The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-09-12
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Excavations in Rome being conducted
on the Palatine hill have shown GU
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 a 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-that 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 hlberna-
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
| hlbernators have been found to do.
Says Secretary James Wilson of the
Department of Agriculture: "For
years the department has been dlstrlb-
uting camphor-tree seed and thousands
of trees are now growing throughout
the south and Pacific coast States.
Two years ago 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 1000
acres in Florida, from which 1t hopes
to make camphor. This Arm uses more
than $4,000 worth of camphor every
year.
In recent lecture on Victor Hugo,
Jean Richepin declared that when
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 its
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 yiyidly /
in the poets mind.
1t 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 its electrizatlon viii
guide the government in dealing with
the mode of traction on the other rail 4
roads of the Prussian system. In the
a great generating station
has been Installed for the production
Of the electric power used in towing
boats on the fellow Canal, one of the
most important waterways of Prussia.
All over the world the bison has be-
,ome a comparatively rare animal, only
Kept in existence by government pro-
ection. Russia possesses two races of
,ison, which recent writer's aver are
ESSENTIALLY Identical, although one is
ound in the northwest and the other
llong the extreme southern limits of
Russia in Europe The southern is |
he celebrated bison of the Caucasus, I
md at present the Grand Duke Serge !
1ikailoyitch alone possesses the right c
o hunt 1t, a privilege which he may
Xtend to his chosen friends. But
instead of killing the animals the
rand duke carefully guards them.
he bison is naturally an inhabitant
f the plains, but has taken refuge
n the mountains from the pursuit of :
nan.