The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

COhIUOS AND SCIEN1IFIC.
The best brain food" has been de-
clared to be "that which is found to
have the best effect on the system gen
orally"
ORGANIC impurities in drinking water
can often be detected by the odor.
This is increased by warming. Pure
water has no smell
PURE wines lose their natural color
when treated with sulphate of copper,
but sophisticated wines retain their
color when thus treated. ! w. = 50 =
LINNEUs states the COW to eat 276
plants, and to refuse 21S; the goat eats
449, and declines 1876; the sheep takes
3o7, and rejects AL; the horse likes
262, and avoids 212, but the hog, more
nice III its provisions than any of the
former, eats but u plants and rejects
III.
MAJOR FORD has performed good
service by showing that, if dynamite is
poured into water, the sand falls to the
bottom, and the nitro-glycerine floats
on the surface, and explodes with its
usual violence if the temperature is
slightly increased. This will explain
the cause of many of the serious ex-
ploslons with dynamite when used in
wet holes. ,'..-.
PROF. STEWART, of San Francisco,
puts forward this theory as to why
earthquakes have become rare in that
region: cat all seasons of the wear
there is vastly more moisture in the all
in the Atlantic States than in Califor-
MIA, and firmly believe that our over
charged coast is being constantly re.
leved OF its plus-electricity by the iro1
of the overland railway, and that Cali
fornla earthquakes are now appearing
in the form of frightful tornadoes anC
electrical storms east of the Rock,
mountains"
The London Nescs describes re
cently-invented and useful little device
namely, a watch-chain measuring in
strument, which will do the work @
both rule and measuringtape and vii
measure with accuracy minute fraction
of an inch or the length of the room
To measure any object, it is simpl
necessary to run it over the surface
when the distance is at once indicate,
by the hands-the large hand register
ing the inches and fraction of an incl
and the small hand the feet The de
vice is also convenient for the read
measuring of distances on maps, how
ever irregular the route may be.
DURING the last eight or nine year
the belief has been gaining ground tina
Jupiter and Saturn are in state of i'm
mense heat, and inwrapped in an at
mosphere of enormous depth and dens
ity, and that we do not see them all
Recent observations have fully con
firmed this theory. At the Adelaid
I Observatory, where fine telescope ha
been erected, and where a singular pun
ity of air greatly assists astronomical oh
servation, two practical observers, o.
| two different occasions-both observin;
on each occasion-saw the nearest O
Jupiter's satellites through the cute
layer of the planets cloud-laden atmos
phere, which must therefore of necessit,
be at least 1000 miles in depth
PROF. NEWCOMB, the retiring Presl
/ dent of the American Association fo2
the Advancement of Science, in his ad
dress at St. Louis took the attitude of
peacemaker between the theologians anC
scientists. He discussed in excellen
spirit the conflict between the theologi
cal and mechanical methods of explain
ing natural phenomena, taking as The
keynote of his address the proposition
that science concerns itself only will
phenomena, and the relations which
convert them, and does not take accoun
of any questions which do not in somc
way admit of being brought to the ties
of observation. He claims there should
be no conflict between the two schools
of thinkers.