Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-12-23


In q ntw electric battery. oio ii ;nt
elenlep,a is composed OF sheet iron leus
than the teis-tbousauith of au inch IN
thickness,
According 10 an English patent a
mixture OF locust be9ns CCer1t0iltd sSLigaa)
and tares Vicj1 Satiga) may be maue to
yield an Infusion closely resembling Mocha
coffee.
In the South kensinston Museum is
Edlsous original lamp with the carbon
loop. It il accompanied by e certificate
nom DIR, Elisou 6tailGs tunt II burned
1880 hours.
Il ia stated that Mes. iiahliqnIana, tbs
wife OF toe < reGg Oriental explorer, helps
her husband IA ali his Scientific labcrs,
Snperia!ehdipg excavations under his
direction ftgardless of exposure 10 sun and
dust.
Recent dredRiugs ny Nj Soliot in tie
sea Ct GAillso have shown that twelve
speoifs Ct fish ere contained therein, OF
shigh tho majority have the remarkable
heuli o. hatet0ug their eggs aAd sbtltertng
their Young N 5Geir msuths.
A proclamation" frGm Dr.. Salvador
Nlnui, OF uataBia, announces that u great
revelation i'll tha physica! sciences il at
hAud, for he viii suortly demonstrate, by
tie mos. possible aud ineontestiDle
eyideaoe, that the essence of heat, of light,
OF electr city, OF magnetism, and Of life,
is--oxygeh!
According TO DR.. Edward Smith, an egg
contbins l5i per cent uf carbon ana two
per cent ut nitrogen. Another writer
estimates that the value of Que pound of
eggs, as foed COR sustaining the active
fore of the body, is to the value of one
pound OF lean beef as 1854 10 300. Asa
ilshh producer oue pound of eggs ID about
equsI TO one pound of beef.
One of the leading chemical manufac.
tories Of Germany employs six regular
chtml-ts, with salaries yery aug from 81, 800
to " 80 ysarly, and in addition engages
the services of hn eminent chemist for
theoretical Work exclusively, paying him
nearly $l0 0tO per annun, Ie is dountless
to this liberal patronage of qualified scieu-
lists that the superiority Of German
chemical manufactures is due.
Near Armsteg, on the line of the ST.
Got5afd railway, excavations for the road
have laid bare sc-ealltd glacier garden,
containing etries OF giants, or large
holes made III the rock by hydraulic or
glacier action. Out-half Of TIE garden iay
across the railway track and had to be
blasted away, but the other half has been
enclosed by wall and will be carefully
preserved.
Inc sources OF petroleum arc found in
almost every part Of the glube, and the
use II tbs article would seem well nigh
coeyal with Giylil2 itiJn. There Is Il spring in
one OF tie fGnlau Islands which has yielded
petroleum more than 2 900 years The
CITY Of Gsnet Was FORMERLY lighted by oil
from tho ~eiis OF Armenia on the banks
OF the XYe IL Persia also, near the
Caspian Sea vi Bsku, numerous springs
Of petroleum rave been known from the
earliest time; lad those of R4ngoun, ON
the Irawsddy, H,s said 10 have yielded,
before The gen rsl Introduction of petro-
ieunl, 3cua le0 coo hogsheads of oil
year. ---.-
Sir Wyyi.la Thompson, IN whose charge
the Ch1S3ea9er deap sea exploring expedi
ton was made, outsiders the most im-
portunt and remarkable biological result of
tho a5fk OF the Clint 0ges to be the final
establishment of the ipef that, contrary 10
tine established bolie', ii#o distribution of
living beings iu the ses hss no depth
Hmit, but thGt animals OF all the marine
iuDertebfate classes, and probably fishes
also, eSi-j over the whole floor of the
ooral lie is unwilling 10 spsak positively
M 10 the exact nature of the life existing
at the greatest depths, but from a depth
of s0me . 600 fath0ms specimens were
atentel proving the existence Of vast
u1d varied a9sem6lage of living inhabi.
taul5 more than tSo aud qlaitec miles
benesth the surface.
During Il iate visit to tie solar o6ssrva.
tory ~ Alendon, Prof Bell wes much
interested in VI JaGaBen'G splendid photo
graphs and Expressed the opinion that the
variations OF brightness of giveu solar
point might mako the photophoue speak,
and 80 reproduce ia ths laboratory sounds
produced Of ,ho sun NJ. Janssen put his
ipstrUmants at Prof Beil's disposal, and
the experiment was made on tiue day,
hut without distinct success. NJ. Jansson
has proposed that series of successive
photographs Of particular point on the
suns surface be passed rapidly before an
obj tgtiVe giving images on the aelenium
apparatus, thus condensiug iuto a brief
spse4 variations which in tho liar image
are TOO slow 10 prodIo5 sound in the
ph0trpdoue .-.-.