The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-05-22
Compiled for the CAEBoN ApyocNrr.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.

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Ruby Lake, some eight years ago being
one of the largest bodies Of water in eastern
Nevada, has entirely dried up and nysteri-
ously disappeared, leavinga barren waste Of
ground, whore it was so recently admired
as a beautiful sheet Of water. This lake was
fed by numberess springs along the foot of
Ruby mountain, situated between the Rock
les and the Sierra Novades, was from cigh-
teen to twenty miles in length, and varied
in breadth from half a mile to two or three |
miles, and was very deep in a number Of
places. Scientists are baflled as yet in de-
tormining the cause of the mysterious and
sudden drying up of this body of water.
a singular case of mental aud physical
disorder is reported from Millcrsburg, Ky.
A young lady, under the treatment Of DR..
r. D. Eadc5, being the subject. The young
lady is under treatment for spinal disease
and is not able to move about the house
without tho aid of friends and crutchos, OK
cept when asleep While in that condition
(aslecpl she manfests sort of double con-
sciousness, and can skip around the room
as ninble as if nothing allied her. She also
writes and works out mathematical prob
lens. She recently wrote letter contain
ing four pages, to a friend, while in this
somnambulistic state, both eyes being firm
ly closed and doing the work with the left
] t,I ,isfo lyNa
in spelling.
1t is estimated that there arc on the earth
100000 900 inhabitants, of which number
81 ,S24 die every day. OF every 900 per-
sons, one rarely reaches the age of 100 years,
and not more than one in 100 will reach
the age of so. Tall men it is said live long
er than short ones and the married are
longer lived than the single.
The inventor of the minimum thermome-
ter, Prof NJ. Wulierdam, died recently in
Paris, France. at the advanced age Of eighty
five.
For his recent discoveries in molecular
physics and radiant matter, Prof. Crookes,
+. r. S., has been awarded prize of 5000,
by the French Academy of Sciences.
The Volta Prize of so, 900 francs or $4,000
has been awarded to Mr. Graham Bell, by
the committee appointed by the French
Minister OF Public Instructions.
A most fatal disease is raging to an alarm
ing extent in Havana, among dogs and
horses, which the physicians name acclima-
ton or yellow fever.
Wonderful cures for hydrophobia, and
the bites of snakes and other poisonous rep
tiles, have been discovered in two curious
plants-the "guaco" and the rcedron,'
which grow in abundance in New Grenada,
and which are already being propegoted in
this country, but as yet to limited extent
A newly invented gattling gun was re-
Gently exhibited in England which it is
said is capable of firing 1000 shot per min
ute and killing a man or horse at a mile
range
A very interesting fact, learned by, ,scien-
lists from fossil zoology, is that the brain oil
about all animals, especially domestcated
ones, has increased greatly in size tholast
few hundred years, yet these learned men
fail to give any satisfactory theory for sucl
being the case.
According to the medical rule, immunity
from yellow fever is conferred at an eleva.
ton Of 4 900 feet above the level of the sea.
An artesian well is being boredi in Boston
in order to determine whether or not there
is under the city an adequate available sup
ply of pure water.
To extract perfumes from flowers, apply
mcthyl- l-chloride, previously lquihed anc
purified by passage through concentrated
sulphuric acid.
An appropriation of $2,2jO,OOO has jus
been made by the legislature at Albany, t,
enable the trustees to finish up the grea
bridge between New York city and Brook
. lyn. Work is progressing rapidly and vii
be pushed to an early completion of tn,
structure, which will be the largest and Fl
nest of the kind in America, if not in tn
world.
: in order to destroy the contagious germ
which remain in the bodies of such animal
as have succumbed to pestilential disease
a new method of cremation has been in
vented by which the infected animals ar
quickly and totally destroyed.
There has been a kind of shale discovere
t in Pennsylvania which decomposes easil
and rapidly, and which is being consider