The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1839-12-27
From the N. Era.
SCIENTIFIC NOTICES.

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TOtai Eclipse Of the Sm.--Mr Geo.
innes has communicated to The Astro-
aomlcaI Society, some observations, on
ihe total eclipse Of the Sun which will,
happen July z, 1912, with The elements
f1t calculating from The Solar Tables OF
CarInl, and the Lunar Tables Of Bruck
hsrdt. The Author remarks that the
Eclipse will excite much interest, as il
win be total ovel the southern parts of
Ffarce, and very large throughout Great
BEitain, though not total for any place
IN the island.
Eta and VesuUius.
gE'na has been in a more violent state
Of eruption than usual. Early in tho
upruing ofJanuary. l. 1889. Vesuvius
burst forth with an explosion like the re
port of cannon, and dense cloud OF
smoke end soon covered Naples but
thp wind changed, and carried the cin-
,dbrs towards the shore at Portici. The
eruption ceased ir the evening, but the
delonations recommended on the 2d,and
continued throughout tho day. In the
evening, VesuvIus was all on fire, and
the lava flowed down into the plain be-
tween Portici end Tore Del Greco,
committing grea, ravages.
Perfume Of fowers.
According to the experiments Of M M
Scbubler and Kohler Of Tubngen, white
flowers are The most numerous in crea-
ton, and the most oderiferous; and TO
these succeed the red flowers.
Mummy in a Peat moss
Among the curiosities IaIely added to
the Museum of the Royal Society ol
Northern Antiquities at Copenhagen,
there is one Of singular nature and
great historical interest. 1t is the mum
my Of a female, found 10 peat bog nea
Haraldskioer, in Jutland, completely
sunk in the soft fragments OF clothing
that remained on the mummy, and ena'
bledthe skiIful aDtiquarIes Of the north Il
conclude, with tolerable certainty, tha
it belongs to the last period Of pagansm
and nj. Peterson has endeavored, in al
} able historical essay, to prove that tn
t mummy is the body Of Gunnihllda
, Queen of Norway, whom King Haral
= Blaal nd enticed by promises Of mar
3 rage, to come to Denmark in 965
a when he pu, her to death by sinking he
$ no bog.
II Parallar Of the fzsd Stars.
" The nineteenth century is femarka
ltfble for science, enterprise and psrseve
rance, ovsf great aud acknowledge
n difficulties, and for the solution Of prot
d ems, practical and theoretical, sought
= vain, or despaired of in former age
@ To The discoveries of the North we
;, passage, the course Of the Niger, II
e cause OF Magnetism, the Mechanism
A Light &c, we have now to add anothe
!" The Parallels of the Fixed Srsrs: Th
ii magnificent conquest has been achieve
s bv Professor Bessel, Of KonigsbnrgI
: 10 a series of observations Of the coub
e star, No 81, in the Constellation Cye
' US, whose distance he has ascertaIne
d TO be $4,000 times (in numbers) II
q radius of Inc earlh's orbit, or (Blso
', numbers( 62 100000, 100000 mile
e The details have been communicate
r; 10 Sir John HerscheL
10 The Indian Ju9gler's Secret.
l. Lieutenant Hutton states, that u
snakes which the Indian Jugglets hal
!, iIe with impunity, ale drugged with
.e plum, winch renders them quiet al
ID harmless. The effects Of the drug W
st not wear Of for fortnight or thr
of weeks: druggsd snake which Lieuie
r. mt Hutton purchased, at the lapse
n hree weeks, flew at him Unexpected
r. and nearly srangled him.
Transformation ef Oats into RE.
!. DR.. Wessenborn represents n s'a'
r. neut of this phenomenon TO have be
y corroborated IN The Iast snnual rep'
}. ofthe Agricultural Society of Cobu
NJ which asserts this transformation
n take place If the oats be sown very !,
or about Midsummer day. and cut tw'
4, as green fodder before shooting it
flower stalks, whereupon consider
m hIe number Of the oal plants do not I
g III the urse Of the winter. hut {
g. changed IN the following sp"pg into r,
n. forming stalks which can not be kno'
,rt from IN ose Of The fneel winter rye.
r. any one SOW the oats during The lat
m. half OF June. and the Transformation
nd question will certainly take place.
al ChesnM and Oak.
er I A Gardener al Metz has grated
,er CHI hesnnt upon an oak and the exp'
md mept succeeded. The Advantages
ce tending it n the culture Of the ches
do are very great, from the delitacy Of
,,s roots; which by this method, may n
sd find substitute 10 those Of the more
wa bust tree Of northern soils,
Natural Sod1 F0unf1in,