The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-07
sc1rNr1E1c NOTES.
Prepared expressly fur the EAP0RIA NEW
To follow my thoughts as they so on.
Electrodes ia place in my brain;
Nay, I'D swallow live entozooD,
New feelings of life 10 obtain;


An observer OF Vesuyins notes an in
creased activity in the crater at the time
of each full moon.
An Algerian company intends to cul-
tivate the Sahara, boring artesian wells
in carefully selected spots as means of
irrigation.
Many workmen in the ST. Gothard tun-
mel have died OF a peculiar disease called |
tunnel triehinOses, produced by a para
site in the intestines.
An extraordinary case is reported
from Hungary A criminal was hung
until pronounced by the attending ply
sicians quite dead AS a scientific eX-
pertinent, the body was then subjected to
an electro-galvani current, when, after
| few hours, signs of life became apparent.
The convict soon completely recovered
his senses, but died the next morning
from congestion of the brain,
DIR Carpenter states that the entire alb
sence of sunlight on the deep sea bottom
appears TO have the same effect as the
darkness of caves in reducing to a rudi-
mentary condition the eyes of fish and
crustacca which ordinarily enjoy visual
power; and many Of these deep sea in.
habitants are provided wi;h enormously
long and delicate feeders or hairs, with
which they feel their way about
Vast deposits of carbonate of lime are
/ distributed over the globe in the form
of limestones, chalks, marbles, marls,
p etc. Numerous and extensive as are
= these deposits, it is believed that they
are all of animal origin. The softest
, chalk and the densest limestone are found
y to consist of the aggregated shells OF
skeletons of myriads Of tribes of the low
i er animal, which existed in some remote
: period of the worlds history. Cora
reefs are sea-islands of carbonate of lime
built up by minute aquatic animals, an'
, their formation is an example of simila
deposits now being made.
According to 4 very general belief tn
g toad is endowed with u supernatura
power of existence which enables it Il
live for ages without food or air, and th
ltliNS vi tiiO inning VI ~
ia toads incloscd in solid roc
~ gain ready credence. Such reports ca
6 have little foundation in fact. Curiou
al to learn the actual extent Of vitality {
n this reptile, DIR. auckland enclose
ey twenty four healthy toads in as man
alright cells of limestone and SAM
or stone, the limestone cells being consi
,at erably larger than the others. On Il
a Goth OF November, 1852, the stones al
On their tenants were buried in the doctor
on garden, where they remained till Decor
ed Der 10th, 1926, when they were disintC
S7 red. All the toads in the sandstone Gel
nv were dead, and had probably been
i've that condition for some time. Near
oss all the toads in the limestone cells wei
nd however, alive One or two had actu
bly " increased in weight, which shows Ii
ap- some opening must have existed
}, the cells, through which insects and {
gained admittance. The toads viii
}. were found alive were again buried, a
all died during the second year of tn
her Imprisonment These experiments SEE
to establish conclusively the fact Il
nth even the toad cannot exist Tor very
am tended period without air and food.
Z of is, therefore, pretty safe to assert Il
living toads are never found in so
rocks.