Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-01-30
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Tea is germicide according to Bos-
ton physician, who claims 1t is an es-
pecially rank enemy Of the typhoid
bacillus.
Missouri led in the production Of
lead In the United States In 1907, push
ing Idaho, the leader In 1905, back to
second place.
Although the house fly lays eggs, the
flesh fly, better known as the blue
bottle" produces living larvae, about
fifty at a time.
A $4,000 plant for the production OF
ozone by electrolysis the largest In the
world, has been completed at Pitts
burg hospital
A Norwegian factory receives power
for six turbines from water that falls
3287 feet through a tunnel from lake
seven miles away.
Peru has officially adopted as its
standard time that of the seventy-ffth
meridian, the same as eastern time
in the United States.
The electrical equipment of the Gu
nard liner Mauretania includes over
$50 miles of cables and more than
5000 16-candle-power lamps.
Three parts by weight of boracic acid
TO one Of powdered borax makes a good
compound for brazing steel. 1t should
be applied as a paste with water.
On the west coast of India is found
a species of oyster. Placuna placenta,
whose shell consists Of pair Of rough
ly circular plates about six inches In
diameter, thin and white. At present
these oysters are collected for the pearls
which they often contain, although few
are fit for the use of the jeweler. But
In the early days Of English rule in
India the shells were employed for
window-panes Cut into little squares,
they produced a very pretty effect. adj
hitting light like frosted glass. When
the Bombay cathedral was built, mt the
beginning OF the eighteenth century. its
windows were paned with these oyster
shells. In Goa they are still thus en-
ployed.
Prof Arthur o. Lovejoy, as the re
suit OF an inquiry into the origin and
meaning OF fire cults" so common
I among ancient nations and among mod
} ern savage and barbarous tribes sug
A., gests that many races conceived the
D sacred fire." not ar a practical con
D yenience or an ancient custom or 4
means OF frightening demons, but al
vehicle OF life or magical energy
: the prosperity Of the household or trib'
= depending IN part on the peipetuity
vitality and purity OF the fire. II wal
thought OF az subject 10 a tendency q
grow old and weak. Ike all nature
forces-hence the custom OF periodical
, ~ renewing n. This conclusion is bases
partly upon the statements made BY M
: Iroquois Indians and The Maorls.
DR.. Robert q. coker. writing 10 Sci
. ence from Lima, advocates the prote,s
ton OF the guano-pToducing birds N,
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