The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-07-20
Discovery and Invention.
tbe Scientists are Now Concerned
With.
From the London Morning Post.]

III. n5 is found to exist in caves and be-
nj +be aarth's surface, partly because
b nm speculation there is weak
u i't tor imagining that some underground
:, nav have at one time existed, or
:. At some future glacial epoch man
y nav have to retreat to the bowels
,1s earth. Most of the creatures
"a in dark caverns are the modified
infants of ancestors who first found
IN gav there during the present geo.
~ snoch: but there are some slender
,,,js for assuming that there may be
CONSERVATIVES of an earlier geo.
ace. the fauna of which has else
w. become extinct. M. Armand Wire
shown that a certain number of cave
0rq species have no analogues in
.rssr water streams outside caves.
.t.ss belong to the general Sph9-
,. AMI Iga, which at the present time
..4 Known as marine organisms, and
uaj only very exceptionally in
.r Etter. at is therefore quite
ur US TO ask" says M. Wire,
-.t-.rWe have not here the remains
ancient fauna that has everywhere
J- upeared from terrestrial rivers
iuiy in certain caverns. The
which have adapted them
u.s. TO underground conditions are
.. -7parated from their congeners
}NeIlers by the special charac-
they have acquired. The skin
All. t1Ioring and becomes whitish or
r..u-at; the eye usually disappears,
,.ytimes the brain is in conse-
.. ighly modified. Other organs
-5u Those of hearing, smell and
utcome very large; the antennse
rg. and sensitive hairs, long and
. ppear over the whole body.
- r9ditications are produced grad
b s- N some instances the various
r.- rave been observed. A labora-
u r.I J-eir observation was installed
I'm. Paris Catacombs thirteen years
a. nimals kept here in darkness it
been possible to observe the gradual
s.r.af4nce of the eyes, and the be-
7fr the hypertrophy of the other
IS. 4.gans. In the instance of some
a-ery ed since 1900 1.-TWO lived two
r, 5ther eight years. the absence
.-ar caused an arrest of growth.
4. s1es never grew to more than
r1ts or weighed more than an
it, milar fish in daylight reached
res and weighed nearly three
Fl. a work of a census takes place,
thn hnaIs, ,f
,- 5, with or without official aid,
d. ra. census papers, but when the
these inscriptions have to be
t, and classified. For the next
M # the United States, which be-
g, 4ng with 80, 900, 600 of people is,
4u-. more elaborate than the census
4. her country in the extent and
.ru of the information that is sought,
a Of electrical appliances have
r .-Hsed. The most obvious of them
punching apparatus. Let US
a.s. Tor example, that a hundred
re elected about any one and
person included in the census.
identity card, ruled with ten
r. s and ten vertical lines, and SO
MO a hundred squares, can be
cord these facts distinctively
..-..-'-5 y a 1870 ,- ~ Sn,1arac ~
.- ,,av+ capsns Of tba 1Tnitad
i i,e e ~ ouor, ir,d;7, ;,jrl
r. presented by card punched
r)priate holes. Naturally the
III not do his own punching.
.Ii,,,InI ,,,;fn ,tr,3,,,o Ite which
5 ~ ILL., +vnawr;tarS Int
Sin Iitrarnnt l[evs instead
r.T.sl onarators viii sort ont
...r.I facts snec;ai precautions
..o against error and viii as
..., bT means of the machines
....srl,, thav viii nrass q hutton
+rs alart5.ir moron comes into
,mnches The holes in a card
fmronriata snnare Tins an
.. he ritizen 3 biogranhv viii
nianoIa record The individ-
.. vii he qronned and tabulat-
. -4--stics mich in the same wav
.. ,..-0oIa racord is usad to elicit
.. .an,nositions The comnleted
Is. f1 I'D throuoh calculating ma
.lsa machines have nins Which
.. -aronah everv POSSIBLE hole in
# thew drop through thew
-.-rtricaI contact and the cur.
....s sat in morton causes . reoistra-
~ -.s snnc;tic fact m diai Re-
KIN. Ills thara are tanas ike those
s,,,Irfino MACHINES and on these
.-. s.. 1.r;nted The totals and fioures
r -.- 5ials are accumnIsting
.-.Eahia that The intimate nonu-
the worId which is at nresent
...- -1 he about 6oO 0O0 o60 will
.-..,. ht, +ha oar+h,S sh;l;tU ~ food
5ntarestina caIc'1lation based
81 fl. consideration of food supnlv-
.-.... .,@ado NV professor 4 p FRO,
M -5n non,5lat;on canacitv Of the
r,- tbs p0f II cannot aver he as
S., 1"n,1ja+ad as ENGLAND If that
M w I I1';tod S4o+os which hes cast
-,. H. .,o+as Ksnsas spd Tavas were
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