Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-01-21
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

tagiousness of consumption has not
been widely accepted, experiments
have shown that the disease may be
prc1uced in the lower animals bv
ino'u.at,on with tubcyculous matter.
II. Roger lately stated to the
F.cnch Academy that during Il
thunderstorm last August he count
cd 100 flashes of lightning in the
space of all hour and a half, or about
53 per minute. At times he OBJ
served as many as 100 minute.
by centuries of deposit, the earth
has become SO compact over the
mouth Of an extinct volcano near
Naples that the traveller may walk
upon it. The ground sounds hol-
low, and is still hot to the touch,
while in places gases are emitted.
In girl who lately died at Caen
France, the whole of the thoracic
and abdominal organs were found
completely inverted, the heart being
Mt the right side and the liver at the
left, while the usual position of the
latter was occupied by the stomach
and the spleen.
The Red Sea owes its name to the
dark rcd color given certain portions
OF it by a minute, thread-likc olga.
Similar microscopic plants are found
obscuring or colorihg the water in
various portions of the world. In
other cases. as in the Gulf Of Cali
fornia, n red shade is impaired to
the sea by its minute animal inhabi-
tants.
a French sard,H, NJ. Saliman, has
found that an oil can be distilled
from American Srape-yines which
will not CONCEAL at any temperature
above eight degrees Fahrenheit,
while other oils are solid at twenty
seven degrees. He therefore con-
cludes that this oil must be valuable
for matchmaking and similar pur-
poses.
by inoculating animals with vac
cine taken from an infected one, Nj.
Toulssaint has succeeded in render
ing them secu,e against epidemics,
such ms pleuro-pneumonia, etc. 1t
ill..be remembered that NJ. Pasteur
was lately successful in vaccinating
poultry, and thus protecting them
against attacks of the malady known
us chicken cholera.
"Narcolepsy" is the name given
a rare form of disease by NJ. Calm
eau, who has called attention to a
case of it. The persons suffering
from it may fall asleep at any mo-
ment, their sleep lasting only few
minutes. The patient whose case is
reported became unconscious in this
way four or five times during his :
dinner, letting his knife and fork
fall and breaking off in tho middle
of sentence he was uttering.
Another Swiss lake village, as
signed by experts to the age of
bronze, has been discovered near
Neuchatel. Several millstones, some
in an incomplete state, have been
brought to light, from which it is
inferred that the place may have
been the seat of q mandatory of
these articles. Another conclusion
drawn from thisI' find Isl that 'tho
"pile dwellings,. built upon the
lakes of Switzerland'serve as actual
dwellings for the primeval inhabi-
tants of the land, and were not, as
has beon supposed, used merely Us
storehouses.
Mr.. r. G. Jenkins F. r. A. s.,
has endeavored to show a very re-
markable effect of the planet Venus
upon the earth. The present Brit.
ish Astronomer Royal proved, many
years ago, that the disturbing effect
of this planet was SO great that the
earth was materially pulled from its
orbit. Mr.. Jenkins shows that it is
to this action that We must look for
an explanation of the cold waves,
which occur, on an average, every
eight years-as in 1929, 1887 1915,
1855, 1863, 1871, 1S79-and that for
the next forty years the temperature
will be below tho average. He
states that q heat wave has been OBJ