The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-27
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

work have been found. These are re
feTred to as being the most ancient
evidence yet known of the existence OF
man, and belonging to the period inter.
Venlng between the two glacial epOchs.
In former times one of the supposed
characteristics Of fishes was that they
took no care or notice of their eggs OF
spawn, or of their young but it is
knOwn that some species of the sunfsh,
at least, carefully watch their spawn
until incubation takes place, and care
for the young fish for some time after
ward. These varieties of the sunfish
also live III pairs.
The superiority of the wood of the
Florida cedar over Ill other kinds oil
cedar is well known, and the demand
tor it IN Bavaria, where immense quaint.
ties of lead pencils are made, has in
duced some manufacturers to take uE
the question of the ecclimatizatiOn OF
the Tree in that country. Seeds have
been sOwn in the Royal Forest, and
about 5000 young plants have been
grown on one private estate. The cul-
tivation of the tree has been attempted
also IN other parts of Germany.
ACCORDING to the Hearth and Home,
longevity is the rule among lite rary
women. Says that journal: "Miss
Martinau, Miss Bremen, Mrs. Hewitt,
Mrs. Strickland and Browning, ali
either living or not very long deceased,
were born almost at the beginning OF
the century. Nine. De Stael lived to
be fifty-one, Mrs. Bradstreet fifty-nine,
Ida Pfeiffer sixty one, Miss Milford
sixty-nine, Lady Wortley MOntagu
seventy two, Miss Edgeworth eighty-tWo o,
Mrs. Opie eighty four, Nine. D'Arblsy
eighty-ive, Mrs. SOmerVille ninety-One,
and Nine. De Genhs ninety-six.
The English propose to move street
carriages by clockwork. 1t is said that
all practical difficulties have been re-
moved. The carriages, of course,
labor under the very slightest possible
amount of frietion-that is to say,
must go on rails. Also they should be
as light as possible, and cars of two
tons are spoken of but the inventors
claim power to move car of five tons,
requiring a forcs of seven hundred
ana twenty pounds on the periphery of
the spring barrel. Sheffield springs
having force of nine hundred POUNDS
have been made. The springs are to
be wound up at intervals by stationary
engines.
Mr.. PRooToE, in a recent article on
LIfe in Other Worlds" concludes
thus There IS, then, an infinity of
life around us, although we recognize
lntnlty of time as we'll as infnity of
space as an attribute of the existence
OF life III the universe. And remember
ing, as life In each individual is infinite,
IN each planet finite, and in each solar
system finite, and in each system
of stars finite SO, to speak of no
higher orders, the infnity of life itself
demonstrates the inhnity of barranness,
the lnhnity of habitable worlds implies
the inhnity of worlds not as yet habit
able, or which have long since passed
the period of individuality. Yet there
is no waste, whether of time, or space.
of matter, or of force for waste i'm.
plies tending toward a limit, so that
of the illimItable there can be no
waste,
TOADs IN TIGHT PLACES. Dr..
Schhemann was making excavations on
the supposed site OF ancient Troy, in
1872, he came upon two toads prisoned
among the blocks of stone unearthed at
depth of from 49, to 525 feet. The
event furnishes some pleasant moral
lziDg for the arch@OlOgist, upon the
fact that these toads had survived among
the ruins Of the Homeric city for at
least three thousand years. At the
same time aud place, small but very
poisonous snake was uncovered. This
creature, however, the doctor thinks,
may have wriggled his way down from
the surface at later period. Shortly
after this first interesting discovery, a
second pair of toads was found between
the stones of old Troy at depth OF
forty-three and a half feet from the
surface. The venerable antiquities
hoped off as soon as they were set free.
The naturalist will regret that DIR.
Schliemanu did not make such careful
observations with regard to the position
of these exhGmed ANIMALS as to settle
all doubt as to the time aud manner of
their getting into the tight place from
which they were apparently liberated.
A NEW JERSEY RELIC.-A cannon. ball
is preserved in the Office of the Revenue
Marine IN the Treasury Department, in
Washington which deserves to become
historic-lf cold iron can be said ia
deserve any thing. It weighs twenty
pounds, and is a plain, rough shot, with
an iron ring attached to it. In storm
which occurred on the coast of New
Jersey, many years ago, it was thrown
from mortar, with line fastened tC
the ring, and, passing over, fell beyond
a ship which was stranded and in danger
of going to pieces. The line was tIeC
to "A cable on the shore, and the ship
wrecked people drew thisin and fastened
1t to the vessel. On this cable life
car was passed backward and forward
from the ship TO the shore, by which
means two hundred lives were saved
The ball was hauled in and retained. 1
was subsequently sent To the head
quarters of the Revenue Marine De
partmeut, where it has been since care
fully preserved, and where it is always
regarded with much interest by peopl,
who are informed of ITS history. 1
might have sunk "seventy, four" anC
never been heard from.
AN ingenious system of lighting builS
ings is suggested by the Scientific Amer
lean as among the probabilities of the
future. Given, cay, large hotel to be
furnished with light, the plan suggested
IL, instt ad of laying network OF gas.
pipes leading to the different rooms and
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present method, to have the hight fol
the whole building generated In one
place, say the main ventllating shaft,
for the utilizing of the surplus heat.
The distribution of the light would be
effecte by means of rehectors, each
throwing into its appropriate tube q
bundle of rays-made parallel by lens
sufficiently intense to food the room
to which they were directed with a pure
white radiance, which could be turned
on or of, or graduated, by simply press
ipg a knob or turning a key. In size
the light tubes need to be no greater
than ordinary gas-pipes, and ever much
smaller, since all the light required fol-
the largest room might be transmitted
to the r. fector as nm extremely slender
beam. The terminal lenses would close
the tube against smoke and dust, which
would dim the refiectors at the angles
ard by keeping the irclosed air pure
and dry the absorption Of light would
be insppreciable.
CURIosTTIFs OF WELDING has
lately been shown in this country very
interesting specimen of blacksmith
work. by meats of Schierich's welding
compound II is alleged that, in one sx-
ample Of n bar of Ressemer steel, five
different kinds of irou aud steel have