The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-12-21
SCIENTIFIC MIscELLANY.


In a new electric battery, n of the
elements is composed Of sheet iron less
than the ten i~housandth Of an inch in
thickness.
In the South Kensington museum Is
Edison's original lamp with the carbon
loop. 1t is accompanied by u certificate
from Mr.. Edison stating that II burned
800 hours.
According TO an English patent, a
mixture Of locust beans, Ceraiaaia sill
qua, and tars, Iicia satiria, may be
made an infusion closely resembling
Mocha. coffee.
1t is stated that Mrs. Schliemann, the
wife Of the great oriental explorer,
helps her husbGnd ia all his scientific
labors, experimenting excavations
under his direction regardless of ex-
posture TO sun and dust.
Recent dredgings by NJ. Toilet in the
sea Of Galilee have shown that twelve
species of fsh are contained therein, OF
which the majority have the remark
able habit of Matching their eggs and
sheltering their young in their mouths.
A proclamation" from DIR. Salvador
Vinci, Of Catania, announces that a
great revolution in the physical sciences
is at hand, for lie will shortly demon
strate, by the most positive and incon-
testible evidence, that the essence Of
heat of light, of electricity. of magne-
tism and of life, is-oxygen!
According to DIR. Edward Smith, an
egg contains fifteen and one-fourth per
cent Of carbon and two per cent of
nitrogen. Another writer estimates
that the value OF one pound OF eggs, rs
food for sustaining the active forces Of
the body, is TO the value of one pound
Of lean beef as 1854 10 SEQ. AS u flesh
producer one pound of eggs is about
equal TO INT pound of beef.
Near Armsteg, on the line of the st.
Gothard railway, excavations for the
road have laid bare a so-called glacier
garden, containing "A series of giants
kettles, " or large holes made in tho
rock by hydraulic or glacier action.
One half of the garden lay across the
railway track and had to be blasted
away, but the other half has been en-
closed by a wall and will be carefully
preserved.
One OF the leading chemical manu-
factories of Germany employs six
regular chemists, with salaries varying
from 81, 800 to 50, 800 yearly, and in ad-
dition engages the services Of an emf
nent chemist for theoretical work ex-
clusively, paying him nearly $4,000
per annum. II is doubtless to this
liberal patronage Of qualified scientists
that the superiority Of German chemi-
cal manufactures is due.
The sources of petroleum are found
in almost every part OF the globe, and
the use of the article would seem well
nigh coeval with civilization. There
is a spring in n OF the Ionian islands
which has yielded petroleum more than
two thousand years. The city Of Genoa
was formally lighted by oil from thelwells
of..Armenia on the banks Of the FARO.
In Parsia, also, near the Caspian sea
at Baku, numerous springs of petro-
leum have been known from the earli-
est time; and those of Rangoon, on the
Irawaddy, are said TO have yielded be-
fore the general introduction OF petro-
leum, some 100000 hogsheads OF oil n
year.
Sir Wyvillo Thompson, in whose
charge the Challenger deep-sea explor-
ing expedition was made, considers the
most important and remarkable bio
logical result of the work Of the Chal-
lenger to be the final establishment of
the fact that, contrary TO the established
belief, the distribution Of living beings
in tho sea has no debth-limit. but that
animals of all the marine invertebrate
classes, and probably fishes also, exist
over the whole floor of the ocean,. He
is unwilling to speak positively as to
the exact nature of the life existing at
the greatest depths, but from a depth
of two thousand fathoms spe cimens
we're secured proving the existence Of n
vast and varied assemblage Of living in
habitants more than two and quarter
- 4. flo Is, ,rf.. an