Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-15
Scientific NOfes.

: The Professor Libre at the Ecole DIES
Beaux-Arts, Paris, strongly dissents
from the opinion of member of the
Archaeological Society of London.
Mr.. j. w. Jackson, who lately pro.
nounced that the Gauls were rapidly
Fastening to decay, and that the Anglo.
Saxon type of the Germanic race was to
rise on their ruins.
AN eminent physician in France has
investigated the article known in cities
as street corner ice.cream, and finds it
TO contain poisonous colOrine matter.
which produces serious symptoms
when taken in q continued course.
and is prolific cause of scrofulous
eruptions and dropping out of the hair
among the lower classes.
Dr.. LANCASTER, in recent report to
the vestry of the Parish of st. James,
Westminster, coutradicts the state
ments of excessive adulteration of the
food consumed by the middle classes
in London. Thus, out of twelve speci-
mems of milk obtained ut different
shops and subjected to careful analysis,
he found ten to be very good, one mid
ding, and only one very poor.
ACCORDING to San Francisco news.
paper, a photographer in that city has
invented a method for photographing
race horse on tue iuil run of thirty.
eight feet q second, by an arrangement
of double lenses so crossed rs to secure
a perfect though momentary shadow.
A negative showing accident at full
speed during the recent race was thus
| secured.
The "Journal des Debats ~ in the
course of its feuilteto,s for April 10,
gives an account of communication
to the Society of Civil Engineers of
Paris, suggesting glycerine as dein
crustant in steam boilers, as it has the
property of attacking the residue Of
lime precipitated by the expulsion of
the free carbonic acid in boiling, and
redissolving it. Experiments con-
Quoted with tubular boilers have uni
iormly resulted in preventing the
iacrustation, thus diminishing the IL
ability to explosion and lessening the
consumption of fuel.
The British Government expedition
for investigating the bed of the ocean
treports new and curious discoveries.
Creatures composed almost wholly oil
eyes have been dredged up; and
crustaceans have been found in which
eyes are wholly wanting, the blind
body being supplied with wonderfully.
delicate claws. with which it feels its
way about. These facts confirm the
acute observation, made some time
since by an eminent biologist, that
deep-sca dredgings would probably
bring creatures with abonormally de
veloped vision, or perhaps those il
which vision was wholly replaced BY
feeling.
MEN have not yet left off trying to
find the. aboriginal atom, as is proved
by recent paper from the pen of DR.
Gaudin, of Paris, who, following in tn,
footsteps of Ampere, has been looking
deep into the atomic, molecular ant
crystalline constitution of bodies, ant
mas published the results to which b.
has been led. His investigations re
suit in resolving matter into compost
atoms or speroidal agglomerations o
particles yet more minute, which b
regards as the atoms of universal ether
To give an idea of the minuteness q
; these composite bodies, Nj. Gaudi
says that in drop of water weighin
, grain and half there would be a
! many atoms of oxygen and hyd1oge
as it takes of grains of sand to cove
!, the bottom of the sea. His theory {
= combination is that an atom of or
kind is placed between two others of
!, different kind, exactly on the line
J forming their centres.