The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-30

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POPULAR SCIENCE
A GERMAN inventor has devised q
bank-note album with leaves Of ashes
tos paper, for the protection Of notes,
checks, and valuable documents. By
placing them between the asbestos
leaves, especially il the book is firmly
clasped, they may, it Is said, be kept
legible, even after exposure to fire
which reduces them to cinders.
MISS HosMER says that her recrys.
tallized limestone is not 'san imitation OF
marble" The English officials al
Rome, who are redecorating and par.
tally rebuilding the British Embassy
there, offered her large contract fol
all the marble to be used on the build.
ing. She was not prepared to furnish
the large columns, but supplied the
wainscoting and small work, which
Miss Hosmer considers high testimo.
NAL to the value of her invention.
THE electric light exhibited in Lon.
don and Paris Is ground out of q re-
volving magnet by steam-engine, and
then distributed through connecting
wires to lamps and candles. The lamps
used are of various kinds, some of them
burning for 20 hours. But there is only
one candle-the celebrated Joblochkoff
candle-which is . stick of carbon
placed between two layers of plaster,
and looking like q two-foot rule. 1t
burns without manipulation, but does
not last more than an hour and half.
A DIsINFEcTANT for hospital use and
for general disinfecting purposes is rec
commended by DR.. John Day. It is
composed Of one part Of rectified oil of
turpentine, seven parts of benzine, and
five drops of oil of valerian to each
ounce of the mixture. Each Of the in
gradients is said to possess the power of
absorbing the oxygen of the atmosphere
and of converting it into peroxide of
hydrogen, substance similar in its eff
fects to ozone. Books, letters, newspa-
pers, clothing, carpets, wall paper may
be treated with this sort of disinfectant
without injury. Its action is very per-
sistent.
NJ. MoUCHEz, of the Academy of Sci
ences, Paris, is at last convinced, on the
strength of the evidence submitted by
Prof. Watson, that the existence of at
least one intra-Mercurial planet is now
placed beyond dispute. He confessed,
on Oct. IA, that the objections previ-
ously urged by him were for the most
part answered by Prof. Watson. 1t has
long been known that stars may be seen
in the day time from the bottom of deep
shafts of coal mines, etc. NJ. Rouder,
of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, has
availed himself of this fact, and pro-
poses that stars be observed in broad
daylight, without the aid of q telescope,
by using long tube terminating in q
da.K chamber in which the observer
stations himself.
PROF. LoCKYER is of the opinion that
human life on the planet Mars may be
very much like human life on the earth
the light can not be so bright, but the
organs Of sight may be so much more
susceptible as to make the vision quite
as good; the heat is probably less, as
the polar SHOWS certainly extend further,
but by no means less in proportion to
the lessened power of the solar rays.
He agrees with others, that several very
remarkable seas-including inland seas,
some of them connected and some not
connected by straits with still larger
seas-are now definable in the southern
hemisphere, in which, as is the case
also with the earth, water seems to be
much more widely spread than in the
northern hemisphere. There is, for ex-
ample, a southern sea, exceedingly like
the Baltic in shape; and there is an
other and still more remarkable sea,
now defined by the observations of
many astrOnOmers-One near the
equator, long struggling arm, twist
ing, almost in the shape of an S laid on |
its back, from east to west, at least q |
thousand miles in length and hundred |
in breadth.
ONE of the parties of the Geological
Survey under the immediate direction
Of Professor Hayden discovered during
The present season three complete gla-
ciers in the Wind River Mountains, the
first known to exist in the United States
sast of the Pacific coast. One of these
IS located on the east side of the Wind
River Peak, near the south end of the
range; the other two are situated at the
sast base of Fremont's Peak. The lat
,er two occupy about two miles square
IN surface, and answer exactly to the
description of an Alpine glacier, though
not as large. They have terminal and
ateral moraines, and though seen in
August, are largely solid ice, with snow
around the borders, with true glacial
lift, and moving slowly down. On the
vest side of the Wind River Mountains
he ancient glacial action is the most ,
marked and powerful ever known in
his country. There are morainal
idges, LOCO feet high and five miles
ong. The ancient glaciers must have
'een 60 miles long and IL miles wide,
ending up numbers Of arms to the axis
4 the range. There are no sedimentary
ocks on the west side of the range old
r than the Wahsatch group (middle
ertiary), which juts up against the base
t the range with an inclination of not
yer five degrees. The geology of all :
his district will be fully described in
be Twelfth Annual Report of the Sur. !
ey, for 1873.
Marie Rexe In State.prison. =