The new age., 1907-01-05
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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 a circum-
ference of fully twenty-five Inches.
The average adult hat Is fully 6A
size. The sizes of mems hats are 6A
and CTS generally. The professors Of
Scottish colleges generally wear 76 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 it 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 Paris with cherries and other fruits
frequently carry for sale a 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 Enclosed In pretty
little cage formed of fine metallic chains
almost touching each other, and held
rigid by metallic rings above and be-
low, Is the very latest thing In lethal
chambers. It's destined victim Is the
mosquito. BY this nyention-recent,y
shown to the savants of the Paris acad-
emy by NJ Chaulin-tne insect is pleas
antly attracted to its doom. An unseen
alternating electric current passing
through the chains kills ii as it endeav-
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
ually above the waves. preserves them
from erosion at the top and enables
vegetation and certain animal forms of
terrestrial character 10 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 bailt 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 a distance some of
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
penhagen, an interesting effort to aid |
the fishermen of the Baltic by prevent
ing the migration Of cells 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
of such barrier depends upon the fact /
that the eels migrate only during the /
dark hours. Accordingly, as soon is
darkness begins. In the season Of MI
grafton, the lamps are illuminated, and
thus wall of light Is interposed from