Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-06-08
Science Notes.
w. II. SMITH. M. d.. PHI. ID.

IIuSSld Has W COuIt " HutuIttl OIIiCtT
who acts as a minister of justice.
Ten cubic feet of carbonic acid gas
are given off in respiration from the
lung of man every "a hours.
Six grains of vapor are exhaled from
a mans lungs every minute.
Cold may be taken in the spinal cord
and produce tocomatOT dtacia.
In the United States 70 papers are
devoted to science and mechanics.
Twenty-Five trichine have been
counted in single muscle OF the ear
rornadoes are usually preceded by IA
calm and sultry state Of the atmos-
phere.
In Boston they say that one electric
lamp at night is as efficient as five
policemen.
In England Darwin estimates that
upon one acre of earth 57,767 earth
worms exist. In this country they are
probably far more numerous.
Linguins assert that striking pc
culiarity of the English language is to
w oOCh III biiC Law uuhl oO iudil( VI lIo
words are of foreign origin.
The usual duration of tornadoes
is from IL to 70 seconds. Their
breadth extends from few rods to sew
eral hundred miles, but the length of
their course is seldom over 20 miles.
The number of words in different
languages is very great. Thus the Chi
nese have 10000 words and Flugel's
dictionary contains $1,000, and Web
ster's dictionary 10000.
In the Practitioner DIR. Hunter rec
ommends Arequpa, Peru, as resort
for cOnsumptives. There the air is dry
and aseptic. and the temperature does
not often vary two degrees, but remains
nearly uniform at Csc Fahrenheit.
Blood-stains upon cloth, even after
the garment has been washed i'm water,
may DO detected by spectrum analysis
The spectroscope also enables the
scientist to distinguish recent old blood
clOts.
Clouds are moisture evaporated from
the earth, and afterwards partially con-
densed III the atmosphere. The
aqueous vapor in the former is less
condensed, lighter, and elevated above
our heads, that of the latter is III ore
concentrated, heavier, and i'll contact
with the earth.
A report is going the rounds of the
papers TO the effect that trichin@ had
been found in pike caught near Os-
tend, in the North Sea. 1t is probable
that in this case intestinal worms, such
as have been known to invest shad, were
mistaken for trichin@.
In the Place Maubert, Paris, is a
market for the purchase Of cigar
stumps. There are also III that city
with their headquarters in the wine
saloons, four or five wholesale dealers in
these stumps which in our country are
thrown away as worthless. IL is said
that a large part of the tobacco thus
accumulated is exported as favorite
brand named Iabdc de Parts.
The pharmacists in the Canton of
Wand in Switzerland recently compelled
by legal measures patent medicine
vender to omit from his advertisement
the statement that his Celebrated
Pills" were found in the stores Of all
good druggist. This was regarded as
a libel by the apothecaries, and in this
position they were sustained by the
court.
The petroleum supply in Pennsyl-
vania shows signs of becoming ex-
hausted. Ruined derricks over wells
pumped dry in regions that once spout
ed abundantly are common. Hitherto
new sources of supply have been found
to take the place of the abandoned; but
the present indications are that the
great reservoir is nearly drained. The
Bradford region in Mexican county
which pump 10000 barrels day. and
appear to be the central supply for the
state is steadily failing at the rate of
$500 daily.