The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-02
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

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Prepared expressly for The EsPoRiA NEVIS v
BY means of delicate microphones, c
Prof Milne. Of Toki, Japan, detects h
shocks of earthquake so feeble rs to be h
unnoticed by other instruments.
Dana estimates the upward increase of
coral reefs TO be an average rate of an
eighth Of an inch year, at which rate
more than 10000 years must have been +
occupied IN the formation Of 4 reef 1000
feet in thickness.
A recent course of experiments made
TO determine the heating power Of gas
shows that one cubic foot of ordinary
sixtecn-caudie coal gas VIII develop 31S
heat units, while water gas viii give On
~ about 1871 heat units Ter oubic foot
Swedish metcoro!ogists have furnished
material for unlimited speculation by pre-
pairing catalogue Of the auroras seen
during the space OF more than three cen
tur:es-that Is, from 1886 TO 1877. The
.rccord shows that in the period from
1922 10 1899 auroras we've observed on
4,245 nights.
Among matters of prehistoric archaic |
olosy which or late have attracted atten-
ton in Germany are the 'high fields" or |
"heathen iields,'s where the marks of an !
cicnt tillagc are traced on ground now
waste or forestgrown. These resemble
the "elffurrows'' of Scotland, but IN
neither country has the old agricultural
race been identified.
An examination was lately made of a
quantity Of butter taken from an alabas-
ter vase found in an Egyptian tomb. 1t
had evidently been melted and poured
into the vase, which had then been seal
, ed. After 800 years the butter had be-
come only slightly rancid, and had full
, ~ retained the chemical properties,
, taste and general appearance Of genuine
butter
/ In the Ashmcleau Museum al Oxford
q is one of the oldest monuments Of civil
. ization in existence, If indeed it is not
a the very oldest. 1t is the Iintelstone of
a tomb which formed the last resting
place of an official who lived in the time
p of King Sent, of the second Egyptian
dynasty, whose date is placed by NJ.
Mariette more than six thousand years
" ago. The stone is covered with hiero-
i gIvphics and delicate and finished
= sculpture.
y Rivers aid in the distribution ofplants
!. by bringing down TO the valleys the
seeds which accidentally fall into the
= water. Thus the southern shores OF the
- Baltic are visited by seeds which grew
- in the interior of Germany, and the west
ern shores of the Atlantic by seeds thai
NJ generated in the interior of America. a
or more remarkable fact is that tic Gul
NJ Stream has conveyed 10 the western coas
ny of Europe the fruits and seeds Of plant
lily which are indigenous to America il
les such a state that they might have vegt
TN tated under favorable conditions of eli
III mate and soil
70 The life of Mafu<a, who lived som
- time ut Dresden, is among the most il
structive of photographers, rs illustra
ing the striking intelligence of the al
- thropoid. Knowing how to unlock he
i"i cage with the key, she stole and hid
-0' for future use; she took the carpenter
:, brad-awl and bored holes with tthroug
'"0 her own table; when pouring drin
from jug into her cup. she would ear
10y fully stop short OF overiilling it. IL
death had an almost human patho
she threw her arms around the neck
" the director of the gardens, HerrschoI
kissed him, and putting her hand in h
LAY lay down and died.
The malady commonly known as eh'
1.r era of fowls is caused by minute iivil
organism In its natural state this Ii
,ng ing organism is very f4isd, but by |
the culiar mode of culture 81. Pasteur, t
% French chemist, claims 10 be able
,tis greatly reduce its virulence. II fov
al, arc inoculated with the attennuated viz
,I,at he produces they become sick, but We
: 90 few die, and those which recover are
:, :, cure from the more virulent form OF
IA disorder The fatal effects of the ch
H. era of fowls may thus be prevented.
no, Pasteur hopes TO be able to adapt
-, plan of artificial culture to all kinds
49,, virus with the result of securing
rom means of reducing the severity of
york virulent maladies.
It is Mining at great depths is attended
1rter greater difficulty on account of the h
IS he than is generally supposed. At fifty
.our. beneath the carth's surface it is belle
oney a point is reached where the temporal
but is entirely unaffected by the sun or
work external influence, the temperature
emf that depth being consequently unif'
~ in in all sections of the globe (volcanic
Oh it tricts of course excepted). In this z
ands the tLermometer is found TO indicate
so. degrees II has elso been shown, by
81. Their observation, that the temporal
.sday increases, at the rate of one degree
every fifty five feet of depth, so tina
band seventeen hundred feet about seye
eight6egrees is indicated, This he
5 last severe test of the endurance Of
~. miners, and at one thousand feet gre
il as depth mining is impraeticabie. Acc
r. a, ing to this rule of increase, the temp
Nc ture four thousand feet below the sur
about must ne pqt less than one hundred
tweniy-one degrees. anf at ten thou:
,,,uel feet the boiling point is exceeded,