Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 1, 1919, Page 7

PAGE SEVEN HAVE SIMILAR FINGER MARKS Important Discovery Made by Calk fornia Professor as to Peculiarities of Family Groups. Prof. J. A. Larson, Instructor of physiology in the University of Cali- fornia, announced a new discovery in connection with finger prints which is lkely to have a remarkable influence on many important cases that con- cern the law courts of California. Briefly, Professor Larson’s discovery . indicates that a similarity of finger prints among members of a family is sufficiently marked to enable scientists to trace family groups and determine positively whether a given individual i8 really a member of the family to which he claims relationship. The importance of the discovery in . probate cases such as the Slingsby case is obvious. Should Dr. Larson’s new discovery be accepted by law and science, the Slingsby decision may be reversed, as well as many other analogous cases. Dr. Larson’s investigations began in 1913 at the Boston university. “Since that time I have examined prints of members of approximately 100 families,” he said, “and I am satis- fied in my own mind that such a means of identification is possible. I am preparing detailed reports of my work now in order that science may be benefited by my discovery. Before I complete this, however, I expect to investigate the prints of fifteen or twenty additional families so as to re- ¢ move all doubt as to the accuracy of my discovery.”—San Francisco Chron. icle. AMBER FORMED BENEATH SEA Natural Resin of Pines Turned into Precious Material by the Action of the Elements. The world’s supply of amber, that rare and therefore precious substance, the “gold of the north,” as it has been called, comes from the coast of Sam- fand in the eastern Prussian penin- sula, between the towns of Burstrort and Palmnicken, and here the shafts of a famous mine run out under the Baltic and the miners are actually working under water. Ages ago the country was a land of pine forests which the ocean overwhelmed; the pine trees vanished beneath the sur- face of the sea, and then, century by century, the wood became fossilized and the natural resin of the pines was turned into amber. Millions of years were needed to transform the resin into amber, and the search for amber bas developed romantic and picturesque episodes like those that have become part and parcel of the story of gold and diamonds. An amber mine, how- ever, is not necessarily under water, and there i1s an open-air mine at Palm- aicken where amber is dug for in much the same way as diamonds are sought in the mines of Kimberley. In nor mal times this one mine provides oc- cupation for about 3,000 amber seekers. Our Own Masters. We have been told that America isto save the world and rescue civilization from dissolution, but we must do it in our way; in the way that has made us, in a little more than a century, the most unified, the most virile, and the most potent single power in the world. And when we ask ourselves what it is that has given us this unity, this virility, and this potency, the an- swer is, that we have founded this mation upon principles of law, and upon the guarantees of individual rights under the law. That is our great contribution to civilization; and it we are to be of use to other nations, old or new, our first thought must be to remain our own masters, to pre- serve our independence, to control our own forces as a nation by our own laws, apd to protect our heritage of eorganized liberty from any form of detraction or perversion. — David Jaype Hill in the South American Re- | view. 1 Qlant Warrior of Middle Ages. The pride and smagnificence that Jacques Gourdon “dé Genouithac wore the ;suit 10 the sixteénth century, apd | Sieur Jacgues ‘was an uncommonly. large and powerful warrior, who serv- e wnder Louis XI. and Francis L of France. As may be deduced from their armar, the knights ef the period were mot noticeably large men, and Sieur Jacques must have seemed a veritable glant, for a six-foot attendant at the museum has tried on his armor and is said to bave “merely rattled around in it” Sea Moss. Owing to the war the supply of “sea ¥ moss,” of which several hundred § thousand pounds, valued at almost $50,000, have been imported annually, for the most part from France and Germany, has virtually come to an end. Sea moss (not seaweed) is the popular name of several kinds of small marine animals that grow iIn colonies of a branching, plantlike form, Their commercial value arises from their having a horny skeleton which preserves the general plantlike shape of the growth. Difference of Custom. “In old England people showed their excitement by saying ‘Zounds! " “And in New Jersey the commuters say ‘Zones!™ ——‘fi-——i— l NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY. Dwight D. Miller WE CAN Insure Anything Anywhere Offices, Northern National Bank Bldg., Phone 181 J. WARNINGER VETERINARY SURGEON ..Office and Hospital 3 doors west. . of Troppman’s. Phone No. 309 3rd Street and Irvine ave. CHRISTMAS PHOTOS Your photo in a calendar free with a dozen portraits this month. 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[Applause.] They come here to be of our citizenship, and they have given evidence of their good intentions by putting on the uni- form, and in four months these young men have learned to read and speak English and to drill as finely as the best soldiers under any flag. [Ap- - : plause.] Representative Tilson of Connecticut added: “This detachment of recent army recruits under the direction of Col. Bernard Lentz of the general staff of the army has been making a tour of the country to demonstrate that the army has created a ‘melting pot’ that actually melts. The detachment is popularly known by the appropriate title and designation of ‘Americans All’ Four months ago they could not write or read the English language. 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The inn becomes the “Pigeon Blanc” once more, open- ing a new chapter of its long history under true Alsatinn management.— Christian Science Monitor. Rather Warm in the Deepest Well. The deepest well in the world is six and one-half miles southeast of Fairmont, W. Va., drilled by the Hope Natural Gas company of Pittsburgh. It is 7,670 feet deep. The well had to be abandoned because the drilling tools stuck in the drill hole, the cable parted and left the tools and 4,000 feet of cable in the hole. C. E. Van Orstrand of the United States geological survey, informs the Scientific American that the tempera- ture at 7,000 feet was 172 degrees F., and the rate of increase was one de- gree in 51 feet. At this rate the boil- ing point would be reached at about 10,000 feet below the surface. The Skeleton at the Feast. My brother’s wedding took place at his bride’s home, which was next door to us. A telegram came to our house and the delivery boy was told my brother was next door. 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