Morris tribune., 1883-05-16

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the mornings of last autumn hayine
been estimated by one astronomer t
contain only few pound of matrial
The cometary body reaches its greatest
expansion when nearest the sun, an
as 1t returns into distant spaceit again
contracts into insignificance. No eX
act calculations have yet been made o.
+ the orbit of the great comet of 1852
but from observations in September
October and November it is assumed
| that it's period is included between SOl
and 900 years, that its aphelion is la
times rs mr. from the sun as the earth
at its mean distance, and that its velo-
city is $4,000 times as great when
nearest the sun us when farthest
away.
On the government cinchona plan
tations in Jamaica the highest me-
neurological observatory in the British
Empire has just been established. At
this snot-=4t,AoN feet above sea-level-
the mean annual rainfall is 1876 inches,
and the mean annual temperature is
80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Under the illumination ofan electric
lamp photographs have been made OF
the human vocal organs in the act OF
singing. The pictures obtained are to
be used by two European writer's
Herr Behnke and Mr.. LennoX Browne
for illustrating forthcoming work
on the mechanism of the human
voice.
Prof. Pfliiger states that in some
German schools from 20 to so per cent
of the scholars are suffering from de-
fectiXe VISION, while not a single pupil
at the HeideIburg gymnasium has
perfect eyesight.
At Salez, in the Swiss canton of St.
Gallen, some sixty bronze hatchets
have been dug up from a depth of
about yard beneath the surface of the
ground. The implements are believed
to be at least $500 years old.
At a recent brilliant reception given
by Mons. Louis Rru in Paris, each of
the lady guests about to take part in
a dance was presented with bouquet,
in the middle of which shone a minia=
ture electric lamp fed by batteries de-
vised by Mons. Trouve.
The president of the French Meteo-
Biological Bureau, Mons. Mangon, re-
ports that SO per cent. Of the weather
forecasts made by the Bureau have
proven good. Of aQ4 tempest warn
ings sent to seaports, 100 have been
fulfilled entirely, IS partly, and AZ not
at all.
An account, by Prot. It. w. Kraft,
of an iee-palace built at st. Petersburg
in ITO contains the remarkable state
ment that all ice-cannon was also
made, from which, with q charge of a
quarter Of u pound of powder, bullet
was driven through plank two in
ches thick at distance of fifty PAGES.
Mons Macayno, to test the Influence
of atnlosphereric electricity upon
grapevine, has caused an electric cur
rent to pass through sixteen feet of Il
vine, from April to September. The
wood of the branches thus expert
mented upon was found to contain
less potash and other mineral matter,
than the rest of the vine, bit the leaves
had an excess of potash in the form OF
bitartrate; the grapes from thc cleo.
| tried branches furnished more must
contained q greater proportion o.
glucose, and were less acid than Other
grapes.
A Swan electric lamp mot larger
than bean" is employed by. Mr.. J. b
Payne in several forms of apparatus
for illuminating the interior of thu
body. An exhibition of the instru
ments was made at a late, meeting o
the Northumberland and Durham
/ Medical Society, of England.
In ancient Egypt the tax-collcctor'
receipts were inscribed on fragment
of broken crockery.. From the British
Museum collection of these quee
documents-w which have been foun
in larger numbers-a series of transla
lions has been made. by DR.. Birch
showing the tax in Egypt under tn
early Caesars,
Prof. w. A. Rogers has recorded tn
4 curious discovery that the microscop
may fail to show lines or errors
ruled lines which may be detecte
with the unaided eva.
Japan contains, according to Pro
Jules Marcou, 131 volcanoes, of whic
/ 4S are active. The active volcano
} are most numerous between theade
, and the 10th degree ofeas Eel of
/ and thea2d and the ssth4dered by
/ latitude. tits thereforesio, located
+ no means straAge tbould have ex-
: within these limihake shocks in The
} perienced ar ea6 TO 1881.
five years frSSf intellectual effort y
"The hdon Times, ''sets strongly
says erection of science, just as at
: int Ter period it set in the DIRECTION
setters."