The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-28
Curious and Scientific.

NATURE falls into the mistake OF put
ting the heighth of our Mt Washing
ton at 10, 900 feet, making 1T 1000 feet
too high.
A GIGANTIC Japanese crab has been
placed in the British Museum, the
claws are six feet in length. The tri-
angular body is comparatively small
SUCCESSFUL cures of poisonous snake
bites, by injecting ammonia into the
veins, are reported. Another method
is, to tie light ligature above the
wound, and then to suck 1T thoroughly.
LAND AND WATER gives an account OF
a pond in Wigtonshire, connected with
the sea, in which the proprietor has
large numbers of tame Goldfish, which
come to the surface in great numbers to
be fed, and allow themselves to be
handled, scratched and played with.
The last scientific sounding expert
ments in the Atlantic show an upper
stratum of warm water, 700 to SUI
fathoms deep, moving northward, and
the entire deeper stratum below, OF
almost icy GOODNESS, moving southwark
from the Arctic basin.
A BOLD and skillful burglary was
committed in New York city on the
night Of the 18th, Mt the dry goods
store of Jandt, Kidd q Co., No. 2OS
Eighth avenue, the thieves securing
valuable goods, including shawls, silks,
and laces, to the value of $4,000.
IMPROVED rolled iron railway sleep
ers have been invented in England,
which cost but 25 cents each more than
wooden sleepers, and last three times
as long in Europe, and ten times as
long in tropical regions, where the dry
rot and the white ants destroy the
wooden ones.
The known weight of our globe is 81
times as great as if it were wholly COM
posed of water. AS the density of its
rock crust is but half as great as this,
modern philosophers infer, so says Prof
David Forbes in Nature, that the i'm
mense molten mass of the interior is
principally metallic.
ZoLLNER argues that the observed
violent eruptions of hydrogen flames to
q vast height above the suns surface,
show previous pressure upon it of 4, =
100000 atmospheres, attained at II depth
of l39 miles under the surface, and he
calculated the temperature of the solar
atmosphere to be 81, 700 degrees, Cent?
grade, at which iron would exist In a
gaseous form.
DEADLY snakes so abound in India
that 40, 900 persons are said to die of
their bites annually Q1, 416 in the Ben
gal Presidency alone), and when, in the
small Bancorah district, the Govern
ment offered bounty of five or six
cents apiece for killing them, they were
brought in at the rate of 1,200 day,
and when $4,000 had been paid out
the bounty was withdrawn.
In China the tea is prepared by put
ting the leaves in cup and pouring on
boiling water, and the infusion is drunk
without sugar or milk. In Japan the
leaves are triturated before the infusion
is made In Morocco green tea, little
tansy, and good deal of sugar are put
together into the teapot. In AsiatiC
Russia some tribes pour the strong in
} fusion of tea and little salt, with
cream, into a mush of meal and butter.
G. c. ROGERS, cashier of the Louis.
vile Central Savings bank, has been
dismissed for irregularities, consisting
mainly in the certifcation of checks
payable at future time for firms, some
of whom were not responsible for the
amounts. The bank is involved $50,
900 or more in this way, but an inves
tigation going on now leads the direc
tors to say that % 70 80 per cent of the
stock can be saved to the holders.