The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-05-10
SCIENTIFIC ~MIsCELLANY.

Late researches are showing an
astonishing vitality Of disease germs.
NJ. Pasteur has investigated a case In
which cattle died Of carbuncular fever
twelve years ago, and were buried at .
certain spot in a walled garden. Guinea
pigs have been inoculated with the
matter secured by washing samples of
the soil. and died quickly with well
known symptoms Of carbuncle. OF
seven sheep allowed experimentally
to pass a few hours daily on this spot,
two died of this same disease in the
course of six weeks, the rest Of the
flock remaining unaffected. This
seems to prove beyond a doubt the *
istence of disease germs for a space Of
twelve Year,.
Replying to the question whether or
not Il ancestors were acquainted with
the peculiar physical condition known
to us as somnambulism, DIR. Regnard
OF Paris, said in q recent lecture that
one OF the most accurate descriptions
VI bOlluuuluuiibhl Ah C4A5kSAlO0 was
that in the sleep-walking scent Of Mac
beth.
Experiments at Woolwich has DEM
onstrated that the transmission Of
defamation from one mass of gun-cotton
to another not in contact is SO rapid
that a row Of gun cotton from London
to Edinburg could be fred in two min
utes.
In a communication to the st. Pc
tersburg Technical Society, Prof.
Beilstein recommends the use Of sui
plate of alumina as the best practical
disinfectant. He states that the best
method of making the salt for disinfec-
ting purposes is to mix red clay with
four per cent. of sulphate acid and to
add to the mixture some carbollc acid
for destroying the small of the matter
to be disinfected.
The deepest known worked mine Is
in Australia IA shaft having been sunk
5000 feet.
Says a recent writer: "What has
been the ultimate fate Of the Egyptian
mummies stored with care In the rocky
vaults and pyramids On the banks Of
the Nilep They have in these later
times been dragged from their recesses
and ground into powder as an article Of
commerce to be exported to Europe.
The cereal crops Of England are partly
produced from the mummified remains
of human beings who walked about the
streets of Thebes three thousand years
ago. The bodies OF venerable Thebans
lswells in their time-laid to rest In
fond anticipation OF securing a mortal
Immortality, sold at 50 much u ton 10
fertilize the exhausted soil OF the island
in the German oceanl That Is what
the ancient Egyptians have got by all
their skill in p%rotracting the dissolution
of mortal remains. Their marvellous
preparations have ended in a favorably
quoted-manurei"
M. Alfred Dumesnil claims to have
made an interesting and useful discov-
ery-how to preserve plants in a per-
fectly vigorous state without any
earth. During a constant trial for
several months he has never found the
least interruption or disturbance Of the
vegetable functions of the plants
treated by him; but on the contrary,
| manu- Of TIM n1onfo have h1NuoApn~l
with a vigor which, as an experienced
horticulturist, he has never seen In his
garden. Further partic ulars concern
ing this alleged discovery will be
awaited with interest.
A model Of proposed electric rail-
way for mail service was recently ex-
hibited in Vienna. According to the
plan suggested, miniature lines Of rail-
way would be built along the passen-
ger lines, and on them at a very high
rate of speed, would be run small
electric engines and cars to take up
letters. 1t would have the advantage
of being entirely independent Of the
regular passenger road, and could be
used at any time.
There is one thing in which our Brit
ish contemporaries find rs much
unalloyed pleasure as tho average
American editor does in a pun on Edi-
sons pet light, and that is in poking
fun at the discoveries and pseudo-scien-
tifc theories of Brother Jonathan.
A late London ~journal-an authority
in its special field-indulges in consider
BILE editorial ridicule of certain partially
developed Yankee projects. On another
page Of the same sheet n local CORES
pondent seriously declares 1t to be his
belief that the time will come when
individuals will be transmitted by
telegraph He arsnes that in certain
vital and electrical processes molecules
are by gradual deposition made to
build up bodies of considerable proper
tions-certain kinds uf molecules tend
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