 aid |
the fishermen of the Baltic by prevent |
ing the migration Of eels from that sea |
into the ocean. The means employed IS
A barrier of light" formed by placing
fifty electric lamps along a submerged
cable between the island of Fano and |
the coast of Funen. The effectiveness
IF such Il barrier depends upon the fact
that the eels migrate only during the
lark hours. Accordingly, as soon is
darkness begins in the season of mi
grafton. the lamps are Illuminated. and
.hus wall OF light is interposed from