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Weather. Cheap Egg Preservation
One of the most precious products
OF American soil il supplied by three
backwoods farms of Prince Edward
Island. These farms are devoted to
rearing tho very rare black fox, and
Consul John IL. Shirley, Of Charlotte
town, reports that they contain 20, 70
and 30 fixes, respectively. Priced for
royal oloaka, as it is the only fur to
which gold ornaments can be applied,
the skins sell in London for $500 to
$500 each. Ihe farm described is in
rough, broken woods country, fenced
by heavy woven wire netting, which
reaches eight feet above the ground
and two or three below. 10 ensure
the best possible fur, the foxes are
not cross bred. They sleep in hollow
trees and logs the year round, are fed
chiefly on oats and milk and bread
and milk, with a little meat once
day, and ere so wild that only their
keeper with food can get near them.
The lower atmosphere and the upper
atmosphere are believed by Prof. j.
Ham to be two very different gaseous
mixtures. At the enrth's surface the
composition is: Nitrogen, 1903;
oxygen, 20.99; argon, 0.94; carbonic
acid, DOB; hydrogen, 0.0l; neon,
0.00l5 helium, GOODS; krypton,
0.000l0. At a height Of % kilometers
(l2.43 miles) he finds the nitrogen
increased to 81. 81 per cent, with 10. 10
of oxygen. At 100 kilometers, with
probable temperature of 80 degrees
below zero Cont, the hydrogen seems
increased to 80. 40 per cent, with 0.453
of helium, and only 0.099 of nitrogen.
Sheets and tubes of pure IRON, pro-
duced by the Cowper-Colea electricity
tic process direct from the ore at
cost of S12 per ton for power, were
late interesting exhibits at a Royal
Society Conversations.
The mapping of the United States
by the Geological Survey has been in
progress since 1877, and so far some
what more than third of the country
has been surveyed, or about 1850, 900
square miles, exclusive of parts of
/ ~ - fne, ie,t rI>c
sentlug aareas, called quadrangles,
bounded by meridians of longitude
and parallels OF latitude. Maps have
been made Of about 100 quadrangles,
and have been published in sheets Of
the nearly uniform size Of II by 20
inches, but on three different scales.
The maps of mile TO. the inch aver
age about 80 square miles, those Of y
/ niles to the inch show $40 square
miles, and those of / miles to the
inch, represent 3,700 square miles.
The largo scale il nsed for deneely
populated and otherwise important
areas; tho second for uhinIy settled,
mountainous Or desert regions; and
the smallest for areas covered by re-
connaissance surveys. A special
larger scale is used for some parii-
cularly important areas. The maps
show the important natural features,
all political boundaries, routes OF
travel, cities and towns, with the
names Of the various features, and
also indicate permanent survey monu-
ments. bench marks that have been
accurately fixed, and boundaries
established IN public land surveys
or The three colors. black is used for
the chief features, brown for eleva.
ton, and blue tor water
The latest large auimal to become
oXtinut, the California sea elephant
(Macrorhinus angustirostfish is
species belonging to the Seal family,
and the male had tubular proboscis
that could be elongated and dlIated.
! Specimens taken to England a few
months ago by Walter kothschild's
collectors are tho last. They were
taken on the island of Guadaloupe,
off the coast of Southern California,
and will be preserved in the London
Natural History Museum and else
where. Until now no museum has
had an adult male specimen.
Bird Whistles are curious Peking
product. BAN boo whistles of two to
five tubes and gourd whistles of two
to thirteen apertures are wired to the
tails of the pigeons, and emit a
peculiar and pleasing aerial music as