The eagle., November 13, 1895, Page 13, Image 13

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T.MK KAüUí: WIIXI-N AY, NOYr.MH R 13 lttüft.
SClENCt AND INDUSTRY.
Free argon and helium have now
been found in the sulphurous waters of
springs in the Pyrenees at La liaillere
and Bois. The gases were introduced
by M. Bouchard into a Plueker tube con
taining' magnesium wire, and when
subjected to the silent discharge of
electricity combined with the magne
sium. He says that they combine with
platinum in the same way.
Mushrooms grow in immense quan
tities in the llussian forests, the in
habitants in some places existing en
tirely by selling them. Kargopol, in
Olonetz, sends yearly 5,000 poods
(IS'1,000 pounds) of mushrooms to St.
l'eirrsburg. The vaieties are many.
With one iorm, the mukhomor, the
native tribesof Siberia intoxicate them
selves; an infusion from it has a stupe
fying effect like that of opium or
hasheesh.
Jlelmholtz has attributed cirrus
clouds to air waves produced when one
stratum of air glides over another of
different temperature and density, the
lower one being nearly saturated with
aqueous vapor. The wave crests be
come centers of condensation, in con
sequence of diminished pressure, and
appear as clouds, w hile t!ie depression-)
form transparent iiitrrs'.pneiB. On
this theory a "mackerel sky" is pro
duced when two series of waves cross.
Insects are considered by I'iof. C.
V. Kily as undoubtedly possessing the
senses of sight, toueh, taste, smell and
hearing, that of touch being pi-rhaps
the only sense strictly comparable
with our own. Evidence of other sense
organs, utterly unlike any we have, is
not wanting. A male Japanese silk
worm moth was liberated one night a
mile and a half from a caged female oí
the species, and in the morning was at
the cage, and blind ants reiiuce wooden
beans to mere shells without once
gnawing through the surface.
One of the most interesting of Dr.
Oirolamo Segnto's petrifactions has
just been found after a long hunt in n
Bavarian village, and will be sent to
the Florence Anatomical museum. It
is the head of a young woman who died
of consumption sixty yt tira ago, kept as
jx'rfeet as the day she died, with the
blond hair wavy and soft as that of a
living person. Dr. Seg. to's wonderful
secret for petrifying the dead so as to
retain the appearance of life forever
died with him, but the specimens kept
in the Italian museums show no sign of
deterioration.
Tunneling through the Simplón
will begin early next year. There will
be two purullel tunnels, each CG.CCO feet
or about 12' miles long, 57 feet apart,
and connected at intervals of 225 feet.
They will be 15,000 feet longer than the
St. Gothard and 21,000 feet longer than
the Mont Cenis tunuel, but will be 1,
500 feet lower than the two others,
which will diminish the working ex
penses. It is expected that the work
will be completed in live years and a
liulf, three years less time, tluit is, than
was rrqu'rH f -v '': ft. (iothard. The
estimated cost is $11,000,000.
Statistics of Russian railroad con
struction in 1893 have but recently been
published. The length opened for
traffic in that year was 1,128 miles,
which is a great deal for Russia. This
made the total in operation in the coun
try 21,884 miles, of which 8,252 miles
were state railroads. Of the whole, 4,
302 miles have a double track. These
figures include the 1,317 miles in Fin
land and the 908 of the Transcaspian
railroad, which are not usually included
with the Russian railroads. At the
close of 1893 work was progressing on
3,912 miles of new railroad.
HOW SHE FIXED HIM.
A. Hint to Girl That Have Undesirable
Suitors.
lie was a theatric lover, and she didn't
like his style a little bit.
He was constant in his devotion, how
ever, and that made matters worse.
She had tried gentle means to gét rid
of. him, but he had disregarded them
with painful persistency.
In this moment of her desperation he
felt it incumbent upon him to propose,
to her, as men under similar circum
stances often do.
Which they wouldn't if they had any
sense at all.
"Dear one," he exclaimed, hurling
himself tragically at her feet, "I love
you! My life is yours. Will you take
it?"
She did not look like a murderess.
"Mr. Singleton," she responded, with
calm determination, "1 will."
He gazed at her rapturously.
"Don't do that," she begged, drawing
back from him as if in horror. "I have
taken your life, as you requested me to
do, and you are henceforth to all in
tents and purposes dead."
He seemed dazed.
"I do not, Mr. Singleton," she contin
ued, turning aside, "desire to have a
dead person in the house, and if you do
not go away at once I shall ring for an
ambulance and have you removed to the
morgue."
Then the dreadful situation in which
his own precipitate folly had placed
him was revealed, and he removed him
self with neatness and dispatch. X. Y.
Sun.
fruit Trees.
1 am still prepared to
furnish FKUIT TKKKS
suitable for this climate in
,iny number. Persons con
templating planting trees
will ih;d it to their interest
to wri o i nc, and if 1 have
not in stock.whatis desired,
I can readily secure the
a:r.e at reasonable rates
and in a!i varieties. Adress:
Clank Kopgkks,
Silver City, N. M.
E. ROSENBERG,
BOOT AN I 811! KMAKKk.
i I promise you faithfully. In the Ion rim
you símil nave Imlf y, ur money, liy IihvIiik
your wiKk neatly tun! promptly done to milt
viiurself.nl E. UUSKNHKKU'S
Silver City. N. M
AGENTS to solicit
orden by ampie for our
Wool Pants to order $3.
" Suits " " $16.
" Overcoats " $12.
Big Inducements to the
right parties. Address
GUARANTEE TAILORING Co
216-217 Grand St., N. Y.
Holding for a Rise.
Ex-Congressman Hen Table, of Illi
nois, has a Iktle daughter who has th
making of a great financier in her. One
day her father called her to him. "M,
dear," said he, "a man this morning
offered papa this room full of gold
if he would sell little brother. Now,
that means gold enough to fill this room
from wall to wall and from floor to
ceiling. If I sell little brother for that
sum, I shall be able to buy everything
in the world you want. Shall I sell
him?" "No, papa,"answercd the little
girl, promptly, and then, before her de
lighted father could embrace her for
expressing so much unselfish affection,
she went on: "Keep him till he's big
ger. He'll be worth more then."
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