Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-12-01
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANEY.

ACCORDING to DIR. X. Won Fratisch,
the callse of earthquakes does not exist
at q depth greater than ten or fifteen
miles below he surface Of tie earth.
The exp riments Of several Sapants
have shown that eighty eight per cent.
Q. the y rer piled to drive either
Grso- or Sicmana machine is con
'erted into available electric energy.
So EXTENSIVE and varied are the uses
to which paper is nov applied that an
a.ithropolosiSt has proposed calling the
prose the age of paper, as we speak Of
the past ages of stone, bronze. iron, etc
Tex conditions attending lightning
without thunder witnessed in Africa BY
III. u. Abbadie lead him to conclude
that the so-cslled cheat lightning" is not
always the reflection of storm below
the horizon, as is usually supposed.
ALTHOUGH considered mute, insects
have thepoweF OF producing sounds 10y
certain movements which, TO some ex-
tent, are characteristic OF the different
species, The shriil chirp Of the cricket
is produced by the rubbing together of
the wilg-ea The harsh shrek of the
grasshapper is caused b. friction of the
legs against the wings The shrill
trumpet sound Of the mosquito and the
busy hum Of bees and flies result from
the rapid motion of the wings while
dying.
THEBE is nothing accidental, re-
marks DR.. L. j.. Oswald, land rarely
anything inevitable, about disease we
can safely assume that nine out OF ten
complaints have been caused and can be
cured by the sufferers Cor their purses)
themselves. Every prostrhiing nalady
IS lewiston for the state al nature.
The infant, 'mewliug and puking in its
nurses arms, ia an abnormal phe.
nomenon. Infancy should'bs g period
Of exceptional health the young of
other creatures are healthier, as we'll as
prether, purer aud meTricr, than tiis
adults, yet the childhood years Of the
human animal are the years of sorest
sickness. Statistics STOW that among
the Caucasian races men Ct thirty havo
more hop, to reach good old age than
a newborn child has to reach the end of
its second year. The reason is this
The health theories of the average
Christian man and woman are egregi-
ously wrong, so that, only the opposition
of their better instincts helps them
against their conscience, As it were-to
maintain the struggle for tolerable ex-
istence with Anything like success, while
the hapless infant has to conform to
these theories with the above results"
DR. Oswald's remedies for this state Of
affairs are those OF all the hygi,nic
writers of the day, viz. better food and
less of it, pure air, proper exercise and
plenty of sleep
AMONG tie many noteworthy applica-
tons of electricity during the past few
years, one Of the most remarkable is tho
gastroscope, a. instrument for viewing
the contents of fine stomach Tho &p-
paratus consists chiefly Of bent tube.
at the lower end Of which is tiny el,ss
lantern, while the upper end terminates
IN an eye-piece. In usc, The lover end
of the tnbe is passed into tbs Hiala3eh
through the mouth and cscolhaeus. tho
| upper end projecting from the mouth far
enough for the convenience Of The oper-
ator. Small wires conduct al electric
| current along the tube 70 L.e lantern,
| where a platinum wire is rendered incan-
descent by the electricity, t,ns iluinin
nting every part OF the stomach. Tho
lantern consists Of two Qiuhes. one with IN
the other, between which u sir, am 81
water is passed To prevent any uncons-
Portable heating Of the outside. Through
the small window in the lantern tho
images in the stomach travel along the
tube to the eye-piece, bong bent ly
prisms sufficiently TO pass around tho
curve. By an Ingenious contrivnnce the
window is revolyed at pleasure, 80 that
any portion of the stonlach's cont MS
may in turn be brought ip wow. rbis
new scientific marvel has been in netual
use in Vienna. and viii probably prove
valuable to medical men il studying d.
gestion and diseases Of the stomach.