The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-04-19
POPULAR SCIENCE.
TIE fuel of the living body is food.


SAbIoYI1o acid is much used in Ger.
many to keep water free from impurities |
A NETEoRoLoGICAn station is to be
established on the celebrated Scottish
mountain, Ben Nevis.
THE metals which are found to longest
retain heat are brass and copper; next
iron, and lastly i'll order lead
In new electric battery ono Of
the elements is composed of sheet-irOn
less than the ten -thousandth part of an
inch in thickness.
SCIENTISTS have declared that tho Blue
Hill Range of Massachusetts is older in
a geological point of view, than tho Alps
or the Pyrences of Europe.
WATER filtered through charcoal be-
comes perfectly pure, tho charcoal ab
sorbing all disagrecablo tastes and
smells, whether thoy arise from animal
or vegetable impurities.
TIE great glacier which gives rise to
the Iarafshan River i'll Central Asia has
been explored and recently described by
Mr.. Mushketof, q Russian geoloSlst 1t
is fifteen miles long, and milo wide.
IT is known as fact in geology that
below the depth of thirty feet the earth
becomes regularly warmer as we descend.
On on average the increase is at the rate
Of one degree OF Fahrenheit for every
fifty feet.
A JOURNEY across Africa from south to
north is to he undertaken by DR.. Emil
Holub, of Prague, under the ouspicos of
the Vienns Geographical Society. He
thinks he can traverse tho continent
lengthwie lin three years.
In his sow scientific treatise Oh island
life, Mr.. Alfred r. Wallace, tho eminent
English naturalist, estimates the period
embracing the formation Of all tie fossil
bearing rocks, since the Cambrain, mt
twenty eight millions of years.
A BAvARtAN chemist is reported to
have invented an euamcling liquid
| which renders any species of stone or
cement harder than granite, and gives it
| the indoliblo appearance of any min
oral that muy bo desired.
The leading popularity Of rico is the
very large proportion OF starch and thu
very small proportion of gluten which it
contains, there being but ono part ol
| gluten to thirteen parts of starch. In
wheat thcro are two parts Of gluten to
| overy nino parts of starch.
SULPHlUE of carbon has harn used
with cnmplcte success in France for the
| purpose of cxtcrminnting waSps \
small quantity is introduced into the
aperture by which the insects 20 in and
out of their nest, aud tn" result i thc
Immediate destruction OF the entire
colony. The "DHrturC should b. close
after pO;;riH& in t., liquid OF forcing it in
with syringe.
! ACCORDING to DIR. Edward Smith. an
egg contains 15t per cent. of carbon,
and 2 per cont. of nitrogen. Another
'gritcr estimates that the value of ono
r-olud of eggs, rs food for sustaining the
active forces Of the body, is TO the valuc
Of ono pouHd of lean hrnf rs |, ,5St is to
900. AS Il tlrah-prOduccr ono pound OF
eggs is about equal to ono pound OF
beef.
~. One of tho leading chemical manufac-
tories Of Germany employs six regular
chemists with salaries ranging from 81 :
500 to 81, 800 yearly, and in addition en-
cages the services of an eminent chemist
for theoretical work exclusively, paying
him nearly $4,000 per nnnum 1t is
doubtless to this liberal patronage OF
qualified scientists that the superiority
of German chomicnl manufactures is
| duo.
SOME support to the theory that not
the brain alone, hut the whole nervous
| system may realty he tho scat OF the
mind is afforded by Prof O. G. Mnrsh's
latest researches concerning the extinct
reptiles of the Rocky region
Ono mammoth skeleton belonging to
creature which he has named Stcgosau
rus, must have been clothed with a body
rs lnrg" as that of an alligator, while tho
brain cavity Corresponds III size 10 tina
Of dog.
The sources of petroleum are found il
almost every part of the globe, and the
use of thcarticlc would seem well nigh coo
val with civilization. There is spring
in one of the lonian islands, which hns
yielded petroleum more than 2, 900 years
The city of Genoa was formerly lighted
by oil from the wells Of Armenia, on the
banks Of the Iaro. In Persia also, nea
tho Caspian Sea, at Ballu, numcrou.
springs of petroleum have been know1
from the earliest time; and those o
Rnngoon. on the Irawaddy, arc said tc
have yielded, before tho general intro
duction of petroleum, somo 400, 900 hogs
heads Of oil year.