Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-03-09
Curious and Scientific.

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hat after being treated so IN a
proper manner it may be used for
Ill culinary preparations, and even
.or pastry.
NJ. DeFonveills records an obser-
yation of NJ. Jansen during a re-
cent balloon ascension, and inters
that the dizzying gyIa'ions to which
are subject tc may be stop
ped by making the car cscillate like
a pendulum.
NJ. Hamon, a Partisan manutac-
turer, has succeeded, by an I'M
proved process, in coating lead
with a covering of block-tln
less than two-hundredths of an
inch in thickness, and yet accord
ing to NJ. Tresca, all the advantages
Of block-tin pipes r obtained
Prof. Davidson, Of the United
States Coast Survey, found that 8
sandstone cid seventy feet high
was SO much effected by the sun $
RAYS that he was obliged to remove
his Instruments one hundred feet
from the edge, in order TO find a
sufficiently steady support,
psrs N which the most
ooiet, % ,nsnt i 1xils # mag
lHPGi,""s nSsas olI otbsr knds
ne's!44 ~ 80 n STRENGTH snd
Larjnsss and is sousled by few, if
a"r 1ttbs natural stones tina; SIZE
endowed for building.
Tsaf,s s,rsw no uts Of ausrs
- 49, a. AIMED bv the
a." 80 s.s rlsts ru.-
A - fr4nd sy,lu.iors
T,,w,,hs;srilrg this
ssu,,ig ogsra:sr
.,- w,.,oc; bss.ing
enough - h1y: the temper.
hams made 70 in.
n .., the set,ri,
--T,u... sos. IN
r-s syr-r;-sn. las
,,re;ry and gen
..-.i-s he BE-. American
--sa n p1re water as
49,. :. sH rsy5utatiyss, and
ssor.n, blowing of, or thorough
w-s.sig.. IS the les: method for re-
moving sale.
y .,,sof man has been found
wv jaros;tsf formed during the
-1,a-,l n-ria1 in Northern Europe,
-. ,h, ah.anreo Of aarly human re,
~an l.; aoS;iv accounted for by The
D, III wL;cb the bones decay.
J T%a o Tty- human skulls that have
d n flMnJ orn the same type as
tTono i2rmu w. now eyisting.
'n1S0 =. ,'o'' w. n,nro.as
a G,oo,. IosIE or IIivlin
.n"o VIZ aonra Chin ore rpnntei II
o"olon ;]nstorcna 70 have faller
sr o,eiI Looyon were ofmetoric origin
I IT. nan@;dors tho worF Of Orienta
n hr?n;n mrohoblv from ReibeL, 9TH,
pllS.n' "a "ord that # denoted
no o"orod stoNo Of selfish represent
=" a"1ieI s ',pI tn ha ;nhobite,
in6 "n o1 ' ~ 9o%on
" gu ;;o,
me recGnC llequonTy " unar
AZ y fas P p"o . 'I 20 offer a nriz
oftwo hundred pounds to the au
thor of the two best essays upon th
means of preventing disastersin tn
mines. The miners themselves ar
invited to compete for the priz,
and it is EXPRESSLY stipulated tina
the decision of the Judges shall nc
he infuenced by defect of style.
po,, 1obr ~ Gul;ck missionary !
uaMnoI;o m~aintains that altboHg
tho 6rammat;col structure of +
W ~ 10 Wholly different fro,
tbot Of the Chinese and of the co!
nate languages OF Thibet and Sian
there are nevertheless plain eV
dences of early connection betwet
the languages. The common ell
1 ment is found in the fundament
1 conceptions which control the ella
sifcation and nomenclature OF &c
j tain groups of ideas.
l., Tho rooont swod;sb and Germ,
ovnadit;ons 70 tho Arctic regio
S tho;r n~or6rmot;on NJ DR.. Kan,
Jiocoverv Of tbe omen Polar Sc
r LoUo ;ucI,nod manv British peoor
I1%,,.s 20 fovor q sc6emoof e2nlor
= t;on bv tho wov Of Smiths Som
onJ somo oHdeovora are bei,
d MISREPRESENTATION Tbo Z