Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-06-30
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

In six years trees of the Eucalyptus
gtobuius planted in Jamaica have become
one foot in diameter and 90 feet in hight.
new remedy proposed for badness is
skin-grafting, the skin for transpanting
being bits of healthy scalp from the heads
of young persons.
One of the many novelties OF the forth
coming exhibition of electricity at Paris
will he an electrical cooking range, in
which NJ. Salignac will cook a great
variety OF meats by heat generated from
the electric current.
II has been affirmed by DIR. Arnott that
| no wave of the ocean rises more than 10
feet from the ordinary sea level, which,
with the 10 feet its surface afterwards
descends, gives 20 feet for the maximum
| hight of the entire wave.
Pliny states that the coffin of the
ancient Romans was generally OF stone.
In some cases it was made of certain
stone i'll Troas, which had, or was be-
lieved to have, the peculiar faculty of
destroying all the body, the teeth ex-
cepted, in 40 days. Hence the name
''sarcophagus, which literally means
ilesh-eoter. This stone was probably
species of limestone.
The old alchemists, in their search for
the philosophers stone, left no mixture of
familiar or unfamiliar ingredients nm.
tried. An ancient work. called "The
doldmaker's Guide" contains this prom
Using formula: "Take of the gall of n
black tomcat, killed when the night
approached, one part of the brains of a
! night owl taken from out its head when
the morning dawneth, hve parts mix in
the hooi oil an ass when the tide turneth;
leave II until 1t doth breed maggots
place 1t on thy breast bone when the
moon shineth bright-and-th wilt see
a SIGHT which the eye OF mortal man meier
heheld afore.'
Entomologsts state that few insects
are known which have the power-like
the gymnOtuS, or electrical eel-of giving
slight electric shocks to those who handle
them. Kirby and Spence describe one of
these insects, the Raduvius serratus, known
in the West Indies as the "wheel bug. -
anu Sta'e .hat !. can communicate as
.'n'I Niiock " tue person whose nesh 1t
'""ones. VI Two Instances o, this power
t ute, ~ mr. afrel,' one Is .hat Oh capt
iiane"sy' n ~ VIM, on p'chihB up IN
"outh niherlcah large nary lepldoptsrous
oa'erpli'ar' iei. y sensation III ms arm
siihiia, :" an st,ectric shock Oh such
,"i'e Una, ne iVst tiie use Vi MS arm Ior
t''iio' an" ms me was even considered III
danger ny MS physician.
Many strange sounds, real or imagin-
AIRY, have been heard in the working of
Natures processes. There has been re-
ported to exist ON distant island in the
Bay of Bengal phenomenon known as
the "Barisal guns" which is often heard
at the beginning Of n rainfall, and is like
the sound of the firing Of cannon. An
ar. o,,,,oa i,ilo ' .,i"s 'ieae So''iiuS
) 'a...J WIKI aI.. 80 =" s Wn way '"n-
,nr,;n,, "" MI ,,;iias ,I i' i noiie, re-
tosnr;f', vs. a,.'i;,ihi'. VI VIZ ~ ;
l,aard Il, .to h;,rnats pom at. 'ui ho'ses
- - a. sio ~ oa' in"ui.ain pe"ks, VI
Hhn,,.. ,io n".'1e e o:n asotloe NJ cause'
:, +l 49, VI 'ihoa.ul' III Nianras
3 ~ a ~ ~, 'no n"tiNes eareiuliy
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, Quite recently the curious fact has
been discovered by NJ. VanTiegham that
, many of the lower plants can live and
sometimes fructify very we'll when the,
develop in oil alone, and far removed
Y from all contact with the atmosphere
r Unpuriled oils are sown with spores ane
= then, if slightly moist substance b,
immersed in the oil, it becomes covered
, with vegetation. Among others. IN,