Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-01

Grant Allen maintains that the wheat
plant has descended by processes OF
evolution and degeneration from the
4 lily and that in one of its stages 1T
was the coarse grass which Fabre re-
| garded as native wheat.
/ DR.. Fournie, the French physiolo-
glst, decribes hunger as general de-
sire for food of any kind, while appetite
is the feeling of pleasure which results
from gratifying that desire. When
we are not hungry, appetite often
| comes while we are eating, or even at
| the mere sight and smell of some favo-
rite dish. The seat of the feeling of
| hunger has been much discussed, and
many theories have been proposed to
account for the sensation. DIR.
Fournie's view is as follows: On the
| approach of the time for eating the
glands of the stomach become filled
and distended. They are then ready
to perform their function of digesting
food, and if food is not introduced they
continue distended, giving rise to the
uncomfortable feeling called hunger.
Prof. Reclaim, of Germany, is con-
vinced by his observations that bald
ness is not a result of impaired health
or of much study. The loss of hair is
chiefly due, he believes, to the wear
ing of warm and unventilated head
coverings and to uncleanliness of the
scalp. TO keep the hair in a healthy |
condition he advises the wearing of
light and porous coverings for the
head, washing the scalp frequently
with water, and keeping the hair short
All nostrums sold as hair-restorers
should be avoided, as they are useless
or worse than useless.
Having noticed that ants are very
destructive to larvae and insects, Mr.
w. S. Barnard, of the Department of
Agriculture, has suggested that they
may in some cases prove an efficient
ally of the agriculturist, particularly
in combating the cotton worm. The
ants, however, do indirect injury by !
aphides or plant-lice, which !
they do for the sake of the honey-dew !
which the lice eXcrete.
'When we look upon the luxuriant
foliage of the tree" says DR.. Youmans,
cannot fail to be Impressed with it's
beauty, but wehardly suspect thatthose
leaves which filutter so lightly in the
breeze are engines for the exercise of
enormous power. Yet such is the
'act, for they decompose carbonic acid
The atoms of pound of carbon rush
nto union with those of ofoxygen-they.
all down the chemical precipice with
Orce sufficient to raise a thousand
Weights, each of thousand pounds,
me foot high. This expresses the =
strength of their attraction for each
.ther, and ifthey are to be separated
his amount of force must be again ex- {
,ended. So powerfully are the =
dement's of caribonic acid held in COM
,ination that the chemist can only
operate them by the double action of
nigh heat and the most powerful
Hnity even then, only the carbon
5 set free, the oxygen remaining in :
state of combination. But what no
hemist has ever been able to accom-
lish is affected by every green leaf
nd every humble blade of grass-they
ecompose carbonic acid at common
retaining the carbon
nd setting the oxygen free"
From a consideration of the nec-
ssary order of cooling and CONSOLE
alton of the earth, Sir w. Thomsonl
as inferred that our planet is not
lostly liquid, as is generlly believed, T
18th a solid crust from 80 to 100 miles
nick, but that it is on the whole more
gid than solid globe of glass having
he same diameter, and probably more
gid than like globe of steel.
Tests madein Germany to determine Y
le relative values of wet and dry
luminous coal for steam boilers show
lat the use of wet coal gives loss of
bout fourteen per cent as compared
18th the dry.