Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-11

not unfrequently, effected by the use Of
huoric ecid, which often produced danger
GUS wounds, when by accident it came into
contact with the skin of the workmen. Mr..
Henrie Sainte-Ciaire Deville has recently
exhibited to the Academy Of Sciences Of
Paris SEINE very fine examples Of glass en-
craving executed by means or solution of
the fuoride of calcium in hydrochloric acid,
with which there is no such danger. The
results obtained by this method are said to
be exceedingly satisfactory.
"A French engineer, named Desen, is
exhibiting in London bathing apparatus,
which is also q life preserver. 1t is Of sim
pie construction, resembling child's cradle,
the upper part having cylindrical cork
float, canvased over, nearly surrounding the
machine, which keeps the bather afoat with
the greatest ease and safety. The body
consists of net, with light iron tubular
pipes for support; and the bottom of bed, a
piece of twilled tick, at the foot of which
there is screw copper rudder, which turns
upon swivel, with pair of cork soles the
shape of the foot Against this the bather
places his feet, and is thus enabled to guide
or steer himself in any direction, while, by
the use Of handle attached to the left side
of the apparatus below the cylinder, he is
enabled to propel himself or recede. This
invention can be used in open sea, as well as
on a river or lake.
That extensively employed material
known as amber, used for the mouth pieces
of meerschaum pipes and cigar holders, is
believed to be fossilized vegetable gem.
1t is singularly electrical when rubbed, de-
veloping negative electricity to suck de-
gree that in manufacturing it into the forms
in which it is sold, the workmen are some
times affected with nervous tremors, and
they are obliged frequently to change the
pieces they handle. Amber is found on the
Baltic coast of Prussia, entangled in masses
of sea weed. 1t is always obtained in
greater quantities after sea storm, which
leads to the belief that it is washed ashore.
1t is found in this country at Amboy, New
Jersey, at Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard,
and at Cape Sable, Maryland. Leaves of
fossil plants and tropical insects are some
times found imbedded in it, a fact that has
given rise to some pretty poetical conceits
In the East it is highly valued, and has been
used as a form Of concentrated wealth, as
are diamonds and other precious stones.
-Geologists have advanced another
In the year 1919, if we are to believe DR..
Joulin, Admiral Sir David Milne visited a
sea grotto in the Bermudas, and cut down
and carried away as trophy stalagmite,
or natural crystalized pillar. This stalag
mite was taken to Edinburgh and deposited
among other natural curiosities, in an
academy of science. 1t measured over ten
feet and is fine specimen Of natural crys
talization. The son Of Admiral Milne
adopted his fathers profession. and, in his
wanderings over the mighty deep he often
found himself in the presence Of the scenes
that had attracted the attention of his faith
er. In 1868, AZ years after the old admi-
raj had secured the crystalized pillar as a
trophy, David Milne, Jr., visited the famous
grotto in the Bermudas, and on examination
found that another stalagmite had begun to
grow in the place of the one cut down and
carried away. This fact attracted the at
tention of biologists, and led to a scientific
investigation into the peculiarities and ma
tural formation Of the grotto. Two drops
of water fall four times minute upon the
spot where what DR.. Joulin Indignantly de-
nounces as theft was committed. By
careful measurement of the young stalag
mite, and an elaborate computation, it is as
certained that the pillar now in E .inburgh
was the growth of 100000 years.
"A French professor casts this lugubri-
sus horoscope of earth: s'Our earth will
become moon. Oncethe earth was a soft and
di6used substance; it then became an in
candescent and luminous sphere, next
very solid globe, liquid within; it is now an
obscure planet, thick and gradually cooling,
with fire in its bosom, but bathed on its sur
face by water and ambient vapors. One of
these days its inner fires will be extin-
guished, lts atmosphere and oceans will
have evaporated and earth will revolve
through space an inert and icy mass. It
will. then be like the moon, where organic
life is extinguished, where silence reigns,
where extraordinary cold weather is fol-
lowed without transition by excessively hot
weather. The moon once had its atmos-
phere, It's VOLCANOES, its inner fires and its
humid belt. The same law governs the
destinies Of all the SUMS satellites. Each
of them upon breaking from the common
mass began to cool 80 much the more rapid
ly as its volume was smaller. The earth
being 40 times larger than the moon, cools
40 times slower than it; but, like it, does
cool. Already the oceans have lost the 50th
part of their original volume, and they will
have entirely disappeared before the solid
crust OF the earth is rs miles thick. When
this day comes there will be no animated
creatures, no trace of animal or vegetable
life on this globe. Icy nights will follow
torrid days. In the course of time this will
be the fate Of the sun and all the solar sys
tenn But it will be thousands of millions
of years befo re the earth reaches this
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