Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1882-04-06
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

A rumor of the existence of a rae
Of .pigmies in Africa, to the southea,
Of Kafia, has reached DR.. Schweinfurtl
A wealthy Paris banker, NJ. Bi.
ehoffsheim, has undertaken the expens
Of an expedition to Africa to ohserv
she total solar eclipse Of May II.
Col. Veniukof, a Russian traveller
estimates that third of Asia, as wei
~ thir:ieth part of Europe, still r.
mains to be explored.
The increase of interest in electrica
matters is remarkable. A Londo1
publisher is selling 1000 copies q mont
Of new work on electricity.
An aeronant ascending from Pari
on cold and cloudy day in February
recorded temperature Of 68 degree
At height Of 5000 feet. This result
sccasioned no little astonishment.
The latest publications Of Australian
statistics show that the death rate o.
the continent is remarkably low, being
only fourteen in 1000 in 1880. Thu
English rate for the same year va,
over 20 per 1000.
Considering the merits Of glass as q
roofing material, . German authority
finds that hail is not 80 destructive to
glass as 3 usually believed, as it seldom
damages rancs an eighth of an inch
thick, and thickness of q quarter Of
An inch is almost absolutely safe.
Eight prizes Of 1925 e,ch, have beef
offered by the Royal society of New
South Wales for the best commun MICA
lions giving tho results of original
study or observations on as many spc
cited subjects. The subjects have
special reference to Austrian progress.
Recent attention has been drawn
70 tho value Of the Quillia tree of
Chill, on account Of the powerful clean.
sing properties Of its bark. 1t is said
to be more effective under certain con.
ditions than the best soap. 1t is al.
ready used to some extent 10 washing
silk and wool.
1t is familiar fact that black Oh.
ject on . white ground will appear
much larger than it is in reality. For
example, white stripe on black sur
face is apparently broader than q black
stripe Of equal width on white sur.
face. Peter Scherfler has sought an
explanation of tho phenomenon, and
thus accounts for II: When one Of
our senses receives double sensation.
one being strong and the other weak
me latter is not felt. Especially is
this the case when both impress ions
are Of the same kind, or when a strong
effect upon one Of the senses is followed
BY weaker one Of the same kind.
A. singular occurrence, strikinaly
showing tho powerful effect of ice in
rending rocks, was lately related by
Herr Bergh. An extensive promontry
N western Norway was, in l7l7. de.
Iuged with water during a tbaw. filing
avery crevice in tho rock. A severe
cold quickly followed, suddenly free7. |
'ng the water and bursting the mass
y rock, which was projected from a |
Height Of 1900 feet into the neiehbor. |
lng ford. which engulfsd the entire
promontory with its cultivated fields
md farmstead. The fall caused huge |
rave in the ford, which not only |
'vept away all The fiahing boats within |
distance OF two miles and half but |
10 carried away . church which, had |
food hfty feet above the water 4 mile
way from the promontory. OF the
Aessr only = low edge now remains. |
Unthinking individual doubtless.
item cavil at the dissolute lavishness
nth which labor and expense arc Le.
lowed by scientific men upon annar.
ntiy puerile studies. They forget that
uman knowledge is built up from the
'naese fragments, and that these fr,r.
asass have been laboriously broug6,
orsh one by one from the most diver,
l.rces. To the physicist, or the in.
amer after truth, TRIES ars unkoovn
= De sees an Importance in every.
alHg 10 bin . principle is a. much
principle it discovered in the mooad
It revealed by the bones Of the m.c.i
and he feels the possibility
lat the speck covered by his micro
'ope may be the key which shall ulti.
ste!y unlock one Of the great and
'lpfui secrets Of the universe