The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-30
Science and Art.

A new planet the eleventh magnitude
has been recently discovered by Palissy,
at POla.
Arsenic may be discovered by it's smell /;
when placed near the fire it emits an odor
like garlic.
The remains of large swimming and
flying bird, exhumed from the London
clay near Sheppy, were recently described
before the Geological Society of London
1t evidently belonged to the genus al.
batross, but was considerably larger.
1t is now maintained by some scientists
of repute that the same poison gives rise
to the several diseases known as scarle-
tina, puerperal fever, typhoid, dyptheria,
erysipelas, ETC., varying in its results ac-
cording to the surroundings and constitu-
ton of the patient.
DIR. Bollinger says that the milk Of cows
suffering from tubercular disease will
communicate that election to human be-
ings. Boiling will not destroy the pro-
pagating power. He also makes the
alarming statement thai five per cent. of
old cows have tubercu1ar disease.
The ocean, especially near and within
the tropics, swarm with life. The remains
of its myraids of moving things are COM
veyed by currents, and scattered and
lodged, in the course of time, all over the
bottom. This process, continued for ages,
has covered the depths of the ocean as
with mantle, consisting of organisms as
delicate as hoar-irost, and as light in
the water as down is in the air.
The sizes ofcrystals are as various as the
substances of which they are formed some
being too small to be recognized. except
under microscope, while there is one at
Milan weighing nearly nine hundred
pounds. Examples of the system are
found in hundred different chemicals.
The White Mountains of New Hampshire
are vast aggregation of crystals. The
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is an enor-
nous museum of crystals. Yet the
science of crystalization is a sealed book,
awaiting the skill and perseverance of the
patient experimenter and explorer.
Nothing can be more surprising and
beautiful than the singular clearness of
the water of the northern seas. As we
passed slowly over the surface. the bot
tom, which was here in general Of white
sand, was clearly visible from twenty to
twenty-five fathoms. During the whole
course of the tour I made, nothing
appeared to me SO extraordinary as the
immense recesses of the ocean, unruffied
by the slightest breeze, the gentle splash
ing OF the oars scarcely disturbing 1t.
Where the bottom was sandy, the differ
ent kinds of esterise, echmi, and even the
smallest shells, appeared at the greatest
depth conspicuous to the eye; and the
water seemed, in some measure, to have
magnifying power, by enlarging the OBJ
jects like telescope, and bringing them
seemingly nearer. Though moving on a
level surface, it seemed almost as if we
were ascending the height under us, and
when we passed over its summit, which
rose in appearance to within few feet
of our boat, and came again to the de-
scent, which on this side was suddenly
perpendicular, and overlooking watery
gulf as we passed gently over the point
Of it, seemed almost as if we had thrown
ourselves down this precipice; the ilu-
sion, from the clearness of the deep, pro-
ducing sudden tart.-Records of the
North.