The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-04

IT il shown that, on the Gulf and At
lantic border, the great rsinfalls are
twice a. frequent on the coast ss at zoo
miles inland from it. A cause assigned
is rising of the air from the ocean as it
impinges on the land, and the conse-
quent condensation OF Its vapor.
ACCORDING TO- observations made by
DR.. Lawson TAFT, the ear in women, as q
rule, can perceive higher note,--sounds
with larger number of vibrations per
second-thaR the ear in men. The
highest limit of and ability for the hui
man ear is somewhere between 1900
and 1900 vibrations per second.
M. TossELLI proposes TO establish
watering places for ships at sea. 1t is
well known that In many places springs
of fresh water arise from the bottom of
the ocean. These he proposes TO utilize
by means of flexible tubes held at the
surface by suitable buoys. N. Tosselli,
it is said, has given the subject careful
study, and made provisions for the pres
ervation of his apparatus against storms.
The quantity of air inhaled and ex-
hailed by an adult in twenty-four hours
amounts on an average TO about $50
cubic fest, or 1000 gallons, making an
aggregate of 10000 gallons in one year.
What we take in and give out during
twenty-four hours in the shape OF solid
and liquid food, occupies on an average
the space of five and half pints, which
is equal to the 1.3000th part OF the VOL
ume of the air passing through our lungs.
A SHORT time ago an Illinois physi-
clan, DR.. Gebhart, took plaster casts of a
aumber of fossil foot prints, supposed to
be human, lately discovered in the car
boniferous sandstone near Metropolis, in
that State. He forwarded description
of the prints, together with full details
as to site, TO Mr.. Darwin and other nat
urslists. The almost unanymous verdict
was that the tracks were those of spe
cies of Labyinthodon.
WITHIN the past few days a new
stone-dresssng machine has been exhibit
ed in London to a number of scientific
and practical men. The machine treats
the hardest and softest stones alike. and
with equal success and rapidity. 1t Is
claimed from actual tests that the new
invention will accomplish as much work
in an hour as a skilled workman could do
in week. 1t is claimed for this machine
that it will greatly lessen the cost of
building materials.
The Popular Science Monthly says:
at is somewhat remarkable that, in GER
tain parts of Florid.., living is made al
most impossible from the presence, in
amazing numbers, of cockroach net
known North. The queer thing is that,
while this pest has been long known in
Florida, the fact has escaped the knowl-
edge of scientific mon. Mrs. Treat lately
sent specimens to Professor S. Fl. Scud-
der, the orthopterist, who was surprised
to see them, and pronounced them the |
australasia of Fabricus.
CHEMICAL analysis discloses the fact
that among the many articles used Tor
food there arc only two wheat and milk,
which contain all the elements of the
human body, and in the proper proper
ton. Other articles, such as buttor,
sugar, syrup, and tat of all kinds, are
wholly carbonaceous, or heat producing, |
SO that if human being were to attempt |
to live on these articles alone, his brain
and muscles would starve. By actual
experiment it has been found that man
could not survive two months on such
u diet.