The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-06-12
Compiled for the CARBON ADVOCATE.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.

Some wonderful relics of an ancient race
Of people have recently been discovered in
eastern New York. A writer from that Sec
ton enumerates a number of articles, among
which we notice the following A number
of arrow-heads, small copper avis, sea-
shell adapted to use as a drinking vessel,
several bone avis, fragments of deer-horn
instruments, a gouge made of bone, neck
lace or head dress composed of copper and
shell beads, and many other articles, all of
which were unlike any ever found in In
dian burying grounds. In one grave was
found eighty-nine arrow-heads.
Asummer school of Biology will be opened
at Drury college, Springfield, Missouri, July
lst, and will continue about two months.
The chiefmeans employed for carrying on
the work will be laboratory study, lectures
and excursions; and the studies will consist
of microscopy, vertebrate and invertebrate
zoology, crytogramic and phGnogramic bot
any and instructions in methods Of teaching
elementary science will be given.
With view to the protection of the birds
of that country, the French government has
taken action and has enacted laws prohibit
ing the killing of other than birds of passage,
and those only under certain limitations.
The law is much more stringent than the
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OF the so-cailed cyclones "hieh nave pre-
vailed 10 an unusual extent thls season. are
storms oil electricity ana entlrely lnuepehd'
ent oil wind ..
Two oi the trustees oil the state oi YER
mont University nave offered Sioo IN prizes
to boys not over seventeen years oi age ior
the best crop OF potatoes and corn on an
one-elghth OF an acre. Asimllar practice IN
other oil our States would doubtless prove oil
much benefit TO our agricultural interests
A new fiber plant has been discovered in
Mexico, species ST cactus, commonly called
"Pita," which promises to add materially to
the resources of that country The fbres
are strong and silky, many OF them being
fully sixteen feet in length liandkerchleis
recently made from this fiber, were strong
and extremely beautiful, appearing more
like silver tissue than like linen. Millions
! Of acres Of this plant are said to be growing
wild in that country.
A test of Edisbn's new electric railway at
Menlow Park, New York City, few days
since, was most gratifying in its results, to
! tho inventor, and some thirty persons who
accompanied him upon the occasion. 1t is
anticipated that the street and elevated raul
ways OF New York VIII at no distant day be
successfully operated by electricity,
The "Zoogyroscope" is newly invented
instrument for taking instantaneous photo
graphs of moving objects, and has been
found to be valuable in showing the various
positions of running horses, athletes, etc.
shower of meteoric dust containing
fragments of metallic iron together with Or
ganic particles, visited Catania, Sicily, re-
Gently to the amazement and astonlshment
Of the inhabitants of that region.
| The Royal College OF Physicians at Lon
don, has offered prize Of 800 for the best
essay on hydrophoba!
One ofthe newest inventions in this eoun-
try, and one of great practical value and
good, is the "Damposcope," which is used
for detecting fire damp and determining the
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