TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 2, 1909.
One of the Curiosities o( the
Mineral Kingdom.
PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS.
|ft Has I" Soms Peculi,r
)due,d This Rars Form of Carbon
j Than Thrown Away ths Secret
th. Process—Found Only In Brazil.
4 term "black diamonds" Is some-
, jokingly applied to ordinary coal
,b we burn in our furuaces. but
“black diamonds" of com-
s are among tbe most unique mln-
nroducts of tbe world, and they
, a purpose in tbe Industrial world
makes them of great value. Tbe
k diamonds are pure carbon and
to Do outward appearance resem-
.be diamonds wbicb we are accus-
, to wear as ornaments. They
nightly harder than the crystal or
diamonds and. lb fact, about tbe
mt substance known.
ick diamonds, or carbons, are
ig tbe greatest curiosities of the
■ral klugdom. They are without
alllne form and are found In lr-
¡*r pieces, ranging lu size from
, carat up to three, four and live
red carats. They are dark gray,
j or brownish In color and opaque,
real diamond of the jewelry trade
so pure carbon, but translucent
crystalline In form. Two objects
like In composition could not be
d so opposite In appearance as
. two forms of carbon.
other peculiar thing about tbe
j diamonds Is that they arq found
In one locality In tbe world. They
from a very small section of Bra-
ot more than 225 miles square In
Outside of this limited territory
rare black diamonds have ever
found.
tat peculiar freak of nature caus-
he deposition of tbe black dla-
ds In this section of the world and
here else is one of tbe mysteries
:b science has failed to explain,
t of them has been found In tbe
t Kimberley diamond regions,
re the crystal form of diamonds
i for so long been mined.
e whole origin of tbe black dla-
d Is. therefore, a scientific euigma.
irally tbe question Is raised, "Of
t use Is a black diamond?" No
would care to wear one of these
rands, wbicb resembles a piece of
more than a real diamond, and so
no one has popularized tbe black
i as the black pearl has been,
irtbeless the black diamonds serve
st important and useful function
e Industrial world.
is pure black carbon Is not only
er than tbe real dlamoud. but
her and not so brittle as tbe gem.
»queutly it Is of great value for
y mechanical purposes and partic-
ly for boring with diamond drills,
ilamond drilling the tips of tbe
• are studded with carbon, hr
k diamonds, and when tbe bores
deep tbe pressure la so great that
¡cm diamonds would be crushed In
process. But tbe carbon resists
continued pressure and slowly
down Into tbe rocks.
diamond drill work tbe carbon is
I d circular pieces of soft steel or
1 called bits, and these bits are at-
il to tubing. Armed with these
diamond teeth, the drills push
way down under severe pressure
depth of five and six thousand
cutting through tbe hardest kind
■k. Some black diamonds are
birder than others, and there is
y to determine by tbe color tbe
ice in the degree of toughness.
1 diamonds or pure carbon are
any means cheap, and the own-
tbe mines In Brazil where they
tbered are making a good thing
their monopoly. There Is no
i tubstance that can take tbe
of carbon In drills in boring for
Uver, copper and other mineral
L Before tbe black diamonds
II were discovered It was lm-
1 to make borings.
1 tbe carboo was first lntroduc-
°ur Industries it was used In I
d »aws for cutting atones, mar-
■> similar substances. Tbeu the
advanced so that the carbon was
loo costly for such use. and bort
stftuted for stone cutting. Bort
' an imperfect crystal or _ gem
L but It Is too brittle for use
I Consequently bort has tak-
place oV black diamonds for
Atting, and tbe latter have been
*d almost entirely to diamond
* purposes.
average size of black diamonds
• the drills ranges from two to
,r,’A but tbe larger specimens
•»^Better results. They cost
"t they last longer. Conae-
' there is a greater demand for
** P**ces of pure carbon, and
* * sometimes run up to pre-
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unusual specimens.
"• that tbe supply of black
1
some day gi»e out and
diamond drilling industry
•*ated prospectors to syste-
y* for new deposits, but so
“J* not been successful. On
f “*t- scientists have been
**•* study of tbe chemical
• ’hlch have produced tbe
•J“4*- but their manufacture
•’■J'about as difficult as the
«etn diamonds. It to
certain conditions to
d —J’’” DOt ln
”i®clent
I * oomtnerctel value Na-
fyculiar way has made
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,Dd then thrown
,Fences» away. If any
^7* *nlock or find that se-
f «use a panic in tbe dla
PUZZLE OF THE AIR.
WASHING DISHES.
Changing Currents Shown by the Av
tion of Birds In Flight.
