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A whales weight has been estimated by Nil son at 100 tons, equal to that ol thirty-eight elephants.Incandescent lamps for special pur poses are made as small as one-sixth of an inch in diameter.The beautiful eolors seen in the soar bubble arise from the fact that the bubble, being very thin, refleets lightfrom both the outer and inner surface of the film.The fleeting lines of the soap bubble are given by a French chemist to pa pet by coating the surface with a thin turpentine datnar varnish, which forms a transparent glaze breaking up the light rays.In exjteriments with the compressed air pijies of Westphalian eoal mines H. Schwab has found that the greatest distance to which the sound of the voice could be conveyed in a straight pipe was lndween 1.500 and 1.700 feet. For moderate distances a pipe of about twenty iuehes in diameter gave the best results, a slightly larger one being better for long distances.Salt made from aquatic plants and used by natives of the Congo State has been found by M. Leon Fredericq to consist of chloride and sulphate of pot assium. This is taken as disproving Bunge's idea that we use salt—or chloride of sodium—to counteract the effects of the potassium salts of voge tables, and as indicating that salt is taken with food for its flavor, is being without special action.lit one of the recently published volumes of the Smithsonian Institution James Mooney explains that the under lying principle of the Sioux ghost dance is the doctrine that at some time the whole Indian nice, living or dead, will be reunited in life upon this earth, untroubled by death, hunger or disease. The object of the dancers is to fall into a kind of trance, in which they can see and converse with lhelr dead relatives. The medicine man plays the part of a mesmerist, keeping the sun full in the face of the dancers, making passes be lore their eyes, and twirling slicks and feathers until they 1m‘route entraitred. Such warlike outbreaks as that of IS:K are due to the attempts of ambitious chiefs or medicine-mcti to anticipate the Indian millennium through the an inhibition of tin* white man.Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes sang the praises of the ‘'burly, dozing humble bee.** which lie described as an “animated torrid zone. But according to recent investigations by entomologists. Dr. Holmes’ yellow-breeched philoso fiber** is extraordinarily fond of cold climates, for it api*curs to be the only kind of bee native to Alaska. Trevor Kincaid made a special search for lavs among the Alaskan wild flowers last summer, ami found only bumblebees. Dr. W. H. Dull, when in Alaska, also failed to fllid bees of any other genera. This recalls a picturesque incident attending Folonel Fremont's ascent of the great peak (tearing his name in the Rocky Mountains. He thought he had left everything pertaining to the lower world fur Iteneath him, when suddenlyH bumbleltee buzzed through the chillyair. and to his astonishment settled onhis knee. Peary saw a bumblebee at the northern end of Hrccnland. am) bumblebees are also common in Siberia.
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Fremont Eagle
Fremont, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 06, 1899
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