The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-04-01
For the CARBON ADvocATE.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

DR. VIM. A. Hammond fiuds over
heated apartments TO be potent cause
OF nervous irritability. II we would pre-
sery, our sIniability and our tranquility
of mind we should live in well-ventilated
rooms kept at temperature of about
sixty FIVE degrees.
OF the sense of taste, Prof. McKsn-
drck states that the bnse of the tongue
il most sensitive 10 btters, and the tip TO
sweets. substance must be soluble in
the fluid of the mouth to create taste, but
no definite relation has been found be-
tween the chemical condition OF bodIes
and their taste.
Modern improvements have increas-
ed the power of the microscope so great
ly that it is now made to magnify about
100, 600 diameters. The best uuaided
human vision can see no objects much
smaller than the three. hundredth Of an
inch in diameter; but the most skillrul
microscopists, with their best instru-
mt pts. are able TO examine monads
hundred-thousandth Of au irch in diam.
eter: Beyond this minuteness is obscur-
ity. It has been estimated that the ulli-
mate particles or atoms composing all
matter can be no more than one twenty
milionth of an inch in diam, ter, so that
it seems hardly probable that they will
ever be revealed TO human eyes.
DIR. T. Sterry Hunt has calculated
that the amount of carbopic acid stored
in the limestones of the earth would form
not less than two hundred atmospheres
equal in weight to our IL. This, to-
gether with the carbon of tue coal-beds,
must have been drawn from the air, " hich
he believes gradually receives its supply
OF the gas from interStell4r space.
If the Astronomical view that the
moon was once part of the earth's mass
be tue. the moon in its early age must
have revo!ved much nearer to the earth
than now and must lave caused prodig-
ious tides upon its parent planet-as
shown by Prof. Ball. Prof. j. S. New
berry finds in geological evidence re-
iutation Of this theory-to the extent, at
least, of proving conclusively that no
such tides could have existed since the
CONNER cement Of the geological record
He does not hesitate to assert iheref re
that the astronomers are in error in re.
gard to the moons genesis; or that if il
Was once a portion of the earth. the sep
aration took place at period 80 remote
that il had receded to nearly its present
distance before the dawn of life on the
earth.
Explorations by a Rus, ian party
show that the eastern shore of the Gull
of Obi, in northern Siberia, is nearly
fourteen miles west of the place assigned
to it by existing maps.
A successful operation, durirg which
the patient Tas kept inmcr.ed in water
for sixteen days, WAS recently pelf,rmtd d
by DR.. Sangenbeck, of Berlin. Among
other applicy tions, these "perman, ut
baths, are said to be especially valuable
IN cases OF buTes.
The aurons observed by Baron Nord-
enskj"ld at the winter quarters Of the
Vega, in latitude 67 degrees minute es
north, were mostly feeble and lacked the
ray-like formation so often characteristic
OF these phenomena. A simple luminous
arc. low in the sky, was most common
and this distinguished navigator's theory
Is that the arc forms a portion of a per.
manent luminous crown above the earth's
pole.
German measurements give the fol-
lowing as among the greatest daily guam
titles of rainfall recorded in Europe: At
Colberg Sept. Z, 1880, four inches of rain
fell in seven hours. At Breslau, August
6, 1858, four and half inches fell. At
Klausthal. in the Harz, tue daily maxi
mum observed is four and half inches
and at Hochen wand, in the Black Forest