The average per sou regards nir much
as he regards water—as much lighter,
of course, but like it otherwise. Calm
air is precisely to him as calm water
iu a pool. If there Is a wiud be pic
ture.! the air as a flowing river. And
just so long as all men looked at it so,
just so long tbe birds kept tbeir mo
nopoly, for tbe only state in which
water approaches tbe condition of air
Is when water forms a maelstrom.
Even then water In Its wildest turbu
lence falls far short of the unstable. In
cessant agitation of tbe atmosphere,
air is never still. It is filled with
«'arm waves ascending, cold waves
descending, and through It race cross
shoots and diagonal shoots, with cork
screw whirlwinds wandering hither
and yon as they list. Tbe warm air
off a cornfield creates one kind of a
disturbance; off plowed land it cre
ates another. A layer of cold air may
hold down a layer of warmer air.
Consider what happens when the
warm air breaks through its envelope
as a millpond bursts Its dam. A flow
ing stream churned to and fro and
round uud round and up and down
would give a feeble idea of tbe air's
Inconstancy.
Now. u bird, clrrllng with fixed
wings, floats on a risiug column of
air. It maintains its altitude as to tbe
earth, but It is constantly coasting
down through the air’s ascending vol
ume. Once the bird loses tbe air col
umn it has to flap its wings, and it
flaps till It finds another column, when
It goes on wheeling again with fixed
wings. Moreover, when it flies the
wind comes toward It ln waves, rising
and falling like tbe billows of tbe sea.
It meets them, and then it does pre
cisely what a boat does—goes over
them or goes through them
Tbe
Wrights learned all this, and when
they’d learned they were about as
near to flying as you and 1 would be
to writing Chinese philosophy when
we’d just learned the English alphabet.
Furthermore, there were no teachers,
living or dead, that could help them
more than u few steps along tbe way.
—Everybody's Magazine.
Only Ono Timo In a Woman's Life
When She Enjoys It.
Xt e never kuew but oue woman who
professed that she liked to wash dish
es. aud from that moment our faith in
her veracity melted like soap la hot I
dishwater.
The only time we wish we were a
man Is after a hearty dinner when he
can eujoy a siesta or discuss the pa
pers. while we must atteud to the in
evitable dishes.
Can any oue wonder that girls get
tired of the mouotonous round of dish
washing. which must be done three
times a day for tbe 3G5 consecutive
days?
Think of it. ye gods, and tear your
hair and weep for the woes of our sis
terhood!
There is a short time ln most every
woman’s life when it Is a pleasure, but
that is wbeu we are too small to reach
upon the kitchen table without a chair
aud are permitted to wash the cups
and saucers to keep us out of mischief
Wheu we are older aud have it to do
alone the soup tureeu would not hold
tbe tears we shed over It.
How we have dreamed over the blue
pictures on the old fashioned dishes—
pictures of Impossible temples aud cas
tles. built lu unhealthy proximity to
“clear lakes." and lu girtish fancy wan
dered to uubeard of lands to dwell In
those "castles in tbe air.”
There should be uo dishwashing
there.
But hark! Tbe shrill voice of our
mother rings out clear and sharp:
“Matilda, what are you doing?" with
risiug inflection on tbe last syllabic of
our name.
All tbe house knows that "Till" is
dreaming over the dlsbpan again, and
reverie Is not permitted iu our active
household, which was conducted ou
the “whoop her up" system.
When we see ladies going mad over
ceramics we wonder if they served
their apprenticeship polishing tablefuls
of china.—New York Weekly.
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an t XRgeiMtion on the part of the
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Repeated Appearance Premonitory o<
Disease.
“Some years ago. early ln the sum
mer." says II. Addington Bruce In
Success Magazine. "1 dreamed that
while out taking a walk 1 was sud
denly attacked by a huge cat, which
clawed ferociously at my throat. That
was all there was to the dream, or, at
any rate, that was all I remembered on
awakening lu the morning, and, natu
rally enough. 1 dismissed It from my
mind as nothing but a dream.
"But when I found myself dreaming
tbe same dream again aud again I be
gan to wonder what significance It
would possibly have. Usually It varied
greatly lu mluor detail Always, bow
ever, tbe climax was tbe same—the
cat bad me by tbe throat and was bit
ing and scratching viciously. Alto
gether I dreamed this dream not lesr
than a score of times tn six months.
"Shortly before Christmas I took a
cold, which settled In my throat, af
fecting it so badly as to require the
attention of a specialist. Much to my
astonishment. It was then dis covered
that a growth bad been developing for
some time and that an immediate oper
ation was necessary.
