The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-04-06
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For THE HERALD.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

, over heated: apartments to be. a
potent cause ofnsrvous irritability.
, If we would preserve our amiabil-
; ity and our tranquility of mind
j we should live in well.venlilated
rooms kept at a temperature of
about sixty-ive degrees. - -.
OF the sense of taste, Prof. Nc
kendrick states that the base Of
the tongue is most sensitive, to
bltters, and the tip to sweets. A
substance must be soluble in the
fluid of the mouth TO create taste,
bnt no definite relation has been
found between the chemical con
dition of bodies and their taste.
Modern improvements have in
creased the power of the micro
scope so greatly that it is now
made to magnify about 100000
diametcrs. The best unaided hu.
man vision can see no objects
much smaller than The three
huniredth of an inch in diamcte !;
but the most skillful microscopists,
with their best instruments, are
able 20 examine nonads q hun.
dred.th ousandeth of an inch in
diameter. Beyond this minute.
, ness is, obscurity. 1t has been es
timated that the ultimate PARTICLES
or atoms composing: all matter
can be no more than one twenty.
millionth of an inch in diam meter.
so that it seems hardly probable
that they will ever be revealed to
human eyes.
DR.. 7. Sterry Hunt has calcu-
lated that the amount of carbonic
acid stored in the limcstoncs OF
tho earth would form not less
than two hundred atmosphcres
equal in weight to our own. This,
together with tho carbon of the
l'coal-beds, must' have been drawn
Iron the air, which he believes
gradually receives it's supply OF
the gas from interstciiHr space. ..
If:'thc Astronomical view that
the moon was once part Of the
earlh's mass be true, the moon in
its carly age must have revoived
much nearer, to the earth than
now and must have caused pro-
digIous tides upon its parent
planct-as recently shown by
Prof BAH: Prof. J. S. Ncwber1y
finds in geological evidence re.
fulation Of this theory-to the
extent, at least, Of proving con-
cIusively that no such tides
could have existed since the com.
mencemeDt Of the geological re.
cord. He does not hesitate to
assert therefore that the astro NJ o,
mers are in error iu regard to the
moons genesis; or that if it was
once a portion of the earth, the
separation took place at period
so remote that it had receded 10
nearly it's present distance before
the dawn Of life on the earth.
Explorations by a Russian par.
ty show that the eastern shore OF
the Gulf of Chi, in northern Sibe'
ria, is nearly fourteen miles west
Of the place assigned TO 1t by cx
isting maps.
\ successful operation, during
which the pationt was kept i'm
mersed in water for sixteen days
was recently performed by DIR
|. Sangenbeck, Of Berlin. Among
other applications, these 'perma
!, nent baths are said to be espe
cialIy valuable in cases Of burns.
The auroras observed by Baror
! Nordenskjold at the winter quar-
ters of the Vega, in latitude 81
; degrees 5 minutes north, were
mostly feeble and lacked the ray
5 like formation so often character
istic Of these phenomena. a sim
, pie luminous arc, low IN the SKY
was most common and this dis
tinguished navigator's theory ii
] that the arc forms portion of
permanent luminous crown above
: the earth's pole.
In researches upon the petro
B., leums Of the Caucasus. NJ. Schart
J zengerger has observed that, al
though conducted with the ut
, most care, his analyses frequently
: showed more than one hundred
per cent. of matter. A like rcsul
S was obtained with two othe
8 substances. Following up the iu
' vestigation, be has found that so
dunn and copper appear to St