Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-16

NSt'hStpi "ictt ttNtfiSSt Wy !'IHi 'ii
rs 1t returns into distant spaceit agail
contracts into insignificance. No eX
act calculations have yet been made @
the orbit of the great comet of 1872
! but from observations in September
/ October and November it is assumed
that it's period is included between So
and 800 years, that its aphelion is Ii
times aS Mr. from the sun as the eartl
at its mean distance, and that its velo
city is $4,000 times as great whel
nearest the sun us when farthes
away.
On the government cinchona plan
tations in Jamaica the highest me-
neurological observatory in the British
Empire has just been established. Al
this snot--44,Aoa feet above sea-level-
the mean annual rainfall is l36 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 writers
Herr Behnke and Mr.. LennoX Browne
for illustrating forthcoming work
on the mechanism of the human
voice.
Prof. Pfiiiger states that in some
German schools from 20 to SO per cent
of the scholars are suffering from de-
fectiye VISION, while not Il single pupil
at the Heidclburg 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 a yard beneath the surface of the
ground. The implements are believed
to be at least $500 years old.
At 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 a bouquet,
in the middle of which shOne a minia=
ture electric lamp fed by batteries de-
vised by Mons. Tr2uve.
The president of the French MeteO-
Biological Bureau, Mons. Mangon, re-
ports that a3 per cent. of the weather
forecasts made by the Bureau have
proven good. OF a0f 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-nalace built at st, Petersburg
in ITO contains the remarkable state
ment that all ice-cannon was also
made, from which, with charge of a
quarter Of u pound of powder, a bullet
was driven through plank two in
ches thick at distance of fifty PAGES.
Nous Macayno, to test the influence
of atmospheric 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 matters
than the rest of the vine, bit the leaves
had an excess of potash in the form of
bitartrate; the grapes from tn; cleo
tried branches furnished more must,
contained greater proportion of
glucose, and less~acid than other
grapes.
A Swan electric lamp mot larger
than BEAM is employed by, Mr.. J. b.
Payne in several forms of apparatus
for illuminating the interior of the
body. An exhibition of the instru-
ments was made at a late, meeting of
the Northumberland and Durham
Medical Society, of England.
In ancient Egypt the tax-collcctor'
receipts were inscribed on fragments
of broken crockery.- From the British
Museum collection of these queer
which have been found
In larger numbers-a series of trafsla-
tions has been made by DR.. Birch,
showing the tax in Egypt under the
early Caesars,
Prof. w. A. Rogers has recorded the
curious discovery that the microscope
may fail to show lines or errors In
ruled lines which may be detected
with the unaided eva.
Japan contains, according to Prof
Jules Marcou, 131 volcanoes, of which
4S are active. The active volcanoes
are most numerous between the 13Sth
and the 10th degree of east Longitude
and thea2d and the asth parallel o.
latitude. Its therefore considered BY
no lneans straAge that TOXIC, located
within these limits, should have ex-
perienced 81 earthquake shocks in tile
five years from 1876 to 1881.
sThe tide of intellectual effort, )
says the London Times, "sets strongly
ingthe direction of science, just as a
an earlier period it set iii the DIRECTION
Of letters