"Several weeks later, the operation
having been performed successfully. It
suddenly occurred to me that I was no
longer being troubled by the phantom
cat For the first time the meaning of
the singular dream dawned upon me •
"It had been a genuine premoultory
dream Cousciously I bad been in ut
ter ignorance of tbe dangerous growth
ln my throat. It had not progressed
far enough to give me any pain or even
to cause discomfort At the same time
the organic changes It Involved had
produced sensations plainly felt by
what psychologists call tbe subcon-
scious and manifesting through tbe
subconscious to the conscious In tbe
form of a symbolic dream.”
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tbe sun never sets and 00 which no
other country ever sit».— Judge.
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Orinda His Own Meal.
“1 hope this proposal of mine hasn't
“Pa. whit 1« a dentist?"
taken you completely by surprise, dear-
*A dentist my »00. to a man who
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"Well. yea. it has. I long ago aba»- j uses other people's teeth to feed him
»•If."- Boston Transcript
dened all Idea of it "-Life.
OREGON.
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WAGONS,
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An Amusing Passage Between Willich
and Rosecrans.
There are times when tbe so called
“red tape” of the army gives way un
der the stress of circumstances. At
the battle of Chickamauga. General
Willich. who was commanding a bri
gade. Incurred the displeasure of Gen
eral Rosecrans, the commanding gen
eral. by some very slight omission.
General Willich was sent for and in
formed by the general commanding
that be must consider himself under
arrest for tbe present.
"General." said Rosecrans sternly,
“consider yourself under arrest and
leave your sword here until your case
Is tried.”
“Yes. general, I will consider myself
under arrest.” was the reply, "and
shust so zoon as dis fight's over I'll
come and fix bim up.”
"But, sir,” said tbe astounded Rose
crans. “1 want you to consider your
self under arrest now.”
"Of course I do," responded Willich
promptly, "and so zoon as I get off dis
fight I'll be up aud settle him.”
"But, sir,” expostulated tbe com
manding geueral. “I can't let you go
into this tight. You are under arrest
1 will send an officer to your brigade."
"You send an officer to fight my
boys!” cried Willicb indignantly. "He
can't do It. They don’t know him. Me
they know
1 teach them. 1 fight
them, and none of the boys would
know bow to fight or what to do only
when I go with them. My boys be
long to me; yes. me. General Willich.
1 command tbe brigade, and I must
fight tbe brigade."
General Rosecrans gave It up. Gen
eral Willicb was requested to return
and "fight his boys." which be did
most successfully. And that was the
No Port In a Storm.
end of tbe matter.—Youth's Compan
Tbe most dangerous of all places j
ion.
when a thunderstorm rages Is proba
bly a powder bouse; consequently ft Is >
They Don’t Like Rain.
a rule In explosive works that all tbe
Tbe tortoise shows a greater dislike workers shall leave their "bouse” at
to and fear of rain than any other ani toe approach of a thunderstorm. So
mal. Twenty-four hours or more be far all is well. But very often when
fore rain falls the Galapagoe tortoise the thunderstorm has passed snd the
makes for shelter. On a bright, clear men return and open the cake presses
morning, when not a cloud can be severe explosions have occurred. Tbe
seen, all tbe shellbacks on a tortoise reason of these accidents Is that In the
farm may sometimes be seen headed process of manufacture black powder
for tbe nearest overhanging rocks is placed ln tbe cake presses lu alter-
When that happens tbe people know nate layers of powder and ebonite.
that rain will come down during tbe This acts as an electric pile. Just like
day. and, as a rule. It comes down ln tbe pile of coppers and disks of zinc
torrents. The sign never falls.
with which boy» amuse themselves
When the pile Is disturbed tbe elec
Told the Truth.
tricity "sparks.” and up go building. j
"Wby are you sore at Miss Skreacb- workers and all.—London Answers.
err
"When she was urged to sing some
How a Moos« Eats.
thing at tbe party last night she said,
Of all peculiar sights 1 think that
'Oh, I can’t sing!’ ”
that of a moose eating grass la tbe .
“Well?”
most
extraordinary. The neck Is so
"Well, she went ahead and proved
short and tbe legs are so long that tbe
it."—Cleveland Leader
animal usually kneels ln eating grass
True. It does not attempt It very of |
Her View of It.
ten. for grass to by no means a staple |
“There was a time,” said the old In
habitant. “when that piece of property with It. but even a moose likes a
change of diet Tbe appearance of
sold for a song ”
this huge and awkward creanire In
"Really!” replied the grand opera
prima donna “How very expensive!" this devotional attitude Is not only In
terestlng, but laughable.—St. Nicholas
—Washington Star.
Suitor—But you haven’t asked me
yet whether or not I can make a liv
ing for your daughter. Father—Never
mind. Henry If yon marry her she'll
see to that—Chicago News.
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