Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-13
Reported for the Grant Count y HERALD.
Popular Science Notes.

Sohufhault estimates the salt in
the ocean at 3,O51,34 cubic geogra-
phical miles, or about four times
more than the mass of the Alps.
| 1t is said that the saliva of an in
FAINT, before the child has cut it's
teeth, is incapable of converting
starch into sugar. This explains at
once why all attempts at substitu
ting farinaceous food in place of
mothers milk, in the case ofinfants.
invariably fails.
Prof. James d. Dana, noted Ge-
ologian places the epoch of the
formation of the GreenMountains in
the system of which he includes the
whole region between the Conneoti.
cut and the Hudson at the close of
the Lower Siluriau period.
A successful journey to the source
of the Niger has been made by two
men, Nj. M. Zmeifer aad MoustIer,
of Sierra Leone. placing its main
source on the frontier of Kinsi and
Koranka, on the northern side of
the Kong Mountains, some three
hundred miles from Sierre Leone.
The general theory and belief
that fish are cold blooded -that
they take on the temperature of the
water which surrounds them, with
no power TO resist IL, and that they
develop little or no animal heat
themselves, has, by thorough inves-
LEGATION, been found 10 be untrue.
In series of Investigations, most
of The fishes showed perceptibly
higher temperature than that of the
water, varying from 3 to 20 degrees
warmer. The tests We're made by
opening the fish as soon after they
were taken out as possible and 10.
sorting the bulb of a thermometer in
to the cavity OF the heart, or the
bronchial artery.
1t has been thoroughly demon.
strated that no human remains are
found except in the loose soil, al.
luvium, hence Geological science
places man among the most recent
of created things. The most con-
elusive evidence of this fact IS that
the surface OF the earth is composed
to the depths of miles, of rocks, and
that these rocks are full of the re.
mains of animals and plants, thous.
ands of species of them. all differing
somewhat from any now in existence
mo human bones or remains be-
ing among them,
The Russian and Prussian G overn-
ments have adopted kind of biscuit
for horses containing much nutritive
matter 10 small volume. They are
formed of the meal of oats, peas
and linseed.
An electrical railway, with three
cars, capable of carrying twenty
passengers, has been constructed al
London, England. A steam engine
drives q dynamo. electric machine,
and the current produced is trans
miited to another machine which
works the train, which travels at
the rate ofseven miles an hour. A still
more wonderful machine is being
constructed, and some electricians
are of the belief that these electric
engines will eventually take the
place of the steam locomotives. at
least for the running of light pas.
senger trains.
A prize Of ESQ (or $3.50 has been
offered By the council at the London
chronological society. for the best
and most complete life history of
Sclsrostorgld Synqarnus, supposed to
produce The SO called '.gapes'' in
poultry, game, and other birds
essays on the subject are TO be sent
10 on or before October Is, 1882.
An eminent German phiIosopke-
declares that the simplest method
OF bringing about phosphorescenos
il TO place marine fish in three
per cent. solution of salt, when the
phenomenon will be observed the
second evening. The luminosity, it
seems, begins in the eyes. and
thence spreads ell over the fish, in.
creasing from day to day in intensi.