The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-21

In new electric battery one Of the
elements is composed of sheet iron less
than the ten thousandth of an inch in
thickness.
In the South Kensington Museum is
Edison's original lamp with the carbon
loop 1t is accompanied by certificate
from Mr. Edison stating that it burned
1890 hours.
According to an English patent a
mixture of locust beans (Ceratonia sill
q'aa) and tares Vicia sativa) may be
made to yield an infusion closely resemb-
ling Mocha coffee.
1t is stated that Mrs. Schliemann, the
wife Of the great Oriental explorer, helps
her husband in all his scientific labors-
superintendiug excavations under his di-
rection regardless of exposure to sun and
dust
Recent dredgings by NJ. Loliet in the
Sea of Galilee have shown that twelve
species of fish are contained therein; of
which the majority have the remarkable
habit of Matching their eggs and shelter
ing their young in their mouths.
"A proclamation from DR.. Salvador
Vinci, of Catania, announces that great
revolution in the physical sciences is at
hand, for he will shortly demonstrate, by
the most positive and incontestable evil
dence, that the essence of heat, Of light
of electricity, of magnetism and of life
is-oxygen
According to DR.. Edward Smith, an
egg contains fifteen and one-fourth per
cent of carbon and two per cent. of nitro
gen. Another writer estimates that the
value of one pound of eggs, as food for
sustaining the forces of the body, is to
the value of one pound of lean beef as
1883 to 900. As a flesh producer one
pound of eggs is about equal to one
pound of beef
Near Armsteg, on the line of the st.
Gothard Railway, excavations for the
road have laid bare so-called glacier
garden, containing series of "giants'
kettles or large holes made in the 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 enclosed 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 sl,-
500 to $4,000 yearly, and in addition en-
cages the services of an eminent chemist
for theoretical work exclusively, paying
him nearly $4,000 per annum. 1t is
doubtless to this liberal patronage OF
qualified scientists that the superiority of
German chemical 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 spring
in one of the Ionian Islands which has
yielded petroleum more than two thou
sand years. The city of Genoa was for
merly lighted by oil from the wells of
Armenia on banks of the Faro. In Persia,
also, near the Caspian Sea at Baku, uu-
merous springs of petroleum have been
known from the earliest time !; and those
Of Rangoon, on the Irawaddy. are said to
have yielded, before the general introduc-
tion of petroleum, some 4Oo, 900 hogsheads
Of oil . year.
During late visit to the solar OBJ
sefvatory at Mendon, Prof Bell was much
interested in NJ Janssen's splendid photo
graphs, and expressed the opinion that
the yaristions Of brightness Of . given
solar point might make the photophone
speak, and 90 reproduce in the laboratory
sounds produced on the sun. n. Jansen
put bis instrumental at Prof Bells dispo-
sal, and the experiment was made on .
fine day, bat without distinct success II.
Jsnsssn has proposed that . series of sac-
eussivs photographs Of 8 particular point
on the sun's surface be passed rapidly be
tore an objective giving images on the
selenium apparatus, thus condensing into
brief space variations which in the solar
images are too slcwtc produce sound 10
the photophoDe.
Sir wyviile Thompson, IN whose