Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-07
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Japan has thirty-tYo time piece fac
tories. which turn ont annually goods
valued at nearly $500. 1000. the latest
figures being 2O9,792 standing clocks,
~, 7b5 hanging clocks and 25,38G
watches.
Prof. Louis Aga@iz many years ago.
drst announced that the ice sheet, or
glacial flow, at the northwest OF Maine
could not have been less than mile
deep; while later geologists have c9n-
armed his statement, adding the more
recent conclusion that the Ice was Of
that thickness at least over the larger
part Of New England.
From calculations made By Prof. n.
%, Wilson, which are quoted In Nature.
there seems reason to suppose that the.
conditions under which Halley's comet
viii return to us>in 1910 win be much
the same az those under which 1t APP
,peared in 1866. 1t was then one Of
the grandest objects which ever ap-
Ipeared in the heavens, and made 4 tire
mendous impression upon the medieval
world.
A great deal OF attention has recent
" been given to the cultivation Of rub
b4r, ON account OF the continually In
ueaslng demand for II. rrof. Francis
=. Lloyd points out that ..the ineiyt.
able struggle Of man with nature has
already manifested itself In this new
field. Already considerable number
OF parasitic enemies have been discov-
cred. whose energies appear to be
largely concentrated upon cultivated
rubber trees. 1t ID another problem
for science to deal with.
The growing industry Of extracting
aluminium has stimulated the search
for water power In the British Isles.
because the extraction Of aluminium q
20 expensive that only low cost power
can be economically employed. In this
respect Scotland, with its mountains, Is
coming to the front. The water power
plant at the falls Of Foyers, IN Scot.
land. has hitherto been the largest In
Great Britain but now still larger
lplant, at Kinlochleyen, utilizing the
rainfall over a tract OF IS square miles.
~ about to be put into operation for
the production Of aluminium. tt nine
hydraulic turbines each Of 1900 brake
horse power, are the largest water
wheels in the British Isles.
Prof. Edward L. Nichols, In his ad.
Isdfess az retiring president Of the Amer
Iican Association for the Advancement
LOT Science, used these suggestive sem
fences With the development Of the
doctrine Of energy has come the con.
sviction of an end Of the world, inevita-
BILE. a. the death Of the individual Il
INEVITABLE. In neither case, however,
~ longevity to be regarded as neces-
sarily beyond human control. Prpfes-
sor Nichols then went on to say that
biologists are beginning to intimate the
possibility, remote but thinkable. Of i
considerable extension Of the term Of
bodily life. and that It IL equally con.
ceivable TINT the human race may 20
podify and control conditions az great
I1y to prolong Its career. The means to
this latter end, he indicated, are the
checking of wastefulness affecting ami
mails, the soil. the forests and the
streams; the solution Of the problem
presented by the gradual exhaustion Of
natures supplies Of coal and petroleum,
and the search for ways to utilize, in
the form Of mechanical energy, the
radiation Of the sun.