The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-07
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

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"A NEW musical instrument is called
the ANGELICA. It is formed of fifty pieces
cf crystal, and has O keyboard as long
ss piano. Half-tones can be played.
It is played with two little hammers
the bass-hammer has two prongs, which
take an octave the treble-h hammer lis
single, and plays the melody. The tones
OF this instrument resemble the human
voice.
CETnULoD is being used in Paris for
making stereotypes. The mold is taken
with q special cement, which receives
the impression and rapidly hardens.
The celluloid sheet is then used to OBJ
tain the impression to be employed in
printing. Celluloid has also been used
for giving typographical representations
OF lace, the impressions being taken
nom the lace itself.
DIR. EMIL HonUB claims for the Bush
men further advance in art than he has
found among any other people in South
Africa. They show much skill in the
manipulation OF stone and the manu-
tacture OF vessels out of wood, bone and
ostrich eggs, and have executed with
tools OF flint drawings, or engravings,
and carvings of considerable merit, in
the caves and on the walls of their huts.
Few people are aware that the proud
hoast Of tho Euglishmen that the sun
never sets on the British empire is
equally applicable to tho United States.
| instead OF being the western limit of the
| Ullou, San Francisco is only about mid
way between the furthest Aleutian isle.
acquired by our purchase of Alaska, and
Enstport, Me. Our territory extends
through 1877 degrees OF longitude, or
seventeen degrees more than half way
round the globe. The Rocky 1lou,a-
tain Presbyterian, i'll commenting on
| this fact, says: "When the sun is Civ.
ing its good nightkiss to our westernmost
isle, on the confines of Behring's sea, it
is already flooding the fields and forests
of Maine with its morning light, and in
| tho eastern part of the State is more than
| an hour high At the very moment wheu
the Aleutian fisherman, warned by the
approaching shades of night, is pulling
his canoe toward the shore, the wood
chopper OF Maine is beginning to make
the forest echo with the stirring music
Of his AK"
AT q level Of the sen, or where the
mercury stands in q barometer tube
thirty inches high, water boils IL an open
ulSn aG temperature OF ZlZ degrees.
| For every $50 feet we ascend it boils at
one degree less. Thus, ut an elevation
| of |, 100 feet it hoils Mt 20 degrees, and
ut an elevation Of 900 feet at 2O2 de-
| grees. At the City OF Mexico water boils
at 200 degrees; ut Quito at 81 ; and on
the summit OF one of the HimaIaya
mountains at $50. Darwin was not able
to cook potatoes by boiling on one of the
mountains he ascended in Patagonia
and Humboldt could not cook beef 10y
the same method on the top of one O
the Alps. In mines below the level o.
tbs sea greater temperature than 21l
degrees is required to cause water tc
boil. ii water boils Mt d very low tenn
poraturo, the he,t is not sufficient tt
melt fat in meat, to coagulate ulbumcr
in eggs, or to decomposc tissues in Other
articles of food. Cooking must there
fore be performed by oUher means thar
that Of boiling. The circumstance tina
water boils ut n certain place does no
show that it contains sufficient heat tc
cook food in reasonable time. Tht
less the pressure OF the air, the lower
the temperature required to boil liquids