Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-12-09
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These who have experimental,
have learned that wood which has
been thoroughly impregnated with
parsffine, where it is exposed to the
decaying action of damps, acids and
alksllne lyes, will last fully twenty
times as long as wood otherwise
prepared. The preparation of the
wood is effected by thoroughly dry
ing it, then sleeping it in melted
parsffine TO which has been added
some petroleum or ether, after
which the whole is covered with a
coating Of oil or varnish. Wood
thus prepared is said to be invelua
Die for bulls Of vessels and all kinds
of boats. Iron coated with equal
parts Of linseed oil and paraffine
will resist the actions of aida and
other chemicals as no olher prepar
alton will.
Prof. M. l.. Amat, 10 q note ed.
dressed to the French Academy of
Sciences, asserts that electrical phe-
nomena produced by the friction OF
the hairy coat of ANIMALS Ecquire q
much more remarkable intensity 10
tropical countries than elsewhere.
Especially is this said 10 be notice
able to the north of the Sahara.
towards the 35th degree latitude.
While travelling in that section the
Professor found that, at an altitude
of $500 to 5000 feet, by passing q
comb through the hair or beard,
sparks might be produced two or
three inches 10 length. In horses
the effects were still more marked,
and at times the atmosphere seemed
so impregnated with electricity that
the hair IF their tails stood ont from
each other so as to form a sort of
fan.
One who has been experimenting
predicts the day not far distant
when seeing by electricity will be
looked upon with no more wonder
or amusement than the present
mode of talking and sending the
human voice hundreds of miles, alt
that instantanaously, by means OF
the telephone. In fact, the former
has actually been accomplished, and
the inventor asserts that the cleo.
trio current takes up aud Transmits
the features of u person, landscape
or writing as it does modulations of
sound, and is confident that when
his INVENTION shall have been per.
footed, it will be an easy matter to
take the photograph of person CT
landscape though they are hundreds
of miles distant. We shsll await
anxiously for further developments
of this invention.
In his "Early Man in Britain"
Professor Boyd Dswins tells us that
although the Neolitho men were
immeasurably above tho Cave. men
10 culture, they were far below
them in the arts Of design" and
also that the Cave.man possessed
q singular talent for representing
the Annals he hunted, and his
sketches reveal to US that he had a
capacity for seeing the beauty and
grace of natural forms not much in
ferior TO that which ia the result of
long cor tinued civilization in our
selves, and very much higher than
that ct his successors in Europe In
he Neolithic age" In defence Of
the theory that the faculty of de.
sign or artistic aptitude is not alto
gether modern, or hing II i'd
vanced or advaLcing civilization,
DR.. Holub, hn African 'raVeler.
writes in reference TO the Bushmen,
that these people regarded as the
lowest type of Africans, in one
thug excel oil the other South Afri
can tribes whose acquaintance
made between the south coast and
ten degrees south latitude. | have
in my possession about 200 sketches
on wood and stone and oyster shells.
by various tribes, but every one
who knows anything about drawing
must acknowledge that those which
which were done by Bushmen ale
superior to any of the others and
quite up to modern art.