The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-03
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Excavations in Rome being conducted
on the Palatine hill have shown cW
rious and interesting circumstance
The Metropolis has been found to con-
tain remains Of the ninth, eighth, sixth
and fourth centuries before Christ. All
fragments of the seventh and fifth CEN
turtles are lacking and psychologists
are engaged In close study Of the field
in order to find the reason.
Nearly all bats have the faculty Of
alternating. Their Information, how
ever, is not perfect is to say,
that when the warm days occur in the
middle Of winter they wake up, to-
gether with the insects which are their
food. Still, theirs is a true hiberna-
ton trance, differing from sleep, with
very low rate Of pulse, heart action
and respiration. Probably they would
endure immersion in water for an hour
or two without drowning, as other
hibernators have been found to do.
Says Secretary James Wilson of the
Department of Agriculture: "For
years the department has been distrib-
uting camphor-tree seed and thousands
Of trees are now growing throughout
the south and Pacific coast States.
Two years ago a serious effort was
made to develop the manufacture Of
camphor from these trees. Satisfac-
tory results have been secured and a
large manufacturing concern is now
building up camphor grove of 1900
acres in Florida, from which it hopes
to make camphOr. This firm uses more
than 100000 worth of camphor every
year.
In recent lecture on Victor Hugo,
Jean Richepin declared that when a
lyric poet thinks of word there comes
into his mind, together with the crowd
Of associations that the word awakens
for other people, a great number Of
words that rhyme with the one first
thought of. Each of these brings it's
own associations of ideas, and thus the
poets mental vision of words is vastly
richer than that of persons who think
Of them only in their ordinary individ-
ual meanings. Monsieur Richepin, him.
self poet, believes also that the sound
and accent of words are always wildly
present in the poets mind.
It is expected that before the end
Of the present year electric traction
will have been applied on all the trains,
both freight and passenger, of the i'm
portant railroad between Altoona and
Kiel, in Prussia. The road is more
than 60 miles in length, and the re-
suits flowing from it's electrization will
guide the government in dealing with
the mode Of traction on the other rail-
roads Of the Prussian system. In the
meantime a great generating station
has been installed for the production
Of the electric power used in towing
boats on the Teltow Canal, one Of the
most important waterways Of Prussia.
Ali over the world the bison has be-
come comparatively rare animal, only
kept in existence by government pro-
lection. Russia possesses two races Of
bison, which recent writer's aver are
essentially Identical, although one is
found in the northwest and the other
along the extreme southern limits Of
Russia in Europe. The southern is
the celebrated bison Of the Caucasus,
and at present the Grand Duke Serge
Mikailoyitch alone possesses the right
to hunt it, a privilege which he may
extend to his chosen friends. But
instead of killing the animals, the
grand duke carefully guards them.
The bison is naturally an inhabitant
Of the plains, but has taken refuge
In the mountains from the pursuit of