The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-02-06
scIENTlF1c NOTES.

Prof Hagen has decided that the APP
plication of yeast on insects produces a
fungus which proves fatal to the insects.
rhato-beetles sprinkled with diluted
yeast die within twelve days.
A French sayant has succeeded IN kill
ing the phylloxera by means of electrici-
ty. He passes powerful current
through copper wire wound about the
infested vine, when both eggs and IN
scots are killed by the shock.
Marat, The notorious hero of the first
French revolution, the same who met
death at the hands of Charlotte COrday,
WAS the author of several important es-
SAYS on electrical science; while Napo-
leon Bonaparte on many occasions dab
bied III scientific lore, and was thelIberal
patron OF men of science.
Among its many objects Of historical
interest, the Paris Astronomical Muse
UNI contains pair of Mere ator's globes,
dating from the middle of the sixteenth
century. That figuring of the earth is
the first on which the meridians of lon
gitude and latitude were laid down. 1t
is reported that the great equatorial
lakes of Africa are all to be found on it.
Excavations in the vicinity of Bonn,
Germany. have brought To light the site
OF an old town, supposed TO be of Roman
origin. The remains of a large Roman
villa were discovered near by, situated
little below the site of an extinct volca-
no-a circumstance tending to show that
ut the time of the Roman occupation,
volcanoes of the Rhine had ceased to be
dangerous.
A foreign journal states that in
recent experiment thirty-seven cats be-
longing in the city of Liege, Belgium
WIRE taken in bags long distance into
The country. The animals were released
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. and at 6 :4S
OF the same day, one of them reached its
hame. His feline companions arrived
at Liege somewhat later, but within
tw tnty-four hours every one had reached
its home. 1t is now proposed to substi-
tule cats for carrier-pigeons, and TO eS-
tablish regular system of cat commu-
nication between Liege and the neigh
boring villages.
Concerning the subject of voice in
fishes, Mr.. s. L. Poole states that some
six years ago he made an interesting OBJ
Servation. While seated in small ca
noe on the Disang river, IN Eastern
Assam, he suddenly became aware of
the presence of a number of fish called
"mahsir." They were evidently attract
ed by the canoe, and Mr. Poole sur
missed that they might possibly think it
huge dead fish. While watching their
movements, he became aware of pc
culiar 'chuck" or persuasive sound
frequently repeated on all sides, and
coming from below, but near at hand.
THIS was soon traced to the mahsir, and
ore of them made distinct sounds which
were answered by others. Mr.. Poole
also says that in some parts of Eastern
Assam, a large bivalve sings in concert
with others.
1t is known that II great quantity of
Invisible and finely-divided meteor
ic matter is floating in space. At
the late meeting of the American asso-
citation, Prof Pierce expressed the be-
lief that the aggregate of this matter ex-
ceeds the mass of the visible celestial OBJ
je:is. The idea is not new, as Mr.. Isaac
Taylor said nearly half century ago
"The invisible material creation, it is
probable, vastly outnumbers the visible
and it may justly be thought that the
worlds made known to us by their in
herent splendOr are to the unseen only in
tie proportion of the chiefs of an army
to the thousands that fill the rank and
file IT is rs if from the summit OF a
tower we were looking by night upon 4
boundless plain filled with the array OF
WIZ, and could discern nothing but the
gvmmed crests of the captains cleaning
amid the countless and unseen multi
tudcs they were leading on
Sir William Thompson last year com
mrnced a new and curious experiment
OF shoemakers' wax as a viscous mate
rial. A large circular cake of it, about
F eighteen inches across and three inches
thick, was made. This was put into &
shallow cylindrical glass vessel, which
was filled with water To prevent any sud
den change in the temperature. Several
corks were put beneath the cake, will
some bullets on its upper surface. The
result is that, in year, the corlls have
loated up through the wax and are com
ing out at the top, while the bullets have
sunk through the wax and come out "a
the bottom; and this has gone on while
the wax was at all times in such con
dition as to be excessively brittle to any
r suddenly applied force, such rs Il blow
from a hammer Mr.. j. T. Bottomley
r has been experimenting with the Same
material, and has constructed miniatur,
; glaciers in wooden channels, which pre-
: sent all the phenomena Of flow to b,
, seen in real glaciers.
The immortality of the practice of con
Stunning cows milk is thus set forth in
: chow Herald: Strictly refrain from
eating COWS milki Man should not rol
the beasts of their food. Moreover, o
all beasts the COW is the most useful ant
mcritorious. Men who do not discrim
mate between mankind and beasts ar,
worse than senseless. Those who sci
milk darken their consciences for gain
and those who eat cows milk foolishly
} think they are beuetiting their bodies
Men who take medicine should first care
fully investigate and find out its nature
. Why do not those who eat cows mill
, consider and inquire into its origin
For instance, men beget children, anC
; while the children are small they depend
, upon milk tor their nourishment;, SO i
is also with beasts. But when men bu,
life of the calf. And is there not bite
! hatred and distress in the minds of boil
cow and calf? Beasts cannot speak
, how then, are they able 10 tel
the man that in eating the milk of beast:
his body becomes like that of birds anC
beats. But if men wish TO take strength
ening medicine, there are numberles.
other articles IN the world that are bene
} fetal, and what necessity, then, is ther,
for taking cows milk Besides this, tn,
death and life of men have their fixet
number and limit, and this cows mill
cannot lengthen out and continue tho
life of man. Since, then, all know tn,
trnth-nll know that IL cannot di