The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-09
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In a recent address Sir John Lub-
book said that the sky was studded with
extinct stars, now cold as our own sun
will be in seventeen million of wears,
and viewless, but once brilliant as that
sun is now.
"A new material for architectural
purposes, said to be entirely fire proof,
Is made from cotton. After being con-
verted into paste by chemical treat
ment, it is nodded into the desired
form and allowed to dry, when it be-
comes as hard as stone. 1t is called
architectural cotton.
While Mr. Ruskino objects to the
steam engine because ssit brings crowds
of uncultured persons to interfere with
the medfsative seclusion of the cultured
few,n the British Association pro-
claim that this motor "must go,n be-
cause it ''spends too much force with
too little result"
The abridgpent of patents has
been commenced. 1t is designed in
each patent to give name and residence
of inventor, title of invention, dates OF
filing application and issue of patent,
brief of the features or points shown,
and the claims, and a copy or enough
of the drawing to display the device or
thing patented.
Experiments by German scientists
in ascertaining the peculiarities of the
electric light establish the fact that it is
not only healthier than other methods of
illumination, in leaving the air purer,
but that it increases the power of the
vision in some respects, especially in
distinguishing colors. Red, green, blue,
and yellow are made much more dis
hnct and marked under this light than
by daylight.
-Ead's Tehauntepec ship railway is
expected by some people to be greater
success than the Panama Canal The
railway is 1, 100 miles north of the canal,
which would give a saving of 1900
miles to vessels going to the North Pa
cific. Eads has a good concession from
Mexico, and his road would cost $780,
900, 900 against the S24O, ,000, 900 for the
canal.
"A German philosopher has been ex-
perimenting as to the influence of intel
lectual labor upon the circulation of the
blood. His observations show that the
heart beats are increased two to three
pulsations per second. The greater the
labor and the closer the attention, the
greater the number of pulsations. Thus
this philosopher discovered that the
study of geometry, to which he had
never given much attention, made his
heart beat more rapidly than that of
philosophy, with which he was already
familiar. Concerning the effect of ardu-
GUS love-making upon the heart beats,
he does not appear to have recorded any
observations.
Prof. Laverau, of tho Medical School
of Valde erase, has just published
work describing what he considers be
a new parasite which he has found in
the blood of persons affected with mala-
rial fever. A notice of his discovery
was communicated to the Academy of
Medicine so long ago as November,
1880, but it seems to Eave attracted little
attention, being thought to be simply
one of the numerous announcements
made of late years of the discovery of
the cause of malaria, which prove in the
end to have no foundation. The organ
ism described by Prof. Laverau is
minute cell, in general appearance
somewhat like white blood corpuscle,
and having like it ameboid movements.