The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-07-08
SCIENCE AND ART.

FoR philosophical reasons the surface
Of the sea Is warmest at night, and the
surfacs of the land is warmest by day.
Warm Id becoming solid OF frozen;
expands about one ninth Of its volume:
The coldest portion of water always floats
on the surface.
The principal chemical ingredients of
sea water are common salt, muriate OF
magnesia, sulphate of magnesia and sui
phate of lime.
IT is said that the soft b1uestone rock
which underles wide part of the prairie
region pf Texas Is fully six hundred feet
thick at Sherman.
IT would require an express train
moving at the rate of sixty miles an hour
| III years to reach the sun, could it travel
directly towards it.
ASTRONOMERS are excited just now
about a spot they have discovered on the
p1anaet Jupiter. It is supposed to be
about twenty thousand miles broad.
SIR JOHN HERsoHEn, at the Cape OF
Good Hope, cooked beefsteak and roast
ed eggs BY lierely putting therii in the
sun, In d box covered with glass lid.
IF we can shut up fire in close
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hold Of a ship, it will go out, because it
will soon use up all the oxygen in the air.
The satellites present most remark
a BILE law, their rotation on their own axis
being executes in the same time as their
rotation round the planets, hence we al
ways see the same face of the moon.
DIR. RICHARD ScHoNE has been ap-
pointed director of the Royal Museums
at Berlin. He is the first man acquaint-
ed with AFT matters who has held the
position. His predecessor was Count
Usedom, the diplomatist.
The Japanese Government are about
to establish Geological Staff, to whose
care will be committed a geological
survey of the whole of Japan, founded
upon the plan of the Geological Survey
of the United Kingdom.
FIVE walled tombs, each Containing 9
skeleton, have been discovered at Cham.
blandes, Canton Vaud. From the absence
of metal ornements and other Indications
they are supposed to belong to an age
prior to that of bronze.
TIE Musee de Cluny has acquired two
noteworthy relics, magnificent process
sional cross Of silver gilt of the fourteenth
century, and d Venetian cabinet of the
sixteenth century. The cross is in per
feet order, and was found in an Apennine
convent.
The London Royal Academy Exhibi
ton opened recently contains about 1, 70(
pictures, drawings, and statues and the
several Academicans and Associations d(
not exhibit more than III works in al
branches 0f AFT. Several of the members
of the Academy are absent altogether
and others are but inadequately repre-
sented.
A COMMITTEE of shipbuilders and marine
engineers have been formed for The
purpose of promoting an exhibition o
naval and marine engineering models il
Glasgow. It is proposed that the ex
hibition shall be opened in the corpora
ton galleries in November, and remain
open for six months.
The microphone has been successfully
employed by Prof. Milne, of Toxic
Japan, to anounce the premonitory Sign
of an earthquake. He takes the instru
ment in pits remote from the roads, an(
he Is careful. also, to exclude all insects
the movements Of which would, of course
affect the indications, and lead to falst
interfefences:
The leap from incandescent cardboard
to gelatinous alumina under high pres
sure might at first appear rather tai
Jump, even for an American, but it j
said Edison has performed the feat, ant
it is hoped this time without dislocatini
any of the bones Of his reputation Al
though the holders of gas shares ma,
find some consolation in the fact that tn
dreaded" inventor of the electric Hgh
is turning his attention alum-ward, ma,
not the baker feel rather shakey lest tn
Menlo Park Hermes Trismagistus ma,
create a sudden rise in the price of th
article he loves SO well and the public S
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