The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-05

milk-white and blue rays come next Il
the green and yellow in activity; and tn
red and violet are the least active OF al
the hues OF the sps ctrum.
German scientists are making cru
SADIE against the numerous quack medi
cines. secret remedies, disinfectants ano
panaceas with which the country is flood
ed at the present time. They make care
full analysis of every thing sent to them
and publish the results obtained without
hesitation. The following are some OF
the results obtained in Europe Luder's
disinfecting powders consist of badly
roasted iron pyrites, holding twelve per
cent. of sulphuric acid soluble in water.
1t can be obtained very cheaply at any
pyrites burning sulphuric acid works.
Eau de princess, contained in an oval
bottle with long neck, is an agreeably-
smelling liquid containing 2.05 grams
calomel. 0.45 gram corrosive sublimate
and orange-fower water and perfume
ad lib. Golden wonder is a mixture of
4 grams ether, 6 grams chloroform, O.4
gram camphor, 3 grams oil of pepper
mint, 35 grams tincture pepper, and 80
grams alcohol Polio Chinese headache
remedy, consists eff very good oil of pep
permint, costing one cent drop. Regu-
lating pills, thirty sugar-coated pills in
a box, of unequal size and shape, COM
posed of GA gram quit, . grams a!oes, l
gram jalapa. We cory the above
from a list of one hundred and sixty
similar nostrums, many Of them innox-
ieus, others, worthless, and some decided
ly injurious, and all better to be severely
left alone.
We have received the second bulletin
OF the American geographical society for
the present season, in which the prirci-
pie paper is an account of Journey in
Spitzenbergen seas and in Lapland, made
in the summer of 1875, by Alexander
Wander Horck, at the instance of several
prominent men of science in Berlin. The
author had the rare fortune of seeing
herd of nearly 5000 reindeer, and
vas shown some beautiful rose-colored
,earls obtained by diving in the cold
treams of Russian Lapland but we
quote his most remarkable story: "On
me occasion We had curious adventure.
While crossing lacustrine part of the
lver called kjoalme jaure, in the early
art OF the night we were suddenly sur
ounded by swarms of lemming (myodes
orquatus)-an. animal like the noun
aiD-rat. They swan round the boat and
tempted to Chamber into it, so that it
las with The greatest difficulty we could
eep the fierce little creatures from
oarding us by beating about with
ne oars, at which they would set up
1arp, shrill screams, similar to those of
ne muskrat. After some time we sue
eeded in passing them. These little an
mails come unexpectedly down from the =,
one knowing exactly
hence-and appear in millions, swarm ,
'g over the whole country, eating up al q
ost everything that comes in their way. .
either rivers nor lakes seem to deter :,
lem, both of which they swim with ease, 6
'ually keeping on their destructive
'th until reaching the sea, which they E
'inly attempt to Cross, never swerving u
ON the direction once taken until they :,
TX exhausted beneath the waves" The =
thor adds that visitations of this kind :.
Z separated by intervals of MANY 4
ars. :
In considering the origin of California :,
I'd shells, Or. j. G. Cooper is of the Il
inion that they came neither from the >,
st nor from the west, but from the =,
rthward; nor does he believe that n
~ can have been derived from form q
of which the Pacific islands h,
the remnants, nor from an Atlantis -,
the Atlantic ocean. On the contrary. .,
Genealogical evidence tends to show
1t the region of the north pole, which
the tertiary period was warm, proba-
formed the center of distribution for
land shells of Asia, Europe and a
nerica. Going back in geological his kl
y, he says, to the supposed beginning es
all the living species, few, if any, Of ag
terrestrial can be traced farther than te
eocene tertiary: some, included in se'
comprehensive genius Helix" su