The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-02-28

serts that while newly-born girl has 9
heavier brain than newly-born boy
an advantage which she rapidly loses
the women of inferior races are relatively
superior to those of highly civilized peo-
PIES In other words, woman does not
advance, and consequently the differences
between her and man are constantly
augmenting. If NJ. le Bon's assertions
are to be accepted as facts, they would
seem to point to the necessity OF greater
attention to the intellectual improve
ment Of women, but the learned doctor
predicts that the abomination of desola-
ton will fall on society if women be re-
moved from the happy ignorance OF their
domestic hearths.
Mr.. r. Russell calls attention to the
fact that the essential conditionsrequired
80 enable men to fly to q moderate dis
lance now exist-namely, the means OF
conveying force with ease, and, second
ly, the convertibility Of force thus con-
viewed into the mechanical rotation or
oscillation Of vanes. can not" says
he, "be wrong in assuming that steam
engine sending an electrical current
through wires attached to d rotary APP
paratus might cause the apparatus (bear-
ing man to direct it) to ascend to
considerable height above the earth"
MIR. Henry E. Vennor claims to be
fast reducing to rule the principle of re-
curing periods in the weather, and ex
poets to soon be able to prognosticatc
the general behavior of entire seasons.
"A large workshop in France has been
lighted during the present winter by
means Of Diamonds thermo-electric light,
the electricity being generated by the
heat used to warm the shop.
-Concerning the possibility that So
dom and Gomorrah were destroyed by
meteOrs, Prof. Proctor writes: "It can
readily be shown that Trempeps comet,
in whose track the November meteors
travel, must have passed near, and may
have passed very near, to the earth, at
tho time when, according to tradition,
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by
fire from heaven. Now it SO
happens that at the time mentioned in
the verse: The sun was risen upon the
earth when Lot entered into Zoar; then
the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomor-
rah birthstone aud fire from the Lord out
of heaven these cities lay almost CEN
trally OH that disk of the earth which
was turned at the time towards the 'ra-
diant' of the November meteors. =
If ever special and not any large dis
trict Of the earth could be so rained upon
by meteors that towns in it could be de-
stroyed, the catastrophe would unques-
tionably be attended by just such cir
cumstances-that is, the region would be
as fully as possible exposed to the hail
Of meteors, and this hail would be as
heavy as possible, which would require
that either comet or a part Of its meteor
train very close to the comet should he
the source Of the meteOric hail. The
velocity with which, under such condi-
tions, the meteors would rush through
the air would amount to about forty
miles an hour. 1t is noteworthy also
that the November meteors have been
found under spectroscopic analysis OF
their light to contain large guam titles OF
sodium, the chief component of our com
mon salt. From this some may be dis
posed to extract naturalistic' inter-
probation Of the fate of Lots wife. Those
who take interest i'll this theory of the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
might possibly manage to find some evil
dence of heavy meteoric downfall in that
part of the earth. The search would be
as likely to he rewarded with success as
that which my esteemed friend, the Alb
be Moigno, has suggested should be made
for the chariots, etc, Of the destroyed
army Of Pharoah."
cyclones are observed to sweep
across vast areas Of the suns surface at
velocity two hundred times greater
than that of q cannon ball