Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-07-26
Scientific Notes.


The salt lake of Utah is saltcr than the
ocean.
There are 80, coo species of living ami
mails.
They have caught and tanned white
buffalo at Fort Concho in Texas.
1t is very simple fact but rather curl
Gus, that the albumen of cabbage is iden-
tical with that of the white of an egg.
The public clocks in the city of Vienna
are at present driven by pneumatic sys-
tenn, actuated at the Imperial Observatory.
Pea pods will yield alcohol as abun-
dainty as the bes: root or pumpkins. In
the rural districts of some PARTS Of Eng
land, a domestic beer is MA Ie from them
by adding hops.
There are scientists who actually de
clare that musical sounds. or notes, are
Conducive to the development of flowers,
and that the singing Of birds is a pro
moter of vegetable life.
Starch, bean, flour. sand, gum, mucil,
age and gelatine. are used as adulterant,
Of honey. They are readily recognized.
as they all thicken on heating, while the
pure honey becomes thinner under those
conditions.
There has recently been formed in Paris
a society of gentlemen who advocate the
promotion Of science, all whom agree that
their wills shall bcqueath their bodies to
surgeons or Psychologists, to be dissected
for scientific inst uction.
Professor Tyndall says that, as the re
suit Of eight months incessant labor, he
has come 10 the conclusion that there is
not shadow Of evidence in proof Of the
doctrine of spontaneous generation, and
that in the lowest, as in the highest Of or
ganized creatures, the method of nature
is that life shall be the issue of anteccdcnt
life.
1t is fact that man is taller on rising
in the morning than at night, for the car
tilages between the Yertebrn of he back
bone, twenty-four in number, yield con-
siderably to the pressure of the body in
an erect posi- ion in the day. and expand
during the repose of the night.
Gen'l Pleasanton keeps pitching into
Isaac Newton. "Thc movements of ami
mails in the performance of their varied
functions have no reference to gravlta-
tion,'' he says. 80 also in the vege-
table world. The sap of plants rises
from the roots, is distributed through the
branches and enlarges their size irrespec>
tive Of grayitaton, The trunk of the tree
ascends INTO the atmosphere, and extends
its huge limbs laterally, as if grav:tation
had no existence. The smoke from COM
bus;iOn, the exhalatlons from the earth
and the evaporation of water, all of them
material substances, are in opposition to
gravitation. .-.-
A paper in Gainesville, Georgia, has a
curious advertisement, evidently of Yam
kee conception. The author offers to fill
ter the water used by the citizens at the
small cost OF ten cents per gallon, and
with the sediment, which he proposes to
use as substitute for Venetian red and
Spanish brown, he will contract to paint
every fence and building in the city
at about one-fourth the cost of usual
paint. ...-..
Let person handle the flour of sulphur
for few moments with the naked hands,
SO subtle is the article that it will
penetrate his system sufficiently, provided
he have silver in his pocket, to tarnish 1t.
What is there more subtle or wonderful
in mesmeric action than this simple facts
Herein the system receives gentle influ.
once, which, though entirely unfelt, is
very potent in its effects.