The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-06-23
SCIENCE AND ART.

THE number of optic nerve hbers Is
1873 O00. and of retinal cones in each hu-
nan eye 3,360;0O0. aa. .r..
According to DR.. Richardson, the
mortality among ministers OF rellgioni
/ IS compared with publicans, is 72 against
I38. ID
LARGE bowls OF chloride of lime put
within larger bowls and placed IN damp
rooms will, it is said, absorb their damp
dess. the water overflOwing INTO the
larger bowls. All outside dampness
must be excluded.
IT is said that good audiPhone can
pe made of we'll caiendered binder
BOARD, by cutting into the shape OF a
ian and bending it to the proper curve
5y strings connecting the upper ana
lower margins. .. ... gEn
PROLONGED exposure to very intense
cold has very little influence IN destroy
ing the terminating power of seeds DE
CSndolI9 and R. Pictet subjected the
seeds of plants to q temperature OF o0
degrees without injuring them very
seriously. -.r
Nh. E. DA CAN'T reports that 1T ha
been fGdnd in the Azores that the en-
trance of smoke into the c0nservatories
causes rapid development OF the buds
in the case of roses, ananas, etc, and
that this fact is Dow made use OF IN
Fastening the blooming. .....
IN parts of Italy an insidiOus dis
sase called " helaga is proving fatal to
large numbers Of the population. its
cause being attributed 10 the eating OF
deteriorsted maze and the Unhealthy
state of the novels in which the rust1cs
i've
AT late meeting of the Liverpool
| Engineering Society the discussion was
mainly upon the practicability of using
the tremendous power of the tides in
place of that of steam produced BY the
| burning of coal The general opinion
seems 10 be that the tides viii ere long
be utilized.
IT is reported that the Count De
Beaufort exhibited at the Applied
Science Exhibition, at Paris, artificial
arms that would enable a carpenter
without arms to work at his trade, or an
armless girl to do knitting This is q
| tough story to believe even though told
as it is by the Scientific An9eracaF.
THE same agent which takes oul
messages with lightning speed, or phOnO-
! graphically records our very words as
| with an indelible pen. helps to crystalizt
| the diamond at the bottom of the mine
and the transparent snowflake high uI
| in the heavens. The whole subject Of
crystals is beautiful beyond the power
| of the Imagination.
IN the law of reproduction there IS 4
principle which never deviates from it'
! course, is absolutely Interchangeable, ana
leads to the production of a being will
the characteristics of its parent. How
/ that influence is transmitted, what its
bature, by what law governed, we donot
! know ..s...
A TEXAN professor has written :
pamphlet to prove that cities built o.
limestone are the healthiest in the WOrlc
and never much visited by malaria
diseases, including yellow fever Th'
argument is that the limestone absorb
caTbonie acid arising from animal anC
vegetable decomposition.
THE uniform appearance of the mi
eros copic Shells and the almost tOta
absence among them of any sedimen
from the sea of foreign matter, suggest
most forcib1y the idea of perfect repos
at the bottom of the sea. Some of tn,
specimens are as pure and as free from
sand as the fresh fallen snowflake i
from the dust of the earth.