Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-09-16
Reported for the Grant County HERALD.
Popular Science Notes.

A public labratory for the analysis |
of chemicals and patent medicines
has been established in Japan, and |
no patent medicine or mixture can be
sold in that country until after it has
been thoroughly tested and pro-
nouncod OF merit at such labratory.
Should such an institution be estab.
lished and similar law enacted in
this country, no doubt but a very
large portion of the worthless and
injurious So called remedies and mix
lures, which Hood the United States
st the present time, would Justly be
buried SO deep that they would never
again rise to the surface. It is to be
hoped that Congress may at an early
day take action in this matter, and
have excluded from our land the
thousands of worthless and Danger
Gus articles that are imposed upon
our people.
The Manufacturer and Builder, a
most excellent scientific journal. pub
lished in New York, is authority for
the statement that printing was first
introduced in America by the Span
ish Viceroy Mendoza, at The city OF
Mexico, in the year 1886; and the
first book published is believed to
have had the title "Escala espiritual
de San Jual Chimaco." No copies of
this work are known to exist at pres
ent, and the name of the printer is a
matter of doubt. In what is now the
United States, Cambridge, Mass has
the honor of having first introduced
the printing press. This was about
the year 1888. Stephen Daye was
the first American printer, and his
book was the EBAY Psalm Book" is
sued in l640 The first newspaper
was issued at Boston by John Camp
bell, on Monday, April "a, 1904. 1t
was called the "Bostsn News-Let-
ter, and was regularly published for
about ~ years.
The severest hail storm witnessed
in the United States, if not in the
world, the present summer, took
place July /, in Warren county, Mis-
souri,. The stones were of various
sizes, ranging from the size of wal.
nuts up to blocks of ice 1oI inches
long, five inches wide and J inch
thick, and fell to a depth of SIX inches
on level, over forty square miles Of
territory. The damage was neces.
sarily great, the crops being totally
destroyed, and many fowls, sheep and
hogs were killed outright. The ice
smashed not only windows, but sash,
as and blinds, and so injured most Of
the roofs OF houses in the path of the
storm, that new ones had to be put
on.
On the subject of "Infanticide
among Ancient and Modern
Nations, DR.. Carl Hoberland an em-
inent Scientist who has given much
attention to the matter, traces the or.
igin of this custom to the difficulty
of substance, the sacrifice being in
the outset urged by the male parent
and opposed or reluctantly submitted
to by the mother. Among lower an
imals parallel cases are of frequent
occurrence, where the young are often
destroyed by the father and are de.
Tended against him and concealed by
the mother.
Some of the most learned scientists
in the land, are Of the opinion that
the Polar regions, at one time pos
sassed tropical temperature and
were the original home of man, and
combat the ordinary theory that the
Aryan race of mankind originated in
Pamir highlands of Central Asia,
spreading thence into Europe and
India.
A steam digging machine has been
invented and successfully used in
England, in breaking ground for
grain. The machine digs up the
earth at the rate of ten acres per day,
leaving the soil in better condition
than when stirred by a plow.
In order to enable NJ. Pasteur TO
carry out his researches on the con.
tagious diseases of animals, the
French government has allotted him
the sum of $4,000 francs. A similar
undertaking in this country would
doubtless prove of value generally,
and the subject is deserving, at least,
of being agitated.
As an article of human food and
diet the Chinese consider the use of
cows milk unnatural and immoral.
and prohibit its use in that country.
J. Reiset finds in 10000 parts of
atmospheric air 29.78 parts by vol.
ume, of carbono acid, the greatest
differences observed only reaching
hundred thousandths. The air in the
night contains more carbonic acid
than in the day. The msxima OBJ
served correspond to foggy weather.
He has not detected any decrease in
the proportion of carbonic as a wea.
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