Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-15


worked. The sulphur can be supplied
at half the cost of that furnished by
the Sicilian mines, which, it is believed,
will soon be exhausted. The earth inn
pregnated with sulphur contains from
90 to 60 per cent, and is from three to
Blk feet in thickness. Vapors arising
from the interior of the earth oont;nri1
ally deposit fresh supplies.
y DOG DENTISTRY. is we'll known
that the bites of rabid herbivorous ami
mails are rarely dangerous, because their
teeth are made fat.faced, for grinding
their foed without penetrating or tear
ing the tissues. Hence their bite is lit
tie more than severe bruise, differing
from that of o carnivorous animal,
which pierces Immediately through the
skin. a veterinary surgeon of Paris,
M. Aonrrel. recently captured three mad
dogs, and, tightly securing them. pro-
ceeded to file down their teeth. These
animals he let loose with six other dogs.
The latter were Immediately furiously
attacked and frequently bitten, but in
no case did the pointless teeth infiict
more than bruise. Not content with,
this, M. Bourrel put on thin kid
glove and then worried he mad dogs
with his hand until they bit him several
times. Although pinchipg quite hard
the glove was otssbroken in single in
stance, while the skin beneath was un-
injured. V
sNA1ns' Eaas.-The eggs of the
common land snail are like homeo-
pathic pills-the same size, color and
, shape,and are generally deposited in
little clusters. The eggs of the COM
mon garden snails of Britain are as large
as peas, and are laid just under the sur
face of the soil. The eggs of the Arion
hortensis, q land snail, are very phos-
phorescent for the first fifteen days.
The spwan of sea snails consists OF in
Vulnerable eggs adhering together in
masses, or spread out in rows in the
shape of strap or ribbon. This nida-
mental ribbon is sometimes coiled up
spirally, like watch.spring, and at
tached by one of it's edges to some
solid surface. Some of the tropical
species of snails are very large, and de-
post eggs as big as robins. The
bulimi cement leaves together to pro-
tect and conceal their bird-like eggs.
one species of oceanic snail attaches
1ts eggs, which are enveloped in q cap
sule, to a floating raft, and gives them
over TO the tender mercies of the waves
and fishes.
ARE FEATHER BEDS Protection
FROM LIGHTNING ?-Feather- are
not protection from Lightning, and
the popular belief that they are doubt
less results from misapprehension of
the laws that govern the passage of
electricity. The human body is q bet
ter conductor of electricity than feath-
er beds or other objects ordinarily con-
tanned in the apartments Of dwellings,,
and therefore u o,.iori, when the light
ming enters an apartment the human
body Is likely to form one in chain of
lnductlons, determining the path of an
electrical discharge, unless better con-
ductols are in its vicinity to divert this
action. The only place of absolute se-
7 oufity IN a thunderstorm is an iron
building; or next in safety is build
ing properly protected by lightning
rods. 4 Houses constructed entirely of
iron manifestly stand in no need of
Ightning-rods ut all, because the cleo
trio fluid, on striking 80 good conduc-
tor, would rapidly diffuse itself in all
directions and flow into the ground.
provided, of course, that the construc.
tion of the building is such as to allow
it's free escape.
Z" CARDoN1o ACID AS MoroR.-The
possibility of employing carbonic acid
T. rs motor-the successor of steam. as
it is termed toIthe author-is foreshad-
owed by paper by DIR. a. Beins, pub.
lished in the English Chemical News.
The writer considers that he has dis
covered very cheap way of producing
carbonic acid in liquid state, and con.
q aequently, at high tension. When ma
trium carbonate, or the corresponding
: salt of kalinm, in dry, pulverized
state or in watery solution, is heated
In closed space, part of the carbonic
ACID is given Off and condensed in non.
heated portion of that space, 40 that, Mt
temperature of from 636 deg. to 843
deg, Fahrenheit, liquid carbonic acid,
says DIR. Beins, can be distilled out of
those salts, with tension of from so to
60 atmospheres. This LIQUID carbonic
aoid, or "carboleum, rs it is called. it
is proposed to develop gas with which
engines are to be driven. The paper on
the subject contains a dissertation on
the advantages of the plan, bnt gives so
few details regarding it's practical appli
cation, or with reference TO tho mann.
1acture OF carbolenm or liquid carbonic
acid, that the gist of the matter ia snIa.
med up in the above lines.
SCIENTIFIC BALLOON AsoENsroN
balloon ascension made on the second
of November, 1873, at Charkow. in Rua.
sia, by Bunelle, is worthy of special
mentlon. In ct hours the balloon
travelled $50 kilometels, going always
in the same direction towards the n.
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