Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27
SCRAPS or SCIENCE.
Varied TO Meet the Tastes OF the
General Reader. 's
Notes of the Latest Experiments and Re
searches in this and Other Countries
Matters Both Terrestrial and
- Celestial.
GENERAL NOTES.

The plow-worm has spectrum from
5s7 TO SIS from G to b, the greenish
rays. 800.
MFR. n. Percival says that II popula.
tion goes on at its present. rate, In IA
years the world will have reached the
friphtful average of 100 Inhabitants to
the sanare mile. There Is much virtue
| in an II. s 500.
The Journal of Science says that at
| the soiree of the Society OF Chemteai
| Industry, heldat Owens College, Nc.
Fletcher, of Warrington, England,
demonstrated the possibility or the COM
bustion of gas without visible name,
the heat obtained from quarter-inch
gas. pipe being sufficient to fuse iron
into drops. -,
The northernmost place in the world
where rye and oats mature Is at Lengis,
in the Swedish province Of Sorrbotten,
40 miles to north of the polar circle,
whereas the northernmost spot where
corn is grown Is ut Muoniovaro, 9S
miles to the north of theCircle. The rye
Yields, it is stated, IS per cent, and the
oats about 80.
The statement that grain absorbs
enough moisture on sea voyage to
paw the freight charges has been 10
some extent confirmed by experiments
made at the California Agricultural
College. Various kinds Of grain were
placed i'm a moist atmosphere and the
increase in weight was noted. The
greatest increase was during the first
| % hours.
If Lord Talbot de Malahine has
made his inquiries with sufficient care,
| the ancient Romans In Northern
Africa must have lived to a great age.
He cited In lecture before the Anthro-
biological Institute. London, several in
stances of epltaphs and Inscriptions on
| tombs of persons whose age had eX-
| ceeded 100 wears; in some cases an age
| of 100, 100, and even 140 years had been
attained! But few things lie like
tombst ones.
| The industrial schools are having an
apparently good effect upon the Indians:
| The red men have begun to work well
and to take pride in their work. Gen.
| Armstrong believes that within five
wears, with the 100 Indians at Hamp-
ion, Virginia, and the 800 at Carlisle,
| Pennsylvania, and others under instruc-
| tions elsewhere, all the shoes and the
harness needed OH the plains can he
made by the young men at home.
It's a mistake to suppose, as NJ.
Bouley has shown, that meat which
| has been frozen enters into putrefac-
ton sooner than meat which had not
been subjected to low temperature
This is important, because NJ. +. Care,
coming to M. Bouley's support, pro-
poses the application Of cold for the
| destruction Of trichinR In meet. With
the ammonia machine he can treat
| /, 900 kilos of meat ut the very low
| cost OF 81.
According to the San Francisco
papers a cold, saltwater bath ifa sure
cure for smallpox, particularly In the
| cases of Cinnamon, rs an experiment
| has proven. A boat which was con-
yeying sixteen Cinnamon sick with the
small pOX to an hospital In San Fran
cisco BAY, suddenly upset. The China
| men were thoroughly drenched in cold,
| salt water, and it was full hour be-
fore they could lie placed In comfort
| able quarters. The physicians and at
| PENDANTS of course supposed that they
| would all die, but TO every ones aston
ishment they all got well.
A geological discovery has been made
in PENNSYLVANIA which reveals, 1t Is
said, the earliest traces of man on this
continent. Mr.. Wiggens, of Waver-
ley, n. j., found on the top OF the
| Allegheny Mountains, In Perry county,
Pennsylvania, q piece Of metamorphic
limestone, upon which was clearly visi-
BILE the print of the right foot ola human
being The impression Is about al inch
deep and shows the five toes and the
perfectly formed foot Of q man. The
piece of stone which has been sent to
the Smithsonian Institution IL OF great
antiquity and must have antedated the
oldest memorials of Egypt.
| The Scientific american says; IAN
observer Of the recent aurora at Mount
| Calare, New Jersey, August 4, writes
that OH connecting the two poles OF bis
telephone, one with the water-pipe
| leading to cistern near his dwelling
and one with the gas-pipe leading all
over town, ne heard the electrical
crackle going on substantially the
same as heard when the same connec-
ton is made during thunder-stOrms.
He, however, reports that the auroral
| crackle was more delicate i'm Its sound
than the thunderstorm crackle, and
that besides the crackle they were at
intervals Of perhaps half secoan each
| 81 paIate short taps on the telephone
diaphragm that gave slight ringing
| sound.
How 20 make Cheap Refrigerator.
To make cheap refrigerator sta
tionary washtub t. often brought Into
| requisition for six days out Of seven.
| To convert this into q refrigerator, plug
| not only the outlet but also the overflow,
| so that no sewer gas can enter. Then
| purchase common japanned tin box
such as are marked "bread" and sell for
| fifty or seventy-five cents. With @ nail
| punch few holes in the bottom, and
| put II in the stationary tub, letting II
| rest On blocks Of kindling wood. In
such box twenty pounds Of Ice with
| the food for q family Of five or six can
be placed with ease. The Ice does not
| melt faster than in $40 Ice box, and
l the water drains out into the tub ~ hst
| as IL meIts. and can be removed once a
day by simply drawing the plug. The
device IL not patented.
The Use Of TOads.
London Fyetd.
Toads have been used by entomolO-
| gists for the acquisition OF minute pOc-
turnai insects difficult TO catch. A num-
Der are turned out ut night In district
where a rare or desired insect Ii known
| to exist. In the morning the
reptiles are recaptured, and either
deprived Of their spoils bya little gentle
pressure, or killed and ransacked. II
| they could also be made subservient to
anatomical science by providing our
cabinets with astrological preparations
Of tho r,,inuta vertehrata 40 difficult In