The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-04-22
For the CARBON ADvocATE.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES,

The vineyards OF Russian Turkistap
are being destroyed by parasitic fungus
known as erysiple.
Sixty per cent of the mechanical
energy converted into electricity and ap-
piled to Faure storage battery has been
re-converted into work on discharginp
the battery.
Assays of several hundred million
dollars worth of the native gold of Cali
fornia have shown an average proportion
OF $50 thousand:hs of pure metal. The
gold of Australia gives an average of $50
tbousandths.
The librarian of the Alessandrina
Library at Rome, Prof. De Macs, claims
to have evidence that a great Egyptian
obelisk is buried in the vicinity of the
Piazzi di San Luigi di Francesi, near the
side entrance to the Senate.
The irability of connecting light
ming conductors with gas and water mains
has been recognized by the Saxon Gov
ernment, which has issued instructions
as to the best methods of making the
connections.
Tue elem6 mt cesium ., been secured
in an isolated condition by German
chemist, Herr Setterberg. 1t is found to
be silvery-white metal, resembling sod
ium and potassium in general behavior.
Cesium had hitherto resisted all efforts
to separate it from its combination with
oxygen.
According to Mr.. P. L. Sclater, F.
Il, s., the term lipotype, which is COM
parativ.ly new to science, is employed to
indicate animals which we should natur-
ally expect to meet but do not fad in
certain parts of the earth. For instance,
Australian lipotypes are monkeys, vul-
lures and woodpeckers.
Prof. Dufcur has presented new
and interesting proof that the earth is
round. The images of distant objects
reflected in the Lake of Geneva in calm
weather show just the degree of distortion
which careful mathematical calculation
would predict on account of the shape of
the earth.
AIR. w. II. PTeece, T. r. s., states
that the explosion of a common can be
heard to distance of twenty to twenty
five miles; and instances are known
where the bomb rdmsnt of a town has
been heard at distance of one hundred
miles. 1t is very well known. he thinks,
that the roar of the guns at Waterloo was
heard on the English coast. more than
one hundred miles from the battle
field.
An examiner of recruits drafted into
the German army states that a long series
of careful measurements bave established
not only that the height of mau varies
very considerably at different times Of
the day, but also that this variation oc-
ours with great regularity in every in
dividual. The greatest change in height
observed was an inch and half.
A confederation of various phenom-
ena has led DIR. C. W, Siemens TO sng-
gest the hypothesis that the sun derives
from interplanetary space hydrogen. hy-
and oxygen, by which its
heat is kept up. The products of CON-
bustion aqueous yApor. carbonic anby-
bride and carbonic oxide-are returned
to space, where they gradually become
separat d into the original gases through
the action of the solar rays at a moderate
Thus the heat diffnsed in
space by the san is not wasted, but Is
made to conserve its own energy by
fuel for the continued existence
Of it fires.
1t has been held by some medical
men that the best treatment of frozen in
dividuals is the gradual application of
heat, while a few experimenters have
claimed that the warming should be rap
i'd To settle the matter. Laptschinkski
has made series Of very careful expert
ments upon dogs, with The following re-
suits; OF twenty animals treated by the
method Of gradual resuscitation in cold
room. fourteen persisted; oftwenty plncrd
at once in a warm apartment. eight died;
while of twenty Immediately put Into
hot bath al TO0OvOgsd,