Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-25
Curious and Scientific.

| 1T Is said that persons affected by the
conclusion ola stroke ofhghtning can be
saved in most cases by reactionary RENE
dies, such as the rapid dashing of cold
water over the victim, and the appli-
cation of friction. l
! IT is mentioned as a curious fact by
the old woodsmen that the beech and
sycamore trees are never struck by
| lightning, though found in close prox-
unity to oak, hickory, and trees of other
species that have been scanned or torn
to pieces by the subtle fluid.
ALI the lower animals and most of
the insects, as far as Investigations have
been pushed, appear to have limbs on
the right side invariably stronger than
their fellows on the opposite side. Ply
| siologists have not yet been able to give
a satisfactory solution of the problem.
Mr.. MERTON, of Margate, England, is
making solid beer by patented process.
Ale, porter or brown stout may be made
in solid form and dissolved like yeast
cakes, when wanted for suse.geds 100,
AN excellent disinfectant for app1i-.
cation to foul ulcers may be made by
dissolving one part of thymic acid in 100
parts of glycerole of starch. The thymic
| acid resembles carbonic acid in its prop-
critics, but its odoriis much more agree
| able. 49,. -sf..F. - lsfI
HEIDENHAIN agrees with Bernard and
g. Liebig that there is always, or almost
! always, a difference of temperature IN.
the two sides of the heart, the right
side being from one-fifth to threeIifths
of adegree, or in extreme cases as much
as one degree Fahrenheit. warmer than
the left. . fg~ -! iHiSss ..e,.
TEE great pyramid, Bhichi lis seven
hnn(lrnh htlr
high, and weighs 12,760, 100000 tons,
required, according to Herodotus, the
labor of 10O, 900 men for twenty years to
build it but DIR. Lardner affirms that
480 tons of coal, with an engine and
| hosting machine, would have raised
every stone to its position. 10
WATER thrown into red-ho metallic
vessel does not boil, as we SHOULD expect,
but quietly gathers itself together, form
! irg more or less perfect sphere, and in
that condition floats about gracefully on
the hot surface as it slowly evaporates
away. If at the same time very vapor-
liable substance, as liquid sulphurous
| acid, is thrown in, the water may ac-
tuslly be frozen in the red-hot vessel. =
PROFESSOR LANCER lately brought
under the notice of the Anthropological
! Society of Vienna startling argument
in favoro of Darwin's development theory,
| in the shape of the cranium of negro,
presenting the hitherto unobserved'
anomaly of five supernumerary teeth.
| Moreover, three of these, viz, an incisor
| and two molars, were situated in the
| lower jaw. By the arrangement of these
| teeth there are in each rev right and
left, four large grinders instead of three.
| Now it is a welLknown fact that the
monkeys of the New World have SO
teeth, with four molars, just as they
stood in Professor Langer's negro skull.
This is considered strong evidence by
the humane stnsian party. z'SI-5'i
THERE is species of honey bee in
South Africa without stings. They usu-
ally take possession of hollow trees, in
/ which they construct rows of wax cups
nearly the size of half an egg-shell;
When full of honey they are capped
over to exclude air, (which preserves the
contents in liquid state. When one
pot is finished they proceed with am
other, and thus store up an immense
| amount of delicious food, of which they
are invariably robbed without the power
! of offering resistance a2f0 gCsdl
THE condition of the eye known as
color blindness, in which a person loses
| the power of seeing certain colors, is, ex-
/ planned by Prof. Helmholtz on the ihy-
| pothesis that in the retina or sensitive
nervous coat eff the eye there are nerve
flaments possessed of the speciaI duty
of determining each color respectively.
Such specialization of function is not
extraordinary and is similar to- that
found in the auditory nerve, which on
4 entering thetcochlea divides into vast
number of flaments, each of which is
attuned to a given note. Il.
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