Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-06-13

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quantity OF fresh ones-an,i gwen bot
/ Mr.. $. \. SsrNa,3 dis cu,titd las
/ year that t..y cu.ts.ang rrre Is III
known in he ,,...,tt. -, i.tt,,i.a, thfe,
miles from the c',s,>i vi i'u.tty Ant
rim, Ireland, al lioish vcil ahdln.illt
OH the mainland Frogs Z st'.pose,
to be pretty we'll ,!istr,uutci through
out the globe, but Mr.. IL. w. Let
cites evidence proving That they Wcr'
not known in Ireland anlil about NV,
hundred years ago, VIII N Dr.. Guithers
fellow of trinity College, Dublin, III
troduced s:,me frogs spawn from
England. Even in the aid,!le Of til,
last century frogs W r. exhibited a.
curiosities i'll the north OF Ireland.
Ferns, OF which several thousanC
species have been desc 'ibed, formed ;
very imp prtant part of the earth''
vegetation in early ge pl"gical ages, az
is apparen; from remlin> bought t,
light in the coal tiel,!>- They now
grow all over the worl /, bat especially
in the warul and moist china rs. II
the Antilles they comprise about one
tenth of the vegetation; i'll Oceanica
one-fourth or one-iitth; in 81. Helena
one-third; in Juan Fernandez, one
half; and in England, o0e-ihirty-fifth
BY IL new method of application,
Mons. Bert has safely used prptoXidt
of nitrogen-or laughing gas"-tu
obtain prolonged anaesthesia, Il dog
having been kept insensible for halt
an hour. Mons. Bert's plan is to cause
anaesthesia first With the pure pro-
toxide; then to give II mixture of the
protoNide and oxygen, which restores
to the blood its necessary oxygen and
In this way both return 10 conscious
HESS and danger of asphyXia are Oh
Waited. \ mask and two rubber bags
are all the apparatus needed.
Y man is deal drank" according
t. :S4Vants of the Paris Biological
Society, when the fluid which circu-
lates in his arteries and veins contains
one part of alcohal to one hundred
and ninety five parts OF blood.
Should the proportion become one
part of alcohol to one hundred of blood
death must ensue. In ordinary Gases
the drinker loses consciousness before
so great Il proportion of alcohol has
entered the circulation, but the fatal
dose is sometimes taken when Il large
quantity of alcoholic liquor is swai-
lowed quickly.
DR.. Diebenberg has found that the
examination process OF many plants
requires the presence of lime in the
soil, and that the seedlings die with
out it. There are some plants, how
ever, which freely gerninatc when i;
is not present. 1t is known that the
cinchona trees do not require lime,
and it is suggested that the frequent
failure in jamaica of the seedlings
may perhaps be due to the absence
from the soil of some more essential
ingredient.
During the four months OF August to
November last temperature records
were kept ut Markla, i'll the Siberian
province of IaAutsk, by Mons. Paw
ioif, an exile. His report shows that
winter approaches with great rapidity
in those ATTITUDES. On August the
thermometer rose at one o'clock L. NJ.
to about So degrees Fahrenheit, and
reached ~ TO IS degrees during the
seconi half of the month. The first
frost cane in September, and in the
first days Of October the THERMOMETERS
sank-at seven y. Mas low as from
II degrees above zero to- four below I;
and as los Il; - 10 50-anL eyr,l SIS
degrees below zero during the SrcrilI
half OF the month. In y ,.enlber the
temperature did not rise higher than
24 degrees below zero, and OCCASION
ally sank to 30 ana IS below.
Modern medical science is gaining a
foothold i'll China. Miss Howard, an
American physician, having been
called upcn to treat the mother and
the wife of the Chinese Viceroy, Ii
Hung Chang, has become very famous
among aristocratic Chinese ladies, " no
row flock to consult her. 1t is also
said that the Emperor of China has
arranged to educate number of
youths in European medicine and
surgery in Hindostan colleges.