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Lake County Press, Issue 2159, 7 March 1907, Page 2

THE NORTH POLE. No ouo has been within -IGO mil**" of North Pole. A SNAIL'S PACE. It would take a, snail cxuclly fourteen days live hours to travel a mile. THE MERRY MOSQUITO. Mosquitoes inject a poison into the wottnds tlioy inflict in order to make the blood thiu enough to ilow through their throats. | AUSTRALIA AND THE STATES. I The largest island in the world is Australia. I —greatest length, 2,400 miics; greatest i breadth, 2,000; area !2,1M5,798 square miles, ! or nearly the size of the United States. I SIGNALLING TO MARS. ! Professor Doloear says a powerful search- : light couid project a, beam to Mars in four I mmulcs which could be seen and responded |to if they have the apparatus that we j have. NINETY DEGREES OF FROST. Aeronauts cannot rise much above five miles of vertical height on account of the increasing rarity of die air, but double that height has been attained by self-rtgietering balloons, which tell us that some ninety degrees of frcst prevails up there. HOW TO TELL THE LENGTH OF DAY' AND NIGHT. By a simple rule, the length of the day and' night, and time of the year, may be ascertained by simply doubling the time of the sun'* rising, which will give the length of the uighr, and doubling the time of setting, will give the length of the day. THE BRAIN AND THE NERVES. \ The average weight of the brain of an> adult male is three pounds eight ounces: of' a female, two pounds four ounces,. The nerves are ail connected with it directly or; by the spinal marrow. These nerves with) their branches and minute ramifications! probably exceed 10,000,000 in number. FELLING TREES BY ELECTRICITY/. Trees are now felled, in <=oi»e plates, by olectridtv. A platinum wire, heated whitehoc by the current, is wed, stretchedbstweert. two poles, as a saw. There is less work than with a saw. no wtwdns' is produced, and thoi chamnjr of the surface of division tondsto-] ' p::;v«ii ds-ruv. I'j some n»fo* the iime re-i ' quired to fell a trot! by '.his method is only; I oue-eisrhlh of that necessary tor satviu;

A Moslem grave in Turk -y, «'i ohm hj lms been filled in, is never re-op-ned <-. miv iifcotint, AVilli a view to re.mm- the t.-.mtest rfmnrcoMfc bring tliiwili'flW. the Moslems plant a evpress fw on every p-ay immediately sifter the burial, thus making their Pcnieterie? resemble forest.*.,