Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-01
Reported for the Grant County HrRsIp
Popular Science Notes.

being equipped for the occasion, and
,he party will embark about the
irst Of July.
Observances have demonstrated
mat an increased activity takes
place in the volcanic eruptions of
Vesuvius, at the time of each full
noon
Scientists claim that intemperance
And educational examining, produce
more cases of insanity than Ill other
,auges combined. At least the rule
mas been found to hold good in
P.assia and other foreign countries
whore more thorough observances
have been made.
The soil of q cemetery in EGG
land, in which no iDterments have
been made for thirty years, was
recently analysed by en- eminent
chemist, aud the products of animal
decomposition were found to still
exist to a considerable degree.
It has been learned that fully
five per cent. CT cows advanced in
life suffer from tubereular diseases,
and it is q we'll known fact that the
aft action may b. communicated to
human beings by the drinking of the
milk, it stands farmers and others
in hand to keep their boyines in a
healthy condition, aud see that no
milk is used that comes from an
unhealthy animal.
Army Worme, by the millions,
are invading Long Island, and also
the shore country of New Jersey
and Connecticut, and in their en-,
ward march totally destroy grass,
corn, oats, clover, garden crops and
all suculest vegetation, leaving the
ravaged territory brown and bare.
Such destruction was never before
caused IN this country by these
pests.
An appropriation bill providing
for the survey of tho Gulf Stream
from It's origin to lis fnal whirl
around the Sargasso Sea, has just
been passed by the House of Rep.
resentstivas. Tais is an important
step and il is to DO hoped that q
liberal appropriation may be made
and that tbs work may be faithfully
and minuteiy carried out. The plan
embraces current observations, deep
sea temperatures, aoundings, etc.
aud when done the work will doubt
lees prove an important one-add.
ing to the nations record Scientific
Explorations, another valuable and
interesting chapter.
A price indicator for Gas Meters
is @ new invention which has JUS
been patented in this country. Tht
apparatus is said to be quite simple
and perfectly accurate in its work
ings, enabling the consumer to tel
at any moment, the quantity o
gas consumed aud the amount ID
dollars and cents, of his indebted
ness to the manufacturer
A new and novel method Of heat
ing railway cars has just bean pat
ented in Europe, and ia being
placed upon tho Paris L9igOns an;
other routes in France. 1t consistt
in using the Acetate of Soda in foot
warmers. 10 dissolgiog in water
this substance absorjs or reI iert
latent large amount of heat whici
continues for q considerable length
OF time--say from Is to 20 hour;
without being renewed.
An exhibition will be opened il
Glasgow in August aud remain il
session for SIX months, for the pur
pose Of promoting al exhibition o
naval and marine engineering mod
els Of that section and will be under
tae supervision OF large and in
hueatial committee of shipbuildert
and marine builders.
Two elegant locomotives were
recently manufactured at Plttsburg
Pa, for tho Parondi railway ii
Japan.
A petrifi ID shark some six feet il
length and weighing about 20t
pounds was found recently at tn,
La Panza diggiugs, in California
When it was taken from the grounC
parts of the tail and no5e were bro.
ken off and its original length wa
about eight feet. 1t has elso beer
stated that petrified whale, SONS
forty feet in length, is imbeddet
in the side OF the same mountain.
a balloon for navigation, having
three cars attached has been 10
vented by Herr Baumgartner, ,
German. Each car Is supplied will
rings and fans to be set in motion
by cranks, and the whole will b,
guided by means Of sails specially
arranged. The inventor is sanguin,
Of succeeding in navigating tho ali
in most successful manner.
For their improved and self
method of manufacturing nitro. ely
oerine, Boutmy d. FoUcher, have
been awarded q pyizs of $500
francs, by the French Academy o.
Sciences These gentleme nav,
been engaged in the manufacture
of this article at Yonges, tho pas
six years, without meeting with
single accident.
An exhibition has been opened a.
Vienna by the weII-known African
traveller, DR. Holab, VINO has thou
sands Of objects brought by him
from the South African tribes. The
articles arc arranged ia groups and
classified as geological, botanical
mineralogical, archaeological, eta
nograpbical and commercial, the
collections being rare and of great
value.
Paper air cushions are being
manufactured in japan tdat ARK
pronounced superior to those mad,
of rubber in many respects. Theil
strength is said to DO marvellous
it requires some 200 pounds weight
to burst one
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A Grant Incident.
The Air9c1te relates the following