Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-20
Popular Science Notes /.

| Reported for the Grant County HsnALp,
Ruby lake, some eight years ago
being one Of the largest bodies OF
water in eastern Nevada, has entir-
ely dried up and mysteriously dis
appeared, leaving barren waste of
ground, where it was so recently
admired as beautiful sheet of water.
This lake was fed by numberless
springs along the foot of Ruby
mountain, situated between the
Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, was
from eighteen to twenty miles 10
length and varied in breadth from
half mile to two or three miles,
and was very deep in a number of
places. Scientists are bafied as yet
in determining the caurse of the
mysterious and sudden drying up
of this body of water.
A singular case of mental and
physical disorder is reported from
Millesbury, Kentucky, a young la.
dy under the treatment Of DR.. L. d.
Fades being the subject. The
young lady is under treatment for a
spinal disease and is not able to
move about the house without
the aid of friends and
crutches, except when asleep. While
in that condition (asleep) she mani
tests a sort of double Consciousness,
and can skip around the room as
nimbfe as if nothing allied her. She
also writes and works out mathe.
NAUTICAL problems. She recently
wrote letter containing four pages
to friend, while in this somnam.
bulistic state, both eyes being firm.
~ closed and doing the writing with
her left hand. She also corrected
several mistakes in spelling.
1t is estimated that there are on
the earth l 100000 inhabitants,
of which number 81 1874 die every
day. OF every 1000 persons, one
rarely reaches the age of 100 years,
aud not more than one in q 100 will
reach the age of 80. Tall men it lie
said live longer than short ones, and
the married are longer lived than
the single.
The inventor of the MINIMUM
thermometer, Prof. Il. Mulferdam,
died recently in Paris, France, at
the advanced age Ct eighty-fve.
For his recent d scogeries in
molecular physics and radient mat
ter, Prof. Crookss, f. r. S., has
been awarded prize of 5000, by the
French Academy of Sciences.
The Volta Prize of $4,000 francs
or $500 has been awarded to Mr..
Graham Bell, by tho committee
appointed by the French Of Public
Instructions.
A most fatal disease is raging to
alarming extent in Havana, among
dogs and horses. which the physi-
clans name acclimstion or yellow
fever.
Wonderful cures for hydrophobis,
and the bites of Snakes and other |
poisonous reptiles, have been DIS
covered in two curious plants-tbe |
"guaco" and the "cedron," which |
grows 10 abundance in New Greu-
ada, and which are already being |
propagated in this country, but as |
yet to limited extent.
A newly Invented Gathling gun
was recently exhibited in England
which it is said is capable OF firing
1000. shots per minute and killing o
man or horse at mile range.
A very interesting fact learned by
Scientists from fossil zoology is that
he brain of about all animals, es-
pscially domesticated ones, has in
creased greatly in size the last few
hundred years, yet these learned
men fail to give any satisfactory
'heory for such being the case,
According to the medical rule
immunity from yellow fever is con-
cred at an layton of 4 900 feet
sbovs the lezsl Of the sea. :
an artesian well is being bored in g
ostoD, In order to determined G
hsther or not there is under the :,
ty an adequate available supply
pure water.
To extract perfumes from flow !,
Is, apply methyl-chloride, previous q
: liquified and purified by passage J. i
trough concentrated sulphuric Ia
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