The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-02-02
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Prof Yai4 describes three forms
! Of mirage. The first, and most
common, is that seen in the desert,
| where the, sunlight is reflected
from the heated layer Of air rest
ing, upon The sand to the eye Of
the observer, and irresistibly gives
rise to the impressionaof u reflect.
ing surface,of water at the point in
the desert from hich the rays
are projeeted. a second form is
that observed in the Arctic re-
gions, Of which many beautiful
illustrations have been given by
Seoresby.s The principle phenom-
enon is what is called looming
kdstaas Al objects showing an ex-
travagant increase of vertical
height without alteration in
BREADTH Distant hummocks of
ice arerathus. maguiied into i'm:
| mense towers and pinnacles, and
a ship is sometimes abnormally
dravneoat uptilit appears twelve
Or fouirteen times as high as it is
Hons 'TFo celebrated fata moryena
| of the Straits of Messina is of this
character. Rocks are seen drawn
hp 3'eoy ten; Or twelve times their
Epropssr height; and houses, as
we'll as human beings and ami
kEn & afs, sappear~ip-tike, exaggerated
shape. The most remarkable in.
stance Of this kind Of mirage was
observca' in. '"l798,; when from
Hastings a portion of the French
coast. forty. or fifty miles away
was'setenf ! as pFainfy as though but
q few miles distant, although or;
diuariiy shiddelIo by theaearth's s
convexity., The third, and per-
haps most extraordinary form of
mirage. is that observed by Vince
bin 1899, in which, q ship at sea
showed three distinct images--a
lower and an upper one in an up
right position and an Intern ediate
one in which the object stood in
verted. :.
Physicians Of Rio Janeiro re.
commend the oil of anda, a Bra
lillian tree, as a substitute for cas-
tor oil. It is pleasanter to take,
and the dose is smaller. :
An iron chess. board provided
with magnetic chess-men is Ber:
lin novelty. The small magnets
concealed il the figures cause.
the 10 to- adhere to the iron board
and retain their place in spite of
considerable shocks, such, for in.
stance, as are received on ship
board or on railway trains. =" ..
DR.. Fleck, Dresden chemist,
attributes the production of plm-
pies and infammation on the fore.
head Of some persons, in hot
weather, to the presence of fat or
| fatty acids in the leather lining of
hats. By experiment he has late
| ly shown that the fat is contained
in all feathers, and, although small
in quantity, is sufficient to pro.
| duee the result in question: 10
avoid the unpleasant effects be
recommends rubbing the greasy
Heather with burnt magnesia.
A French Government vessel
has recently succeeded in dredg-
4iag IA kthe Bay of Biscay at a
| depth Of 1900 feet, ,AorI threeand
] ,ope-6fthy ymiIes. The animals found
Eat that distance beneaththe sur
face mere aqmerous, bat-afsmall
] s "a no!eE application Of Che, cleo
tric light is Intended to dimiSh the
;krisk :of vollisiUn at sea-: The 4isht
with a reflector, is placed on
movable arm in such position as
to move with the rudder, thus in
dicating by the direction of its
beam the course steered by the
Vessel. 80: ..a....-:
Logs aud planks split at the
ends because the exposed surface
dries faster than the inside. L
murialic. acid be saturated with