The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-03
SCIENTIFIC.


Sixty black bass fry have been successfully car
red over from America and deposited In the
tanks at Kewick, England. This is considered the
second greatest feat in pisci.culture, the first be-
ING the conveyance of salmon to Australia. Much
difficulty was experienced iu collecting the fry and
Carrying them across the Allan tic, on account OF
the heat.
Hf1owers do not mature weH they may be made
to do so by placing half an inch of powdered char
coal on the earth in the pot Another authority
asserts that solution or snspensionof white
hellsbore in water may be used with great adYan-
Eage in destroying the insects that infsst SO many
Towering, plants A fair friend has tried, the ex-
pertinent with success andreports that if the bugs
Sneezed as she did, It was no wonder that they
lost their lives. ~
ssBolted Slate" is the last Boston notion in the
mechanism OF education. With this dressing of
grit and glue, carried in the waistcoat pocket a
pasteboard or other surface may readily be pre-
pared for the slate-penci land, indeed, globes are
30 prepared, duly mounted and marked off with
parallels, meridans, and topics, ready for the
drawing and erasure of the continents and
Islands. .t 10 ". Jag 4' 80 3tt.-t .- 4
Natur says: Regarding 'sea-serpents,' the
following note may. be interesting The South
African Museum, Cape Town, recently received
specimen of the Ribbon-fsh (GyrnnS;6rwS) fifteen
feet long without the tail. 1t appearS that This
fish is known TO distant island fishermen as being
forty feet long, and from its slender shape and
snake-ike movement, is probably the tses-ser-
pent' of late years so infinitely described by nav
Igators. From its head there is erected a plume Of
flexible rose-colored spiues, and from head to tail
along its back there is a conspicuous mane-like
I'm. It's general color is FURNISHED silver The
eye is large and sivery, and the profile of the
head COMFORTS well with that OF the horse The
specimen could not be preserved, hui, there are
two smaller speci mems in the Museum"
correspondent of the Madras AaS5, quoted by
the Times Of India, says that on the night of June
18th last, the plain to the east, north and north.
east Of Nandidr cog was covered with smany
thousands oflight, which have been observed
occasionally in former years. The correspondent
compares the appearance to that OF large city
brilliantly Illuminated, and in one direction the
scene, through binoc ular glass, "looked ike
view ofpart ofthe starry heavens, each fame be
ing like starr As many of The lights were from
point Of view, he conJectures that each flame must
have been five 10 six feet in length. An attempt
is being made to find out the cause OF the serious
phenomenon, the most likely hypothesis being
that the lights are "caused by the ignition of
sSme infammable gas escaping in jets from the
surface of the earth" ''@
In late issue of the Bloomington PantaoraDA
an accounts given of how courtroom was ar
ranged in order to correct the echoes that we heard
In it. Itsays:
Monday we toek some observations in the
ourt-room, for the purpose of ascertain:ng the
enects produced by the wires stretched across the
room Tor benefting the acoustic properties of the
same, Most of our readers are aware that it has
hitherto been a subject of remark and noticed by
every one that it is almost impossible to hear dis
tinctly in the body of the courtroom what was
said in an ordinary tone of voice with in the bar.
This is now remedied. Mr.. W. S. Carlock sug.
gested that the ST etching of small wires at GRO.
per height and at suitable distances would be O.
great benefit. = This was tried, and the effect
roves to be vast improvement.
eve entered tho room, Monday, while Mr.
Ewing was addressing the jury in an ordinary and
easy Conventional tone of voice. and foupd no
difficulty in distinctly hearing every word. We
tried in various places from the remote corners to
the centre, and found Il about 5he same Tt ap
pears to be success.- The theory is that tie
the wires although small as 10 be hardly yisi-
bie' break The sound waves and prevent the rever-
OefatIon which has hitherto been the chief obsIa-
Gle and annoyance to listeners Only three or
lopr wires crossing the room each way produce
this improvement"