The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-06-11
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recently invented life-saving rafl
for use on Paris lakes freQuented by
skaters is supported by small balloons,
30 1t will not sink should the ice break.
The second largest masonry arch in
the world, recently completed for an
Australian railroad, is 278 feet, 9
inches long and has rise of IS feet
In training its cavalry recruits, the
German army Is making use of ma
chine, driven by electricity, in which
all the movements Of horses are simu
lated.
A New York electric light company
is using a rotary pump, mounted on
the rear of an automobile and driven
by Its flywheel, to pump out flooded
manholes.
During a severe storm at Hacketts-
town, N. j., lightning struck the street
lighting system passing through thirty
three tungsten lamps, without burning
them out
For some explained reason 6O-inch
searchlights have proved unsatisfac-
tory in the navy, and they have been
abandoned In favor of the 80 and 81
inch ones.
One Of the most interesting and dis
puted questions in American archie
| ology is that of the origin and age of
Fort Ancient, in Warren County, Ohio
70 Of h,o
chased this site, which is to be turned
Into public park. Mr.. Warren K
Moorehead believes that Fort Ancient
is 800 or 300 years old. He regards
the more modern articles found in q
grave in Its vicinity as later lntrusions
He does not, however, regard the ques
| ton Of the age Of this most interesting
| structure as yet settled. and says that
many years Of study and exploration
will be required to clear up the mys
terry.
| A striking indication Of the grea
stimulus which the cultivation Of rub
Der plants has received within few
years Is given by the latest report o.
the director Of agriculture for the Fed
Grated Malay States. In 1897 ther,
were 345 acres Of rubber plants under
cultivation there. In 1900 the are7
had increased to 1903 acres; in 1870,
to 43,33S acres, and in 1907 to 1858!
acres. The fall Of the price Of rubber
IN 1907 did not interrupt the industry
but simply led to improved methods
Of production. Even at the loves
prices. the profit Of the farmers, owe
the cost Of production, is said to b.
more than 100 per cent. The creates
enemies OF the rubber plants are roo
fungus and the termites
Prof. Vernon l.. Kellogg describes
in Science, the remarkable skull foun,
several months ago in some excava
lions made near Chapelle-aux-S aintes
in France, and exhibited In Decembe
by Prof. Edmond Perrier to the Pari
Academy Of Sciences. The strata Fl
which the skull was buried are Of tn
Pleistocene age. The skull Is describ
ed as that of "a man of extremely Low
type. an ape man, or perhaps of
man ape OF greater cranial capacit
than any at present known" Professo
Perrier ID disposed. on the whole, t
regard 1t as a human skull. 1t has
marked goriIla-like look, but the brai
cavity Is very much larger than tina
of the gorilla or of any other existin
anthropoid. The limb bones-for part
Of the skeleton were also found-ar
curved, and present conformation IN
dtcating that the creature wake
more often on all tours than erect
1.-THE bones" says Professor Kellogs
"seem to be fairly intermediate be
tween those of man and those o
the present-day anthropoids."
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